20 years creatively accelerating digital change | SC cleared by UKSV
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"Elliott is a brilliant creative thinker, director and mentor who isn't afraid to push the boundaries to ensure the best end product"
Christine Olivier
Senior Consultant, Avado Learning
ABOUT
My background is in media production and team building, applied through digital strategy. A Media Technology degree from the University of West London grounded this, later put to work running complex, omnichannel programmes from brief to delivery.
Early work in digital design and film, backed by BBC training, shaped my creative direction. Creative workshops and one-to-one training at Apple's Covent Garden store developed my presentation skills, before freelance production at the National Theatre brought referrals for paid promotional pieces.
My first leadership role, at a digital consultancy, put me alongside blue-chip clients including Barclays, HSBC, Google and Virgin Media on human-centred transformation and brand identity, extending into immersive digital design. Alongside client work, I ran film clubs, TechJams and coding competitions across London to promote the future of work.
In academia, I held leadership roles at King's College London and Imperial College Business School, and built design teams at both. At Imperial, funded VR research led to an MIT VR/AR certification and development budget, which secured Imperial's place in the Meta for Education beta programme. In the public sector, I led recruitment marketing and branding strategy at the UK Home Office, working with senior civil servants and building an in-house production capability from scratch. That work earned the 2024 Civil Service Commissioners' Mark of Excellence.
Today, I work as a fractional creative director, advising public sector, NGO and growth-stage clients on communications strategy, channel architecture and content operations, using AI to scale output without added headcount. I also hold active UK SC clearance, which gives sensitive-sector clients added confidence.
"I'd recommend Elliott to anyone looking to work with a top class creative leader. During a two year contract working with us at the Home Office, Elliott built a creative and channels team and supported advertising, social media content, branding/visual identity and digital media management"
John Rhydderch
Head of EB&T, UK Home Office
"Elliott is an inspiring leader and a deep thinker. He is fantastic at putting together a compelling vision and then rallying a team around it"
Mike Fenna
CTO, Kite Insights
