who we are

Some people love art, some love chemistry, some even love trains.
We love brands & creating amazing futures with like-minded souls.

We think life’s too short for a job. It should be an adventure.
We think the world’s too full of self-important, self-serving consultants.

That’s why we have made it our purpose to

“inspire and empower a world of brand evangelists.”

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whole brain branding™

The marketing world is now waking up to the power of neuroscience, but its what we’ve been practicing since our birth in 2000.


Our entire approach is based around the concept of whole brain branding™ – understanding how we and our consumers think and then applying a fusion of precise art and beautiful science to create extraordinary possibilities that work.


Its why our innovation, positioning and insight programmes create true behaviour change. Its why we have tripled concept success rates. Its why we can embed a brand religion in an organisation from board to shop floor. Its also why we don’t have standard processes – brains don’t work that way…

brandventures™

If you spend your life having things given to you on a plate, you stop getting hungry. That’s what we saw in businesses that depended heavily on outside consultancies to bring them answers.

We believe the future lies in collaboration. That’s why we take our client partners on creative journeys we call brandventures. We bring process, tools, external scientists from our Techo-thinktank and inspiration from other countries and categories BUT we create possibilities with you that you can embrace with head and heart.

Its also why we created FUSION FUEL, our prosumer™ collaboration business…

  • Myles Ritson

    Founding CEO

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    Myles Ritson

    Founding CEO

    Our founder with the vision for a way to build brands by building the people who manage them. Myles inspires teams across the worlds with programmes he designed such as our “outside in©” and “technothinktanks©”. His vast experience ranges from cakes to shoecare; suncare to beer. A Cambridge and P&G graduate, he was also global marketing learning Director at Reckitt Benckiser; he marketed the National Trust’s Lake District and launched Pie Squared channelling his passion for digging deep with techies to uncover great recipes.

  • Nina Aggarwal

    Global MD

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    Nina Aggarwal

    Global MD

    One of the founders, Nina is a qualified performance coach and Herrmann Brain consultant. She drives our whole brain branding™ approach. Prior to this Nina worked on the launch of Always for P&G and had regional and global roles in Reckitt and Colman. She oversees the global fusion family and the design of the capability programmes for Comms, Brand Equity, Consumer Collaboration, Insight and Innovation. Nina loves turning situations upside down to see things differently at work and fending off attacks in her self defence Krav Maga classes.

  • Patrick Tully

    APAC MD

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    Patrick Tully

    APAC MD

    Our Board Managing Director of APAC, Patrick is based in Sydney but has worked on health and beauty, pharma, dairy, confectionary, drinks in Thailand, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan as well as Australia and New Zealand. He has collaborated with clients to create innovative approaches to early ideation problem solving and to deliver behavioural change programmes that support the Stage and Gate process.

  • George Kakaletris

    Lead Brand Mentor North America

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    George Kakaletris

    Lead Brand Mentor North America

    George began his career with P&G, working in beauty on Clearasil, Noxzema Olay; laundry on Downy, Bounce, Gain and Tide and on the Pampers brand. The allure of alcohol drove him to join Molson Coors as Director before following a passion for food into the Service Inspired Restaurant Co. as VP Marketing.It was on Jack Astor’s where he ran an award winning living the brand programme with fusion learning before joining us to run our North American business. George has incorporated his love of food and knowledge of business to launch his own restaurants Union Social Eatery.

  • Sarah Williamson

    Client Director

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    Sarah Williamson

    Client Director

    Sarah is a classically trained Marketer who worked client side for 10 years at Cadbury, on confectionery, and then at GSK on soft drinks. Agency side, she has focused for several years on Marketing excellence, building capability with Marketing teams around the world. She has a passion for Digital and over-sees our own Marketing & Social media strategy at fusion.

  • Audrey Necol

    Brand Mentor

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    Audrey Necol

    Brand Mentor

    Audrey has managed international innovation projects for the likes of IKEA, L‘Oreal, LVMH, Cadbury Schweppes, Levi Strauss, Ford, McCormick , Nestle and Chanel. She works with experts and leading edge creatives, semioticians, graphic designers, qual research specialists, cultural studies professionals. Based in Paris, Audrey travels extensively. Her ability to spot trends and emerging interesting new products has delighted us and influenced many innovation sessions.

  • Anna Hodgson

    Head of Operations

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    Anna Hodgson

    Head of Operations

    With a background of large scale events management, Anna heads up our operations and project management team, ensuring everyone and everything is in the right place at the right time. She manages large multi-program projects ensuring all deadlines and targets are met on time and to a high standard. Anna applies her magical invisible skills, working at superhuman speed to find the elusive 25th hour we all desire in our day.

  • Alexandra Hull

    Project Manager

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    Alexandra Hull

    Project Manager

    Alex is our Sydney based Project Manager and has managed and brought to life projects in a wide variety of categories from beauty to grocery and pharma to services. Having studied International Business, she has a marketing mind and the ability to articulate business challenges.

    Not only does Alex do a brilliant job at bringing together engaging, fun and purposeful workshops, she enjoys nothing more than being a contributive and creative part of any workshop team.

  • Lee-Anne McAlear

    Brand Mentor

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    Lee-Anne McAlear

    Brand Mentor

    Lee-Anne is a mentor in front end innovation and group dynamics. Dedicated to help businesses get their most insightful and tenable ideas, she has worked in most sectors globally from financial, consumer packaged goods to personal care. She is Program Director, Centre of Excellence in Innovation Management, Schulich School of Business, York University, Ontario. She has a passion and skill with watercolours – she loves the flowing variability of the medium – like working with fusion!

The Home Group

To provide a greater and truly full service, we combine a group of agency specialists that work together to help grow brands.
So, we also create beautiful packaging for retail products and combine consultant know-how with agency delivery to create a sustainable impact on brand performance.

Home

Home is a flexible, agile, strategic marketing partner combining consultant know-how with agency delivery to really help brands grow. There are now over 200 Homies working across four offices in Leeds, London, Gibraltar and New York.
We believe an idea is always stronger when built from multiple perspectives. Blending insight, creativity, data and technology, we know how to influence the entire brand experience, creating a sustained impact on brand performance.

With a client list including Argos, Asda Money, Jaguar Land Rover, Jet2.com & Jet2holidays, Kohler Mira, Principal Hotel Company and Science in Sport, Home is proud to have been named one of the Top 30 Agencies in the UK, as well as becoming a Google Premier Partner and featuring in the Top 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain.

Chilli. The Food Brand Workshop

CHILLI is a leading brand and packaging design consultancy within the food and drink sector, focusing on strategic projects covering brand creation and brand development delivered through impactful packaging design.
Our insight-driven model gets right to the very heart of brands, as well as the market and the consumer profile.

By establishing precisely what makes everything tick, we create solutions that make brands grow stronger.
With a portfolio including work for Butterkist, Fox’s Biscuits, Hartley’s, Lakeland, Percol Coffee and the Co-op, CHILLI is proud to be one of Design Week’s Top 100 UK Consultancies and also features in The Drum’s Top 100.