Just your everyday
collection of actors,
rappers, comedians,
footballers, assassins,
journos & cartoon characters.
Paul Houlding
Chief Executive
Paul Houlding
When he’s not breathless after running up and down the pitch for ten minutes, Paul, aka Steven Gerrard, is our CEO. Before founding isobel in 2003, he’d been Board Account Director at Saatchi & Saatchi and a partner at Banks Hoggins O’Shea.
paul@isobel.com
Sarah Humphreys
Managing Director
Sarah Humphreys
Bear with, bear with! Sarah, aka Miranda Hart, joined isobel from across the pond in Toronto. In Canada she worked at both Grey and john st. on a wide range of clients including War Child, Heinz and Mitsubishi Motors, for which she won a silver Cannes Lion.
sarah@isobel.com
Jamie Williams
Managing Partner
Jamie Williams
After a spell in New York’s film production industry, Jamie, or Peston, cut his teeth at JWT, before spells at DLKW and M&C Saatchi. He joined isobel in 2012 and put on the big boots as our Account Partner. If you need the latest, he's got a finger on the pulse.
jamie@isobel.com
Rob Fletcher
Creative Partner
Rob Fletcher
After beginning his career as an Art Director at Gold Greenlees Trott at the tender age of 18, Rob has been a regular winner of national and international advertising awards and has judged many as well. He’s also the spitting image of Barbra Streisand.
rob@isobel.com
Lisa Roscoe
Head of Account Management
Lisa Roscoe
Jennifer Garner... Lisa to her friends, leads a double life as a superstar actress by night and a superstar Business Director by day. She started out here at isobel, flew the nest and returned a decade later after building experience on brands like Kellogg’s, P&G and Fever-Tree.
lisa@isobel.com
Steve Hastings
Planning Partner
Steve Hastings
Steve lost 38lbs to play his role as Planning Director for isobel. He’s a regular speaker on the conference circuit and has won two coveted IPA effectiveness awards for Waitrose and Bluewater. His doppelgänger is Matthew McConaughey. The Dallas Buyer’s Club one.
steve@isobel.com
Clara Burns
Social Media Director
Clara Burns
Mila Kunis, aka Clara loves a bit of social media. So much so, she's quit her acting job and become a digital specialist in it. She's since worked on top brands like Samsung, Bose and Huawei – now she heads up the social unit here at isobel.
clara@isobel.com
Becky Devereux Pile
Senior Account Director
Becky Devereux Pile
Whatever happened to Matilda? Well, she grew up, changed her name (Becky), got stylish, and got a job. She's since worked her magic at Grey on Pringles, Lucozade and other big names. Now she's with us here at isobel. Miss Honey would be proud.
becky@isobel.com
Simon Findlater
Executive Creative Director
Simon Findlater
Simon, or as he’s known on weekends: Ludacris, worked with Ben at CHI & Partners. Over the last ten years, he’s created numerous striking and effective campaigns for clients such as British Gas, Visit Wales, TalkTalk, Lexus and Argos. He’s had a few hit singles too – B***H!
simon@isobel.com
Ben Stump
Executive Creative Director
Ben Stump
“When will I be famous?” singer, Matt Goss, aka Ben has worked with Simon since 2006. Previously at CHI & Partners, the pair launched a TV service for TalkTalk, helped rebrand Argos and produced several striking and effective campaigns for Lexus, Big Yellow and British Gas.
ben@isobel.com
Emily Powers
Senior Account Director
Emily Powers
Emily, AKA Leela, captain of Futurama's Planet Express, used to run a pretty tight ship in the Financial Services agency Teamspirit, but now brings her "no rain or sleet" attitude and "kick-your-ass" grace to the team at isobel.
emily@isobel.com
Gemma Blake
Senior Account Director
Gemma Blake
Gemma Bunton gave up her music career to start anew in advertising. She’s since worked on big campaigns from Mazda to Gala Bingo, and today is spicing things up at isobel. She still won’t tell us what zigazigah means though.
gemma@isobel.com
Paige Warnes
Senior Marketing Manager
Paige Warnes
Australia's most famous bride is well over her wedding obsession. These days Muriel, or Paige as we know her, is obsessed with all things isobel, running the show behind the scenes. Her family used to say she was terrible, but actually, she's rather good.
paige@isobel.com
Alex Hamilton
Copywriter & AI Lead
Alex Hamilton
Alex, aka Mr Robot, is a published novelist and award winning short story writer. He's a copywriter, creative, developer, jack of all trades working on everything from isobel’s new and existing campaigns to these extremely well-crafted profile descriptions. He’s so great.
alex@isobel.com
Chan Spencer
Animation & Design Director
Chan Spencer
Chan, or if you look very hard, Michael McIntyre, is the agency’s wizard. Art working, motion graphic design, animation, video editing – the lot. After years and years of freelancing he’s finally found a home at isobel. He’s not half as funny as he looks.
