• WHO WE ARE

    We’re proud of our collective experience.

    We know what it takes to make stuff happen in this crazy, wonderful,
    creative industry. Our combined experience means we’ve been wrangling creatives,
    clients and projects for over 60 years… god.

    Call us cat herders, miracle workers or slightly insane. But we love this business.

    We believe in creativity

    We believe in creativity

    We created Short Term Girlfriend because we
    are decades in and we still can’t imagine doing anything else.
    We wanted to do recruitment differently.

    Proud to be different

    Short Term Girlfriend combines our extensive production, recruitment
    & agency expertise to deliver a unique offering, supporting the creative industry
    & the heroes who work within it.

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  • DAVID WINTERBOURNE

    Managing Partner / Connector

    Uncompromising creativity and love of the craft are part of David’s DNA.

    He specialises in optimising creative project delivery.
    Tell him a brand or agency problem, and he’ll solve it.

    vast experience

    He can’t help himself.
    It’s just how he is.

    David gained his vast experience working in London, Paris, Amsterdam, New York & Sydney
    at over 25 award winning advertising agencies and directly with start up & global brands.

    He’s run a creative production company, a digital agency, a recruitment agency, and worked as
    a brand/agency consultant.

    At Short Term Girlfriend David oversees our teams to ensure client happiness.

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  • Samantha Simpson

    Founder / Creative Director

    Sam loves creative people.
    This determined, loyal, lioness has been championing creativity for 25 years.
    She understands the power creativity has to make a difference. How it can build
    brands, grow businesses, and, most importantly, change hearts and minds.

    What began as junior roles in photography studios grew into a lifelong passion
    for enabling creative people that took her all over the world and back to Australia again.
    Sam’s driven to make a difference in the creative industries.

    Short Term Girlfriend

    Founding Sam I Am in 2002, and Short Term Girlfriend in 2020
    because she’s passionate about connecting talented creative people
    with businesses that value them. Helping drive collaborations,
    and changing the way creative careers are managed, for the better.

    For her, this isn’t just business. It’s a force for better, just like Sam herself.

     

     

Who We are

  • Mel Reardon

    Head of Talent & Operations

    Mel cares about results. She is a gun head hunter.
    She’s our Head of Talent and Operations at Short Term Girlfriend, and is on a mission
    to unite the talent of Australia and champions a better way of working.
    For more than 20 years Mel has been leading the execution of creative projects for
    Australia’s best agencies, production companies and brands.

    Experienced in producing TVC’s, content, stills, experiential, events and integrated
    campaigns Mel understands both creative people and creative companies.
    With production company, agency and post-production experience Mel really gets the
    creative industry and the talent who work within it. She knows the expectations of all
    parties & makes perfect creative collaborations happen to deliver the highest quality result.

    Mel takes care of all aspects of the STGF internal, talent and client processes & the
    talent we work with to ensure mutual desired outcomes, everytime.

    creative people and creative companies