Nick Fettiplace, currently chief solutions officer for earned media at Jellyfish UK, is to step up to MD as current Manchester-based MD Rick Lamb departs for a new role as partnerships director at THG.
Lamb joined Jellyfish in 2019 after its acquisition of Latitude, and has been instrumental in its success over the past five years. He played a key role in the recent acquisition by The Brandtech Group and managed a client portfolio that has more than tripled during his tenure.
Successor Fettiplace has been part of the Jellyfish team for 13 years, following its acquisition of Weedoo Media in 2011, which he co-founded with Jellyfish COO, Edward Ball. Since then, Fettiplace has been at the helm of Jellyfish’s global SEO and earned media teams, becoming a well-known figure among its key UK clients, including Swarovski and Harrods.
Fettiplace said: “I’m excited and incredibly optimistic about taking on this role. My goal is to support our national, regional, and global commercial ambitions while also reiterating our sense of culture, identity and heritage specifically within the UK market.
“Jellyfish has always stood out as unique. We’re constantly evolving—different from who we were yesterday, different from who we’ll be tomorrow, and different from holding companies and our broader agency peers. Over the past five years, we’ve grown significantly on the global stage. I want to take this opportunity to reintroduce Jellyfish to the UK market and say, Look at us now. Look at what we can offer.”
Jellyfish CEO Nick Emery added: “We will all miss Rick. He is a lovely, caring, brilliant person. I have loved working with him and am very grateful for everything he has done for us. A very tough act to follow.
“Nick is dynamic, charismatic, super smart and all the things you wish for to shape and lead one of the world’s most influential markets. We aim to revolutionise every aspect of marketing and that needs people who can lead change, lead our industry and move differently from the conventional. Nick can do all of that and more.”
With almost 2,000 Jellies across 38 offices worldwide, including Northern bases in Manchester and Warrington, Jellyfish offers expertise and certifications across Google Marketing Platforms, Google Cloud, Salesforce, Amazon, and Meta. Clients include Google, Spotify, Amazon, Bissell, and Uber.
