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A message from the Madhouse team

Here at Madhouse, we understand that your message matters.

We believe in using our expertise to communicate your message to the right people, at the right time. And because we have a skilled team with many years' experience creating targeted integrated communications, our approach really works.

Ever since our launch in 1999, we've combined strategic planning with creative excellence to produce effective integrated campaigns. And not only are we committed to helping brands speak loudly and clearly, we're also proud of the fact that when we deal with our clients, we build relationships that last.

It's all part of delivering your message – effectively, in a way that makes the most of your budget and gives you a healthy return on your investment.

So if you like the sound of our message, why not drop us one of your own?

It's a message we look forward to hearing.

Phil Delaney

Financial Director

Phil worked in the finance departments of some of Britain’s biggest companies before taking charge of the adding machine and leather-bound ledger at Madhouse. And after a day spent squinting at columns of figures, what better way to relax than with his other passion – the cryptic delights of the daily crossword.
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Phil Delaney

Financial Director
Pete McCollough

Deputy Creative Director

A multi-skilled designer and illustrator, Pete ensures that our creative output looks as good as it should. He’s also rarely seen without his so-retro-they-hurt headphones, and as he conjures up his visual magic, he grooves to a secret inner soundscape the like of which we can only imagine.
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Pete McCollough

Deputy Creative Director
Jenna Wilson

Account Executive

There are many things that Jenna is never seen without. One is an artwork print-out in need of signing off. Another is a furrowed brow as she keeps a multitude of essential account handling tasks at the front of her mind simultaneously. And finally there’s her lipstick, her ‘social survival kit’ as she calls it. Mwah!
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Jenna Wilson

Account Executive
Doug Fisher

Senior Copywriter

Not for Doug the bland syntactical concoctions of lesser copywriters. He’s a writer who likes his words to pack a real punch – speaking of which, here he is with a bottle of Dave’s Insanity Sauce, his favourite condiment. He particularly likes it because chillies are the only food in the world that can be weaponised apparently – just like his sentences in fact.
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Doug Fisher

Senior Copywriter
Sarah Challinor

Office Manager

The first voice you hear when you call Madhouse will generally be Sarah’s, so it’s just as well it’s a good one. She loves singing, enjoys regular lessons to keep her voice in trim, and rumour has it that she once took a few steps on the long road to a performance in front of a certain Mr Cowell…
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Sarah Challinor

Office Manager
Richard Murdoch

Account Manager

Richard came to Madhouse fresh from our graduate recruitment scheme and has matured over the years into a skilled, if slightly golf obsessed, account manager. He says his “dream fourball would be Seve, Gary Player and Faldo at Pebble Beach”. Know what a fourball is? Answers on a postcard please.
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Richard Murdoch

Account Manager
Betty Baldwin

Junior Account Executive

Betty’s grasp of social media meant we ‘Liked’ her as soon as she turned up to our graduate recruitment event. She is now an indispensable team member, though her status as a plugged-in social butterfly may be exaggerated, given that her preferred evening’s entertainment is a night in with a few kid flix. ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ anyone?
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Betty Baldwin

Junior Account Executive
Peter Craven

MD and Client Services Director

Madhouse co-founder Pete is used to taking a few hard knocks, as when he isn’t overseeing the agency account management team, he’s nursing his fierce passion for rugby having played to semi-pro level in times gone by – and still playing for Chester Veterans. Or so he claims when he turns up to work with a black eye.
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Peter Craven

MD and Client Services Director
Martin Smith

Digital Operations Manager

Martin leads the digital production team at Madhouse, including the designers and front-end developers who bring our digital ideas to life. Though for someone whose daily life is all digital, he remains wedded to some decidedly traditional pleasures: pint of real ale in the sunshine anyone?
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Martin Smith

Digital Operations Manager
Phil Hammel

Senior Digital Designer

Phil joined Madhouse a few years ago as a young design graduate, and since then has helped us create a host of successful campaigns. His deep knowledge of the digital realm adds some serious skills to our mix, while his love of Mixed Martial Arts means we always speak to him politely.
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Phil Hammel

Senior Digital Designer
Simone White

Finance Manager

As finance manager, Simone has a great head for figures of course, but she’s also good at lots more than keeping the books balanced. She loves kick boxing too, a shared passion that helps her bond with her younger siblings while also, dare we say it, helping to keep late payers in check.
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Simone White

