o Responsible for:
▪ Day-to-day running of the company
▪ Liaising with all clients engaged
▪ Production of the highest quality Storyboard/Key frames for International Advertising agencies including Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper and Grey Worldwide/London
o Design and formatting MS PowerPoint presentations for clients such as Google for their Audio Visual presentation commitments throughout Europe, the emerging markets, the Middle East and North Africa.

o The company was set up by myself with the backing and majority ownership of TAG
o Post set-up my responsibilities were similar to above but with a larger client base including Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper (exclusive supplier for 7 years through various companies), Banks Hoggins O’Shea FCB, Clemmow Hornby Inge, EHS Brann, Minerva, Mortimer Whitaker O’Sullivan, Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters, Scholz & Friends, Bates Worlwide, Root Design & TMA Moscow.

o Responsible for:
▪ Liaising with existing clients,
▪ Developing new clients as well as project management,
▪ Taking detailed briefs from primarily advertising agency clients (typically an advertising creative director/art director/copywriter),
▪ Establishing a mutually agreeable budget & time scale with the agency’s project manager/producer,
▪ Putting together a team of specialist creative talent (usually illustrators/graphic artists) and production/post production services (photographers, film crews, offline editors & retouchers) in order to achieve the optimum result for each project.
o Projects included Storyboards, Key Frames, Animatics, Photomatics, Stealamatics, Mood films, & Corporate films

o My first foray into the storyboarding/production of presentation graphics for advertising business
o Also developed a client base in the Sales Promotion sector.
o Responsibilities as above plus:
▪ Starting from scratch without a client base and zero turnover
▪ On departure I was responsible for 1/3 (£0.5 million) of TBM’s turnover (£1.5 million).

o I typically worked with an ever-evolving group of 6 Advertising Photographers and was responsible for:
▪ Managing and promoting their portfolios
▪ Developing and managing their clients
▪ Budgeting and production for the photographic shoots which were undertaken by them
o Commissions included everything from the HMSO annual catalogue, Ford Motor dealership brochures to major worldwide advertising campaigns for the likes of IBM, Marlboro, The Cotton Council and many more.
o Advertising agency clients were those of the top 10 international as well as many others of varying stature.

o BMT was the photographic management/production arm of South Bank Studio Centre Ltd. which was a large car photograph and video studio complex
o Worked with an ever-evolving group of Car Photographers and was responsible for:
▪ Managing and promoting their portfolios
▪ Developing and managing their clients
▪ All aspects of budgeting and production for the photographic shoots which were undertaken by BMT
o We worked for all of the major automotive manufacturers primarily producing brochures (below the line) but also shooting many above-the-line advertising pieces for the likes of Vauxhall, Ford, Jaguar, Citroen & Peugeot.