About me

A creative mischief-maker with a global mindset and a genuine passion for disrupting the expected. I've led teams, inspired bold thinking, and built standout campaigns across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the US, guiding world-class brands from big ideas to beautiful execution.

From luxury and lifestyle to sport, travel, and tech, I've helped brands earn the right to be in people's lives. Work that connects across every platform and format, with emotion and meaning at its core.

I believe in fearless creativity, strategic clarity, and leading with both vision and heart. Whether redefining brand tone, mentoring rising talent, or turning 'what if

Much of my career has been spent setting and defending creative standards, and finding the right words for brands that needed to mean something. I created one of the most successful and controversial drink-drive campaigns in recent memory. Wrote a global manifesto that reignited a dormant British sports car icon for a new breed of driver. Repositioned Etihad Airways around a promise, not just a tagline. Led a counter-extremism campaign for the Home Office that reached three million people without a penny of paid media. Generated £42 million from a B2B campaign built on a single human truth. And told the story of the world's tallest building, making it stand for something far greater than a footnote in the Guinness World Records.

I've built frameworks that outlasted the campaigns and led teams of up to 30 creatives under a single philosophy: the restless pursuit of better. Not perfection for its own sake, but a refusal to settle for good enough when something far greater is within reach.

I lead with honesty, invest in the people around me, and work to create environments where the right mix of talent, experience, and inspired thinking produces work that genuinely matters.

Neil's articles

Inspiration

FUELLED BY 'UNFORTUNATELY'

Inspiration

THE MEANING AND THE MAGIC.

Inspiration

JUDGEMENT CALLS

Industry

OVER 50? HERE'S YOUR 'I AM SPARTACUS' MOMENT.

Inspiration

GREAT WORDS.

Inspiration

X, AND WHY FIVE WORDS DID THE WORK OF A WHOLE SPEECH.

Inspiration

WRITING THE RIGHT SCRIPT.

Industry

ACHTUNG BABY

Industry

START AND FIGURE OUT THE REST ALONG THE WAY.

Inspiration

THAT'S NICE.

Industry

Risk Aversion: The New Epidemic.

Industry

The best brands are getting it deliberately wrong.

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