Finance Manager
Beth Humberston

Account Manager

An experienced account manager with the ability to keep clients on an upward trajectory, no sooner has Beth finished work than she has an irrepressible urge to send herself on a downward trajectory – skiing down the snow-covered mountains of Europe. And it’s definitely the fresh air she loves, not the food and wine that follow.
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Beth Humberston

Account Manager
Phil Rogerson

MD and Creative Director

As Madhouse co-founder and Creative Director, Phil guides the agency’s creative output while still finding time to act as Chairman for Northwich Round Table, run a junior football club and follow the never-ending soap opera that most of us know better as Manchester City FC.
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Phil Rogerson

MD and Creative Director
Mike Yan

Senior Finished Artist

A well functioning Apple Mac is key to Mike’s role at Madhouse, as he gives our artwork the benefit of his perfectionist’s touch. Funny then that once he gets home, a badly functioning Apple Mac is what makes his heart beat faster, as he enjoys fixing defunct technology and selling his refurbished gadgets on the world’s favourite auction site.
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Mike Yan

Senior Finished Artist
Jeff Dillon

Senior Art Director

Whether he’s plucking killer Toyota ad concepts out of thin air or sketching up scamps for a brand new client, Jeff always saves a bit of head space for his beloved Newcastle United. In fact he takes his support for the Magpies so seriously, even his hair is black and white.
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Jeff Dillon

Senior Art Director
Clare Briscall

Planning Director

Strategic thinking and rigorous planning are Clare’s specialisms, but she also loves to find inspiration and escape in the pages of glossy fashion magazines, a childhood passion that continues to cast an aspirational spell on her all these years later. Though how many years, we’re not saying.
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Clare Briscall

Planning Director
Angela Ellis

Senior Designer

Ange used to be a designer for both the BBC and Granada TV, but is now very happy to be doing her stuff for Madhouse, usually to a soundtrack consisting of The Cure’s greatest hits. She’s a massive fan of the band, and is seen here with the signed shirt Robert Smith wore on their 1998 US tour. If Robert would like it back, he knows where to come.
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Angela Ellis

Senior Designer
Damon Fairclough

Head of Copy

Formerly a senior writer for Sony, Damon has over 20 years’ professional copywriting experience, but is particularly proud of his first significant writing job – a book about Sheffield’s Lyceum Theatre which he still pores over with a reverence more appropriate to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Damon Fairclough

Head of Copy
Lucy Dixon

Senior Account Manager

With years of experience helping our clients achieve great results, the secret of Lucy’s permanent smile and deep inner calm has only recently come to light. It turns out she’s been tying herself up in knots on her yoga mat for a good ten years which, ironically, she thinks is a good a way to unwind.
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Lucy Dixon

Senior Account Manager
Stuart Hornby

Account Director

Stuart currently oversees our international healthcare and retail client accounts, but when he has time to put the account servicing behind him for a while, he likes nothing better than to head out to the country with his family and spend a few nights under the stars. Although the family would prefer a Premier Inn.
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Stuart Hornby

Account Director
Helen Walker

Account Director

Helen looks after our automotive, technology and property clients, deftly keeping a number of valued accounts on the boil. She’s no doubt helped by her experience in the kitchen at home where she loves to relax with an apron, a chopping board and a set of seriously sharp knives.
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Helen Walker

Account Director
Philippa Gledhill

Planning Executive

The meticulous research that Philippa carries out within our planning department helps keep us tuned up like a high performance machine. Which is appropriate, as race-loving Philippa is a pit-pass toting veteran of the 2009 Australian Grand Prix, and idolises Fernando Alonso (having dumped Michael Schumacher for driving a different car or something).
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Philippa Gledhill

Planning Executive
Suzanne Morton

Senior Finished Artist

Suzanne’s eye for detail is what makes her a superlative finished artist and an invaluable member of the Madhouse team. And being a super-proud mum of possibly the world’s cutest baby, her eye for detail also enables her to spot the molecule of Weetabix on his nose in this otherwise perfectly heart-melting photograph.
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Suzanne Morton

Senior Finished Artist
Mike Perkins

Senior Finished Artist

When not working at Madhouse, mild mannered artworker and retouching genius Big Mike P loves nothing more than escaping into the dark and dangerous world of graphic novels – or as his wife puts it, “stealing the kids’ comics.” Now, having seen him dressed as Banana Man, do we believe Mike or his wife?
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Mike Perkins

Senior Finished Artist