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 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.