Our Team

Simon has extensive experience of marketing transformation through integrated and effective marketing and communications. He has run Creative, Media, Digital & Digital Media, Branded Content, Econometric & Poster buying companies, having been CEO, EMEA for Saatchi & Saatchi, and Aegis Media, MD EMEA for OMD. He has also held senior positions at Leo Burnett, MindShare and ZenithOptimedia.

Simon has enjoyed working towards transforming a number of World Class companies and brands such as Diageo, Carlsberg, Heineken, Adidas, Nike, Sony Electronics, Mobile, Music & Pictures, IBM, Apple, HSBC, Toyota, Kia, PSA, Bridgestone, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Sara Lee, Beiersdorf, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, P&G, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Emirates to name a few.
He has won IPA Effectiveness Awards as well as Cannes Lions, M&M Global, Media Week and Campaign Creative and Media Awards for clients such as Nike, Sony and Sony Pictures etc. Whilst in charge of the creative offering at OMD, the agency won most awarded network of the year for five straight years at Cannes, was either M&M Global or Campaign Network of the year for each of the five years, and whilst at Saatchi & Saatchi the agency became the first and only agency ever awarded in every single award category from Titanium & Integrated, through to Promotions, PR and Media.

When he is not helping clients Simon can be found fishing, shooting or ferrying his two young daughters around the West Sussex countryside.

John began his career at Dorland Advertising as Media Planner/Buyer in 1979, spending 13 years in full service Agencies with the last 8 years at McCann Erickson as a Media Group Director on the board of the Agency working on accounts Black & Decker, Esso, NS&I, Cathay Pacific and Martini.

He then joined the Sales Department of Sky Television. At Sky he was responsible for a Sales Group selling to major media buying agencies and managing the sales for the launch of Nickelodeon – a joint venture between Sky and Viacom. That role developed into acting as the Commercial Director for Nickelodeon.
In mid 1995 he was appointed as the launch Deputy Managing Director of the Paramount Comedy Channel (now Comedy Central), he was made MD in April 1996. He managed all aspects of the channel for the first six years of its existence and led the team that launched and managed Paramount Comedy Espana achieving profitability for both channels during his tenure.
After spending a year on gardening leave, i.e. fishing all over the world, he was engaged as a consultant to set up an online gambling operation for Harrah’s Entertainment.
Since that time he has consulted for major media companies and advertisers in the UK and Europe. Media companies such as Viacom, News International and IPC Media (Time Inc.) and advertisers such as Unilever, Associated British Foods, Eurostar and IKEA helping with such things as structure, system builds, transformation and pitch management.
When not at work enjoys being tormented by Everton, Somerset and Bath, fly fishing and French builders.

Florian is a results-driven marketer with a track record in managing and leading complex client organisations, delivering award-winning work and directing fully integrated campaigns for international clients such as Jaguar, Toyota, Audi, O2, Pernod Ricard, Nestlé.

He started his career more than 18 years ago in Frankfurt/Germany and moved to London in 2008 where he started working at Saatchi&Saatchi London, helping the agency to transform the Toyota Europe account. During his time there he was responsible for changing the agency processes to deliver a fully integrated approach by introducing digital and social into Toyota’s Pan-European marketing mix. In his role he was responsible for running pitches for launch campaigns within Saatchis European network, overseeing strategy, creative development and production – in true Germanic style, he managed to significantly increase production efficiencies for Toyota in Europe. He successfully managed Toyota’s image crisis in 2010, when Toyota was in the news for recalling over 2.3million vehicles worldwide. In his latest role he managed the relaunch of the Jaguar brand, reigniting global market growth by leading integrated campaigns.

At Flock he led marketing transformation projects for clients such as Campbells US, McDonald’s US, Britvic, Mondelēz Europe, Honda Europe, Toyota Europe and is the lead consultant for Marketing Operations. He is a passionate Eintracht Frankfurt supporter and adopted Arsenal as his surrogate team – he occasionally wonders if that was a good decision or not. In his free time he can be found jumping into muddy puddles, either with his 5 year old son or at the Regent’s Park football pitch.

