The Essential List: Nathan O'Connor
An experienced and award-winning social specialist, Nathan brings a wide breadth of experience, having previously held senior positions across both the UK and EMEA for agencies including Publicis and Mindshare and clients including Nike, Spotify and L’Oréal. Most recently, O’Connor led the Social Team for Publicis Imagine, managing all Disney social channels across Europe and running a number of high profile launches across multiple markets including; Disney+ and Avatar 2 which broke box office records.
Lifestyle
o Place of birth: Basingstoke
o Hometown: Farnham
o Vacation: Greece
o Pet: Gustavo – Scottish Fold British Shorthair cross
o Place of work: Wavemaker, Sea Containers
o Place of workout: Embankment for a run, Fitness First for lifting
o Mode of transport: Bike
o Bonus travel essential: Always make sure to have my headphones on me.
Culture
o Artist: Proud owner of a few Parra first editions prints
o Musician: Keep coming back to Bonobo but use NTS to find new music
o Commercials / music video director: hard to look past Spike Jonze
o Film director: Wes Anderson
o Film: The Darjeeling Limited
o Series: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
o Commercial: Nike – The Cage
o Video game: Loving the new Zelda game and slowly working my way through God of War Ragnarök
o Board game: Dune
o Book: Catch22 by Joseph Heller
o Graphic novel: Saga by Brian K. Vaughan
o Podcast: Huberman Lab, Totally Football Show, or Filthy Casuals
o Newspaper (off or online): The Guardian
o Magazine: Men’s Health
Food and Drink
o Breakfast: Yogurt & Alpen if I’m being healthy or a bacon butty if I’m indulging!
o Restaurant: BAK in Amsterdam
o Signature dish: I make a great fried rice
o Guilty pleasure: too many to name…
o Booze: pint of Guinness
o Not booze: Soda Water + Lime
Kit
o Phone: Samsung S23
o Computer: Lenovo ThinkPad
o Headphones: Soundcore make brilliant headphones for a reasonable price!
o Camera: I love my Canon AE1 that I inherited
o Soundsystem: Sonos
o Pen / pencil: Pen
o Where you document an idea: multitude of notebooks.
o Casual clothing: Dickies workpants and a Nike T
o Smart clothing: Massimo Dutti
o Footwear: I own a lot of Nike’s so probably a pair of Jordan 1 Lows
o Watch: Garmin Forerunner for exercise or a blue Omega Seamaster
o Collection: Trainers
o App: Strava or Headspace
o Favourite social media feed: Reddit
o Work program: Microsoft Teams