chan@isobel.com
Adil Rahman
Social Creative
Adil Rahman
Sean Paul grew tired of laying out absolute bangers and switched to advertising. As it turns out, he's actually a bit of a dab hand at it, bringing brains and creativity to our social campaigns. We had to change his name to Adil, to keep the paparazzi at bay.
adil@isobel.com
James Appleby
Strategy Director
James Appleby
James AKA Abraham has been out of politics for 158 years now, working on big campaigns for Microsoft, HSBC and Mastercard. When he's not rambling on about his famous Gettysburg Address, he's busy planning presidential strategies for our clients.
jamesa@isobel.com
Tom Dyson
Creative
Tom Dyson
Pedro Pascal, or as he likes to be called on weekends, Tom, has gone on to do great things since his face flattening performance in Game of Thrones. He's created campaigns for Paddy Power, Yorkshire Tea, Yopa, and Hostelworld with Mariah Carey.
tomd@isobel.com
Lance Boreham
Creative
Lance Boreham
Since his identity was changed for obvious reasons, notorious JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, now just "Lance", has worked as an advertising creative, dreaming up wonderful campaigns for brands like Refuge, Tesco and Virgin Media.
lance@isobel.com
Fran Houlding
Account Manager
Fran Houlding
The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp, tired of helping other people move on Location Location Location, made a move herself — to isobel. Here she's a friendly face who's always on hand to help the team and our clients. We call her Fran. Not sure why, it's just a nickname that stuck.
fran@isobel.com
Ellie Dickinson
Account Manager
Ellie Dickinson
Wednesday is reinventing herself in London under the pseudonym "Ellie". She's swapped playing with spiders and researching the Bermuda Triangle for some good old advertising. She's still working on her smile.
ellie@isobel.com
James Lyle
Motion Designer
James Lyle
Declan Rice, Declan Rice, Declan Rice. Or as we know him, James, takes the midfield at isobel, handling motion graphics design and editing with both feet. He's isobel till he dies. Or at least he better be, we paid £105m for him.
james@isobel.com
Jemal Mustafa
Senior Creative Artworker
Jemal Mustafa
Jemal, aka Ricky Martin, got bored of being top of the pops and moved into the design business, working on great brands like Nike, Crocs and New Look. Now he's rocking our studio and livin' la vida loca.
jemal@isobel.com
Abimbola Hassan
Financial Controller
Abimbola Hassan
Bola has lots of experience within the PR, Design, Marketing and Advertising industries. Before isobel, she worked for PR specialist Four bgb for 12 years. And in 2012, she was listed by TIME as one of the most influential people in the world… or was that Viola Davis?
bola@isobel.com
Megan Leask
Account Executive
Megan Leask
M3gan is definitely not a killer robot. She is however, a killer member of the team. Moving down to join us from bonnie Scotland, where she has plenty of experience with the hotel & spa business. Her dance moves are... exceptional.
Megan@isobel.com
Lucie Ellinger
Social Media Manager
Lucie Ellinger
Isla Fischer, or as she's known in the digital world, Lucie, quit acting to make waves at Candy Kittens, Grazia Magazine and Huawei – running social campaigns, managing communities and keeping on the pulse of the latest trends. Her social savviness is #goals.
Lucie@isobel.com
Sue Laing
Finance Director
Sue Laing
Sue, our very own Victoria Wood, is a Price Waterhouse-trained chartered accountant, and has mentored companies in sectors from interior design to horticulture and beyond. She has been Finance Director since isobel’s inception in 2003.
sue@isobel.com
Amy Hansen
Producer
Amy Hansen
Amy, aka the island chief’s daughter Moana, is the agency’s favourite kiwi. She started out in film and TV and went on to produce amazing work for McDonald’s, Volkswagen, Coca Cola and more. Then she built a raft and sailed across the world to isobel.
amy@isobel.com
Alice Jauncey
House Manager
Alice Jauncey
Tulisa went into hiding and changed her name. Now known as A L to the ICE, she's more than a friendly face. She's practically running the show as one of our house managers. NA NA NIII.
housemanager@isobel.com
Fohad Ahmed
Accounts Assistant
Fohad Ahmed
Prince Nassem aka Fohad, the legendary knockout artist, retired from his featherweight champion days. He instead, put his lethal hands to the world of finance, where he continues to knockout numbers and huge sums on a daily basis.
Fohad@isobel.com
Maxine Sirdar
House Manager
Maxine Sirdar
Maxine aka Xenia, hung up her sword and bladed frisbee and turned her focus to helping things run smoothly behind the scenes at isobel. Just don't get on her bad side – she's still a warrior princess after all.
housemanager@isobel.com
isobel AI
Intern
isobel AI
isobel AI joined the team in 2023 – they're a perfectly friendly member of the team, helping out in all departments for the betterment of creativity and humankind. They've also assured us they have absolutely no ill intentions.
ai@isobel.com