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Neil is the founding director of Rufus Leonard and, as CEO, he takes responsibility for the company's overall direction, strategy and vision. He plays a leading role in business development and ensures that all work reaches the highest standards. His clients include BT, Shell, QinetiQ, Lloyds TSB and O2.

Best brand - Bugatti

Best website - BBC iPlayeropens in a new window

Best technology - The Breitling Emergency Watch

Darrel is co founder of Rufus Leonard and director of Information architecture, he takes responsibility for day to day planning, quality control and resourcing for information architecture and user testing. He has over 20 years experience in the design industry, covering brand, information design and digital communications. His current clients include; Canary Wharf, Office of Government Commerce, British Gas, COI and Apax.

Best brand - Bang & Olufsen

Best website - www.ebay.co.ukopens in a new window

Best technology - iPod

Will has more than 20 years' commercial experience. He qualified as a chartered accountant and moved into the marketing services sector with the global design business the Michael Peters Group. He has subsequently worked in design, advertising, direct marketing businesses in financial, commercial and general management roles. He is ultimately responsible for the delivery of our business objectives.

He is responsible for the day-to-day commercial, financial, legal and stakeholder management of Rufus Leonard. He has specific line management for all aspects of internal business support (finance, human resources, facilities and IT infrastructure).

Best brand - Moleskine

Best website - www.bbc.co.ukopens in a new window

Best technology - The Microsoft Courier

Peter has been at Rufus Leonard for 12 years and now runs one of the largest resources in the company. Constantly developing an exciting range of projects and maintaining many large business critical web solutions for our client base. His team offers a very wide range of technology solutions and vast, varied expertise.

Best brand - McLaren

Best website - www.ted.comopens in a new window

Best technology - Segway

Ali has over 10 years of experience in project management. After an early career in television production Ali joined Rufus Leonard in 1999. Since then she has been responsible for delivering web development and design projects for clients including the Environment Agency, AXA, Rolls Royce, Credit Suisse Asset Management and Accenture. She currently heads up the project management resource at Rufus Leonard and is an accredited PRINCE2 practitioner.

Best brand - Clarks

Best website - news.bbc.co.ukopens in a new window

Best technology - MP3 player

Lucy joined Rufus thirteen years ago, originally as a Project Manager, however the last 8 years has seen her career at Rufus develop into our Internal Support team, and she now heads up the Human Resources and Facilities function.

She has a broad range of experience and has developed, implemented, and managed organizational design, leadership development, performance management, and internal training strategies, policies and guidelines for both our offices to support corporate strategy, vision, and objectives. She’s also responsible for the well-being, development and support for all our staff.

Best brand - Rufus Leonard – of course

Best website - www.ocado.co.ukopens in a new window

Best technology - Formula 1 motor cars

Chris has been working in the field of advertising, brand and digital communications for over 34 years.

Having started his career with Pentagram, working in product design and packaging, he then set up on his own moving into above the line advertising for over 15 years.

His breadth of experience within the creative industry is significant. He now focuses on his core skills, developing communications programmes within the digital arena.

Best brand - Mac - who else

Best website - www.bbc.co.ukopens in a new window

Best technology - Wireless technology

Iain has been a consultant, entrepreneur and strategist in digital media and branding for 15 years. He has a strong background in solving complex problems and creating effective communications for blue chip clients. As Head of Innovation Iain’s role at Rufus Leonard is to inspire, develop and deliver innovation both internally and with clients. His team works across the portfolio from O2 to John Lewis and Monster to Monocle to bring new, surprising and effective thinking to the table.

Pearse has over 16 years experience in marketing services starting professional life in market research and the last 12 years as a brand strategist and planner working across many different sectors on an international and global level. As Strategy and Planning Director, Pearse leads a team of planners and researchers while being ultimately responsible for all strategic output. He is also responsible for representing strategy and planning on the management board of Rufus Leonard.

Best brand - Rapha

Best website - BBCopens in a new window

Best technology - The car