Mark Artus

Chief Executive Officer,
1HQ, UK

Mark has over 20 years of experience, creatively and strategically growing global brands. He spent 11 years of his career in the USA as Managing Creative Director at Fitch and Chief Creative officer at RPA, the latter sold to WPP in 2004. Before joining 1HQ in 2008, he was the Global Development Officer for Fitch, a part of WPP. Creative and entrepreneurial in his approach but very aware of commercial reality, he has had the responsibility of developing brands across multiple channels including retail, graphic communications, corporate identity and packaging design.

An advocate of the design process and its potential to drive business success, Mark has won many global design awards including “design of the decade” for his work with Chrysler.