Chris Pescott

CEO

Chris founded leading intelligence company Perceptive in 2005 and since then he's worked on some of Australasia's largest, most complicated and most successful marketing campaigns. Chris believes exponential growth comes at the intersection of intelligence, technology and creativity.

Amy Watson

General Manager

Amy has lived and breathed customer experience marketing for almost 15 years. In her 13 years at justONE, the last five as GM, she has delivered award winning work across a range of clients including loyalty strategy and launch, data driven CX programmes, and effective response driving marketing campaigns.

James Mok

Chief Creative Officer

James has over 30 years’ experience as a creative leader in New Zealand and APAC, as a Strategic Planner, Managing Director and partner in his own agency, before joining Proximity NZ. James believes creativity has endless potential to solve problems and his work has been consistently recognised locally a nd globally for excellence and effectiveness.

Nicola Henshaw

Head of Strategy

Nicola's customer-oriented perspective has helped businesses solve complex problems for over 15 years, spanning a range of strategic disciplines including brand and communications, customer engagement, performance marketing, retail and shopper marketing, and customer experience.

Nick McFarlane

Director of Design

Nick brings over 20 years of experience in the form of branding, packaging, digital and visual communication. He's passionate about design, believing it's the glue that unites great strategy with creative. Nick is also a published author having designed, written and illustrated three books about culture, design and creativity.

Kate de Marco

Planning Director – CRM

Kate is relentless in her focus on delivering great customer experiences that drive business results. Kate collaborates closely with clients to deliver world- class customer engagement strategies. With a strong focus on 'always on', Kate sees journey mapping as central to determining the relevancy and timing of key moments to connect.

Lisa Divett

Planning Director – Brand

Lisa has worked on some of the world's best brands, partnering with both creatives and clients to help create true connections between brands and the people they serve. She is an advocate of the power of creativity to shape culture and ensures the things we put into the world make an impression on people.

Stu Hinds

Creative Director

Stuart has over 25 years of advertising experience on some of New Zealand's biggest brands. His passion for results-driven advertising informs his conceptual skills across every media in our ever- evolving industry, whether it's long-term brand platforms, digital & social, branded utilities, activations, PR or on-going CRM programs.

Aaron Turk

Creative Director

Aaron, ‘commonly known as Turk’, is a passionate creative director with over 25 years’ experience in digital and creative agencies across New Zealand and Australia. His understanding of how people interact with the world and the role brands play has helped shape his approach to creativity. With his rich experience, digital thinking is often at the heart of the solution.

Sandra Cochran

Senior Business Director

Sandra has more than 20 years in the advertising industry, having worked at Rapp Collins, Singleton Ogilvy & Mather and 10 years at DDB including time as APAC Regional Business Director for ExxonMobil. She embraces working on a range of different clients and having different responsibilities from strategic planning, CRM, online and creative execution.