Today, we promote Ant Nelson and Mike Sutherland, Executive Creative Directors at adam&eveDDB London to Chief Creative Officers, and Will Grundy, its Head of Planning, to Chief Strategy Officer. 

Ant and Mike joined the agency as Deputy Creative Directors in 2017 and were promoted to Executive Creative Directors within 18-months. The pair have created award-winning work for a wide range of brands including CALM, John Lewis, Volkswagen, Marmite and PlayStation.

The duo, who have worked together since meeting at advertising college in 1997, are now responsible for leading adam&eveDDB’s 40-strong creative department and overseeing the agency’s entire creative output.

Will takes on his new role as Chief Strategy Officer after nearly 14 years at the agency, most recently as Head of Planning. During his time at adam&eveDDB, he’s worked across a huge range of clients including Disney, Google, Marmite, PlayStation and CALM, where he has been a trustee for the last five years.  

Under his leadership, adam&eveDDB has been named APG Strategy Agency of the Year for four consecutive years, as well as IPA’s Effectiveness Company of the Year in 2024 and 2022.

Miranda Hipwell, Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are delighted to have such incredible talent in Ant, Mike and Will poised to step up and lead adam&eveDDB into our next chapter. Ant and Mike’s creative pedigree is second to none and there is no stronger (or nicer) duo to take the helm – leading us to even greater creative heights. Will is a master of strategy and has been behind so much of our brilliant thinking and work that has grown our clients’ bottom lines. He’s also a very good egg and we couldn’t be happier that he’s taking on the mantle of CSO. As a leadership team we are fired up for 2025 and everything to come.”