A little about us.

We transform business through creative ideas, design and technology.
We specialise in branding, communication and digital products.
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Our strength lies in taking a multi-disciplined approach to your needs. This leads to more consistent, memorable and complete experiences for your customers, both online and offline.

Clients come to us because we can cut through the noise and get things done. We hire experienced talent who can rapidly understand your business and balance creativity with systematic thinking to deliver on your key metrics.

 

Five studios, one talented team.

That's 70+ unique talents, from brand strategists to copywriters, graphic designers to full-stack developers, working seamlessly across Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore.
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Dave Clark

Principal / Partner

Dave is a past recipient of the DINZ Outstanding Achievement Award, for his work in furthering New Zealand's design culture. He’s been responsible for the design of many of NZ’s most iconic brands, including the All Blacks.

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Andy Brown

Group General Manager / Partner

Andy manages the overall performance of all five Dave Clark studios. As a qualified designer with a background in advertising, design and production, there’s no one better placed to understand the many facets of our business.

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Jonathan Tillick

Group Digital Director / Partner

Jonathan sets the digital strategy and tone of the customer experience for our wider digital team. Working closely with clients, he ensures customers’ digital interactions with brands are relevant, authentic and rewarding.

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Andrew Smith

Group Creative Director / Partner

Andrew is the creative head of Dave Clark. He holds a special interest in bringing together cross-discipline teams to work cohesively. As a creative director for nearly 20 years, he has worked with a number of different Australian and New Zealand retail and corporate clients.

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Georgie Mathieson

General Manager Wellington

Georgie has spent much of her career at companies such as ANZ and Sky (UK), so she has a huge awareness of what clients want and the pressures they face. She’s also headed account service teams at tech agencies in London.

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Katie Tat

General Manager Auckland

Katie’s a former account director at TBWA in Sydney, where she ran the PR accounts for global giants such as Apple and PlayStation. Armed with infectious enthusiasm, she excels in building relationships, networking, and strategy.

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Devin Fennell

Design Director

Devin is responsible for all aspects of design and project management. A multiple winner at Best Awards, London International Awards and RED, he specialises in creative platform and communications strategy development.

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Simon Smith

Digital Design Director

Simon is our go-to guy for the visual design of digital projects. Working with Jonathan on everything from digital guidelines to app design, he marries sound UX engineering with crafted visual solutions to produce beautifully simple experiences.

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Spencer Bliss

Design Director

Spencer champions the customer experience, providing much of the upfront thinking that is critical to the success of our projects. The passionate presenter has a strong understanding of branding after working at agencies like Landor (UK).

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Michael Frogley

Motion Director

Michael has top international experience, having helped in the rebrand of Sky News, PlayStation’s move to HD, and many other projects in the UK. An experienced videographer, he’s both creative and technical lead for motion projects.

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Fiona Stewart

HR Facilitator

Fiona is our resident tiger-mum, eco warrior and BBQ queen. Fiona takes care of all our HR needs, whether it’s annual reviews, contracts, inductions and anything else in the realm of HR. This might even include advice on our DIY projects from time to time.

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Antoinette le Vaillant

Design Director

Antoinette’s our multiple Gold, Silver and Bronze medallist at Best Awards, New Zealand’s premier design award show. What’s more, she’s worked at heavyweight agencies such as Landor and Interbrand in New York.

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Trevor Reid

Senior Digital Producer

Trevor has weaved his organisational magic at just about every good agency in town including the likes of AKQA, Saatchi, and RAPP. His dedication, attention to detail, patience and collaborative approach are well known across the industry.

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Gligor Kotushevski

Technical Director

Gligor defines highly scalable applications and guides our development team to implement solutions that deliver the highest quality outcomes. A real interest in how end users engage with the digital products his team creates really sets him apart.

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Jane McKenzie

Account Director

Jane’s extensive retail and digital experience at advertising and brand marketing agencies (here and overseas) has added a new dimension to our account service. She’s a flag bearer for design’s power to build brands and positivity.

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Gavin Brown

Design Director

Gavin is a print specialist, who has evolved into a slick stylist with a very keen photographic eye. Before joining us he led the design team at Brewin Dolphin, one of the UK’s largest investment managers.

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Kember Norton

Account Director

Kember has extensive experience managing brand campaigns and digital projects across multiple channels. In the past decade she’s looked after major clients such as Z Energy, BHP Billiton, ANZ, NZ Post and Apple & Pear Australia.

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Mark Wong

Senior Production Designer

Mark is the closest thing we have to a machine, such is his efficiency in running our express design service for clients. He’s also an incredibly talented illustrator who has published two comic books. Marvel’s loss is our gain.

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Lynne Paynter

Financial Controller/HR

Lynne’s a chartered accountant who crunches the number for all five studios in three different countries (no mean feat). She has previously held senior roles at Netball NZ, BBC Worldwide and UK telco, Orange.

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Mel McClintock

Account Director

Mel’s a former designer who has managed major design projects for Air New Zealand, Lotto, Auckland Transport and Genesis Energy. Today she mostly works across ANZ’s wealth and retail portfolios.

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Pete Oliver

Motion Designer

Pete has a passion for both 2D and 3D animation, a keen eye for detail, and enjoys problem solving new challenges in the world of motion design. Before joining Dave Clark Pete gained valuable experience freelancing across Auckland.

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Peter Kemp

Senior Artworker

Peter wears many hats as studio manager, senior artworker and chief fire warden. After an eternity spent working in print shops, there’s not much this man doesn’t know about print production. He’s the logic to our designers’ creativity.

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Jo Managh

Management Accountant

Jo plays a pivotal role in keeping Dave Clark running behind the scenes. An experienced accountant and finance manager, she looks after billings for all clients across our network and ensures suppliers are paid on time. All in her classic calm and friendly way. No small feat indeed.

