Please cast one vote for the agency leader detailed below who you feel deserves to collect this year's Creative Director of the Year award at next month's MiAwards ceremony.
The Public Vote Section will remain open until Monday 28th October.
For more information on MiAwards 2013 please visit the MiAwards website.
To vote on your Marketing Personality of the Year click here.
Reuben Webb - Stein IAS
It’s not easy working for Reuben. He requires absolute originality and wages constant war on marketing clichés. But originality isn’t enough. He insists ideas are rich enough to follow B2B purchase timelines – generating years of ever-changing content – without a single dip in quality. Seeing as there’s no president for this stringent approach, he created the ‘Big Long Idea’ model to ensure we all adhere to his arduous standards. But his team is made up of people that have worked under him for many years, and according to an independent Investors in People study – they’re happy! That gets my vote.
Anthony Looney - Bareface Media
We have been working with Anthony over the course of a number of years now; he has been a major contributor in the development of our company website and marketing strategies. He has demonstrated over the course of these years an unparalleled dedication and exceedingly high standard of work ethic. His approach is professional but extremely friendly, making us feel completely relaxed and at ease when making decisions in a field such as web design that we have had no previous knowledge or experience of. He always listens and takes on board our company ethos and translates this into his creative ideas, giving us our exact desired company image and profile. We are always pleased with the work he undertakes for our company and feel that we have a long-term and mutually beneficial relationship with both Anthony and Bareface Media.
Gareth Battersby - Epiphany
Known for his relatively acerbic talks, including 'No-one gives a crap about your brand', Gaz’s bold, refreshing approach led our creative development team to produce an astonishing quality and breadth of output this year. Achieving success through nurturing talent and operating with sector leading expertise,Gaz has spearheaded the team’s significant contribution to another record-breaking year of impressive company growth and their impact on the search marketing community. Our projects have featuring in multiple industry publications and earned a host of internationally acclaimed web design awards, including eight FWA and Awwwards ‘Site of the Day’ accolades.
James Jefferson - Equator
Creative Director James Jefferson inspires the team at Equator to push the boundaries of digital design to deliver truly unique and often groundbreaking work that looks beautiful and delivers meaningful commercial returns to clients. James’ pioneering approach has seen Equator receive several awards in 2013, achieve record sales of more than £10m, win global clients including Disney, Rocco Forte and TechSpace, open its first global office in NYC and grow the team to more than 100. James’ commitment to preserving standards in the creative industry this year saw him invited to join the board of Creative & Cultural Skills.
Stefan Shaw - Code Computerlove
Stefan is a truly rounded CD who inspires and leads by example, collaborating and originating ideas. Since joining Code circa 18 months ago, Stefan has already won numerous accolades for campaigns and social and branded content projects* he has led, while helping to push the quality of large scale design and build projects**. He's also bolstered the agency's responsive design skills and UX and conversion credentials, and brought in new exciting projects that deliver huge creative credibility. Stefan spearheaded Code's new site, helping to shape outbound communications, tone of voice and brand identity, and showcasing the ability the deliver design and emotional engagement matched with the science of experience optimisation and conversion.
