Jellyfish names Nick Fettiplace as its new UK MD

Jellyfish, the integrated global digital marketing business, said that Nick Fettiplace is to be its new UK Managing Director, as current MD, Rick Lamb, is leaving the company.



Lamb joined Jellyfish in 2019 after its acquisition of Latitude and has been instrumental in its success over the past five years, the company said.

He played a key role in the recent acquisition by The Brandtech Group and managed a client portfolio that has more than tripled during his tenure.

Lamb’s successor, Fettiplace, is currently Chief Solutions Officer for Earned Media at the firm.

Nick Fettiplace

Fettiplace has been part of the Jellyfish team for 13 years, following its acquisition of Weedoo Media back in 2011, which he co-founded with Jellyfish COO, Edward Ball.

Since then, Fettiplace has been at the helm of Jellyfish’s Global SEO and Earned Media teams, becoming a well-known figure among its key UK clients, including Swarovski and Harrods.

Reflecting on his new role, Fettiplace said: “I’m excited and incredibly optimistic about taking on this role. My goal is to support our national, regional, and global commercial ambitions while also reiterating our sense of culture, identity and heritage specifically within the UK market.”

“Jellyfish has always stood out as unique. We’re constantly evolving—different from who we were yesterday, different from who we’ll be tomorrow, and different from holding companies and our broader agency peers.

“Over the past five years, we’ve grown significantly on the global stage. I want to take this opportunity to reintroduce Jellyfish to the UK market and say, Look at us now. Look at what we can offer.”

“As we move forward, my focus will be on continuous innovation to exceed client needs and challenges by enhancing the value, capabilities, technology, and Generative AI integrations we provide to UK brands.

“I’ll ensure we invest more aggressively in both new and existing UK partnerships that have been crucial to our past and will be vital to our future.

“Additionally, we’ll actively engage in industry initiatives and events that improve our people, workplace, and community.”

Jellyfish CEO, Nick Emery, said: “We will all miss Rick. He is a lovely, caring, brilliant person. I have loved working with him and am very grateful for everything he has done for us. A very tough act to follow.

“Nick is dynamic, charismatic, super smart and all the things you wish for to shape and lead one of the world’s most influential markets.

“We aim to revolutionise every aspect of marketing and that needs people who can lead change, lead our industry and move differently from the conventional. Nick can do all of that and more.”

Lamb will be joining Manchester-based THG as Partnerships Director and will be responsible for growing and strengthening alliances across the online retailer’s marketing capability, particularly within the Ingenuity division.

Also published in: Mediashotz