John holds a BA in Accountancy and Financial Management gained from Sheffield University in 1982. He qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1985.

John owned his own accountancy practice for over 30 years, focussing on businesses that needed professional financial assistance to help them develop and grow their business. He has a proven record of working with growing companies. The clients were from a variety of sectors including private equity, venture capital, an online travel agency, a film production company, an optical manufacturer, advertising agencies, an online publisher and empathy consultancy.

John has been married for 30 years, is a qualified cricket umpire, a Samaritan volunteer for 20 years and a volunteer with Sussex Police Search Team. He also loves all things Irish!

Helen is a Client Account Manager at Flock with over 4 years of experience managing global Marketing Transformation Projects.

Over the last few years, Helen has become a generalist with experience across marketing operations, strategy, agency management, martech, pitch management and many more. She has a strong track record of leading projects with global organisations such as PepsiCo, FT, EY, Toyota/Lexus and Walmart.

Helen also has a love for sport & fitness and is currently training for the London Marathon!

Kieron has over 25 years of experience with brands and marketing having worked at some of the top creative agencies including McCann’s, HHCL+P, TBWA Chiat Day (Toronto), BBH and Dare Digital. There he worked on award winning campaigns for Lynx and the COI and was also involved in attracting new clients such as Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, The AA and the BBC. In the time he was there, Dare grew from 9 staff to over 70.

Kieron was then appointed as the Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) first head of marketing where his role included overseeing and driving the growth of the internet advertising industry.

In 2001 Kieron co-founded The Digital Consultancy where for 7 years he drove the strategic direction and digital transformation for brands such as Shell, BP, MSD, GE, Inchcape, Pearson and Visit England.

Katie is a Junior Consultant at Flock, working with our Consultancy team to transform the way our clients deliver their marketing operations and outputs.

Prior to joining Flock, Katie worked in a variety of marketing and communications environments across a number of sectors in design and branding agencies and most recently as a Consultant for Oystercatchers.

Katie is passionate about delivering practical, game changing pieces of consultancy and has previously delivered marketing excellence programmes for brands such as GVC, EY and Boden.

Katie is also a volunteer programme manager for the Be Awesome Night School, an organisation which provides affordable training to women in creative industries.

Laura has over 12 years experience working for well know marketing agencies such as Ogilvy, Geometry and RPM.

There she managed award winning integrated marketing campaigns  across B2C sectors in FMCG, Retail, Alcohol, Sport, Travel, Beauty, Pharmaceutical and Technology. She has delivered omni-channel strategic solutions for well-known consumer brands such as Bacardi, Diageo, Mondelez, M&S, Tesco, Danone, and Coca-Cola.

Alongside consulting, Laura is a mentor and coach to junior industry peers, and an author and speaker for the MAA Marketing Diploma, having written and delivered the Shopper and Brand Experience module for the past 2 years. Laura is fiercely disciplined to training in the gym every morning and believes a good start to the day is an early one!

Aysha has over 10 years’ of experience working in Operations and managing large, cross-functional projects across all departments both within the public and private sector.

She has a natural ability to nurture & coach, a personality trait that presents itself in all roles that she undertakes.  Aysha is passionate about helping and supporting people through their career and currently provide coaching and mentoring to aspiring leaders and graduates in successfully developing their career pathways.

Aysha is recognised as an industry expert in driving performance excellence through people and managing change effectively in environments of rapid growth.  She regularly speaks at HR events, workshops and conferences including the industry recognised CIPD professional body for HR and people development.

Outside of work Aysha loves to cook at home, as well as eating out. She is currently researching and developing the production of her own cooking and dining experience book.  She also loves to dance a lot…and where possible she enjoys travelling…mainly to hot countries.

Nicole has been working in the marketing industry for 6 years, and has spent the past 3 years managing global projects across a variety of industries.

