Peter Scott, Joint CEO and Chairman of Engine

Peter is Chairman and Joint Chief Executive of the Engine Group, 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. Peter is also Founder and Chairman of Botiga and Descent International, the luxury ski chalet operator.

Robin Wight, President of Engine and WCRS

As President of both Engine and WCRS, Robin was part of the management team that led the management buyout from Havas in 2004. Robin began his career by setting up a student advertising agency while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. After working as a copywriter in a number of agencies including Collett Dickinson Pearce and Partners, he co-founded Wight Collins Rutherford Scott with Peter Scott in 1979.

Though Robin Wight has spent his whole career in advertising, he has always had a number of outside interests. From 1982 to 1984, Robin served as the marketing adviser to the Right Hon Peter Walker when he was Minister for Agriculture before serving as a Council Member for Food from Britain between 1984 and 1988.

In 1989, he became Chairman of the NABS (National Advertising Benevolent Society) appeal raising nearly £4 million for the industry

Julian Hough, Group Development Director

Julian is one of the Founding Partners of Engine. Having led the team that won the 3 account, Julian then joined them on secondment as Marketing Communications Director, a post he held for 2 years. Julian originally joined WCRS in 1995 and has worked across a broad range of accounts including Debenhams, BUPA, Mecca Bingo, Orange, 118 118, Phones4U, Heinz and Tic Tac.

Prior to joining WCRS Julian led the British Airways team at Saatchi & Saatchi, ran the Nissan account at TBWA and worked on Army Officer recruitment, Boots, Hovis, JAL and Toyota at CDP. He started his career at Lowe Howard Spink.

Ian Day, Group Finance Director

Ian joined Engine from Ogilvy and Mather EMEA (the Group's European operations and a subsidiary of WPP plc), where he was Mergers and Acquisitions Director from 2000 and European Finance Director for Ogilvy Public Relations from 2002, a role he carried out in parallel with his position as M&A Director.

During this time, Ian worked with country management teams across Europe to identify acquisition targets and oversaw the acquisition of 30 businesses with a total operating profit of over $20m. Prior to Ogilvy and Mather, Ian's substantial industry experience includes the positions of Commercial Director at Agency.com Ltd, (1998 - 2000) and Finance Director of Colour Solutions Ltd and Anvil Consulting Ltd (1996 - 1998), all subsidiaries of Omnicom Inc.

Debbie Klein, Joint CEO of Engine and Chairman of WCRS

Debbie became Joint Chief Executive of the Engine Group in June 2008. She was Chief Executive of WCRS from 2005-2008 and continues to be involved as Chairman of the advertising agency. She was a founding partner in the management buyout of WCRS in 2004 and prior to that Head of Planning at WCRS for five years.

Debbie started her career at AC Nielsen. In 1993 she joined Saatchi & Saatchi as a Strategic Planner. She was promoted to the Board of Saatchi & Saatchi in 1996. She joined WCRS in 1997 and was promoted to Head of Planning in 1999.

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, advertising and communications business and sits on the IPA Value of Advertising committee.

Leon Jaume, Executive Creative Director, WCRS

Leon has been Executive Creative Director of WCRS for 8 years. Prior to this he was the 14th member of staff to join the newly launched WCRS. Since then he has left twice but has always returned to the WCRS fold.

Leon has diminished his chances of straying again by becoming one of the Founding Partners in buying out the agency from Havas. He started his career in advertising as a copywriter, working at a number of top agencies before WCRS.

Dan Bobby, Managing Director, Dave

Dan is a co-founder of Dave, the brand consultancy launched in March 2003. Dave was the first non-advertising venture for The Group and works with a range of clients including Vertu, Cable & Wireless, Levi Strauss & Co Europe, Prudential and AOL on a range of strategic and marketing issues.

Prior to Dave, Dan spent 10 years working at Wolff Olins, the Omnicom owned brand consultancy, where he was responsible for clients including Orange, Booz Allen, Base (part of KPN), Sky, Goldfish and Hutchison Whampoa (3).

