About Us

First and foremost we're a service. We've hand picked our artists to ensure that they're experienced, easy to work with and nice to their mums. We watch and listen carefully to every reel we get sent and before we take an artist onto our books, we meet them and get to know them, to make sure they think about the business in the same way that we do.

Secondly we're here to help. We take the problem of finding the right talent for the right project off your hands. If you've got a difficult client or an awkward brief, then save time by talking it through with us.

Finally we're a team. The office staff and our artists. We invest time in our talent, coaching them, sharpening their skills, adapting to the ever changing trends in the market and getting feedback from clients. We cut all our showreels in house, we produce all our own demos, and, as a result, everyone knows the high standards we work to. After all - we have a name to live up to.

Call us and find out just how friendly and efficient we can be.

Jon Briggs - Managing Director

Jon set up Excellent in 1995 on a dining room table with a yellow pages and a small Macintosh computer called Gerald. He's forty something and has been a professional voice artist, radio and TV presenter for over 20 years. From teaboy at the BBC in Oxford to Breakfast show anchor for BBC Radio 5 and now in demand as a conference host worldwide, he has a penchant for anything small and sexy with buttons on it. He means computers, but it doesn't stop him being given Barbie outfits.

Pete Gold - Director

Pete is the co-founder of Excellent and is an accomplished musician, writing his own songs and playing guitar. As well as being an established voice over, he's also a stand up and sketch show performer with 3 Edinburgh Fringe festivals to his credit, and has the added advantage that people think he's standing up when he's still sitting down. He studied French at York University and will one day find a use for it other than wine lists in posh restaurants.

Viv White - Bookings Manager

Viv has spent the last 10 years working with voice talent and studios. With a background in Newspaper deadlines and Event organising, she’s hot on time keeping. What she doesn’t know about casting and directing can be printed in very small print in a very tiny book called “What Viv doesn’t know about Casting and Directing”. Try not to flannel about when dealing with Viv – she’d prefer it if you just came right to the point – her bark is worse than her bite, and some people quite like being bitten….

Hannah Relf – Junior Agent & Admin.

If there was a course at Rose Bruford for leaning the art of talking Hannah would have been top of the class, but alas there was not, so she trained to be a Stage Manager instead.

Hannah spent a year in Stage Management at the English National Opera and loved bossing and organising people so much that she jumped ship to become a Junior agent at Excellent.

Hannah has slotted perfectly into her role as the office Cinderella, nothing is a chore, no job too small and in fact it’s always done with flare, sparkles and a bit a glitter, otherwise the ugly sisters would be breathing down her neck!