Our team
Aidan McClure
Founder & CCO
Aidan has been an award-winning creative at some of London’s top creative agencies including AMV, Mother, BBH, and Adam&Eve. After being made Creative Director at Adam&EVE DDB he looked after Google, VW UK, McCains, and John Smiths before joining the BBC in 2016 as founding ECD to help set up BBC Creative, the corporation’s inhouse creative agency.
Jessica Lovell
Founder & CSO
Jess has worked for some of the UK’s most innovative and creative agencies, creating famous work that gets talked about. She helped launch the long-running ‘Al and Monkey’ for PG Tips and ‘’Here come the girls’ for Boots. Under Jess’ strategic leadership at Adam&EveDDB, the agency won both IPA Effectiveness agency of the year and APG strategy agency of the year.
Alex Best
Founder & CEO
Alex has a wealth of experience in developing famously effective work. He has taken learnings from some of the worlds best agencies to develop a way of working with clients that leads to close, open and collaborative client relationships, powerful creative work and importantly, strong results.
Ben Edwards & Guy Hobbs
Joint ECDs
Ben and Guy teamed up five years ago and have already produced an array of award-winning work, including Pay it Forward for Big Issue, This Girl Can, and Burger King. Most recently, they spent 3 years at BBH where they helped Tesco win an IPA Grand Prix and picked up a Cannes Lion for Justice4Grenfell. They joined Wonderhood as ECDs in April 2022 and oversee the creative department alongside Aidan.
Nick Exford
Head of Planning
Nick started his advertising career at adam&eveDDB before moving to Wieden & Kennedy to work on Nike, Three and Sainsbury’s. Nick joined Wonderhood Studios in 2018, and has since helped the company to win new business with Starling Bank, Mizkan and his former client Three, as well as applying his strategic thinking to television projects with Studio C.
Sam Brown
Head of Account Management
Sam has partnered with some of the world’s most famous brands to create effective and award-winning communications. She spent the majority of her career at adam&eveDDB where she ran John Lewis, H&M and Google. She was running the Cadbury account globally at VCCP when Wonderhood poached her to lead the Account Management department, Branded Entertainment and our flagship partner Three.
Roy Barker
Co-Founder & Head of Print and Project Management
Roy joined Wonderhood Studios in 2021 to build and lead their Creative Project Management department, alongside managing day-to-day working processes for the Advertising Studio. His responsibility for bolstering the output of photography, illustration and design has led to founding Wonderhood’s Design Studio, alongside Simon Elvins.
Natasha Johnson
Head of Production
Natasha joined Wonderhood in 2022 to oversee the production department. Partnering with world-class directors and talent, the agency has since then picked up awards at The British Arrows, D&AD and Campaign BIG, amongst others. Natasha also plays a pivotal role in ensuring Wonderhood is working with diverse talent and partners across all productions.
Jack Colchester
Director of Data Strategy
Jack's data wizardry has helped successfully launch Xbox’s new game console across 27 countries, created some of KFC’s most successful social campaigns (taking home the WARC Grand Prix for Effectiveness) and created global headlines with the ‘Three Billboards outside Grenfell Tower’ activation. In 2018 Jack joined Wonderhood to lead the Data Studio, bridging the gap between culture and brands and identifying unique actionable insights as a springboard for creativity.
Simon Elvins
Co-Founder & Head of Art
Simon started his career working in identity and branding where he had his own studio and worked directly with clients in the arts and cultural sector, such as the British Council, Whitechapel Gallery and the Royal College of Art. Since then he worked at Wieden+Kennedy London for over 6 years where he led projects for Coca-Cola, Honda and Three. Simon has headed up the design department since he joined Wonderhood and is responsible for the overall visual output of the agency.