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= Simon Morris, Creative Director & Entrepreneur =

Overview
Simon Morris is a Creative Director and Entrepreneur based in London, UK. During his career, Simon has built numerous well-known brands. His achievements have been recognised with multiple awards. The Alexa Super Bowl campaign received an Emmy nomination, the 2020 Christmas ad “Ballerina” was awarded by D&AD as was his work with SEGA. As a result, he was recognised in Campaign’s Power 100 in 2020 and 2021.

Early Career
Morris started his career with Sega in the UK and made the games platform, including the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog, a household name. Simon then served as Marketing Director of Sky, Managing Director of Ginger TV, which produced Chris Evans' TFI Friday - and later created Football 365 (Music 365, Rugby 365 etc).

He was one of the original investors in the brand LOVEFiLM and became Chief Marketing Officer in 2004. The company eventually sold to Amazon following its growth across Europe. He has also been part of the business success of Graze.

After LOVEFiLM, Morris became the worldwide creative lead for Amazon for almost a decade and the first person to be made Chief Creative Officer of Amazon.

Current Career
Simon Morris is the chairman of Novel, a podcast company. Novel is a production partner to major podcast platforms including iHeart, Wondery , BBC , Global Media & Entertainment , Audible , Sony Music Entertainment and Spotify and creator of a series of global hits including The Girlfriends , which was recently optioned by production studio A24.