STARSHIP - Key Persons
Anya has a fantastic eye and intuition for how a brand needs to communicate. Starting from the need to create a brand's overarching strategy, personality, and language, Anya produces dynamic solutions for her clients to stand out in increasingly crowded market places. From big brands needing multiple strategies across their portfolio, to small startups who want to stand out and scale rapidly by attracting the right customers or stakeholders with the right message, Anya is our go-to for effective, beautiful, considered work your competitors will be pointing at saying 'why didn't we do that?'.
Off the clock, Anya is a sophisticated lover of big cities, a foodie, fashionista, an illustrator, and a writer. She has published two books with a third on its way in 2022, and has also written several short stories for notable magazines such as Asimov's, Lightspeed, Fantasy, and Uncanny.
Geoffrey has a high profile in marketing circles in Australasia. His background is in market research and video production, prior to establishing Starship in 1991. Since founding Starship he's led brand strategies for many of Australia's ASX largest groups - he was also the lead writer for Marketing Magazine and the VP of the State Council of the Australian Marketing Institute for 10 years.
Geoffrey understands what motivates people to act, which, combined with his natural capacity to think laterally, makes him a lifelong disruptor and challenger of the status quo. Driven by a desire to produce creative and highly effective strategic marketing solutions, Geoffrey has led over 150+ commercial product, service and brand launches, and managed hundreds of Australia's most successful campaigns over the decades.
Helen is found in the background making sure that money comes in and goes out at the appropriate times. Helen provides financial reporting and client reconciliations keeping everyone on budget and on time.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Creative Strategist
Need a deeply emotive creative strategy that will work across all channels to market? Prue is here to help your brand evolve and stay relevant, online and offline. As Creative Director for major agencies for the first couple of decades of her career, Prue's deep experience includes time spent in New York, London, Amsterdam, New Zealand, and Australia, working with major and challenger brands to keep them top of mind and customer-connected. As a Founder of Starship, Prue creates high-level communication strategies and has won more awards than almost anyone else working in ad land today.
Prue is also an artist - her work is all about the narrative that flows from ‘life force' energy, which she is currently doing a fascinating series of 2D and 3D pieces about. Check out her work [ here ].