London-based advertising agency Fold7 has announced the appointment of Paul Howarth as the company’s new business director. Howarth joins from VCCP Blue, where he served as group account director. In his new role Howarth will report to managing partner Harry Sheward and will focus on strengthening the agency’s client service offering. During his time at VCCP Blue, Howarth ran the agency’s comparethemarket.com business, working on the Baby Oleg phase of the Meerkat campaign.