About us
Vision
We believe innovative technology scale-ups create immense value for their industries, their communities, for society, and for the cities in which they operate. To achieve this potential, their brands need to be brought to life in the minds of the audiences they wish to serve. Marketing creates the moments where these stories can be told. Doing so builds business value and growth.
Our vision is to work with talented, wonderful people to produce great work we are proud of. Work underpinned by a strategy that will build brand awareness, drive growth and deliver success. We do this hard work guided by our values so that the hard-working B2B leaders we support can enjoy their journey to a successful exit.
Mission
We breathe life into innovative B2B tech brands, driving greater business value and supporting their journey to a successful exit.
Our Values
EXECUTIONAL EMPATHY
We are generous and lead with empathy, to craft marketing strategies we are proud of that will inspire the audiences we wish to serve. This isn’t about putting ourselves in your shoes – otherwise we’d make the decisions we would make. This is about understanding your journey and recognising that at that moment, in that situation, we would have made the same one.
APPLIED EXPERTISE
We are proud of the knowledge we have built up over our careers and share this freely with our clients, colleagues and partners. However, we never BS. If we don’t know the answer, we will tell you. And we will then find someone within our network who does.
CONNECTED CRAFTSMANSHIP
We are thinkers and we are doers. One cannot be successful without the other. But we apply critical thinking first, connecting the dots between ideas. And then we act, with discernment. And we always act in a manner that is in the best interests of our clients. Integrity, trust, and reliable execution are paramount.
COMPASSIONATE CANDOUR
We will always be open and honest in our opinions, but these will be grounded in a compassionate understanding of your unique situation. This isn’t ‘radical candour’. And it’s not about always agreeing. But it is about agreeableness. Being contrary is easy. Agreeableness is having a contrary position but being pleasant about it.
ARTISTIC PASSION
We care. About the work, our clients and each other. We approach our work like artists and strive to be agents of positive change. We believe in the emotional labour, hard work and time necessary to achieve greatness. No shortcuts.
The Team
Too Many Dreams exists with a core team that is augmented by a distributed network of creative and communications specialists, available for whatever you need, whenever you need it.
Andrew Ferguson
Design Director
Andrew has over 20 years agency experience working with some of the world's biggest brands. He's been the creative lead on major platform redesigns for Orange, VW, Honda and Sainsbury's websites. As well as setting overall design direction he loves getting his hands dirty with the details of UX and page design. Andrew currently helps smaller companies and start-ups develop their brand and digital presence.
Christina Gough
Senior PR Consultant (UK)
Christina is a chartered Marketer with PR as her specialist discipline, which she has focused on for most of her 12-year career. She has a wealth of experience running communications strategies across a range of B2B sectors, including advertising and marketing, business and finance, data and technology. Christina particularly enjoys working with founders, business leaders and entrepreneurs to ensure their PR and Content strategies align with their business goals.
Dave Birss
Creative Director
Dave spent the majority of his career in the world of advertising, both as a copywriter and an art director. He ended up leading the creative departments of some of London’s biggest and best agencies, including Poke, McCann Worldgroup, OgilvyOne and DraftFCB. He has written several best-selling books on branding, marketing, and creativity.
David Murphy
Senior Copywriter
David is a freelance writer and event host. He launched Mobile Marketing magazine in November 2005, and edited it for 18 years before returning to a freelance career in December 2023. He was also the co-founder of Masterclassing.com, which brings together digital marketers and brands for thought leadership and knowledge exchange sessions. He now helps companies with all their written content requirements.
Katy Feek
Graphic Designer
Katy is a creative, multi-talented designer with experience working for both B2B and B2C brands, most notably in the charity and not-for-profit sector. Katy’s advanced proficiency across all major design platforms, her keen eye for photography, illustration and calligraphy, as well as her passion and strong work ethic ensure even the most challenging brief is completed on time and on budget.
