Folio – Opening the door

Elizabeth is a multidisciplinary creative with over 20 years’ experience across many areas in advertising. Always pushing to create high-end innovative solutions, she is immensly passionate about storytelling and crafting creative that truly makes a difference. 

Her innate understanding, love for creativity, design and people has steered her career. She is passionate about developing creative cultures and pushing creative to new levels if engagement. 

Jo is a dynamic creative leader with over 20 years experience and an ambition to affect positive change through idea with real impact. This vision has seen her deliver disruptive campaigns for global and local brands, proudly collect a plethora of creative awards - including a recent gold Cannes Lion, curate provocative exhibitions and create popular events on the edges of advertising.

She is also the founder and host of the popular, non-profit event, Good Girls Eat Dinner, which has one simple mission: to provide visible, kick-ass, female role-models across the creative industries and beyond. It’s the best dinner party you’ll ever go to and has over 7,000 Instagram followers. 

Jo is regularly invited to join and chair international creative award jury’s such as One Show, Creative Circle,  D&AD, and Drum and Gerety Awards. She also often speaks at advertising and marketing events due to her passionate advocacy for a more diverse, creative, future facing industry. 

Jo works 'in advertising' but strives to shape ideas that have a genuine impact outside, in the real world.

With over 17+ years’ experience working within the advertising and design industry, Nene is a Creative Director, primarily an Art Director specialising in idea conception, digital campaign idea generation, art direction and UI design.

She is also an aspiring concept and character artist. She has a very varied career, having worked in some of the top global ad agencies, including Ogilvy, Inferno, MC Saatchi, JWT, Wunderman, Digitas LBI, Publicis, DDB (adam&Eve) and BBDO.

Still working alongside agencies, Nene now runs VINE Creatives, a visual communications agency which works for and with scale-ups, entrepreneurs and businesses run by the ethnic diverse founders with African-Caribbean heritage.

Ciara is a multi-award winning Creative Director. She is currently at McCann UK as CD of Mastercard for UK & Europe and CD of McCann Demand, working on Taco Bell, JBL, Acer, Bacardi, Hargreaves Lansdown, and Play OJO.

Previously she was at Joint working on Amazon, TSB, Kettle Chips, and Thatchers Cider. Before that she was at BETC working on brands such as Diet Coke, Bacardi, Rimmel, Danone, Samsung, Lacoste and Accor Hotels, to name a few.

She's had the joy of working in places as far as DDB Canada to starting out at Ogilvy & Mather Dublin.

In her spare time, she volunteers with the global initiative She Says helping create events and workshops for young women in advertising and is also a Who's Your Momma? and For Creative Girls mentor.

Over a morning coffee, she draws her Twitter followers and has sketched over 600 portraits for her blog - #twitollowersketches.

Nick has been making short films since the age of 9. Since starting in the healthcare advertising and comms industry 12 years ago, his work has been globally recognised at CLIO Awards, Creative Floor, PM Society, AVA Digital Awards, 48 Hour Film Project, and Shortcutz Amsterdam film festival.

At Real Chemistry, Nick has grown the EMEA creative department from a team of 1 to 18 people. Nick is a passionate believer in the power of storytelling, particularly of the bedtime variety as he now has 2 small children!

Shaheed's creative portfolio spans across consumer, healthcare, med comms, clinical trials, PR, social, e-commerce and DTC brands.

Notable highlights include a Guinness Book of Records for creating the world’s largest robot for the NFL, being the world’s most awarded creative in healthcare communications and becoming Cannes Lions first British Asian Health & Wellness President.

Shaheed founded The Creative Floor Awards with a purpose to celebrate the world's best creative work and raise money to help those from underrepresented communities into the communications industry.

He also makes a great cup of tea.

Sarah is a decade-and-a-half deep into the advertising industry and joined the flock at BBH London in 2014. Her career includes employer branding and consumer but Health advertising is where she calls home, launching drug brands, creating disease awareness and charity fundraising campaigns – and she’s bagged a few industry awards along the way.

Mother to two mini-humans and several other creatures, Sarah can usually be found proofreading for fun (sad, I know!), dabbling with comedy taxidermy, writing silly kid’s books and/or tickling a parrot.

Khalid is the creative director of the EMEA health practice at Weber Shandwick. With the importance of global health at an all-time high, he believes now is the perfect opportunity for truly life-changing work to rise above everything else. 

With over 50 creative awards, Khalid's built up a pretty enviable portfolio over the years working with some exceptionally talented people.

Speaking of which, he once made a film with acclaimed director and industry-renowned enfant terrible, Tony Kaye. But that's a story for another time.

Evie is a multi-disciplinary Creative currently working as a Content Marketer at animation studio, Finger Industries.

Having started her career at an advertising agency, Evie understands the pitfalls and challenges that come with starting out in the industry and wants to use her platform to guide others through the process.

Evie is most energetic when coming up with and experimenting with new creative ideas. Out of work, she acts in short films, writes and plays bass in her band, Potpourri.