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About me

A writer, Creative Director and all round ideas enthusiast. I'm experienced in building brands and running accounts globally and locally, across Europe, Asia and Africa. This has allowed me to feature at all the major advertising and effectiveness shows, and has left me with a passion for working with interesting people, to create broad-reaching campaigns that change brands and minds.

Some of my proudest work includes: Inventing a new word for WWF to ban the trade of ivory in Hong Kong (the world's largest legal ivory port), working with Idris Elba and Jamie Foxx to reposition brandy in South Africa, and managing to create awarded work in four different languages and counting...

Details

ContractPerm, Freelance, Temp-Perm, Part time, Remote

LocationUK, United Kingdom

Skill LevelJunior, Middleweight, Senior, Director

LanguagesEnglish, Afrikaans, German (basic)

Tagged Job TitlesCreative Director

Achievements

2Judge x 2

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Recommendations

Currently No Recommendations

Skills

Copywriting, Creative Direction, Script Writing

Sector Experience

Film (Short / Documentary), Finance, FMCG, Information Technology, Mobile, Print

Clients

Alibaba Group, Coca-Cola

Awards

ADFEST Award - Silver, Cannes Lions - Bronze, Cannes Lions - Shortlist, Cannes Lions - Silver, Ciclope Finalist, Clios - Bronze, Clios - Silver, D&AD Award - In-book, D&AD Award - Wood Pencil, One Show - Silver Pencil, SABRE Award, Spikes Asia - Bronze

CV / Resume

Mike's CV/Resume

Activity

Connections7 Followers247 Following14

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Creativepool member since 12 August 2016

Mike's work

Year of the Tiger

MTV 'Dick the Dog'

Mercedes-Benz 'Travel G-Class'

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