The WHAM Agency

Doug Hamilton, CEO

WHAM — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:10:55 +0000

As founder of WHAM and Creative Director, Doug continues to set standards in the industry. His projects include 3, the world’s first 3G mobile network, Powerstick, Peroni and INQ. Often accused of being a one trick pony, an attack he takes as a compliment, ‘it’s a very good trick’, he likes working out what businesses are and helping them become what they can be. Better recognised, remembered and understood.

Keith Kirby, Managing Director

WHAM — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:09:51 +0000

Keith is an experienced brand specialist having previously been with Wolff Olins for nine years. As well as running the company, he leads major brand positioning and identity programmes. He has worked extensively in India and Asia and is an expert in the mobile telecoms and mobile internet sectors. Keith worked with Doug in the creation of the Orange brand and then worked with the company for seven years introducing the brand into several countries.

Sylvia Duvigneau, Principal Culture

WHAM — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:08:36 +0000

Sylvia looks after people at WHAM, making sure we have the right people in the right place at the right time. As a founding member of WHAM, Sylvia has been instrumental in the recruitment, growth and development of our people, and therefore our culture. With many years experience working within fashion, design and branding industries, Sylvia has gained a remarkable record as a spotter and bringer on of new talent, especially the young ones starting out.

Darren Edwards, Principal Digital

WHAM — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:07:23 +0000

Darren is responsible at WHAM for developing compelling, interactive products for brands on the web, mobile and other digital assets. Involved in his own successful web start up in the boom 90s, he has worked with many major clients in Australia, Asia and the UK. After selling his start up to a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, he joined Hutchison Whampoa’s start up business 3 in Australia before relocating to London to work at WHAM.

Fiona Berry, Principal

WHAM — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:06:08 +0000

Fiona has over 20 years experience of working with leading brands in a creative role as well as brand direction and management. Since joining WHAM in 2002 she has worked with 3 globally, Hutch India, AS Watson in Europe and Asia, Telecom NZ, Circle in the UK, and more recently Maxis in Malaysia as well as Aircel, India’s fastest growing telecommunications company. Prior to WHAM Fiona worked at Wolff Olins.

Award for Retail Excellence

WHAM — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:43:09 +0000

Going from strength to strength, offices at the Indian Telecomms giant Aircel have been abuzz with excitement this week, with news that they have won an award for retail excellence. Having worked with them closely for nearing two years, we have helped increase their customer base from 8 million to a staggering 30 million people. With such a success rate, our work with Aircel continues to be hugely rewarding.

More Than Just a Voice and Text Brand

WHAM — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:24:26 +0000

As part of the ongoing work we do for INQ, WHAM recently art directed a photoshoot in London’s East End. Personifying this exciting new social networking savvy company, press campaigns are launching throughout Italy and Singapore in magazines such as Grazia, Cosmo, Jack 21, Mens Health and Flair, with presence in the UK to follow.

CEO at INQ, Frank Meehan featured on the Radio 4 programme The Bottom Line last night, to discuss their new, affordable internet brand phone. Take a listen here, from 7:23 minutes in.

Do-Si-Do Your Pardner

WHAM — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:10:27 +0000

We rounded up a posse and rode into town to meet the guys and gals at The Bank, for a Christmas Carry On themed shindig at Koko. And my what a night, with free drinks a plenty we danced til the wee hours, surrounded by naughty nurses, wayward doctors, Egyptian beauties and suchlike before riding off into the sunset. Boots, chaps and cowboy hats…. nothing else matters.

Tweet WHAM Tweet

WHAM — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:07:05 +0000

Call this a little gratuitous advertising, but we wanted to mention our two Twitter feeds, which we hope you will enjoy.

The first is WHAM Agency, a Tweet by folk at WHAM that is about all manner of things we like, what we do, where we travel, and what we think may be of interest to our clients and colleagues.

Second is Inside WHAM, an internal feed which you are welcome to join that focusses on, er, those of us who work inside WHAM. Thanks to inhouse social guru Ros, it contains lots of what’s happening in and around London and in and around our office.

Visit WHAM Agency and Inside WHAM.

WHAM at Mobile UX 09

WHAM — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:46:15 +0000

WHAM’s Darren Edwards spoke yesterday at the Mobile User Experience 09 conference in London. In the opening presentation of the conference, Darren spoke on the subject of “Who Controls The User Experience” when developing mobile sites and applications. Along the way he managed to squeeze in some lessons learnt when developing products and concepts while heading up 3 Australia’s UX team in the early days of 3G, as well as more recent projects for Indian telco, Aircel, and SABMiller’s Grolsch (see The Mark).