The Construction and Built Environment Marketing Network exists to support and connect marketing professionals across the sector. Whether you're part of an in-house team, an agency, or working independently, the network is here to help you grow, stay inspired, and make a greater impact.

As Founder and Managing Director of The Think Tank, B2B Marketing Agency of the Year 2024 and Construction Marketing Agency of the Year 2023, I lead the business helping our clients to deliver successful branding, marketing and PR initiatives. Having worked in marketing for more than 35 years I have had the pleasure of working with businesses around the world in many industry sectors but with a focus within Construction. At The Think Tank we focus upon business to business integrated marketing, incorporating branding and PR. I am proud to have built an outstanding team of marketing professionals to support the needs of our clients. A team that has won many awards for their creativity, strategy and marketing insight. Personally I have spoken at several conferences on marketing topics, moderated panel debates and research groups and been interviewed on broadcast media about marketing and branding topics. And now I am pleased to host the B2B Marketing Podcast, 'Born to B2B: Adventures in B2B Marketing'

I am a Marketing Communications Manager for Saint-Gobain Interior Solutions within the Commercial Sector team. I have been in Construction marketing for over 12 years and its an industry that I am passionate about. Working within the Commercial Sector, my role is to help drive the sector strategy and support our commercial teams and customers. This comes with launching campaigns, supporting Commercial Sector activity and driving growth of our target audience base. I live in North Yorkshire with my family and volunteer in my limited spare time to community based requirements - most recently my spare time is leading the group in our village to try buy the pub as a community owned asset.

Experienced, Chartered Marketer with over 25 years experience across B2B, B2C, B2B2C channels.   With over a decade at director level I have demonstrated a history of success in developing and implementing successful marketing strategies.   Experienced across all traditional marketing channels through to digital and social media activity, CRM programmes, managing small and large budgets and focussing on the customer to deliver growth campaigns and activity.  People are at the heart of what we do as marketers and therefore understanding customer behaviour, their needs and wants and how your product or service is so important.  Being able to step back and challenge is this right for the customer is vital to succeeding in marketing. 

I am a Director at Built Environment and Architecture Media Ltd (BEAM), which includes the operational responsibility for the Construction and Built Environment Marketing Network and the CMAs. I have held senior publishing and journalistic roles at many leading business-to-business publications and have wide experience of managing publishing and editorial teams in many markets, including civil engineering, manufacturing, telecoms, business travel, health and logistics My track record ranges widely outside core magazine publishing to encompass the launch and development of conferences, exhibitions, on-line offerings and awards as well as book publishing, training programmes and bespoke “networking” events for specific markets. Following a number of years on the Board at Emap Construct, the publishing group that included AJ, Construction News and NCE, I led the launch of Emap Communications’ first global summits – World Retail Congress and World Architecture Festival. I then worked as a consultant for many companies, including two years as the Independent Chair of RIBA Journal’s Editorial Panel As Editor of Local Government Chronicle in the 1990s I spent a year in South Africa launching a weekly national news magazine for senior local government officials at the invitation of the ANC as part of the post-Apartheid reconciliation process.