Before joining Grey as President & Chief Creative Officer UK , Laura was the CCO of Mr President, the agency she co-founded in 2014. A relentlessly modern creative thinker and leader, Laura was honoured as one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in Tech by Inspiring Fifty and was voted the UK's most influential digital creative by The Drum. Laura is a former president of D&AD, twice named one of Britain’s most significant people within Debrett’s 500and recognised as Individual of the Year at the Dadi Awards. This year she was honoured in Campaigns UK Female Frontier Awards for Championing Change.
Javier Campopiano is Global Creative Partner at Grey. Based in London and Madrid, he oversees creative development in Europe and Asia, help set and implement the creative vision and spearhead the recruitment of top talent to serve them. As an active member of Grey’s Global Creative Board, he contributes to enhance the overall creative product, working hand-in-hand with John Patroulis, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer.
He joined Grey from FCB Mexico where he served as Chief Creative Officer after more than four years at Saatchi & Saatchi, during which, as Chief Creative Officer, he transformed the creative reputation of the New York flagship office.
Javier is the Mastermind Behind the "It's a Tide Ad" campaign which received global notoriety: the gaggle of faux ads that hijacked the 2018 Super Bowl and swept the award shows, winning a Black Pencil at D&AD, a Titanium Lion and the 2019 Grand Effie, among others. Critics hailed its humor, flawless craft and clever, classic problem-solving marketing.
During his career, Javier has brought his unique talents to build giant global brands for giant global networks. He began his career as an intern at Ogilvy Argentina and went on to become Regional Creative Director in Latin America for Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi and FCB before becoming a Partner and Chief Creative Officer of FCB New York.
Javier's work has been recognized and awarded by the most important advertising festivals in the world. He is the proud recipient of 50+ Cannes Lions, including Grand Prix in Outdoor and Film and a Titanium Lion. He has also won several gold, silver and bronze awards at Clio, LIA, ANA, The One Show, D&AD -including a Black Pencil-, El Círculo de Creativos Argentinos, FIAP, El Sol and El Ojo de Iberoamérica. He has been a judge at Cannes Lions, Clio, The New York Festivals, El Sol, Wave, FIAP, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, Antigua Festival, and has served as President of the OHH Jury at El Círculo de Creativos Argentinos, and President of the Film Jury at El Ojo de Iberoamérica.
Grey London kicked off the new decade by hiring Raquel as Chief Strategy Officer. Raquel has a truly diverse background, starting her advertising career in sunny Rio at JWT, before moving to London where she worked for leading agencies including BBH, AMV BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi. Over her career she’s created long enduring platforms and made cultural dents for a range of power brands including Coca-Cola, Tourism Australia, Jonnie Walker, Haagen-Dazs, Mars and Persil Dirt is Good. She’s hugely decorated too, winning major effectiveness awards along the way. She’s a mum to three girls, loves long distance running and board games. Some of her favourite things include movies and box sets like Stranger things, Black Mirror and Game of Thrones. More recently, re-watching all seasons of Gavin & Stacey has helped her cope with the void left by the end of Game of Thrones.
Jacquie joined Grey London as HR Director back in 2017 and was recently promoted to Chief People Officer. Her main areas of focus are the development of the key Talent Strategy to support employee engagement and retention, talent acquisition and diversity and inclusion. She knows that in this industry talent is everything and has experience developing and implementing dynamic HR strategies to ensure agencies attract the very best people
Liam Murray joined Grey in 2008, previously working in Banking at UBS and at Interpublic Group at Octagon Sports Marketing. Liam has a deep understanding of the business, Grey’s clients and the industry making him influential Chief Finance Officer. His knowledge of the network and experience of working across the region will benefit as we continue to enable a more borderless way of working between London and Europe.