We create the space for brands to
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Our job is to find ideas that capture the essence of what your brand or business is about and to express those ideas in ways that are exciting, captivating,
distinctive and, most importantly, memorable.
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We deal in ideas that create meaning and relevance and carve out
a special piece of mind space in which your brand can thrive and grow.
It’s what we do and we’re good at it.
Managing Director / Strategist
Glen Flaherty
Glen is an accomplished leader with an impressive track record in driving business growth. He spent many years operating at the C-Suite level in a variety of global advertising agencies and marketing companies.
He is an expert in business, brand, marketing, and communications strategy with a passion for navigating complex challenges - particularly those now confronting the independent school sector.
Glen is committed to helping schools create the meaningful differentiation necessary to compete.
Project Management
Christopher Barends
Christopher and Glen have worked together for many years in different guises for several multi-mational advertising agencies and marketing businesses.
Christopher is an accomplished project manager with an exceptional eye for detail and a gift for spotting dependencies long before they can rear up to derail anything. ​
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He is entirely at ease with most project management software and adept at keeping all the wheels on any project he is involved with.
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Videographer / Photographer
Daniel Parker
Daniel is a highly experienced videographer & photographer who has a passion for everything film or camera related.
He has been working with schools for several years to create films and video content for their websites and social media platforms. His expertise extends to all aspects of video production, from concept development and filming to editing and post-production.
His natural gift for putting subjects at ease, especially children, produces wonderfully natural feeling footage.
Senior Designer
Casa Hamid
Over the last twenty years Casa has worked as a senior designer and managed design teams for a variety of topflight advertising agencies in London, New York, Paris and Sydney.
He has overseen design and typography for brands as diverse as Alfa Romeo, Paul Smith, Formula 1, Sky Sports, Canon, Kit Kat and Ovo Energy.
He brings his expert eye to bear on everything we produce at Coolmore and you’ll always see the difference he creates in our work.
Content Marketing Manager
Lynsey Stables
Lynsey handles our content marketing and leads content creation for our clients’ social and digital platforms
She has an intuitive feel for what drives audience engagement and, as the parent of two teenagers, real insight into what most compellingly supports the perception of genuine value-creation from a school.
Lynsey has an extensive background in law enforcement, investigating the most serious and complex [technology-driven] crime types and, more recently, working with vulnerable young people in multi-agency safeguarding scenarios.
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Specialist Advisor
Clare Coley-Maud
Clare is an occasional advisor to Coolmore on independent sector school finances.
She has extensive background experience in HR, finance and change management with PwC. Clare specialised in global mobility consulting from an international Human Resources perspective and more latterly in HR & Transformation Consulting.
She moved into the independent schools’ sector at the beginning of 2019 as the Bursar at a well-known private school in Surrey. Clare is currently the Chief Financial Officer at one of the most prestigious UK independent schools in the North-West of England.
Media Director / Strategist
Steve Pople
Steve is a hugely experienced Board Director with over sixteen years senior leadership experience in top global media organisations.
He and Glen know each other well having worked together at several different agencies and client companies. For six years, Steve ran the $300m+ media business for Hyundai/Kia with Glen as his client.
Steve brings an invaluable depth of experience in the digital and social media marketing landscape to Coolmore client business.
The Coolmore team have acted as expert advisers to a huge variety of well-known brands.
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Get in touch to see how we can best help!
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