Al is a founding member of St Luke’s. In his first year as Creative Director, the agency was voted Campaign's agency of the year.
In both 2001 and 2002, Campaign magazine listed Alan as one of the UK’s ten “hottest” Creative Directors and in 2007 he was named by Shot’s magazine as one of their top 100 most influential creative people in the world.
Al was voted onto D&AD’s Executive Committee and in 2008, he served both as Education Chairman and Chair of Black Pencils (D&AD’s most prestigious awards).