"The best hour of the week"!

Andrew is firmly of the opinion the people most suited to advertising have a childlike curiosity, love fun and a short attention span. The die was cast for his life in advertising by his 3rdgrade teacher, Miss Heyward at Miranda Primary in the Sutherland Shire of NSW when she wrote on his report card;

“Andrew is a witty, popular student but talks in class too often and refuses to pay attention especially with arithmetic. Having said that he has a great ability to tell stories. He told me the reason he hadn’t learned his seven times tables was his father returned from war last night and the family had a party”.

Andrew loves advertising and has been lucky to have spent the vast majority of his career working in Adelaide for clients that include Coopers, Yalumba, RAA, South Australian Tourism Commission, Vili’s, Faulding, Snappy Tom, Mutual Community, Adelaide Bank and more recently National Pharmacies and Meals on Wheels.

During his advertising journey, he worked for NAS McNamara, George Patterson and then Clemenger BBDO where he remained for 19, mostly, wonderful years.

In 1991, during the recession we had to have, he started his own company with Peter Withy called kwp! He has since retired from the company and has no financial interest in kwp!

He and Peter started the company by putting the people with the ideas in direct contact with the people who wanted the ideas. (Peter and he being writers and Creative Directors – not a suit in site.)

Their philosophy was to have fun, do great work and make a fair profit. Today, he consults exclusively to blackbocks and helps the Norwood Football Club, The Kain Foundation, StillAware and the upcoming election campaign for the Liberal Party of South Australia.