James Sanderson

Managing Director Wunderman Thompson Inside

James is the managing director of Wunderman Thompson Inside, a global on-site agency model, which launched in March 2018. He brings two decades’ worth of digital – on-site and off-site – agency experience. In the late 1990s, James helped to establish one of the first digital agencies in the UK, DNA (now SapientRazorfish). He went on to join another start-up, Glue London as Joint MD, helping it become one of the most awarded creative digital agencies in the world, ranking in the top 10 in WARC’s GUNN Report 2006-2008. James was instrumental in the 2005 sale of Glue to Aegis Media, which was setting up its global digital agency network, Isobar. James joined Digitas as UK President and, after a spell in consulting, joined on-site agency specialists OLIVER, becoming COO in 2017 and working with many client-located teams. James joined WPP’s Wunderman in 2018.