M&C Saatchi London has boosted its creative firepower with two new teams, following a series of new business wins at the end of 2022.

Alex Lucas and Jon Farley join the agency as senior creatives from Saatchi & Saatchi. The duo previously spent nine years at Adam & Eve DDB, before joining Saatchi & Saatchi in 2021. Their work has won a number of awards. Harvey Nichols’ Could I be any clearer? won two Cannes Lions, three D&AD Pencils, two Campaign BIG Awards, and two EPICA Awards. Marmite’s Dynamite campaign won Gold at the Campaign BIG Awards and was named as one of Campaign’s best outdoor ads of 2021.

Holly Sutton-Williams and Dan Lacey are also joining as senior creatives. Sutton-Williams was most recently a senior copywriter at Colenso BBDO Auckland, where she spent nearly five years, producing work for brands including Amnesty International and Spark (New Zealand’s largest telco company). Her most awarded work includes the New Zealand Government’s Covid-19 response. Dan Lacey started his career as an art director at adam&eveDDB, where he spent five years working on clients such as Volkswagen, Esso and Mars Temptations – creating the world’s first ever talking cat collar. He then had a brief stint at MullenLowe London before working for the last few years as a freelance art director.

The two teams will report to Guy Bradbury, creative partner and Matt Lee, executive creative director. Bradbury and Lee stated, “With a renewed vision and focus on raising the creative bar, we are thrilled to welcome the incredible talent of Alex and Jon and Holly and Dan to M&C Saatchi London. Both teams bring a wealth of experience and proven track record in creating distinctive, effective and award-winning work for brands including PlayStation, Marmite, John Lewis, Volkswagen and Mars. We can’t wait to unleash them on our existing clients and the new ones we hope to meet this year.” 

Meanwhile Mother London has hired nine creatives from top agencies throughout the world.

Jay Daniells and Will Lancaster join from Wieden + Kennedy London. Their previous work has included Coca-Cola’s Open That Ahhh and the unofficial viral hit #justdoitsafely.

Ivan Montebello joins from Publicis in Milan as senior creative. The art director’s previous work has included Burger King Mouldy Whopper and Heineken Shutter Ads.

Julie Matheny joins as creative director. Matheny was associate director at Droga5 New York for four years and creative director at Away for nearly three. She has also worked at Venable Bell & Partners, Deutsch LA and Johannes Leonardo.  

Australian, Matt Bladin, becomes a senior art director at Mother from Special Group in Sydney. Bladin cut his teeth at CHEP Network and has been an active force in the industry as National Chair of Youngbloods Australia.

Jack Willoughby and Serhan Asim are moving from Lucky Generals after five and a half years, where they delivered work for Autodesk, Zoopla, Tang Enhancers and One Plus.

Lastly, Ali Milne and Paloma Gardiner, who founded Guappp Creative Studio in 2020 and were who were creative placements at Mother during 2021, have become a creative team.

Felix Richter, Mother chief creative officer, stated, “We’re lucky to have these nine precious and talented individuals from all over the world join our team. I can’t wait to see what they’ll think up with us here at Mother.”