We've been around the block.
Joystick’s management team has a total of 40 years in the world of online advertising, with a wide range of expertise including marketing, creative, development, and account management.
Chris Wilson
Founder
CEO
Chris has over 9 years managing rich media solutions. Prior to founding Joystick Interactive, he was a Senior Rich Media Marketing Specialist for DoubleClick and Director of Marketing for Klipmart. In those roles he helped introduce advertisers and agencies to the best practices, opportunities, and tools available to maximize campaign effectiveness.
Josh Holmes
Founder
Creative Director
Josh has over 8 years of experience in developing innovative solutions for clients and agencies. Prior to founding Joystick Interactive, Josh was the Rich Media Creative Director for Doubleclick/Google where he managed the creative services team. Prior to the acquisition by Doubleclick, he ran creative services for Klipmart. Josh has helped to develop award winning, cutting edge ad creative and products throughout the evolution of the industry.
Philip Euler
Founder
Technical Director
Philip has over 8 years of experience in the interactive space. Prior to founding Joystick Interactive, Philip was Interactive Art Director for Doubleclick where he oversaw design and implementation of rich media campaigns. With a strong traditional art background and a penchant for the technical, Philip has the ability to lead and mentor both design and development teams.
Sara Francis
VP, Client Services
and Business Development
Sara has over 9 years experience developing digital marketing solutions both from the client side as well as on behalf of clients from the agency side. Prior to joining the team, she headed up client services for Moxie Interactive managing campaigns for all LA based clients including Twentieth Century Fox, The NFL and Lifetime. Prior to joining Moxie, Sara ran west coast operations for Deep Focus where she managed campaigns for clients including New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Disney Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, CBS, Universal Music Group.
Pete Way
Managing Director
EMEA
Pete our European MD is a twice Bafta nominated cross channel strategist and business director, specialising in digital and content, with experience of working directly with both brands and agencies. In a previous digital role he was instrumental in his last agency being voted a top 5 UK digital agency in Marketing Week (2010) and then the top rated UK agency in 2011. He has also played a senior creative role in the success of a number of media brands including The One Show, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, The Big Breakfast, Maxim and Stuff Magazine. Strangely, he has also produced the UK's most famous puppets - Zig and Zag, Roland Rat, Basil Brush and Ortis the Aardvark
