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
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
Sarah Humphreys
Account Partner
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
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
Lisa Roscoe
Business Director
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
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
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
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
Zoheb Raza
Social Media Director
Zoheb Raza
Zoltar, often misspelt as Zoheb, has spent the last decade producing award winning social strategies for Harley-Davidson, Quorn Foods, Ella’s Kitchen, Chupa-Chups and Sky. If you’ve got a quarter, he’ll read your future too.
zoheb@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
Paige Warnes
Account 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 use to say she was terrible, but actually, she's rather good.
paige@isobel.com
Adil Rahman
Social Creative
Adil Rahman
Chabuddy G's latest entrepreneurial venture is in advertising. As it turns out, he's actually a bit of a dab hand at it, bringing brains and creativity to our social campaigns. He recently changed his name to Adil — for tax reasons.
adil@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
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
Alex Hamilton
Copywriter
Alex Hamilton
Alex, aka Sheldon, is a published novelist and award winning short story writer. He got into advertising in 2014 and has since worked on countless projects – from isobel’s new and existing campaigns to these extremely well-crafted profile descriptions. He’s so great.
alex@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
It turns out everyone's favourite Blue Peter presenter, Matt Baker, or as we know him, James, is a deft hand when it comes to motion graphics. And yes, if you ask him nicely, he'll give you a "here's one I made earlier".
james@isobel.com
Zohaib Mohammed
Finance
Zohaib Mohammed
When he's not masterminding his evil plans for world domination, Gru aka Zohaib is masterminding our finance department – keeping on top of timesheets, invoices, giant lasers that sort of thing.
finance@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
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
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
Siobhan Simpson
Planning Director.
Siobhan Simpson
Ellie aka Shiv, grew up and took her experience of apocalypse survival planning and used it to plan great strategies for brands like Dr Martens, M&S and Benefit. Now she's doing lots of thinking for us — when we're not all hiding from clickers.
siobhan@isobel.com