Team

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  Chris Hammond
  Owner and Managing Director

  Chris has worked in the advertising and design industry for over 25 years. He started his career at Saatchi & Saatchi moving to multi-discipline agency Imagination. He has worked on branding and digital projects for clients such as University of Oxford, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Cancer Research UK and Sainsbury’s Trust as well as our own digital products. Chris heads up the account side of the company and is a founding partner of William Joseph. 

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  Stéphane Harrison
  Owner and Creative Director

  Stéphane started his career at Wilson Harvey before moving to Imagination where he worked with Chris for five years prior to establishing William Joseph. He has guided design and digital projects for clients such as University of Oxford, Cancer Research UK, Virgin Media, Media Trust, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and Drinkaware. Stéphane heads up the creative team and is a founding partner of William Joseph. 

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  James Gadsby Peet
  Owner and Director of Digital

  Before joining William Joseph, James led the digital team at Cancer Research UK, the UK’s largest charity. There and in his previous roles at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and Variety he was responsible for the development of digital products that met user needs and drove business value, through his experience across Digital Marketing, UX, Analytics, SEO, Content Strategy, Development and Solutions Architecture. 

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  Ellie Budd
  Product Manager

  Ellie has worked across the third sector, leading digital transformation and digital products at some of the most respected charities in the UK, including Cancer Research UK, Kids and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Ellie has a valuable mix of knowledge: from best-in-class digital techniques to the delivery of large scale change programmes which help organisations realise their potential digitally.

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  Nicola O’Connor
  UX & Content Strategy Manager

  During her time as Content Strategy Lead at Cancer Research UK, Nic made the case for and drove the Masthead Information Architecture (MIA) project. This formed the very basis of CRUK’s digital transformation. It was the project which led CRUK to adopt a hub and spoke model in order to drive digital maturity through the whole charity. More recently she’s honed her content strategy practice at Autistica across their website, research network and mobile app. She’s adept at working with senior stakeholders to generate buy-in and excitement.

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  Daniel Cullinan
  Senior Designer

  Dan’s work is driven by typography, and an eye for structure and layout. He has worked on design and branding projects for clients including The Photographers’ Gallery, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, University of Oxford, Brighton University and Banque de Luxembourg. 

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  Ed Risbey
  Senior Brand Designer

  Ed has a very ideas-driven approach to his work which has been recognised by D&AD, DBA and the RCA’s Inclusive Design Centre. He has worked with clients including National Trust, WWF, Young Minds and The Canal & River Trust. Ed has also been responsible for digital work that spans multiple markets including Europe, South America and the Baltics.

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  Geetika Alok
  Senior Designer

  Geetika is a graphic designer and type designer. Her interests lie in typography and its influences and relationships with culture. She has worked on diverse projects for cultural, design and corporate clients that include Wallpaper*, Macmillan Cancer Support, JP Morgan and Southbank Centre. Awarded a DFID Commonwealth Scholarship, Geetika graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Visual Communications. In addition, she completed her second MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, funded by the Monotype Studentship.

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  Iain Budgen
  Designer

  Iain is a multidisciplinary designer driven by shape and structure, as well as pushing technology and new media. Working with clients such as Atkins, AkzoNobel and University of Leeds, he has seen his work displayed around the world.

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  Frank Harrison
  Digital Developer

  Frank ensures that all our websites are built using the latest technology and follow our designs to the pixel. He has worked on projects for Sainsbury’s Trust, The British Library and DCD Media.

Associates

• Lucy Greeves
  Content Strategist

  Lucy has been helping companies to communicate with a wide range of audiences for more than 15 years; during that time, her writing has appeared in print, on screen and online in the name of clients including Orange, BBC Online, Virgin Mobile and Barclays Bank. Before becoming a full time writer, Lucy spent seven years with brand experience specialists Imagination.

• Justin Hopper
  Copywriter

  Justin Hopper has 20 years’ experience as a journalist, editor and copywriter. Since moving to the UK in 2012, Hopper, a dual US/UK citizen, has applied his editorial eye and feature-writer’s prose style to topics ranging from self-driving cars, to cancer research, to high street regeneration. He specialises in helping both companies and not-for-profit organisations make their complex stories accessible and relevant to the general reader.