Nick Fettiplace Steps In To Lead Jellyfish UK, as Rick Lamb Departs

Jellyfish, the integrated global digital marketing business, is announcing that its UK Managing Director, Rick Lamb, is leaving the company. Rick joined Jellyfish in 2019 after its acquisition of Latitude and has been instrumental in its success over the past five years. He played a key role in the recent acquisition by The Brandtech Group and managed a client portfolio that has more than tripled during his tenure.

Rick’s successor as Jellyfish UK’s Managing Director is Nick Fettiplace, its current Chief Solutions Officer for Earned Media. Nick has been part of the Jellyfish team for 13 years, following its acquisition of Weedoo Media back in 2011, which he co-founded with Jellyfish COO, Edward Ball. Since then, Nick has been at the helm of Jellyfish’s Global SEO and Earned Media teams, becoming a well-known figure among its key UK clients, including Swarovski and Harrods.

Reflecting on his new role, Nick comments, “I’m excited and incredibly optimistic about taking on this role. My goal is to support our national, regional, and global commercial ambitions while also reiterating our sense of culture, identity and heritage specifically within the UK market.”

“Jellyfish has always stood out as unique. We’re constantly evolving—different from who we were yesterday, different from who we’ll be tomorrow, and different from holding companies and our broader agency peers. Over the past five years, we’ve grown significantly on the global stage. I want to take this opportunity to reintroduce Jellyfish to the UK market and say, Look at us now. Look at what we can offer.”

Nick continues with his vision for the future, “As we move forward, my focus will be on continuous innovation to exceed client needs and challenges by enhancing the value, capabilities, technology, and Generative AI integrations we provide to UK brands. I’ll ensure we invest more aggressively in both new and existing UK partnerships that have been crucial to our past and will be vital to our future. Additionally, we’ll actively engage in industry initiatives and events that improve our people, workplace, and community.”

Nick Emery commented, “We will all miss Rick.  He is a lovely, caring, brilliant person. I have loved working with him and am very grateful for everything he has done for us.  A very tough act to follow. Nick is dynamic, charismatic, super smart and all the things you wish for to shape and lead one of the world’s most influential markets.  We aim to revolutionise every aspect of marketing and that needs people who can lead change, lead our industry and move differently from the conventional. Nick can do all of that and more.” 

Rick will be joining Manchester-based THG as Partnerships Director and will be responsible for growing and strengthening alliances across the online retailer’s marketing capability, particularly within the Ingenuity division. 

Source: Jellyfish

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