We, Blonde, first met Anshuman when he was Head Of New Media at the CBI. We worked together on an interactive version of the CBI’s Climate Change Tracker.

Our first, and lasting, impression was of a smart, switched on, sophisticated, interested, interesting, calm and incredibly nice man.

We stayed in touch.

And now we are delighted to announce that Anshuman has joined Blonde as Consultant in our London office.

Most recently Anshuman was Global Digital Channels Manager within Group Communications at HSBC.

He is an ideal addition to our London team. The projects that we’re working on out of the Midford Place office can be summarised as providing elegant digital solutions to complex, multi-stakeholder commercial problems. The work is upstream, strategic and requires a people-first approach to technology.

Like all the best planners, Anshuman is curious and interested in all manner of things beyond the scope of his day job – cooking, literature, history, culture, travel, photography, community radio and milking cows (check his Twitter avatar). He draws inspiration from an eclectic range of sources.

We look forward to drawing inspiration from him. Welcome to the family Anshuman.

After the lengthiest recruitment process in history, Frances has joined the Client Services team as our brand new shiny Web Producer.  Getting the right person for this job has proven rather tricky, somebody with the right balance of skills, approach to work and team mentality – and at last we’ve found her.

Frances will be working on a number of Blonde accounts including Business Stream, Scottish Enterprise, Velux, EIF and Buchanan Galleries. She joins us from Whitespace with excellent public sector credentials having worked on the NHS Health Scotland and Scottish Government accounts, amongst others. Having originally trained as a Graphic Designer, Frances brings a unique and valuable set of skills to the creative development process.

We’re delighted to have Frances on the team, she’s settled in well at Blonde picking up the complex nuances of the tea round within hours.

An ad in the Society section of yesterday’s Guardian included a link to this MI6 site.

If you dig deeper, they really are advertising for Spooks, otherwise known as Case Officers.

The ad says that you mustn’t tell anyone if you decide to apply…

***NO AGENCIES PLEASE***

Blonde London is recruiting and I was wondering if you might be able to help me fill one of the roles.

I’m looking for a Junior Account Manager / Project Manager hybrid with some digital/interactive experience. There’s lots of room for career progression as this will be one of the first roles in the growing London team. In on the ground floor, so to speak. Well, hot-desk permitting.

Their initial responsibilities, though, will be fairly junior: contact reports, helping to create project timelines, ensuring that the studio team in Scotland is consulted for resource availability and costs, being the client’s primary point of contact for project-specific queries, monitoring project milestones, unicycles and bat-wrangling.

If you know anyone who might be interested, please let me know: phil.dearson@DELETETHISBITblondedigital.com

Thanks in advance for your help.