Over the past few years, Nicole has developed a skill for facilitating and enhancing client-agency relationships, shown in the running of global pitches and managing multi-agency 360 appraisals. She has managed some of Flock’s great clients including Toyota, Philips Domestic Appliances, Danone, Pandora and many more.

Nicole loves spending time visiting galleries, eating at lovely restaurants and wandering round a good Sunday market finding local gems.

A multi skilled events manager and sales consultant, with a variety of skills and experience and a demonstrated aptitude for problem solving, building relationships, budget management, and supply chain management

15+ years in Event management, sales, strategic account management , project work and supply chain management Responsible for supporting the day to day running projects and communication, event management and finance support

Over 20 years Business Development and Sales experience including Account and Relationship Management, B2B, B2C, face to face and direct sales. Highly acclaimed for cultivating lasting, mutually beneficial business relationships. Personable, yet results focused. Target driven while being approachable, constantly striving to maximise potential sales and bringing on new business.

The vast majority of my career has been spent in the automotive industry, where I utilised and developed my extensive project/product management skills in order to delivery bespoke and high production products. I have experience managing a team of developers who were responsible for implementing changes to a range of automotive products. High level stakeholder management was key to managing these tasks, as well as the ability to translate technical detail into visual representation, KPIs and detail success planning.

I am a highly social person and in my free time I enjoy listening to music and going to gigs. I am also a self-confessed “tech nerd” and enjoy designing and building products using my 3D printer.

Iain is a recent graduate from Exeter University where he studied joint honours in Economics and Philosophy. His undergraduate degree gave him knowledge and skills in business and quantitative aspects, as well as, articulation skills both written and spoken.

He is a marketing executive at Flock and is loving the nature of the work as it provides him with exposure to fantastic clients and stimulating work where he can use his skills and learn many more!

For client projects Iain performs project management, industry research, data analysis, and deck creation. His main focus has been on project managing global pitch processes and marketing operations processes & model audit and recommendations.

In his free time he enjoys running, watching Liverpool play football, and sampling the bars and restaurants around London!

Halima is a Project Manager at Flock, supporting our client projects as well as Flock’s internal operations and processes. 

Halima has experience working with clients to transform their marketing, including brands such as Shell, Asda and Nomad. Recently, Halima has had a particular focus on developing the Flock Skills Assessment Tool. Halima also has experience as an Account Manager at a CRM SaaS firm working with clients in the luxury hospitality industry to deliver email, social and loyalty campaigns using a single customer view. 

Lucy’s focus is on data analytics and she works across a range of consultancy projects at Flock, including procurement, pitch management, marketing capabilities and performance assessments. With previous Flock clients including Mazda, McCormick, ASDA Walmart, Travelopia, Duracell and more.​

Prior to Flock Lucy worked in marketing and agency environments, most recently leading analytics for a media agency where she drove a successful data and analytics practice working with pharmaceutical clients including GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Sanofi, Reckitt Benckiser, Lilly and Actelion.

Danielle graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2019, studying Communication and Media with English Lit. Before joining Flock she worked in an in-house marketing team for a B2B conference production company, as well as trying her hand at HR.  

During her time at Flock Danielle has developed her project management and client relationship skills, working on projects for Danone, Nomad Foods, Pandora and Colgate Palmolive.   

Alongside this, she is creative at heart. She led her university’s design and marketing team for the on-campus magazine, danced competitively for 8 years as well as currently running a small Instagram-based business doing line drawings.

I am a young graduate from McGill University in Canada where I obtained a bachelor’s degree with a double major in International Development, Sociology as well as a minor in Economics. 

I have experience in Marketing, Sales and Project management acquired in the UK, France and Canada. 

Having a multicultural background (Nigerian, Senegalese, French and English) has facilitated my understanding and discernment of people’s diverse perspectives. I believe this cultural diversity is why I love to travel so much and what over the years has allowed me to adapt to new environments so comfortably. 

In my spare time I have been known to shop till I drop but that was a past life haha! But now I enjoy the simple things in life like a cheeky glass of Pinot Grigio.  

