Space hands top role to Nicholas

Space has strengthened its management team by appointing former Billington Cartmell Group managing director Jason Nicholas as joint managing partner to work alongside co-founder David Atkinson.
Together they will lead the agency, founded in 2003, and drive its growth agenda.
Nicholas started his career client-side at Coca-Cola Schweppes Beverages, before joining Diageo in 1989, where he stayed for nine years.
He switched agency-side to Billington Cartmell in 1998. While there, Nicholas was instrumental in the agency’s transformation from a sales promotion agency into a business with 180 staff, £16m gross income group comprising three separate agencies Billington Cartmell, Brave and Closer.
Atkinson said: “Jason has always been my ideal business partner ever since I first conceived the idea for Space, but he has never been free to consider the role until now.
“I’m proud of the success that we have achieved over the past ten years, the great campaigns we’ve created, the awards we’ve won, and especially the clients and colleagues that have worked with and continue to work with Space. However, I’ve always known that a second engine is needed alongside me to realise the ambitions that I have, and that Jason now shares, for the business.”
Another key member of the management team is director Suzy Hughes who has supported Atkinson since 2009 with a general management remit. Moving forwards, her part-time involvement will focus on NPD and innovation. Alongside Atkinson, Nicholas and Hughes, the senior leadership team at Space includes head of client services Jim Carless, creative director Mat O’Brien and group account director Sean Kelly.

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