The Message Heard Team
We’re a podcast company that helps brands and businesses connect with their audience in a meaningful way. By immersing ourselves within a company, we’re able to better understand communication aims and ensure that you engage your audience with compelling stories. We create more than just podcasts, we make sure your message gets heard.
Leadership
JAKE WARREN
CEO & FOUNDER
Jake is an award-winning journalist and documentary maker bringing a wealth of experience and a range of odd visa stamps to Message Heard. Specialising in the extremities of human interest whilst at VICE, he then moved on to radio at the BBC which eventually led him to founding Message Heard.
Jake is listening to: Things Fell Apart by Jon Ronson
Andrew Warren
Chief Operating Officer
Andrew has over 25 years of hands-on leadership experience of scaling and growing business.
He brings a passion for delighting clients and developing teams that create memorable experiences.
He is fascinated by the less obvious story and how it can be told.
Andrew is listening to One Decision.
LOUISE BEAUMONT
CHAIR
Louise loves to spark and scale companies. And she adores podcasts. Message Heard is the perfect home for her desire to grow a great business and her devotion to superb storytelling. She is adored to the moon and back by her dog, Daphne Buttercup.
Louise is listening to: The Lazarus Heist
Production
SANDRA FERRARI
HEAD OF PRODUCTION
Sandra is a Head of Production at Message Heard, as well as Executive Producer and Story Editor for Message Heard Originals and Co-productions. Sandra has crafted podcasts and radio content for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the United Nations and The Guardian, among others.
Sandra is listening to: Sweet Bobby
HARRY STOTt
PRODUCER
Harry is a writer and producer who loves telling compelling stories about fascinating people, and has done so for podcasts, platforms and publications in the US, UK and Europe. When he’s not doing that, you’ll most likely catch him eating ramen, watching Man United or listening to Dylan - often simultaneously.
Harry is listening to: The rest is history
Jelena Sofronijevic
Production Coordinator
Jelena is a Production Coordinator at Message Heard, FREELANCE producer, and arts and culture writer and researcher. They bring their extensive experience in audio production to their role, including their ongoing podcasts, EMPIRE LINES and historicity. When they aren’t out walking, you’ll find them in a museum with a Zoom mic, planning travels, or endlessly talking about Yugoslavia.
Jelena is listening to: Media Storm
Mark Kendrick
Producer
Mark has been infatuated with audio since the age of 6 when he visited an open day at his local BBC Radio station. He has gone on to make branded podcasts since 2007 and loves hearing stories that inspire and entertain. Mark is often out cycling but if not on two wheels he can be found in his local record shop trying to find that elusive vinyl, doing some complicated lego build or at Roots Hall cheering on Southend United Football Club.
Mark is listening to: 13 Minutes to the Moon
TOM BIDDLE
Project Producer & Sound Lead
Tom is Message Heard’s resident audio nerd and plant obsessive. He brings his extensive experience in audio production, sound design and startups to manage our important branded projects and help shape our sound. When he’s not intensely staring at spectral frequency displays and spreadsheets, you can find him in a recording studio in Peckham getting overexcited about bleeps and bloops.
Tom is listening to: Homecoming
IVAN EASTLEY
Sound Engineer
Ivan is a sound engineer who comes from a music production and scientific background. He’s done the recording, mixing, editing, Foley and sound design on a number of short films and most recently worked as dialogue recording engineer at a West End studio. He’s an avid gamer, cyclist and gardener, and somehow still manages to find time to produce weird electronic soundscapes in the gaps.
IVAN IS LISTENING TO: Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe
LINCOLN VAN DER WESTHUIZEN
PRODUCER
Originally from South Africa, Lincoln is a podcast producer with a decade’s worth of experience in audio journalism. In his spare time he runs his own movie podcast, focusing on flops that no one has watched. He loves cricket, football, hip-hop and professional wrestling and will try his best to sneak all of those things into conversation somehow.
Lincoln is listening to: The Coming Storm
Archan mohile
production coordinator
Archan is a Production Coordinator at Message Heard. Some of his previous work includes being the lead Managing Editor of The Economist’s audio edition, as well as coordinating on some hit shows for Sony Music Entertainment, which has involved asking people how they would like to die, and defrosting three fully grown lobsters in the kitchen sink, among other things. Outside the podcast office, Archan can be found catching the latest movies in the cinema, or trying to contribute something of worth to a pub quiz on a Sunday night.
Archan is Listening to: Blockbuster
Blu Posner
Audio Engineer & Production Support
When Blu isn’t nursing his four year old daughter, he’s nursing his record collection. With a background in radio / DJ’ing Blu has played at many events nationwide and hosted his own radio show whilst living in Australia. More recently, he’s moved onto projects focussing more on audio engineering / sound design and in his spare time Blu enjoys swimming, gaming and film night with the family.
Blu is listening to Wolf & Owl Podcast
Christopher PHIn
Creative content lead
Chris brings decades of experience in storytelling to his work at Message Heard, helping clients tell the stories that matter to them in a way that audiences can’t get enough of. He lives in Dundee in the north east of Scotland, and as well as hosting and guesting on podcasts, he’s also turned his passion for the transformative power of ebikes into a TikTok and Instagram channel. Do not, under any circumstances, ask Chris about ebikes.
Chris is Listening to: Ologies
Emma Crampton
Producer
Emma is a producer at Message Heard. She has produced radio and podcast content across the BBC, the United Nations, Magic Radio and The Telegraph… but her career highlight has to be speaking to Miriam Margolyes on the phone. She is a very proud owner of her rescue dog Goldie, happiest when swimming and is a keen advocate for wearing colour (she just forgot to when this photo was taken).
Emma is listening to: 28ish days later
Sales & Marketing
Max Warren
HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPS
Nobody knows branded podcasting like Max. Sales is in his blood so much that his headstone will probably be an SOW. He spends his days extracting the most exciting stories from many of the worlds most successful brands and amplifying them to as large an audience as possible.
Max is listening to: The Lex Fridman Podcast
Andrew Petch
Business Development manager
Andrew has joined the growing Mh team with a wealth of sales experience, spending 12 years in a variety of INDUSTRIES, from construction to consultancy and even Freediving in mexico and panama!
His interests are travel, football and extreme sports like snowboarding and freediving.
Andrew is currently listening to: The spearo hangout
Callum Wilson
Field Marketing executive
Cal has spent the last few years building up a portfolio of brand consulting and marketing strategy in a variety of small businesses in a freelance capacity. with a passion for media and music he is utilising his marketing prowess in the podcasting industry.
CAl is listening to: ICYMI
Our Representation
We are globally represented by CAA (Creative Artists Agency). You can find more about our representation or reach out directly to CAA below:
Glenn Miller | glenn.miller@caa.com