In October 2004, Dan was appointed to The Board of Engine, then the WCRS Group, to help drive the diversification into wider marketing and communication services.

Adele Biss, Non Executive Director

Adele is an entrepreneur/businesswoman who is also a strategic communications adviser with a background in advertising, brand management, PR and public affairs.

She founded Mandate – formerly AS Biss and Co - in November 1996 which under her leadership grew to become one of the UK’s foremost public affairs consultancies.

Adele is one of Engine's non-executive directors. She is also a non-executive Director of Eurostar and has been a non-executive Director of the British Rail Board, Bowthorpe plc (now Spirent plc) and Harry Ramsden's plc. She is a Fellow of University College London (UCL) where, as a member of its Council, she chaired the Audit Committee and has been a Governor of Middlesex University. She has an honorary Doctorate in Business Administration (University of Lincoln) and is a Women Advertising Club of London (WACL) “Woman of Achievement.”

Having been head of Communications at Thomson Travel for many years she co- founded Biss, Lancaster in 1978. Under her direction it grew rapidly to become a top ten consumer public relations consultancy.

Michael Spencer, Non-Executive Director, Chief Executive, ICAP Plc

Michael Spencer became the Chairman and Chief Executive of ICAP plc when it was formed in 1999. His career began in the City began in 1976, as a stockbroker at Simon and Coates. In 1980, he joined Drexel Burnham Lambert where he spent three years broking futures and became an Assistant VP.

Between 1983 and 1986, Michael Spencer was a Director at money broker Charles Fulton, until his involvement in the new interest rate swaps market led him to set up Intercapital in 1986. As a specialist financial derivatives broking firm, Intercapital grew from the original four people to over three hundred world-wide, with offices in London, New York, Sydney, Singapore and a joint venture in Tokyo.

In 1998 Intercapital merged with EXCO plc, a listed money broker, and formed Intercapital plc with Michael Spencer as its Chairman and Chief Executive.

Ed Eskandarian, Director, Havas Chairman, Arnold Worldwide

Ed Eskandarian has spent over thirty years in the advertising business and currently holds the titles of Chairman and CEO of Arnold Worldwide Partners; however, his career did not begin in advertising. A Villanova engineering graduate, Ed Eskandarian changed course and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, and then went on to Compton Advertising's account management training program. He managed a major portion of Compton's Procter & Gamble business during his seven years at the agency.

In 1971, Ed Eskandarian joined Humphrey, Browning, MacDougall, a Boston agency with about $6 million in billings. He held the titles of Senior Vice President, Director of Marketing, Executive Vice President and then was named President and Chief Executive Officer of HBM in 1981.

Richard Wyatt, Member of the board

Richard has worked for the past 27 years in London’s financial markets; having trained as an investment analyst with James Capel & Co. He was one of the founders of the UK securities business of Schroders, which was sold to Citigroup as part of its purchase of Schroders investment banking business, upon this acquisition he became Head of European Equities for Citigroup. He retired from Citigroup to serve on the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the newly formed Financial Services Authority in London. In 2004 Richard joined the partnership of Lazard to purchase Panmure Gordon from WestLB, he chaired this business through its listing on AIM and early life as a public company.

Richard chairs the management companies of two publicly traded venture funds; Loudwater Trust is the leading publicly owned London crossover fund. He also chairs the management company of Low Carbon Accelerator plc an AIM listed cleantech venture firm.

Phil Andrews, CEO, Partners Andrews Aldridge

Phil is Chief Executive and co-founder of Partners Andrews Aldridge.

He set up Partners in 1998 with Steve Aldridge following a career path which saw him work for and run both UK and International direct marketing shops. His management roles have also spanned b2b, conference, incentive and events agencies. Phil is a fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing and sits on the IDM Education Council. He has 24 years experience in Marketing Services and has a wide range of experience in almost every sector. He is widely respected as an astute businessman who recognizes great creativity that delivers commercial advantage.

Partners Andrews Aldridge became part of the Engine Group in February 2008.

In November 2008, Phil became a Director of Engine Group.