David McNamara Joins VCCP Kin as Head of Planning

VCCP Kin – VCCP Partnership’s specialist creative content and social media division – have taken on David McNamara as their new Head of Planning.

David joins VCCP Kin from iris, where he was Digital Strategy Director, working with clients such as Barclaycard, Mini and Adidas and helping to shape the agency’s digital, content and social strategy services. 

Prior to iris, David played a key role in building Jam from start-up to one of the industry’s brightest digital creative agencies. As Strategy Director, he helped lead the Sky, Samsung and Microsoft accounts. He also launched and led Jam's start up social business consultancy, helping brands to adopt a culture of social marketing operations into their organisation. 

"We are delighted to welcome David to VCCP Kin. His unique experience within publishing, social and integrated shops complements and adds to our management line-up. David will lead our content strategy team of 10 that sits alongside our editorial and creative departments, as well as driving forward our product and positioning," says Ruth Barton, Managing Director of VCCP Kin.

“Every agency talks content, but VCCP Kin live and breathe it. I want to build on their vision of how branded content can fuel culture and be transformative for businesses. I'm dead excited to be joining a partnership that gets genuine integration and how 21st century content craft can deliver real results for brands in a digital age,” adds David.

David will report into Ruth Barton, MD of VCCP Kin. Alongside the recent appointments of Creative Director Chris Lawson, and Editorial Director Nicky Palamarczuk, the hiring of David completes VCCP Kin’s management line-up, and takes its headcount to 70 full-time content and social marketing practitioners.