Experience

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  bluesky

  • Suffolk

  • Owner/Director

    • Aug 1998 - Present
    • Suffolk

    Multi-channel marketing team offering strategic thinking, design, copywriting, branding & brand planning/development, advertising & online media. Specialists in the following markets: Homes, home products, kitchens & bathrooms, hotel & leisure, consumer lifestyle

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  Ambrose Went Curtis

  • Client Services Director

    • 1996 - 1998

    Directed the creative and strategic development of the agency's key clients. Campaign planning, marketing consultancy, copywriting.

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  Heatrae Sadia / Gainsborough Showers

  • Product Manager > Marketing Manager

    • 1992 - 1996

    Part of the team that took the business from £2m to £15m within 5 years. Developed and introduced new products to capitalise on changing markets, range gaps and customer needs. Responsible for all marketing from NPD to packaging, cultivating the brand and brand awareness, tactical sales activity,...

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  Reflection Advertising

  • Senior Account Manager

    • 1990 - 1992

    Responsible for helping Reflection's key clients to grow their business through the implementation of well considered, efficiently executed, high impact marketing campaigns and printed media (this was before the Internet existed!)

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  DCN Advertising

  • Graphic Designer

    • 1988 - 1990

    Before the days of Apple Macs (was that B.C.?) part of the studio team responsible for creating advertising, brochures and direct mail for a range of house builder clients.

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  Mathers Advertising

  • Graphic Designer

    • 1984 - 1988

    Taught the fundamentals of great, effective design and marketing and mentored from a young age by one of London's finest ad men, Wally Mathers. In the time of cow gum (I still love the stuff now) and paste up, pica rules and typesetters.