The Marketing Store has appointed Tim Uden, the award winning Creative Director from Chemistry as the agency’s Deputy Creative Director. Jamie Putnam, Creative Partner at KLP will also be joining the creative team as Head of Copy.
Uden and Putnam will be teaming up to work on the agency’s growing FMCG business and will report into Mike Cavers, The Marketing Store’s Executive Creative Director.
Prior to Chemistry, Uden was at Dynamo Marketing Communications, where he worked across FMCG and alcohol brands such as Kerry Foods, Coke, Danone and Budweiser. Across his career Uden has gained recognition for this creative talent winning a host of awards including the DMA, ISP, MCCA, FMBE and FAB awards.
Jamie Putnam joins The Marketing Store in May bringing with him 15 years of experience of through-the-line marketing. Previously, Creative Partner at Euro RSCG KLP, Putnam was responsible for the Britvic, Budweiser and Nike Golf accounts. Putnam’s work has appeared in the D&AD Annual and has been recognised at the DMA's, Campaign Direct Awards, ISP Awards, SPCA's, Cream and Fresh Awards. He currently has two nominations for the 2010 ISP awards for his work on Pepsi Max and Tango.
Taking a break from the industry in 2005, Putnam spent two years touring the world as lead guitarist in the band Fields, sharing stages with Bloc Party, Snow Patrol, Editors, Elbow and The Raconteurs.
The appointments follow a successful quarter for The Marketing Store with an influx of new business wins across a number of existing clients. Mike Cavers, Executive Creative Director - Europe, The Marketing Store said: “To attract such top award winning creative talent to The Marketing Store is fantastic news as it really adds firepower to our creative product going forward and builds on the strong team we already have in place.”