PHD hires Chris Stephenson as head of strategy

Tim Burrowes

September 29, 2009 10:20

Media agency PHD has significantly added to its strategy firepower with the appointment of Chris Stephenson, who has previously been labelled one of the UK’s six best strategists.

Stephenson is currently the strategy director for Aegis agency Vizeum in the UK. He joins PHD on November 30, reporting in to managing partner and former boss Mark Holden.

Stephenson and Holden both previously worked at PHD in the UK. Stephenson began his UK planning career with poster specialist Concord before joining PHD’s ideas shop Rocket in 2003.

In his Vizeum role he led strategy across the agency’s Coca Cola portfolio, and also headed up efforts to develop European train operator Eurostar’s drive into social media.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.