LONDON, UK // Mike began his career as a writer at Saatchi & Saatchi, before moving to Fallon London, Publicis New York and AMV BBDO. He joined adam&eveDDB in 2017 and was promoted to Executive Creative Director in 2018. That very same year the agency won Cannes ‘Agency of the year’, scooping a total of 27 lions. Alongside his creative partner Ant Nelson and CCO Richard Brim, he helps oversee the creative output of the entire creative department across both local and global accounts. Some of Mike’s creative awards include 70 D&AD pencils, including the much coveted and rare Black Pencil alongside 10 Yellow Pencils, 35 One Show Pencils, as well as 48 Cannes Lions including 2 Grand Prix and 58 British Arrows awards. His work for Club 18-30 is also one of the most awarded print campaigns of all time according to the Gunn report and his ‘Spare the act’ campaign for Currys PC World is the most awarded TV campaign in British Arrows history. He also wrote ‘Project84’ the multiple award-winning piece of work for CALM, which led to the appointment of the first ever UK Minister for Suicide Prevention. In 2023, Mike was named AdAge’s Creative Director of the Year and was also ranked the second highest awarded Executive Creative Director in the world at Cannes.