brandopus

Avril is a founding partner and Client Services Director at BrandOpus. Responsible for overall client satisfaction and development, she is supported by a 15-strong team.

Her career began in 1999 when she joined advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather working on the GSK brands, Lucozade & Oxy. In 2002 she moved from advertising into design to be more closely involved with the development and creation of brands, joining JKR. Four years later, as an Account Director responsible for Bacardi, Hovis and Sharwood's, Avril jumped at the opportunity to set up a new agency.

Since co-founding BrandOpus in 2006, Avril and the five other partners have led the company to become the 10th biggest packaging agency in the UK, winning a range of awards, most notably a gold Design Effectiveness Award in 2011. 

 

Avril is best known for her addiction to online clothes shopping and her ever extending shoe collection that sits under her desk. When she's not sporting a pair of heels she can be found in her flats running through the streets and parks of north-west London.

Paul is a founding partner and Creative Director at BrandOpus. He is responsible for the overall creative output across a wide and varying portfolio of mostly FMCG clients.

Paul's career in design began in 1995 when he joined JKR as a graduate. Eleven years later he had established himself as a senior design director and was ready for the challenge of setting up a new agency. 



Since co-founding BrandOpus in 2006, Paul and the five other partners have led the company to become the 10th biggest packaging agency in the UK, winning a range of awards, most notably a gold Design Effectiveness Award in 2011. 



Besides managing a creative team of 18 designers, Paul has a keen interest in football. Although his best playing days are behind him he continues to organise the weekly BrandOpus 5-a-side kickabout. 

Out of the studio, Paul enjoys spending time with his young family whilst getting stuck into his next 'grand design' DIY project.

Tina is a founding partner and Production Director at Brandopus. She works out the technical  details, making sure creative ideas can be accurately reproduced during printing. 

A trained Packaging Technologist, Tina has worked in printing, reprographics and design for the last 17 years. The projects she works on range from simple box printing to colour consistency management and structural innovation for global clients. 

When she escapes from the office, Tina loves winding down at the gym or planning holidays to far flung destinations.

Nir is the Managing Partner of BrandOpus, which he founded in 2006 to become one of the UK's leading design agencies. 

Over the past 5 years since doors opened the agency has developed an won six prestigious Design Effectiveness Awards, and has held The Grocer's Packaging Agency of the Year, title for two consecutive years.

Nir's career started in advertising, where he worked for FCB and Publicis, and ended as board account director at Lintas on Unilever and Economist accounts. In the design and branding field, Nir spent 10 years as managing director at JKR.

When not hard at work, Nir is a specialist lecturer on the London Business School MBA programme, is an avid supporter of Tottenham football club, a keen reader of psychology and has an unlimited amount of strong views on almost everything!