The Nest

Murder Hornet is made up of the very best people to attack a specific problem. The Nest is a small, highly-specialized team of full-time employees who lead and manage the agency.

The Swarm is all of our hand-picked outsourced solutions for our clients. Some Swarm members are retained but most are independent contractors. The size of the Nest is fixed while the Swarm grows and contracts depending on our clients’ needs.

This allows us to partner with incredible talent, specialist agencies and the hottest brands, wherever they are in the world.

  • Noel Cottrell

    FOUNDER

    Noel’s unintentional Zoom handle is ‘Mr Murder’.

    Noel has a history of putting together bespoke teams to attack big problems in the most unexpected ways, with incredible results.

    E*TRADE Talking Baby, Febreze Breathe Happy Blindfolds, Coca-Cola 1000 Songs, French’s Mustard Ice Cream, Checkers & Rick Ross Buy Back The Block, Pete Davidson Keep Living Smart for Smartwater, Wendy’s as an influencer and a 20ft GameBall Machine for AT&T and the NBA.

    Check it all out at noelcottrell.com

  • Alex McInnis

    PRESIDENT

    Alex is our President and a co-founding member of Murder Hornet.  She is focused on scaling our ever-expanding operations, managing client relationships, supporting new business growth, building a thriving internal culture and establishing the agency as a creative powerhouse. Phew.

    With eight years experience spanning telecom, retail, pharma and insurance, Alex is an authentic, driven force for good in the agency and the industry. Alex pushes work to be culturally provocative, socially impactful and authentically inclusive.

    Alex is the future.

  • Yasmine Nozile

    CFO

    Yaz is our incredible CFO who keeps us thinking about the future while getting paid in the here and now. 

    With an MBA in Finance and over 20 years experience, Yaz has been invaluable in helping us get set up for success (contracts, loans, insurance, IT, systems, legal - you name it), she runs our P&L, negotiates all our MSA’s, SOW’s and pretty much any other three lettered acronym you can think of. 

    Yaz is every procurement person’s best friend but will also chase you down if you don’t pay.

    In the nicest way possible.

  • Jordan Douglass

    SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

    Jordan, our incredible Senior Project Manager, has a decade of experience on big brands like Visa, Delta and Marriott Hotels, juggling 360 campaigns, global redesigns, web dev, social, content creation, you name it.

    Jordan keeps us on time and delivering as promised, she also keeps us blowing hot drinks through our noses with her hysterical meme game and hot takes.   

    If you’re in the Nest, Swarm or you’re a Client, you know that Jordan is our proud resident ‘childless cat lady’ and MVP. 

    Jordan is the best.

  • Clara Molina Zamudio

    ACCOUNT MANAGER

    Clara is a creative and results-driven Account Manager with over 8 years experience.

    From Buenos Aires in Argentina, Clara has run some of LATAM’s biggest pieces of business with incredible results, including Anhauser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Unilever. Clara also speaks Spanish and Portuguese and plays extremely well with others.

    Love Clara.

  • Reese Glisson

    GROUP ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

    With over a decade of experience in advertising, Reese has lead campaigns for global brands like Shell, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Southwest Airlines, Chick-fil-A, and the United States Marine Corps. Ooh-ra!

    Reese ‘has a magic way with clients’ and has doubled the amount of men currently employed at Murder Hornet.

    He shares the little time he’s not at work with his wife Brittany, his adorable daughter Poppy and two wannabe-bulldogs - Shady & Bao.

  • Michelle Puri

    STUDIO DESIGNER

    Michelle, our Studio Designer, is a recent SCAD grad with an MA in Advertising. Moving to the US from Shanghai for school, she has an incredible eye for CI, packaging, illustration, motion graphics and film. 

    Dedicated to connecting with diverse audiences and making a positive impact, Michelle is fluent in Mandarin and Bahasa.

    She also has the most appropriate office/inside voice of everyone in our very loud Nest. 

    See her design goodness at michellepuri.com