People

Adam has 18 years’ experience working in broadcast media, digital marketing, and global advertising agencies. 

He spent eight years at full-service digital agency Outside Line, where he set up one of the UK’s first in-house content teams. As part of the leadership team, he played a central role in growing the business through to acquisition by Saatchi & Saatchi in 2012 where he then spent 4 years as a creative director and also headed up the digital content department.  

He has lead the creation of work for a diverse portfolio of some of the world's biggest brands, including Toyota, Pampers, HSBC, Adidas, Beck’s Vier & Budweiser.  Receiving numerous awards and recognition from the likes of Music Week, Webby, YouTube Works, Google, and DMA. 

In 2018 he moved to Berlin where he co-founded Black Paint, and now splits his time between the vibrant German capital and his home city, London. 

Alex has over a decade’s experience immersed in advertising, network 

TV, brand partnerships and online content.  He has worked with global brands like Google, Intel, VW and MTV on highly successful content campaigns.

A graduate of the New York Film Academy, Alex has honed his film-making craft over a career that began in post-production, working under some of the industries biggest directors, before shifting into production roles and directing. This broad experience has given him an understanding of the entire film-making process that stands out in the finished work. 

He has run multiple production departments within world-leading advertising agencies and has also won numerous awards for his directing work.  He believes that no matter the budget or brand, every job deserves the same passion and attention to detail.   

Jess is a creatively driven producer with experience across TV, Digital, Radio, Social, Tech, Events and Stills. 

In her 11 years in advertising agencies, she’s worked across a wide range of global brands including McDonald's, Volkswagen, Johnson & Johnson and multiple banks and airlines. 

Her enthusiasm for great creative execution means she thinks outside the box to problem-solve and will always push great creative ideas. 

From small production budgets to large integrated campaigns, Jess is well versed in the production process and her great relationships with creatives, production partners, and clients across the world means she’s never short of a global network of talented production partners.

Sam has worked across several disciplines, with one consistent theme: the desire to tell great stories.

He started his career at the digital creative agency Outside Line, helping to deliver content for clients Queen, Coldplay, The Scissor Sisters, and Robbie Williams, among others. He then moved over to journalism, joining the editorial team of the New Statesman, helping to plan the magazine and reporting from countries including Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Yemen. In 2007, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and spent four months on the Pak-Afghan border, trying to see the conflict through the eyes of ordinary people. 

Sam is passionate about good storytelling and works closely with Black Paint clients on their editorial strategies, while overseeing copy and editorial creation across the business. 

Outside work, he continues to write for pleasure and is currently working on his first book, having recently been signed by a leading literary agency.