Dannii

Dannii has been involved in office and operational management for the last ten years, working with the UK’s largest fertility clinics before joining Story Shop.

She’s bringing her experience to help make sure that Story Shop runs as smoothly and is as organisationally sound as possible- essentially, she’s the office mammy. She works to make the ideas come to life and only occasionally worries what her Google search history looks like… ‘places to milk a cow Glasgow’ – anyone?

When she’s not banging on about her latest spreadsheet to the rest of the team, Dannii can be found yomping round the local parks (normally carrying scooters that her kids promised they would ride) or planning the next room of her never-ending house reno.

Tumi

After starting his career in web development, Tumi transitioned into the field of digital marketing over three years ago before joining Story Shop in 2022. Tumi loves the creative side of digital marketing and loves to keep an eye on the latest trends. When he’s not working, you’ll catch him playing video games and obsessing over customised cars. 

Gary

Gary is another journalist who eventually found his way to Story Shop, having being bribed with coffee and invites to a number of events over the years.

After managing shopping centres in a former life, Gary decided dealing with angry retailers wasn’t for him, so gave it all up for a career in journalism, going on to work for a number of regional and national titles, eventually ending up as Glasgow Live’s What’s On Editor, being paid to eat food and talk about it.

Keen for a new challenge, Gary joined Story Shop in 2022 and within days found himself on the PR frontline, while also serving coffee to his colleagues in a tuxedo.

Likes brunch, catching a flight to somewhere far away, owl sanctuaries and niche Alan Partridge references.

Eilidh

Eilidh’s career in comms started after a failed attempt at a law degree encouraged her to put her number one skill (the gift of the gab) to good use.

Another degree and a few roles working at a UK-wide events company and two large PR agencies later, she found herself at Story Shop. 

Before long she was thinking up ridiculously bad Apprentice puns, had a personalised Story Shop illustration, and felt right at home.

When not storytelling, you’ll find her trying literally any form of exercise, bakery hopping around the south side of Glasgow, or chopping veg into tiny cubes as a form of meditation.

Lara

Lara came across Story Shop’s “Open Letter to Our First Employee” on Black Pine Coffee’s Instagram. One month on, she was knee deep in coffee to help Dear Green take Glasgow Coffee Festival to the streets.

Before Story Shop, she worked at London-based creative content agency, Not Actual Size where she worked with global brands including Dove and Railway Children Charity.

She’s also worked at one of Germany’s leading social businesses, running the online presence and event planning for LGBTQ+ networking events across Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam.

When she’s not in the office, Lara can be found cycling around West End or sitting in a coffee shop with a pen in one hand and a coffee in the other.  

Gregor

Gregor started his career as a journalist. Since moving into PR and marketing almost a decade ago, he’s worked with some of the UK’s biggest brands – from Red Bull to Scottish Rugby. 

He co-founded Story Shop because he believe there could be something in between an agency and an in-house marketing department. 

Gregor used to love travelling the world, exploring far-flung places. Then he launched a start-up and had a baby amid a global pandemic. Now he likes to pound the streets of Glasgow, pushing a pram from coffee shop to coffee shop while listening to podcasts. When not doing that, he can be found on his peloton or reading self-development books or exploring other generic activities enjoyed by males in their 30s. He’s talked about starting Brazilian jiu-jitsu for over two years.

Scarlett

During her career so far, Scarlett has been responsible for building the brands of three of Scotland’s biggest shopping centres. In that time, she became fascinated by consumer behaviour and buying trends – she also fed her lifelong obsession with shopping.

She uses the lessons learned from increasing footfall and converting browsers into buyers to lead on marketing for Story Shop’s clients.  

Outside of work, she can be found either in soft play centres with her new baby or browsing charity shops and auction houses searching for hidden gems for various ongoing interior projects. 

Henry

Henry is a journalist (once a journalist, always a journalist) who spent 13 years as an editor at local, regional and national titles across Scotland – most recently as assistant editor with The Herald where he headed up digital output and commercial/editorial relationships. Coincidentally, Henry and Gregor started out as reporters for rival local newspapers (but they are best of friends now).

Henry joined Story Shop to tell stories that help brands grow and loves nothing more than creating content the media want to cover.  

When Henry’s not telling stories for clients, he can be found telling stories in a pub, around a dinner table, or on the golf course – where far fewer people pay attention.    

Katie

Katie found her way to Story Shop after working in-house for some of Scotland’s biggest brands such as schuh and studying journalism at uni.

She replied to a curious job ad which just read, ‘tell us your story’ and she’s been writing, designing and illustrating for our clients ever since. She’s always wanted to work in a plucky agency where she could show off her trainer and beanie collection. And bore on about the importance of blog posts.

When she’s not storytelling, you’ll find her scrolling through TikTok, cooking up a storm in the kitchen, or polishing her stand-up set that nobody in the team has ever seen her perform. 

Jamie

Jamie took the scenic route to a career in storytelling. After several botched university attempts, he embarked on a brief gap-decade, during which he worked in, and managed, bars and restaurants around Glasgow. After an internship opportunity at a marketing agency came up in his late 20s, he made the choice to monetize his ‘gift of the gab’ and hasn’t looked back since.

With a background in the digital side of marketing, Jamie now focuses on creative strategy and has worked on campaigns for brands including Aldi, The Macallan, First Bus, The Ubiquitous Chip, and HOKO.

He’s a big fan of American football, city breaks throughout Europe, coffee, gangster rap, and fried chicken sandwiches.