Mike was a board director of 5 of London¹s top 10 ad agencies including McCann Erickson and O&M before joining Osprey, one of the first specialist multi media Direct Response agencies which he helped build to more than £50 million, winning the launch of SKY television and a number of other high profile accounts.
His famous campaigns include Wonder of Woolies; R Whites secret lemonade drinker; Domecq sherry featuring Orson Welles. He has worked on major blue chip brands from Nescafe to Levis, Martini to Seiko. He has been a judge on the Clio awards and has himself won all the major awards in the UK, Europe and the USA.
He has written and directed more than 200 TV commercials including dozens of DRTV and now creates and directs our DRTV commercials -always with a strategic eye on ROI.
Brian has vast experience in editing all genres of programming, from The Big Match flagship football programme, through Orm & Cheep and Jackanory to editing and occasionally directing many classic pop videos for artistes ranging from Kate Bush to Black Sabbath, Godley & Crème to Queen.
Before starting Dancing Aardvarks, Brian was MD of two multi national post production companies with offices throughout Europe.
He is one of the few people in the TV ad production world that is also mentioned on IMDb.
Brian does the hard stuff like producing, budgeting, organising and editing our DRTV Commercials.
Nick is a talented designer with an in-depth understanding of the latest computer software used to create both 2D and 3D graphic movie sequences.
He has been responsible for designing many programme titles and graphic sequences for among others the BBC and Channel 4. He's won an IVCA for the Norton Bikeman animated TV series.
He is responsible for the graphical elements of our DRTV Commercials including original character creation and animation and works closely with Mike Reynolds on set to ensure special affects are seamless.
Nick has a great love of 1950s space art and is a huge fan of the architect Zaha Hadid.
For the past 10 years Juliet has worked as an Agency TV Production Manager, specialising in the DRTV market and has developed a close relationship with many at Clearcast.
Her experience includes an active involvement in the post-production of US creatives brought to the UK and in UK commercial shoots, editing and graphics.
She manages the compliance process for all UK copy with Clearcast and is responsible for final copy clearances, commercial trafficking.