Pat started out in Advertising in Post Production for a facility called Molinare in London in 1984. This is where he got his ground level training in production, post production, production technology & innovation.
He then joined the TV department at Saatchi & Saatchi London working on acclaimed ad campaigns for British Airways, Cadbury Schweppes, & Pilkington Glass.Pat then moved to JWT London as a TV producer and then JWT Paris. He then went for 6 years as producer at Michael Conrad & Leo Burnett in Frankfurt, Germany.
He then came back to London joining BDDH as Director of Broadcast Production helping to win many awards including Golds at the British TV Advertising Awards and Cannes for clients such as Harley Davidson and the Co-op Bank.Patthen made the leap to client side where he was Global Production Head for Procter & Gamble’s Beauty Care & Fragrance Division across brands such as Hugo Boss, Max Factor, Olay, Pantene and many others. He re-joined Leo Burnett in London as Director of Production before leaving to help start up Adstream in Europe in 2003.
In 2005 he set up MurphyCobb (MCA) with inaugural clients PepsiCo, Cadbury (Mondelez) and Scottish and Newcastle (Heineken), all brands MCA still works with today. MCA has continued to grow, thrive, and deliver outstanding results for 100’s of brands across over 60 markets using the intelligence, tech, and innovation that sits at the heart of the business.
Outside of the advertising business, Pat has been a radio presenter since his first show at BBC Radio Brighton at the age of 13 years old. Since then he has continued to work for many stations in the UK and abroad and has also been the 'Advertising Expert' for ITN and LBC Radio as well as for Sky News and BBC London. Pat has brough his passion for advertising and radio together for his podcast called the MCA Prodcast (theprodcast.com) interviewing some of the major industry leaders and innovators on their views of the business today and their insights and vision for the future.
Pat is also a Master Practitioner of NLP and a Trainer of Hypnosis