Louise Jenkins
Finance
Louise co-founded Too Many Dreams with Stephen in 2016. Her role today principally ensures everyone gets paid on time. That and being a patient sounding board for Stephen over the dining room table.
Lucy Ovenden
Client Account Manager
Lucy joined Too Many Dreams as a skilled communicator and creative thinker with a passion for building long-term relationships and a talent for managing multiple projects. She started her career at Peach, the video creative delivery platform.
Matt Batterham
Senior SEO Specialist
Matt takes a user-centric approach to search marketing. He has more than a decade of experience delivering successful SEO and content marketing campaigns for businesses across the world, ranging from lean start-ups to FTSE 250 corporates.
Michael Yanny
Writer Director
Michael is a seasoned creative with a background in animation, starting his career directing promos at the BBC and helping to launch E4, earning several PROMAX awards. As a freelance director, editor, and writer, Michael excels in working with diverse acting talent, injecting humour and authenticity into his projects. His last short film was showcased at several BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying festivals, winning multiple awards. Recently, he's had his first feature film optioned and performs a character stand-up comedy act.
Mike Plessis
Senior Copywriter
Michael is a seasoned freelance writer with 18 years experience producing high-quality stories for B2B brands including Adobe, Oracle, Adsquare, Novatiq, IAB Europe, EntityX, Adimo, amongst many others, covering by-lines, white papers, reports, blogs and many other corporate messaging requirements.
Phil Muncaster
Senior Copywriter
Phil has been a technology journalist and writer for over 18 years. He started out as a reporter on UK enterprise IT titles IT Week and Computing before leaving to pursue a freelance career - first in Asia and then back in the UK. Since then, Phil has divided his time between news and feature writing for publications and copywriting for some of the biggest names in tech.
Raman Davies
PR Senior Account Manager
Raman has more than 10 years of PR experience working across a number of B2B sectors including technology, marketing and retail. With a strong news sense and an ability to identify the strongest stories as well as solid media relations skills, she excels at driving press coverage that builds positive sentiment, positioning our clients as leaders in their field.
Reece Lipman
Video Director
Reece is an award winning filmmaker, writer and editor with over 10 years’ experience. Reece has worked across corporate and promotional content for clients such as AMPAS (The Oscars), UniCredit, Science Museum and British Library to name a few. He has also produced narrative content (short films and web series), documentaries and music videos, while his short films have played at major festivals across the world.
Rikki Khanna
Creative Strategist
Rikki is a strategist, copywriter, and creative with a specialism in tech. Following 11 years at AKQA in London, Washington DC, San Francisco and Amsterdam and having worked with Microsoft, Xbox, EA Sports and Heineken, he founded his own agency where he helped launch mobility/tech brands for VW Group including MOIA, WeShare and Traton. Since selling his agency shares he’s now happy freelancing with agencies and brands across the world from his base in Scotland.
Stephen Jenkins
Managing Director
Stephen has spent his entire career in marketing, initially within the music industry and then, since 2008, in mobile, advertising and technology. Stephen launched Too Many Dreams in February 2016, to help high-growth tech brands better understand the audiences they wish to serve and to craft more powerful stories that will resonate within the markets they wish to lead.
Taylor Szabo
Senior PR Consultant (US)
Taylor is an agency-bred communications professional helping tech companies elevate their brands. Over the course of his career, Taylor has assisted leading B2B/B2C tech brands – Huawei, Sizmek, Viant, Visa, Rocket Fuel, ironSource, among others. Taylor brings unique experience in communicating new and disruptive technologies via strategic media relations, and impactful thought leadership that supports overarching company objectives.
We lead with empathy, to craft stories we’re proud of, that matter to the audiences we wish to serve. If this excites you then we look forward to hearing from you.
The easiest way to join is to have previously worked with one of our team as we value recommendations highly. However, if that’s not the case and you’d like to be considered for future projects, please get in touch and share some of your past experience and areas of specialism using the link below.