Paul Venn
Paul was born in Liverpool, but grew up in Nigeria and Ghana. His formative years in West Africa influenced his academic choices and he graduated from the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK. A chance meeting with an advertising agency copywriter prompted a dramatic career rethink and his focus shifted from teacher to agency trainee. Paul serves as CEO of Hudson Rouge, a marketing communications agency that focuses on premium and luxury brands and whose major client is Lincoln, Ford Motor Company’s luxury division. Mixing creativity and commerce remains as compelling to Paul today as it did in his first agency job. His belief that agencies must bring their creativity to bear not just in advertising solutions, but to help clients transform their businesses, is more true now than ever.
