Rob finds nothing more rewarding than helping people excel – preferably in the most creative way possible. Having learnt from experience that sales and marketing is a brilliant job, he’s now dedicated to helping marketers enjoy their work and minimise the tensions that can bring people and businesses down.

Drawn into marketing by a genuine love of brands, Rob has worked on supertanker brands, such as Smirnoff and Stella Artois, keeping them on course and turning them around when necessary. 

Today, Rob leads Realise’s Learner Experience Team, combining marketing best practice with an up-to-date understanding of how people learn. He strives to make Realise a place where people can be at their best; stretching themselves and the businesses they work with.  

Rob lives in Weybridge with his wife and two children in one of the town’s celebrated Span houses.

Allan’s mantra is that curiosity leads to creativity. As a multi-talented, multi-disciplinary creative, Allan is continually dreaming up ways to make Realise stand out and stand apart and make sure our output outperforms everything else. Working with some of the world’s most recognisable brands means the pressure is on to do something truly outstanding to make their internal teams take note. His brief to himself is to deliver innovative ideas that have lasting impact. 

With 20 years in design, Allan has turned his hand to brands of all kinds and explored a wealth of creative avenues. From leading a team of designers he moved to running his own company, which for the last decade has been providing design solutions for brands big and small, from Channel 4 to Ethical Tea Partnership. 

Allan leads our ever growing design team.

Allan lives in deepest, darkest Shropshire where he spends most of his time attempting to tame his two kids.

Sally Curren

Sally supports a number of clients, managing challenging global logistics with a smile and a positive attitude. She combines keeping up with our hectic schedule and busy mind, by making sure we’re in the right airport departure lounge, on the right day, at the right time whilst dealing with OpCo’s from all over the world. 

Sally comes from a traditional PA background working for large corporate FMCG companies – always client side. Realise gave her the chance to come over to the agency side and experience a different way of working. Her favourite parts of the job are seeing concepts become a reality, and building close client relationships.

Sally lives in Surrey with her partner, and regularly fosters for Battersea Dog & Cats Home, and loves Wildlife Conservation. She’s keen to travel the world once more, but we’re loathed to let her go until she’s well past retirement.

PA to Rob Mitchell and Client Account Manager

Hamish McKeown

Hamish has been working in design since graduating with a degree in illustration. He loves to work on any video or animation project, trying to push our in house quality to its limits, taking any static content he can find and bringing it to life.

Outside of work he is an avid photographer, shooting, developing and printing from his collection of old film cameras.

Designer

Stephanie Ujma-Alvis

Steph is a lover of learning in all its forms. It was during her former career in early years education that she first got hooked on how humans develop understanding and absorb information. Now in her role as graphic designer here at Realise, she spends her time growing our product portfolio and working on materials for our programmes, making the complex beautifully simple to digest.

Continually open to new ideas and concepts, Steph is a great communicator and uses her verbal skills to interrogate every brief that comes her way. By picking it apart, she aims to create a visual language that everyone will engage with and connect with, to make learning and development unforgettable, interactive and as easy as ABC.

Outside of work she enjoys spending time outdoors exploring nature with her adventurous toddler.

Designer

Chantal Busson

Chantal is a highly experienced commercial leader working for over 20 years with Global Brands at Diageo, Heinz and GSK. Chantal has extensive consumer goods as well as healthcare experience and brings an insatiable curiosity to any category she works in. She has a passion for the development of people both professionally and personally. She has always started any project by putting the people at the heart and working to fully understand their reality first.

Working with Realise she draws on this passion as well as her deep experience of the commercial realities of large multinationals to create the right solutions for clients.

Associate

Paul O'Mahoney

Paul is an experienced and seasoned FMCG sales and marketing professional with a passion for coaching and developing functional competencies with commercial teams and individuals from entry level to board members. He is an experienced coach and facilitator having run training and coaching programmes for some of the world’s largest blue chip companies in different geographies, cultures and languages. 

Having had senior management roles at United Distillers UK, Rothman’s of Pall Mall, Philip Morris and News Corporation, Paul has in-depth experience of a wide range of different commercial functions from sales and business development, corporate and brand marketing, mergers and acquisitions and joint venture business management as well as start–up business successes. 

Paul thrives on the challenge of diversity and brings to his coaching skills strategic capabilities gained in large blue chip organisations operating in structured, developed markets enabling him to work with and develop focused, results driven teams. He also has as wealth of expertise from emerging markets, requiring an instinct for the unexpected and the ability to react tactically and rapidly, enabling a cultural understanding for working with teams and individuals from regions and markets where structure is less rigid. He speaks fluent French and German.

Associate

Jonathan Ganley

Jonathan has over 20 years of operational marketing in BA, Virgin, Topshop and Disney.

He brings a fresh take on marketing including customer experience and the power of content and data

Associate