Spark Startup Member

Spark supports creative agencies and marketing teams transition to a world with AI. Through training, coaching and consultancy we show you what’s possible and how to implement AI to empower your creatives and grow your business.

Member Bio

Spark supports creative agencies and marketing teams transition to a world with AI. Through training, coaching and consultancy we show you what’s possible and how to implement AI to empower your creatives and grow your business.

Key People

Jules Love

Jules has a long career in the creative industries including running a highly successful commercial photography business. He is also very experienced management consultant specialising in organisation design for creative functions. Jules studied ‘Applied Generative AI’ at MIT and is fascinated by creativity and AI. He started his career as a strategy consultant at Accenture and Q5 working with leading blue chip firms including The Guardian, The Times and Sunday Times, the BBC, BT and Sainsbury’s. He then began 15 years as an advertising photographer and film maker working for some of the world’s biggest brands including Canon, Samsung, Google, Unilever, and Hilton. He’s now Spark’s CEO and resident AI expert for growing creative businesses.

Emma Wharton

Emma sees AI as key to unlocking creativity we hadn’t even dreamed of before, as well as a catalyst for change in the business models of our sector. Before Spark, Emma spent her career focussed on the future of work - from leading on hybrid working for Parliament and in Government and 15 years as a programme director in architecture and major construction projects at HOK and House of Commons, and as an advisor at Lendlease and GoSpace – an AI PropTech start-up. Emma is also a graphic designer and was co-founder of We are The Loves Employer Branding Agency with Jules, where they first started applying generative AI to creative and business process. She’s now Spark’s COO focussed on brilliant relationships with our clients ensuring we are always adding value in the quickly moving world of AI.