Great – a new boy! Tell us all about yourself. My name’s Paul and I’m the latest addition to the planning department.

Mark and Michelle are two heavyweight planners – can you keep up? I hope so. Before coming here, I spent a few years working at charities such as THT and Shelter and three years at WWAV working on CRUK, RNIB and Crisis as well as Sony and British Gas.

Pretty impressive. Thanks. You’re welcome. So how did we convince you to join our merry team? I was pressganged into working at Whitewater by Steve and the team in the pub.

Of course you were. But I haven’t looked back since. Well that’s because we’ve kept you super busy. What have you been working on? Anything and everything. A couple of pitches, research for the MS Society, several exciting briefs…

Yikes! What do you do to relax? You wouldn’t think it but I am a gym bunny and Pilates bore. I have also rediscovered the joys of photography and still use my first camera. It’s an old Pentax - lovely.

Fantastic. We could do with some decent pictures around here. What’s your subject matter? My favourites are portraits. But if I say travel, can I pass off my holidaying as a creative pursuit?

Absolutely. Anything else we should know? I have a thing about banana trees and there are loads in the garden. I love feeding them - I think in a different era, I would be growing prize-winning veg…