OLIVER UK strengthens creative team with three new hires

In-house specialist OLIVER UK is strengthening its creative team with three new hires: Kevin Bratley joins as creative director, while brother-and-sister duo Jade and Lee Trott assume roles as art director and copywriter, respectively.

All three will work across key accounts and report to OLIVER UK’s ECD, Rob Kavanagh.

Bratley will direct all integrated creativity across the accounts he handles, including press, out-of-home, social, film and display. The Trotts will work closely alongside Bratley to create the assets across the respective channels.

Bratley started his career as an art director at Ogilvy & Mather in 1987, and since then, he has served as creative director at agencies including Rapier, AIS London and Field Day London.

“Adland is being disrupted from the inside, and OLIVER has been at the forefront of that,” said Bratley.

“I can’t wait to get stuck into the work and sit alongside some of OLIVER’s headline clients.”

Jade and Lee Trott have been a creative team for two years, collectively tackling briefs for brands like Selfridge’s and McCain. Jade joins after a seven-year post at BMB and a stint at TBWA; Lee comes from a five-year tenure at Grey, with time also spent at McCann Enterprise and Lowe.

“Lee and I are eager to learn, so the prospect of working at OLIVER is an opportunity we couldn’t pass up on,” Jade Trott commented.

“It’s not a conventional agency, it doesn’t employ conventional people and it doesn’t produce conventional work. Working this closely with clients might be daunting to some – it excites us.”

Kavanagh added: “As OLIVER continues to expand, going from strength to strength, it’s exciting to bring in people with fresh perspectives – to challenge what we’re doing, and drive forward our unique, creative POV through the work.”