What glorious weather we're having, a wonderful day to welcome some lovely new faces.

This is Anna-Claire Clendon. She joins our thriving interactive department as a creative community manager. She joins us from online kids designer garms emporium Alex and Alexa, and originally hails from New Zealand. 

Ceceila Hund is back as the new account manager on Three and Honda. She has come to London from The Monkeys in Sydney where she worked on "booze and food", and to keep the Australia vibe going she has most recently been freelancing at Droga5 here in London.

Ryan Teixeira joins our design department on a permanent basis, having lured him away form the world of freelance. Ryan is a Canadian. Which means he knows geography, has a passport and can give you a knowing side-glance when overhearing an American talk politics. 

This is Martyn Powell, he joins our IT boys on the 2nd floor. Originally from Wales, Martyn has been living in Sydney and Auckland for the past seven years. He brings a wealth of Apple knowledge to W+K.

Finally, a big W+K hug to Sophie Lake, who joins us an account manager. She's previously worked at Lean Mean Fighting Machine and VCCP.

We’ve grown rapidly over the last 18 months, going from around 100 to nearly 200 full-time staff, plus freelancers, friends, temps and trainees. To manage this growth we need to reorganise a bit. This allows us to share out some of the responsibility for making the madness manageable and to recognise the contribution made by some of our senior people.

So, we have a couple of promotions to announce.

Helen Foulder is promoted from Head of Account Handling to Deputy MD. Helen has been with us for six years, and has done brilliant work running our Three and Lurpak accounts. She has also built one of the best account handling departments in London. She’ll be stepping up to become Neil's right-hand woman, taking on some of his management responsibilities and applying her brilliant combination of strategic smarts, people skills and unflagging enthusiasm to the agency as a whole. Specifically she will be responsible for ensuring the excellence of delivery of our work and service across our clients.

Andrew Kay, currently Group Account Director on our Mondelez and Coca-Cola business, is promoted to take over Helen’s former role as Head of Account Handling. Andy has also been with Wieden+Kennedy for 6 years, some of that here at the London office, and a couple of years over in Amsterdam. Andy is always cheerful and calm under pressure, a trusted advisor to clients and a tireless worker who is always supporting, cajoling and pushing his teams to do more and better. He will build on Helen’s excellent work running account handling, taking responsibility for all aspects of resourcing, training, development, and performance of our account handlers.

Alongside his new responsibilities Andy will continue with his current responsibilities heading up the Fuze, Stride and Halls accounts at a senior level. Neil, Tony and Kim will continue in their current roles.