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Ray Shi

Senior Web Developer

Ray operates with the efficiency of a Swiss clock on back as well as front-end developments. A smart coder who is committed to robust testing, he drives many of our decisions on CMS, social media and banner work.

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Adrian Clapperton

Senior Designer

Adrian is our annual reports guru and a safe pair of hands for any creative rollout. Before arriving at Dave Clark, the print and layout specialist was crowned MPA Magazine Designer of the Year for his work on Idealog, Urbis, and Good.

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Flip Hirst

Senior Designer

Flip’s 20-year career in design has taken him across the UK, central Europe and NZ. A former designer at Rolls-Royce, BMW and Adidas, he adds an incredible amount of wisdom to our understanding of design processes.

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Rua Alani

Senior Digital Producer

Rua has over 14 years’ experience as a project manager. As a graduate in computer science, Rua originally started her career as a frontend developer which led her to try just about every digital role before finding her passion for managing projects.

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Tim Cooke

Senior Digital Designer

Tim has worked on major digital projects for the likes of Te Papa and NZ Festival of the Arts. His strong understanding of project management, strategy and front-end development are all vital to the success of our digital projects.

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Adrian Domingo

Senior Web Developer

Adrian’s a fantastic Drupal developer who doesn’t mind a bit of JQuery, AngularJS, Python, CSS, SCSS, Bootstrap, Docker, Vagrant, Git, Fabric, Ansible, Amazon S3, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Bash, Linux, Gulp, and Karma too.

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Jacinta Mauga

Senior Designer

Jacinta’s eye for photography and dedication to craft – best demonstrated in her graduate campaigns for Buddle Findlay (a law firm) – gives our work a real ‘cool factor’. She’s worked at agencies across Australia and New Zealand.

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Sandra Hoogerbrug

UX Designer

Sandra is a former category manager with retail giant, The Warehouse. Her understanding of customer purchasing decisions and behaviours plays a huge role in our creation of consistent customer journeys across touchpoints.

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Jane Bennett

Digital Designer

Jane started her design career on the client side, with a prestigious national law firm. Then she freelanced for a year to find the perfect design agency to call home. Ten years later she’s still with us. Jane is the queen of craft, a perfectionist who loves to construct engaging online experiences through pixel-perfect design for mobile and web applications.

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Reuben Barrett

Marketing Manager

Reuben is the face of our marketing and the drive behind our tender processes. If we ever want to know anything about Google Analytics, AdWords, Hubspot, Craft (or the NBA) he’s the man we turn to.

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Kartik Patel

Technical Lead

Kartik is an enthusiastic developer who is well versed in the art of back and front end tools such as SilverStripe (CMS), PHP, HTML, (S)CSS, JavaScript and React.js. The fairly recent Masters graduate in IT has already built a number of solid, well performing apps and websites for corporate, government and healthcare brands.

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Victoria Bartak

Junior Software Developer

Victoria brings her training across JavaScript, Node.js, React.js and MySQL to support the digital team as a front-end and back-end developer. She is excited for continued growth following an impressive career shift from her previous life in nursing.

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Brad Avison

Motion Designer

Brad is slowly but surely conquering every design discipline. First, he was a graphic designer at the best ad agencies. Then he rose to the top of app design and collected a Best Award. Now he’s into motion because he loves 3D.

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Michael Simpson

Senior Artworker

Michael still remembers the days of letterset because he’s been artworking for 30 years … everywhere from Saatchis to Dave Clark. It’s his (very important) job to check all designers’ work is technically ready to print.

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Erica Benes

Senior Digital Producer

Erica has worked in the digital landscape for just over 5 years but has quickly grown in this space, having worked on both client and agency side. She has a project management background, experience in building retail brands, finding her niche in digital product delivery. She's always up for a challenge, and has a true passion for working collaboratively with teams and stakeholders to build digital tools that have a big impact.

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Emy Crawford

Senior Account Manager

Emy built her industry cred on the back of a bachelor’s degree in spatial design and creative entrepreneurship. With valuable experience in public relations, brand activation and experiential marketing, Emy’s the perfect candidate to help companies meet their marketing goals.

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Raman Sunkari

Lead Test Analyst

Raman is best known for his ability to think outside the square and apply innovative test methodologies. We rely on his expertise at every stage of web and mobile testing, from test design to test execution.

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Adam Taylor

Head of Copy

Adam has worked in advertising for over 15 years. During that time, he’s created award-winning campaigns for some of New Zealand’s biggest (and smallest) brands. While he’s proficient at making highly successful ads, he’s a skilled creative who loves getting under the skin of briefs to ensure the work is not only outstanding but gets results too.

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Simon Brunton

Product Designer

Simon is our swiss army knife Product Designer, he's passionate about building great experiences and pushing creative boundaries. With over ten years in the industry, he loves working with people to craft delightful & impactful products.

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Crunchie (Luke Job)

Software Developer

Crunchie works on our apps utilising his wealth of software development experience, efficiently solving problems and ensuring our clients enjoy an unhindered user experience.

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Elliot Bird

Digital Producer

Elliot is an experienced digital producer with over 7 years of agency production experience in the marketing, advertising and digital industry. His experience includes having worked on large scale projects for the likes of Google, Audi, Auckland Museum and MBIE. He excels at managing the full scope of digital projects with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

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Sangeetha Nehru

Test Analyst

Sangeetha is our dedicated software test analyst, she spends her time breaking software so you don't have to, ensuring that the products we create and use are top-notch and user-friendly.

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Harry Zhou

Site Reliability Engineer

Harry has over 15-year engineering experience in the ICT industry. Harry's passionate about learning new skills and problem solving, and puts a lot of emphasis on automating and improving the reliability of supported services.

 
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