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.

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.