Our team

Vanessa is a 'bigger picture' person and has particular skills in planning and communications management. Vanessa founded CProject after working as a ‘client’ in industry for nearly 10 years and hence brings a very strong client focus into the picture.

Her skills are equally balanced in strategic communications planning, combined with an exceptional grasp of the tactical aspects of complex implementation programmes. Over the years, she has worked with many major blue chip clients (Colgate-Palmolive, BOC, ICI, Zeneca, Pirelli and SEEDA), providing support on specific projects, as well as smaller businesses, where she acts more as their out-sourced marketing director.

She has considerable experience in helping clients to develop communications plans that deliver results and which add value to their brand. As well as being a creative writer, Vanessa’s great strength is highly-positive and proactive project management. ‘Never knowingly missed a deadline’ might well be her final epitaph!

By combining exceptional creativity with solid skills in project delivery, Neil adds strength and confidence to the graphic design process. Prior to joining CProject, Neil worked as part of the in-house ICI/Zeneca brand development team.

His skills are well balanced between design for print and web, and he has an excellent understanding of how graphic design devices add value to the brand.

Neil is one of those rare breed of designers who has a down-to-earth approach and interprets a brief quickly and accurately without the need for endless re-visits. He works well with clients, editors, copywriters and the rest of the development team.

His work benefit greatly from his capacity to give equal weight to what is being said and the visual elements, and he will always ‘go the extra mile’ to do something different, with stunning results.

With a media degree and journalism/publishing background, Mary was a perfect choice when the business started to expand its writing skills in 1992. She has gone from strength to strength and is responsible for all major publishing projects, as well as being our quality and service guru.

‘Getting the message to the target audience’ is her speciality and she is particularly experienced in finding the right angle to turn a good article into a great one which is well received. For this reason she also runs several successful PR accounts for businesses in the South East.

Mary has strong project management skills and ensures that projects are produced on time and within budget whilst being creatively exciting. She works well as part of a team and also independently - an essential attribute when producing projects on behalf of third parties. Her abilities enable clients to relax, knowing their projects are being run diligently and with pizzazz!

Alison has worked in Marketing for over 12 years on both the agency and client side of the business. She started out in the non profit sector then moved into Technology PR; she has managed pan-regional accounts for HP and Iomega in Singapore.

Her most recent job was in Corporate Communications at J.Walter Thompson’s head office in New York. The role included working on the rebranding of JWT, writing their global PR strategy, external and internal communications: announcing new campaigns, hires, new initiatives, newsletters, website content and intranet.

Alison has strong communication and interpersonal skills. She is a good strategic thinker and proficient and imaginative copywriter.

Joyce specialises in working with B2B clients helping them to improve profits and efficiency through intelligent marketing – the key word here being ‘intelligent’. She likes to work on a foundation of facts and works hard to help clients fully understand the environment they are working within, in order for them to make the right business decisions - from strategy to implementation.

Joyce has a big interest in building competitive advantage through strong branding – whatever the business size. When not working with clients, she enjoys spending time with her family (including her two teenage ‘eating machine’ sons!) and indulging in a spot of walking and cycling!

With twenty plus years experience of public relations, Sarah has directed a number of blue chip accounts in the Pharmaceutical (ethical and OTC) and Business to Business sectors. In 1997, following the birth of her third child, she studied for a post graduate certificate in education and spent the next eight years teaching science in secondary school.

Now that her children are nearly grown, she straddles both disciplines and in addition supports community inspired projects. Sarah met Vanessa in 2000, and they have since worked together helping to co ordinate the fund raising and media relations programme for two major charitable fund raising programmes; they have subsequently worked on a number of projects together.

Following a long and successful career in sales, Ian now helps other companies increase their sales and improve their profits. Before working with Ian and using the Sandler approach, his clients are frustrated by; long sales cycles, chasing prospects whose response was “give me another call in a few weeks”, spending hours on proposals that never came to anything, educating prospects who took their information and then shopped around for better pricing or struggling to get the agenda off price and ending up charging too little for their products or services.

After working with Ian and using the Sandler approach, his clients have dramatically improved sales, increased profits, reduced sales cycles, charge more and enjoy their best sales performance ever.

When you are selling your services – usually by the hour – it can be tough attracting enough clients each and every month. It is easy to fall in to the feast and famine trap. Karen mentors, teaches and trains service-based business owners on how to make create the right online marketing systems, such as blogs, email newsletters, autoresponders, opt-in web pages and social media platforms, so that they can work less whilst still increasing their revenue potential.

When you are the business, you want your marketing systems to be attracting the right clients 24-7, without you having to be the one who delivers it, all of the time.

Ian is a mineral and exploration specialist by training, which has taken him to many of the remote and uncharted areas of the world. However, he later moved his career into personal finance and, subsequently, marketing. In 2003 he formed his own business where he found his real passion working with local businesses in the emerging area of Search Engine Optimisation.

The same mix of empirical and scientific application that served him well in exploration also seemed ideally suited to this challenging area. And his somewhat eclectic personal career journey means he’s comfortable dealing with just about any business scenario, often providing a fresh perspective that is generally well received.