Paul Den, Partner, Co Founder – Banter

Paul is currently Partner, Strategy & Ideas at Banter, a specialist brand experience agency that he co-founded in 2016, in partnership with the Hausmann Group.

After launching the business just over a year ago, Paul has played an instrumental role in the agency’s meteoric rise, leading the day-to-day strategic and creative output of the agency as well as playing a broader new business and client relationship role, as one of the two partners in the business.

At Banter, Paul has developed strategic and creative brand experience work for brands like Cadbury, Black Swan, Origin Energy, Priceline, Helga’s, CMC Markets and nudie, growing the team to an agency size of five.

Prior to running Banter, Paul spent a few years as Strategy & Ideas Director at Ensemble, leading award-winning experiential work for brands like Contiki, KFC, MLA and Suncorp.

Before discovering the world of brand experience, Paul earnt his stripes with seven years in the world of communications at GroupM agency Mediacom as a digital and traditional specialist before taking a communications strategy role at UM.

In 2013, Paul was an Australian Cannes Young Lion winner, a Global Cannes Young Lion Silver Medallist and was named in B&T’s ’30 under 30′.

Paul Den

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