About Us
What makes the perfect agency team? At Wardour it’s all about the skill and the will. We have put together a team of experts which is more than the sum of its parts.
Martin MacConnol
CEO
Claire Oldfield
Managing director
Richard Payn
Finance director
Ben Barrett
Creative director
James Cash
Agency managing editor
Tim Turner
Senior account director
Molly Bennett
Agency managing editor
Andrew Strange
Senior account director
Joe Gardiner
Head of digital
John Faulkner
Production director
Julian Thomas
Senior account director
Sarah Spare
Head of marketing
Claire Oldfield
Managing director
Claire is responsible for the day-to-day management of our team: it’s a big role calling for both excellent directing skills and creative flair.
She has worked for the UK’s leading newspapers and magazines covering everything from style and motoring to finance. She has filled the roles of Small Business Editor of the Sunday Times, City News Editor on the Daily Mail and Editor of CityAM.
In the year before joining Wardour Claire ran the editorial operation for Metro International, the world’s largest international newspaper group.
A brilliant networker and multi-tasker, Claire has run many corporate communications projects including copywriting for the M&S Annual Report and consultancy for Editorial Intelligence, for whom she also wrote a book on the credit crunch.