The Base One Wall of Fame

Meet the talent behind the business

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being Italian, my love of coffee, chocolate and high heels shoes, speaking my mind, moving very fast, client services.

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I am studying interior design and am enrolling to learn to play the piano.

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Ada Nisbet

Client Services

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IamSTERDAM

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I can skate like Sven Kramer, love photography and want to create a fairytale hotel

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Agnes Wagter

Client Services

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being honest, open and upfront.

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I have been a TV extra - in two police dramas.

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Ann-Maria Guard

Media and Production

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spilling things, breaking laptops, playing hockey, having lots of cuts and bruises, going for lunch dead on 12.

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I like to paint in my spare time and I believe in ghosts.

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Bethan Jenkins

Client Services

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Saab, being organised, always apologising!, knowing more than I think I do (thank you tech team J), cakes, diving, tennis (especially good when drunk!), finding innovative ways to discipline my children and courtesy of my children – my cooking especially my chicken lasagne.

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I could swim before I could walk!

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Cathy Simpson

Digital

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saying "wicked" a lot, tormenting Kingsley with my music, talking with my hands, having cold feet, encouraging people to get stuck into shots (preferably Sambuca) whenever we are out and encouraging drinking games such as ''would you rather....?'

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when I was 7 I planned my wedding from start to finish with Barry Manilow!

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Caz Taylor

Client Services

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Getting so into video projects they take over my life, I turn nocturnal then lose the need for sleep altogether, days pass without knowing, I start hallucinating then finally finish and collapse in a heap with an immune system so low that I catch the nearest passing virus and fall over...until the next project.

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I love cycling so much I happily rode a girls bike belonging to a neighbour as a kid until I was so sore I couldn't sit down. Had a blood-curdling incident with a Raleigh Chopper gear stick at Eastcote BMX track. Dont ask. Stupidly rode from London to Cornwall on a MTB with chunky tyres only pumped to 20 psi. Crazyness, I know.

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Chris Heron

Creative

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delivering on time, being able to make anything, knowing a man who can, DIY tips, cappuccinos and sticky buns.

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I trained as both a Graphic Designer/Typographer and a Product Designer.

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Dan Cummings

Media and Production

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being difficult to understand. Dedicated to my daughter. Saying 'yeah yeah yeah'... and sometimes meaning 'no no no'.

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I played American football for the Chiltern Cheetahs (now Watford Cheetahs). Spent my childhood metal detecting (and still fancy it). Spent a holiday working in a geriatrics hospital in Tel Aviv.

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Dave Thomas

Senior Management

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my thinking in models and opportunities, flying track record, international branding strategies and cultural diversity

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I want to win the Americas Cup

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Holger Ambroselli

Senior Management

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making sure people get what was agreed, seeing both sides, loving team work and smiling a lot.

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I'm French. But tell no one.

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Isabelle Gueguen

Client Services

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fine words, colourful scarves, large sandwiches. An untidy desk, a 1977 Liverpool FC mug and an eclectic iTunes library. Twitching, tweeting and tickling ivories.

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I very nearly became a farmer instead of a copywriter.

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John Bottom

Senior Management

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hiding the key to the petty cash tin, running around Bushy Park at lunchtime, making sure we all have a chair to sit on, keeping the Company credit card on a tight rein, being a Gooner.

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I was Major–General Stanley in the Pirates of Penzance and lead singer in “Some Like It hot” that unknown 70s rock band.

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John Stanton

Senior Management

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my 'crazy' hair, guitar riffs, my heavy French accent even though am not actually French, lengthy code writing, saying 'Cool Cool' to everything...

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I hold a green belt in ShinKen-Do, was once a middle distance runner and I try to catch some unbroken green waves whenever possible...

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Joseph Volcy

Search Marketing

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being the part-timer, nagging everyone most of the time when I am in the office, the number of pairs of shoes I own especially the very high heeled ones.

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I love horse riding, have learnt how to jump horses in the last year, am hoping to learn to play polo as my 40th birthday present this year.

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Julie Morton

Support

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client hospitality and moaning at my colleagues regarding not entering meetings in the calendar and general office tidiness! Loving choc cake and shoes!

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in my youth I used to be a gogo dancer in Chelsea.

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Marilyn Mallam

Support

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my Movember, Tom Selleck Tash along with my love of Football, Fulham F.C and my Red Bull addiction.

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I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

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Mark Barrett

Search Marketing

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getting all 'old-fashioned' about grammar and punctuation; being a playa (a cricket playa, dawg); a commendable weakness for real ale; becoming the agency's cut-price photographic stand-in; my altruism (hey, I'm offering the art boys free reading lessons).

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I've been holed up in the Chilean Andes fighting the forces of Fascism with my copywriting brothers and sisters, armed with nothing but sharp pencils, sharper wits, and a natty line in mountaineering tweed. That, and exposing my arse on BBC2. (For 'art', naturally.)

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Matt Lord

Creative

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cycling 43 miles to work each day, working 25 hours a day and owning 26 guitars.

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I sometimes exaggerate a bit.

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Paul Hatcher

Senior Management

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Analysing everything. My frown. My dubious sense of humour. Thinking in diagrams, talking in diagrams and dreaming in diagrams (sic). My military passion for ironing. Oh and a small amount of competitiveness.

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I used to be a Jehova's Witness (but I'm fine now)

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Richard Bush

Senior Management

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laughing too loud (and not being able to stop), not having the use of my left knee, a love of pink wine, talking about calories, accidentally putting 'Loose Women' on at lunchtime.

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played the piano from the age of 5, and used to be pretty good...

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Richella Lyons

Client Services

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not being able to cook anything but loving food! (I can in fact cook a mean chili con carne). Saying “bye” multiple times before putting down the phone.

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I used to be quite good at jumping over things... Both on my own (100M hurdles) and on horse back (Cross Country)...

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Sarah Platts

Senior Management

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being creative with databases, putting websites together, making things with plugs work, not taking notes and “Dad” jokes.

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I studied to become a grade 3 football referee.

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Scot Hubbard

Digital

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Sitting quietly in the corner wearing headphones, getting lots of deliveries from Amazon, having the latest gadget before anyone else has even heard of it, my squeeky bicycle pump/coffee maker, loving being a Dad and never getting around to going raiding on WOW.

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I played rugby for Moseley for 5 years.

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Sean Higgins

Digital

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being a David Tennant uberfan, usability evangelism, eating beans on crumpets for lunch, loving Google Analytics, being the only girl to have worn the Base One FC kit, taking lots of photos and rocking the Singstar mic.

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that as a teenager I played the glockenspiel in a marching band .

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Susanne Wraight

Digital

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organising stuff. Being intolerant of over-running meetings. Cheesy transitions in my presentations. Being opinionated. Suffering severe OCD issues regarding the kitchen in general and milk in particular.

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I bungee-jumped off Victoria Falls in an attempt to get rid of my fear of heights... it worked by the way

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