Orlaith has 15 years experience in the advertising in Ireland becoming one of the business’s youngest Managing Directors in 2003. She has overseen both creative and effectiveness awards for a wide range of the Agency’s clients and holds positions on the boards of I.A.P.I. and Unicef as well as being a regular and outspoken contributor in the marketing press. She is an avid rugby fan – to put it mildly.

Shay joined McCanns back in 1996 and was appointed Creative Director in 2000. He has won countless awards over the years on a whole range of clients including The National Lottery, Bank of Ireland, HB, MasterCard and more recently Heineken and Sprite. He firmly believes in the power of a creative thought and loves nothing more than to see a lovely idea survive and flourish all on its own in that great big bad world out there. He is as passionate about the work today as he was over twenty years ago when he got his first little press ad published. A little beauty it was too.

Martina has had two lives with McCanns. Martina’s joined us the first time 15 years ago from Coca-Cola marketing. In her early years at McCann she worked with Coke (not surprisingly), l’Oréal and Nestlé before moving to Mindshare as a senior planner for Kellogg’s, Kimberly+Clarke and Kraft Jacob Suchard. She came back to us in 2001 and took over as MD of UM in 2002.

Graham is a BSc Management (Marketing) graduate form DIT. He started his career with Cawley-Nea/TBWA working on such accounts as Baileys, Smirnoff, Dairygold, Today FM, Jurys Hotels and Irish Permanent. In 2000 he joined start-up agency Pulse working on Lever-Fabergé and McDonalds before launching RaboBank in Ireland – the most successful ever bank product launch in Ireland. Graham joined McCann in 2005 and leads Heineken and Coca-Cola brands.

Onagh joined McCann Erickson in March 2010 to head up the Broadcast Production Department. She worked in various advertising agencies over the previous ten years, producing TV commercials for Guinness, Carlsberg, Centra, Bank of Ireland, Lucozade and Barry’s Tea, to name a few. Having produced everything from high profile award winning commercials to low budget animated stings, Onagh has an in-depth knowledge of broadcast production. She has shot commercials in all corners of the globe (including Cabra) and has worked with large casts, celebrities and well known directors.

Sarah joined from Cawley-Nea/TBWA in 2008 to lead three of the agency’s key clients; SuperValu, Coke brands and NCSS/Breastcheck. Prior to that she worked on the double Gold Effectiveness Awards winning Power of One campaign as well as for the Irish Times, Injuries Board and Irish Pride. Sarah is a Communications and PR graduate of UCD.

Jonny graduated so long ago he can’t really remember it. Since then he’s worked as a copywriter in London, Paris and now Ireland. In 2007 he started work at CawleyNea/TBWA where he produced work for Adidas, Paddy Power, McDonald’s, The Irish Times, Jameson and O2. He was then hired by Irish International to work on Guinness, Carlsberg and Centra among others. But he always hoped to return to McCann’s (where he freelanced for a month when he first came to Ireland). That finally happened on January 4th this year. He won a Cannes Silver Lion for his work on Umbro which can also be seen in the 1998 D&AD Annual, but he prefers not to talk about it sober. Fortunately, he has a few other awards to bang on about, including 3 ICADs, an Irish Radio Award and a Kinsale Shark. He is currently working on 3, Heineken, SuperValu and Coca-Cola and really should get back to it.