Rob Hunter

Background

About Rob Hunter

I have always been thrilled by advertising and was lucky enough to join a local design and print company at the age of 16 (having decided a move to Cumbria with the family was not one of my career goals). At 19, I was poached by their largest client, Blitz, a then subsidiary of Holmes and Marchant. After spending two years there, I felt I could deliver a much more effective marketing and advertising service and founded Hunterlodge Advertising in 1987. I have significantly grown the company over the years - Hunterlodge has recently been awarded their 12th consecutive Gold for excellence in CPD by the IPA ensuring we retain our position as the only integrated agency in membership to have achieved this. I sit as Chair on the IPA’s Professional Development Group leading the industry in helping set and achieve its new vision - to turn advertising into a profession over the next ten years. I was granted an IPA Fellowship in April 2016 which was a great honour. I was made chair of advertising's first ever apprenticeship standard in 2018 and very proud that we have now seen our first graduate passing through the gateway with a distinction. The group's obsession for effectiveness has kept us on track to make Hunterlodge the most effective agency in the UK. This has been possible by ensuring all the team share my unquenchable thirst for knowledge, ensuring even my most knowledgeable and highly skilled people are pushed to unique levels of excellence. The company has a simple purpose – to make effective advertising accessible to all clients. Specialities: Effectiveness, Direction, Strategy, Marketing, Communications, Advertising, People Management & Mentor – CPD to Gold and Platinum standard in advertising industry with the IPA and Gold Investors in People.