PAUL COLES

PARTNER & MANAGING DIRECTOR

Paul has close to twenty years’ experience in Advertising. Having started his career at Ogilvy NZ, he then shifted to Saatchi & Saatchi London to lead the Visa business across Eastern Europe and T-Mobile. After a stint at JWT London & Sydney on the HSBC Global and Nestle accounts, he then moved to Y&R Group, working across both the Y&R and VML businesses. In 2014 he was brought into M&C Saatchi to run the newly won IAG Insurance Group and travel site, Wotif.com. He later moved into a leadership role to support the growth of their retail start–up, 1440/M&C Saatchi. Before joining DO, Paul was General Manager at BMF, one of Australia’s best creative Agencies. Part of his role was also leading ALDI, who were named Effective Advertiser of the Year (3-years running) and the retail business for Audi.

NEALE HORRIGAN

PARTNER & EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Neale has recently relocated to DO from London where he has spent most of his creative career to date working across every different discipline on a huge range of brands, ranging from global giants to new start-ups. Before leaving London he had been Executive Creative Director at ELVIS for the last 10 years, where he played a pivotal role in scaling the agency and steering it to major creative acclaim. Under his leadership, the agency earned multiple Cannes Lions, D&AD Pencils, Clios, and Drum Grand Prix awards, alongside recognition for effectiveness and the agency’s achievement of B Corp certification.

GROUP ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

Issy Haley is a Senior Account Director at DO, bringing with her a strong track record of leading some of Australia’s most iconic brands. She joins from Ogilvy Sydney, where she led the Coca-Cola ANZ account, delivering standout campaigns like ‘Meet Me at the Coke Sign’. Before that, Issy was at M&C Saatchi, working across Woolworths on the long-running ‘Today’s Fresh Food People’ platform. Known for her collaborative style and growth mindset, Issy is passionate about work that blends strategic thinking with bold creative ambition.

HEAD OF CRAFT

Tom is an experienced creative leader with 22 years industry experience. Experience that has led him to work in the Middle East, Caribbean, UK and his home town of Sydney. Experience that has seen him work for leading global agencies and the largest of clients. Experience that’s led to Lions and Pencils. He’s run departments north of 15 people and humble enough to be the ‘roll out guy’.

HEAD OF COPY

Bevan has quite a few runs on the board as a creative. He’s been a Creative Director in Africa, SE Asia and back here in Australia. With buckets of experience, he’s a big idea thinker and a creative doer, managing a swag of local and international awards along the way. Before landing at DO in 2023, he’d been immersed in the digital space at some of adland's cleverest agencies, but still secretly loves it when a poster brief lands on his desk.

FOUNDER & GROUP CEO

After twenty-five years of leading Creative, PR & Digital businesses, Andrew along with his DO Co-Founder Tom Ormes decided it was time they used their experience and expertise to only benefit the clients they work for, rather than the network agencies they were previously employed by. Andrew has led teams across most categories from global FMCG, Tech Companies, Airlines, Automotive and Government Departments. Before DO, Andrew was with Y&R Group ANZ as Group Managing Director of GPY&R, VML & IdeaWorks. Andrew has worked extensively throughout Asia and Australia, leading agencies, teams and senior client relationships. Answers to Sharkie (or Bruce from Finding Nemo).

FOUNDER & GROUP CCO

Tom has been working in the creative advertising industry for a loooong twenty-five years. In that time, he has lived and worked in Sydney, India, Dubai, Colombo, Singapore, New York and Amsterdam, and remembers at least 85% of it. Tom has led creative teams in most of those markets and has specialised in behavioural change campaigns across all disciplines. He has won awards at all major advertising shows, and together with Andrew Dowling founded DO. in 2016. It has been a series of highs, lows and a lot in-between ever since, just like his favourite team, the Houston Rockets.