Jamie

I started Message with a borrowed suit and a £1,500 bank loan in 1995. I'd just finished a stint as Tower Records' Creative Manager, writing and designing over £2m worth of advertising in one year with one staff member.

Prior to that I'd worked as a freelance designer, churning out countless direct mail packs, thus helping with the burgeoning recycling industry. The Internet was not exactly mainstream, and the web was still being broken out of it's packaging in 1995. I couldn't wait.

Originally I'm a graphic designer, so I'm never happier than when some project or other needs some icons or widgets and I can just push pixels around for a few hours! Mostly though I do a whole range of things that all add up to being the Director of a small-but-expanding web development agency; I come up with crazy ideas, design systems, create wireframes, meet clients, write proposals… Occasionally I get to go home and play my guitar, or kick butt drumming with Salter Cane.

Luckily, one of my strengths seems to be in hiring great people, so my weaknesses are made up for by the fantastic team that makes Message what it is.