Northern based integrated agency Hub, announced today that it has appointed Rob Shaw as CEO.
Shaw who has previously held the CEO role at Epiphany, Jaywing PLC and most recently CreativeRace announced on LinkedIn in September that he was in conversations with a number of companies about his next position.
Chris Hudson, chairman at Hub who founded the agency with his partner and managing director Helen and Simon Pluck as creative director in 2007 said: “We founded and built Hub on a core set of values centred around doing the right thing for our clients and our colleagues. Success for them is success for us. When we heard that Rob was planning his next role, we approached him about joining Hub. After a number of years of organic growth, building our capabilities and our client base, we are focussed on the next phase for the agency and Rob coming on board will accelerate that ambition.”
Shaw added “I’m delighted to be taking the helm at another independent Northern agency that has big ambitions for the future. Hub is already an integrated agency with an enviable breadth of capabilities from creative and strategy, across media planning and photography through to web development and performance marketing. It also has an enviable client roster to match and I’m looking forward to working with the team here to plan and deliver their future growth plans.”
Hub has offices and extensive photographic studios in Calverley and provides marketing services to clients across the UK and Europe including CareCo, La Redoute, Booker, Kingswood Corporation and Somfy.
