Elly Woolston today joins Fenton as Director of its London office. In this role, Woolston will help expand the firm’s European presence and grow its global network.
Woolston joins Fenton after previously serving as Chairman and prior to that Managing Director at DMS, a charitable marketing agency, which she joined in 2008. Within two years she helped the agency move from a direct marketing based business, with revenue from print production, to an integrated communications business, with retained fees for thinking, creativity, and service.
Previously Woolston was a founding partner of Proximity London (formerly BHWG). Which she helped build from 5 people to a 300 person agency in less than 10 years. While at Proximity London, Woolston was Chairman and headed many of the agencies largest accounts including Volkswagen, Save the Children, Unilever, RNLI, WWF, and British Red Cross.
“Fenton has a reputation for merging communications excellence with the most pressing issues of our time,” said Woolston. “I look forward to helping our clients develop ground breaking and innovative campaigns that capture imaginations, change behaviour and drive progress.