Leagas Delaney Hires Creative Partners from BBH

Neil Clarke and Jay Phillips, award-winning creative duo previously at BBH, will join Leagas Delaney as the agency's first Creative Partners, working into founder, Tim Delaney, across the Leagas Delaney client base.

Neil and Jay have worked at BBH for the last three years, leading the Premier League and Samsung accounts reporting into CCO Alex Grieve. Prior to that the pair spent eight years at AMV BBDO where they were global creative leads on the Mars account, Meta Reality Labs, HP and The V&A Museum of Childhood. 

Before AMV, Neil and Jay were creative directors at The&Partnership where they made the highly acclaimed 'Charge' for Samsung and helped launch The Prince's Trust 'Tomorrow's Store' in London - a project that helped reduce UK youth employment and won a Grand Prix for design.

One of London’s most experienced teams, the pair have developed a wide range of award-winning creative work for clients including Netflix, Samsung, Snickers, Sheba, BT, Kraft Heinz, Mastercard and American Airlines.

Neil and Jay said, "We've been so impressed by the team at Leagas Delaney. The agency has an incredible creative heritage as well as the energy and hunger of an indie start up. What struck us most was their motto "Everything Matters". It's so simple and so true. Now more so than ever. Great things can't happen unless everything matters. It's a brilliant opportunity and we can't wait to get stuck in."

Tim Delaney said, “Neil and Jay are a great fit for Leagas Delaney and our ambitions. They have an impressive pedigree of developing stand-out creative campaigns and share our belief in the significant benefits that our AI-driven technology can deliver for our clients.”

Gareth Davies, UK Group CEO of Leagas Delaney, said, “By blending together high creative craft with industry-leading AI automation tech, we pride ourselves on having a unique answer to the question of how creativity must evolve. Neil and Jay not only ‘get it’ but they also have a unique skill-set that can make the most of this fast-changing environment.”