Meet the team — Founding partners
Marksteen Adamson
Marksteen’s reputation for creating award winning brands spans across his 25 years. His work on the branding of Estonia, the merger creating PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Niceday brand for WHSmith won awards for Interbrand, where he was Global Creative Director. The awards have continued for ASHA – for the branding of WWF, Ashburton, Tetley Good Earth, The Big Cold Turkey, and the photographic training programme, Nimbus. Marksteen has written articles and appeared on TV talking on the subject of corporate identity, brand strategy, product innovation and bringing ideas to life and is also a visiting college lecturer and conference speaker. Marksteen is also the co-founder, trustee and director of the Cheltenham Design Foundation, Festival and Saturday Design Academy.
Louise Arthur
With over 20 years experience in the field of branding, design and advertising, Louise has managed a number of brand identity creation and implementation programmes – including the merger between Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse – PricewaterhouseCoopers, Origin (Global IT), Parcelforce, GUS, Boehringer Ingelheim (Pharmaceuticals), ESE Rental Group (Livery), London Underground Ltd, Ministry of Defence, Schroder Unit Trusts, Verbatim and TNT. As the Intebrand US Executive head of project management, Louise was responsible for setting up, directing and managing the project management capability across the New York, San Francisco and Chicago offices.
Mike Horne
Mike has spent his 25 year career creating and developing award winning marketing strategies and plans for a range of clients. As the Managing Director of the merged Evans Hunt Scott and Brann agencies – EHSBrann, Mike developed and managed advertising, direct marketing and customer retention programmes and campaigns for Barclays, AA, Barnardo’s, Volvo, Tesco, Egg, adidas and British Gas, among others. Mike has worked on some of the most pioneering marketing initiatives such as Barclays Square, and Tesco Clubcard, and is an accomplished speaker, with engagements ranging from international conferences, to events at the Houses of Parliament and business conferences.
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