Alternative Minds Business and Marketing Consultants

Stuart is an award-winning creative director with extensive experience across all marketing communications disciplines and media. His diverse background covering advertising, design, direct & promotional marketing, greatly influences his customer focused & media-neutral approach. He started out in corporate design in the mid-80's and has since gained experience with brand communications of many different types & clients. From '99 until '04, Stuart was Creative Director / Chief Creative Officer at Perspectives Red Cell, part of the WPP group and Red Cell Advertising. He won 17 creative awards for clients like Amex, Barclays, Carlsberg-Tetley, Daewoo, First Choice Holidays and Hewlett-Packard. Before this, Stuart was creative director with Brann Worldwide and an art director with Grey Europe working on pan-European advertising for Milky Way, Barilla Pasta, Bosch and Skoda. He also had spells at Emery McLaven Orr, The Idea Works and at ad agency Golley Slater, where he left as deputy creative director. Stuart is a member of the Marketing Society and the Chartered Society of Designers, and has a degree in graphic design and communication.