Engine is a creative community
that provides clients with
best-in-class communications
expertise under one roof.
We have brilliant specialists,
working better together.

Engine is a creative
communications
company whose work
is born of fusion.
Fusion of ideas,
opinions, people,
expertise and
irrepressible energy.

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  • Peter Scott

    Group Chief Executive and Chairman, Engine

    Peter is Chairman and Chief Executive of Engine, having conceived and executed the WCRS buyout from Havas in 2004.

    Peter has spent more than 25 years in the advertising industry. His formative years were with Ogilvy and Mather: he opened the Scottish operation in 1973. He was a co–founder of Wight Collins Rutherford Scott in 1979 and subsequently oversaw group development from flotation in 1983 through to re–positioning the company as Europe’s largest media buying group — Aegis. He remained Chairman and CEO until 1992. Prior to leading the buyout of WCRS from Havas, Peter pursued interests outside the media and marketing services sector: along with his wife Jan, he dedicated much of his time to fundraising for various children’s charities.

  • Debbie Klein

    Chief Executive, Engine UK

    Debbie became Chief Executive of Engine in the UK in June 2008. Prior to that she had worked at WCRS for eleven years, initially joining as Head of Planning, before becoming Chief Executive of the advertising agency in 2005.  One year earlier Debbie was a founding partner in the management buyout of WCRS.
     
    Debbie started her career at AC Nielsen, before joining Saatchi & Saatchi as a Strategic Planner in 1993.
     
    She is the author of Women in Advertising: 10 years on, a study commissioned by the IPA. Many of the recommendations made in her report have since been adopted by the advertising industry. She is a past president of WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications London), a network of senior women in the media, industry.
     
    In 2008, Debbie was named one of the Sunday Times ‘Top 40 under 40 in Media’.

  • Matt Wreford

    NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Matt is CEO of IPGL Limited, a private holding company controlled by Michael Spencer, Chief Executive of ICAP plc, and his family trusts. IPGL focuses on partnering with experienced management teams to building young businesses into industry leaders over the long term. Over the past 20 years the group has had considerable success in growing broking, retail CFD, fund management, insurance and gaming companies.
     
    In addition to Engine, he is currently a director of Exotix Holdings, the emerging market securities broker; Probability Plc, the AIM listed mobile gambling operator; and Insparo Asset Management, the specialist frontier asset manager. Over the past 10 years he has been a board director of 9 businesses and a board observer for a further 4. Prior directorships include Origin Asset Management, the global equities fund manager; and Neoss, the developer of dental implant solutions. He is a qualified chartered accountant. Matt read Chemistry at Brasenose College, Oxford.
     

  • Richard Wyatt

    NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Richard is Chairman of Loudwater Investment Partners Limited.

    He is a Managing Director of N.M. Rothschild and formerly Managing Director of Schroder Securities.

    Richard is a non-executive director of Archant.

    Richard, who is a law graduate, is also a trustee of Aldeburgh Music.

  • Thomas Scriven

    NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Thomas is a director with H.I.G Capital in London, covering growth equity, leveraged buy-out and distressed investments throughout Europe.

    Previously he had spent several years with Goldman Sachs Capital Partners – where he pursued global private equity opportunities – and Parthenon Capital, an operationally focused mid-market private equity firm based in the US.

    A Swiss and British national, Thomas received a B.A in Politics from Princeton University, and an M.B.A from Havard Business School. 

  • Matthias Allgaier

    NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Matthias has been working in the Private Equity Industry since 1994, focusing on small cap buyouts and growth equity investments in the UK and Europe.

    He has held senior positions at Internet Capital Group and Apax Partners in London and at General Atlantic Partners in the US.

    A German and Austrian national, Matthias is now the Managing Director of H.I.G Capital, a leading private equity and venture capital investment firm.

    Matthias has an MBA from Mannheim University and a DBA from Karl Franzens University. 

  • Ashley Martin

    Group Finance Director, Engine

    A chartered accountant, Ashley joined Grand Metropolitan plc on leaving the accounting profession, before moving into the media industry with Tempus Group plc. Here he became European finance director and then Group Finance Director, building a global media buying business, prior to its takeover by WPP Group in what was dubbed “the world’s first hostile sale”. Latterly he was Group Finance Director of Rok plc, the UK national building services group.

    He has substantial experience of decentralised entrepreneurial businesses having built a global network of media agencies operating in over 40 countries at Tempus, and created a national UK business for Rok.  He has extensive experience of M&A, Investor relations and of building teams to meet the challenges created by fast growing businesses.

    Ashley is a non–executive director and Audit Committee chair at Rightmove plc, the UK’s largest property portal.  He is also a mentor of finance professionals for the Institute of Chartered  Accountants and presents on a number of finance courses.

  • Stevie Spring

    Non-executive director

    Stevie was most recently Chief Executive of Future plc, the international special-interest media group, between 2006 –2011.
    She graduated in law, worked in marketing and television before starting a 16-year career in advertising agency management.

    From 2000 to 2006, she was UK Chief Executive of Clear Channel. She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Marketing Society; one of only three honorary members of the Women’s Advertising Club; a patron of NABS; and the first externally appointed Chairman for BBC Children in Need.

  • John Bernbach

    Executive Director

    John has spent more than 30 years in the advertising business, 27 of which were at Doyle Dane Bernbach. In 1986, he was responsible for leading Doyle Dane Bernbach into a merger with Needham Harper Worldwide and BBDO and helping to create the Omnicom Group, the largest, most profitable communications group in the world.  He also served on the board as one of Omnicom’s five founding directors.

    From 1995 to 2000, John served as Director, then CEO and Chairman of North American Television, a joint venture between the Power Corporation of Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

    He has also been the Chairman and CEO of The Bernbach Group, an executive management consulting business, as well as Co-founder, President and COO of NTM Inc. (Not Traditional Media), a marketing and media advisory firm created in 2003 to work with clients and media companies to develop strategies integrating nontraditional marketing solutions and new media models.