Michael Murdoch

CEO and Founder

Michael founded The House in 2009 and is responsible for creative output, managing the team and keeping our clients smiling. He is an experienced designer having over 10 years experience working in London and Hong Kong and has helped organisations of all sizes like the NHS, MTV, Diabetes UK, Boots, Heineken, Global Goals and Nokia to smaller start-ups like Olive Branch, Mixcloud and Readwave. Michael helps clients find their full potential, taking them step-by-step through their projects in partnership with them.

Graduating from Central Saint Martins and the University of West of England, with a time spent studying in Hong Kong, Michael has the training and skills required for any big brand name. Past companies Michael has worked at include Lloyd Northover, Ingredient, Getty Images and Root Design.

When not dreaming up creative and commercially viable ideas Michael loves to gain inspiration from travel (35 countries and counting), practicing Tai Chi and Yoga, cycling to and from work, running (2 marathons down and a few to go) and photographing the wonderful things he sees.

Fancy a chat?  Email michael@thehouselondon.com

Simon Van Blerk

Chief Technical Officer

Simon cut his teeth as a freelance web developer and entrepreneur in the 90s when the web was a primitive beast. During his career so far he has worked at the worlds largest privately owned gaming portal, Miniclip, and spent several years contributing to and later leading the Miniclip web development team. In 2010 Simon co-founded 3step Web to bring agile and iterative web development to small businesses including co-founding a funded tech start-up.

He excels in managing digital teams so that every project stays on task and on time, connecting the dots between coder and client.  Not only does he have the technical skills to code fantastic website which meet all web standards, he has the personable skills to get the job done efficiently and effectively.

In his spare time he plays with his kids, reads comics and rides a skateboard (badly).

Noah Smith

Head of Strategy

Noah has been working in the creative industry for over 20 years and currently consults with a range of businesses on their strategy for growth and their business development plans. After leaving London School of Communications, where he studied graphic design, he joined one of the UK’s leading film publicity agencies, where he worked with some of the largest global brands, such as Disney and Sony. He is passionate about increasing the performance of companies as a management consultant, which he began after graduating from the Exec MBA programme from CASS Business School.

We are very lucky to have Noah at hand to offer advice, support and mentorship as part of UCL Advances to help guide us as we help our clients achieve their goals.  Since meeting in 2013 we are now working closer together on client projects.

Matt Wilson

Head of Animation

Matt Wilson is an award winning, talented graphic designer and animator, he is interested in information design and enjoys the challenge of illustrating facts and statistics. Recently he has been combining his passion for information with motion graphic techniques to tell stories through illustration.  Matt is an enthusiastic hard working individual who is passionate about providing high quality design solutions.

He heads up our animations team producing powerful stories for Heineken, Diabetes UK, Walk Free and many more.  Got a story to tell, test Matt’s skills for yourself and bring it to life!

Outside of the world of animations, you’ll find Matt in out on a surf trip, at a gig or enjoy some tasty grub with his friends.

Paul Kemp

Senior Designer

Lloyd Cook

Designer

Nenad Poznanovic

Web Developer

After completing a  Master’s degree in Graphic Engineering and Design, Nenad became a Front-end Developer and has over 3 years of experience in planning, coding, testing and maintaining websites.

Working with the latest technologies on diverse projects he looks for new challenges in IT every day.  So for all your HTML5, CSS3, SASS and Javascript needs, set him a challenge. He’s passionate about scalability, modularity, front-end performance, responsive design, transitions, animations and anything frontend related.

Outside of work, Nenad enjoys a good book, basketball and kicking around a football in hist spare time.

Nenad Jelovac

Senior Web Developer

A talented front-end website developer specialising in the slickest and cleanest code in town, bring to life our gorgeous designs to create full responsive websites that work on all browsers and screen sizes.

We have worked with Nenad for a few years now and are always impressed by the quality and speed at which he works. Having realized IT colleges become obsolete by the time you graduate he dropped and found his love in HTML5, CSS3, SASS and Javascript. He’s passionate about scalability, modularity, frontend performance, responsive design, transitions, animations and anything frontend related.