I am an enthusiastic analyst with a passion to tell stories through data visualisation and statistical techniques. I have spent the last 5 years widening my knowledge within the data field, undertaking data science internships, running individual projects in my spare time (i.e predicting the likelihood of patients turning up to a doctors appointment), and using econometrics to quantify the contribution of different variables to a given KPI. I am keen to continue learning and sharing my knowledge to help businesses turn messy data, into actionable insight. 

In my spare time, I enjoy travelling, spending time with friends and family – and strive to have regular catchups with them all.  

Lisa has worked in strategic marketing and media in the commercial and non-profit sectors across local and global roles in the US, UK and the Netherlands.  

With a background in marketing and content development, she’s led client teams across media strategy, planning and buying and worked on various brand global transformation projects agency-side. Experienced with econometrics, digital strategy, digital in-housing, partnerships and global governance, she’s passionate about effective, purpose-led marketing that is outcome focused. 

Kristina Huddart is an independent DAM consultant who helps brands and cultural heritage organizations to find, implement and make the most of their digital asset management (DAM) practices. 

Kristina has over 9 years of experience in the DAM industry working on the client-side across industries including finance, startup, charity, cultural heritage, energy, retail and eCommerce, and events sectors. Kristina is also a thought leader, author, speaker and educator.  

Kristina specialises in building strong, successful DAM operations with the right combination of people, process, data, and technology. She provides services to organizations including: 

– selecting and implementing DAM systems 

– building DAM practices including metadata and taxonomy design, governance structures, data migration, and more 

– leading change management and user adoption of DAM and surrounding Marketing Technologies 

– supporting companies with evaluating and optimizing their existing DAM operations 

I’m a versatile global citizen with experience across a variety of sectors and disciplines. I’ve worked with partners like GSK, Sanofi, BAT, Samsung, Virgin, Sony, Generali and Volvo. I’ve spent the majority of my career as an account lead in agencies like Rapier, iris, Cheil and Grey, where I also performed a number of WPP duties. 

I’m firstly a marketeer who has gently transitioned into change management, advising businesses on how to set themselves up for success. I’m passionate about helping marketers get the most both from the environment they work in and from themselves.  

Claire is a highly motivated senior leader in Media and Sourcing with significant Agency and FMCG experience. A change maker who has a breadth of commercial and operational experience working for 11 years within Agency Networks followed by 11 years at Mondelez delivering Responsible Marketing Procurement, Ecosystem Management and Marketing Transformation. 

Some recent career highlights include Global Agency, Owners and MarTech roadmap design & management; Global Pitch Governance and Contracting; Media Performance model evolution & implementation and design and build of a data solution for an in-house digital media team  

I have been a PA/EA for over 10 years supporting CEO’s, MD’s & Executive Directors within the Fashion, Property & Recruitment industries.  I am a big lover of trainers I have over 200 pairs from Nike Jordans , Pumas, Yeezy Adidas & various other brands.   

Matthew is an accomplished strategist, problem-solver, and analytical digital marketing expert with 20+ years of progressive experience in providing integrated business and marketing solutions to diverse clients.

He has a proven track record of driving business growth and innovation using technology.

A strategic thinker with a keen eye for emerging trends and technologies, and a proven ability to drive change and transformation. 

With experience in both international digital sales and partnerships, he can also bring a commercial perspective to deliver value for clients. 

Matthew lives in South-East London and tries his best to enjoy a round of golf at weekends. 

John is a highly skilled Executive Team member, Board Advisor and Certified Chair with a strong background in technology, product strategy and delivery, digital transformation and marketing technology.  John has led Technology globally within large corporate environments in addition to co-founding, launching, scaling and managing start-up businesses.  On the marketing side having run campaigns across TV, press, digital, OOH, and radio.  A passion for developing the strategies and solutions needed to thrive in a rapidly changing digital market. John is a collaborative communicator who builds strong relationships with clients, executive leadership, and key stakeholders to create strategies that unite the organization and accomplish goals.