Paul Venables founded Venables Bell & Partners in 2001 with a steadfast commitment to independence and a guiding philosophy of “our intentions are good.” This thinking has attracted some of the nicest, most talented people in advertising, as well as clients including Audi, Reebok, Chipotle, 3M and REI. The agency has been recognised with numerous honours; within the past year VB&P won two Grands Prix at Cannes, was named Adweek’s 2016 Breakthrough Agency of the Year and one of Fast Company’s 2017 Most Innovative Companies. Paul is the 2016 recipient of the Hal Riney Icons of Marketing award for his exceptional contributions to the industry.

If Paul were here talking with you right now, he would surely point out that the agency’s big, sweeping, trademark-able philosophy has nothing to do with buzz generation, media agnosticism or content creation, but is simply “our intentions are good.” Those good intentions – doing right by our people and our clients – have helped Paul and his partners attract about 180 of the nicest, most talented people you'll find in advertising, as well as big-time clients like Audi, Google, ConAgra, Phillips66 and Intel.

Prior to opening VB&P in 2001, Paul was Co-Creative Director, Associate Partner and heir-apparent of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. By the end of his six-plus years there he was running over $400 million in business and had won various and sundry industry awards for clients like Pacific Bell, Discover Card, Porsche, Bell Helmets, Nike, Polaroid, Netflix, HotBot and SBC. Venables was also an Associate Creative Director at Korey, Kay & Partners, a copywriter at McCaffrey and McCall and a telephone receptionist at a small New York agency. He had attempted to start his career as a telephone receptionist at a large New York agency, but failed their typing tests.

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