Helen Hourston

Responsibilities:
Client service, Advertising & Brand Strategy, Account Direction

Experience:
17 years’ integrated project control – covering advertising and direct response, as well as branding and design.
She also worked in Australia as an Account Director for Grey Worldwide, handling many major brands including Jockey Underpants for men, and especially enjoyed casting for the fashion shoots.

Achievements:
The agency’s first employee in 1990. She rose from PA to MD, and guided the agency through gaining Investors in People status in 1996. She was the Vice-Chairperson of the IPA in Scotland.

Interests:
Eating out. Holidays. Skiing. Scuba diving.

Background:
Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Brought up on various plantations which her father managed for a large multinational.

Favourite brands:
Diesel, Alfa Romeo, Armani Elle

Music / Movies / TV / Books:
Any music - dance to country, even folk. Star Wars! Addicted to CSI. Poetry – Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost is a favourite. Classic book is paranormal ‘The Naked Island’

Vice:
Snacking on poppadoms.

Quote:
I don’t know who you are or where you’ve come from, but from now on you’ll do as I say, okay? ~ Princess Leia