Using creativity to drive business

Hi, I’m Rich and I’m passionate about helping brands grow.

I believe that creativity is the most powerful force in business. It has the unique ability to capture the heartbeat of a brand and transform it into ideas that move people.

I excel in driving growth and have over 15 years of experience in scaling brands from £10m to £100m+.

Currently, I’m working as a Fractional CMO, Marketing and Brand Director.

Before this, I provided board-level marketing advisory to several fast-growing brands, contributing to significant brand milestones and revenue growth

Crafting unique experiences for brands on a global scale.

  • Experiences - The O2 Launch

  • Stormzy - Rich Philip

    Community - Bikestormz X Stormzy

  • Sport - Daniel Ricciardo (F1)

  • Rich Philip - Marketing Consultant

    Connected Retail - Stance Soho

  • Rich Phiip Consultant

    Acquisition - FC Barcelona - Content that cuts through

  • Product - Science in Sport

  • Industry Events - Mobo Awards Akon and Rhianna

  • Consumer Events - Jon Bon Jovi Opening The O2

  • Rich Philip - Marketing Consultant

    Charity - Wildlife Rangers of Kafue, Zambia

  • Art - Creatives collective (Jonas Claesson)

My latest work

Zoom into the electrifying world of Nissan with the ‘Believe, A Defy Ordinary Story’ campaign.

Illustrated and animated by artist Matt Saunders, you’ll meet the latest Nissan concept cars built to defy ordinary and explore the landscapes that inspire their design in ultra-immersive animation. 

The 2024 Brand Campaign 
The making of, featuring Matt Saunders

My Approach?

It’s often forgotten but business is the practice of delivering value to people.

I help businesses identify what this value is and how to express it within their brand, community and comms.

The world is changing, fast. Performance marketing is no longer the growth engine it once was. Your brand expression, community marketing, creative DNA, and proposition may need refining to ensure you have a product that’s fit for long-term growth.

Having worked across businesses of all shapes and sizes, I have built up a deep understanding of how to grow businesses through effective value-driven marketing. It’s not a cookie-cutter approach, every business operates in it’s own ecosystem with complex needs. I help you identify what these are and turn them into your brand expression.

  • Growth should be simple. Fun even.

    The catalyst is when your customer’s values and self-expression aligns with your brand or product proposition. I help you understand this, turn it into meaningful creative that deeply connects with your audience, creating a growth engine. Online or offline.

  • Strategic clarity is the holy grail.

    It’s the first step in building a marketing or brand program. It’s understanding what you’re doing, why you're doing it, and how to express it, differentiating you from your competitors.

    If this needs developing in your business, I can help with this. If yours is robust, I can help build a marketing plan that articulates it and turns it into a meaningful representation.

  • With a strategy in place, marketing means deciding and articulating what the business actually does and expressing it in a way that connects with your audience. I have some great examples of how I have turned strategic insight into executions which drive awareness and saliency.

    Drop me an email and I will share these with you.

  • 💡 Creativity is the most powerful force in business. – William Bernbach

    Creativity is a feeling. Catching your audience off-guard and making them smile and appreciate the moment .

    A core component of the creative step is clarity around the foundation of the idea. The brief. Understanding how to write briefs that inspire creative teams to build work that both connects and adds value is the difference between making something that sticks or one that gets drowned out by the noise of the world today.

    I have built and led internal creative teams and worked with some of the biggest agencies on campaigns that stand out.

    Create moments out of the mundane.

  • I’m a brand builder at heart.

    It’s goes beyond a name or a logo and one of the hardest challenges today. Having launched several high-profile brands over the last 15 years it’s an area that I understand.

    It requires me to lean on all of my experience to support and drive early-stage growth. I have worked across brands up from pre-seed to IPO and understand the nuances and requirements needed at every stage.

    I can’t do it alone so depending on your needs I will lean on my team of illustrators, designers, videographers, writers. Whatever or whoever it needs, I have done the due diligence so you don’t need to.

My Brand Experience