I am passionate about the ability of creativity to transform brands and businesses. I'm equally passionate about developing people from all backgrounds to enable them to unleash their best and achieve great things in a demanding creative industry. I have enjoyed working in agencies for over 20 years (yes I started young). During this time I've held senior management positions at top agencies in Sydney and now Auckland. My client experience is broad and includes: financial services, telecommunications, airlines, automotive, government, insurance, not-for-profit and FMCG, as well as specialising in Multicultural communications. My extensive experience running service industry clients such as Telstra, Qantas and Westpac has built my ability to manage cross discipline agency teams, build strong client relationships and deliver outstanding integrated creative work in both brand and high volume retail. As well as my current group responsibilities at Saatchi & Saatchi, I also lead our talent retention and attraction programs, CAANZ intern, university and school programs. I arrived in Auckland from Sydney in March 2008 with my 3xdogs, 1xhorse and 1xman to continue building my career and to enjoy the great NZ lifestyle.