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  • Portrait of Zaki Cooper

    Zaki Cooper

    Zaki Cooper is a communications professional, with over 15 years’ experience working in media and government relations, and external communications. He worked in the Buckingham Palace press office from 2009 to 2012 on the Diamond Jubilee. Previously he has worked for Lord Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, and in the corporate sector for T-Mobile, Tesco […]

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  • Dan Connolly

    Sport and writing were Dan’s passions at school and by following them he has been able to forge a marketing and communications career in the sports industry working across clubs, federations, agencies and global brands including: The Premier League, The FA, The RFU, London 2012, FIFA, The IOC, Nike, Coca-Cola, EE, Carling and Barclays. His […]

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  • Noreen Connolly

    Noreen has over 20 years’ experience in the advertising industry and is responsible for the smooth day-to-day running of all client-facing operational areas. Starting agency-side at Grey and DMB&B in the TV departments, before making the transition to the supplier side. Noreen was responsible for setting up operations at the digital-delivery company IMD before she […]

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  • Portrait of Clare Connor

    Clare Connor

    With a longstanding background in dance and performance, Clare trained at London Contemporary Dance School before embarking on a successful performing career with Phoenix Dance. She then worked as a teacher-artist in both further and higher education and collaboratively produced performing arts programmes for the University of East London, as well as supporting the validation […]

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  • Portrait of Robert Colvile

    Robert Colvile

    Robert Colvile is Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, the leading centre-right think tank, and Editor-in-Chief of its CapX news site. He was co-author of the recent Conservative Party manifesto and is also the author of ‘The Great Acceleration’ (Bloomsbury), on how technology is speeding up the pace of life. He was previously News […]

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  • Portrait of Louisa Compton

    Louisa Compton

    Louisa Compton is Head of News and Current Affairs and Sport at Channel 4 and was previously the News and Current Affairs Commissioner at Channel 4 – with responsibility for investigative programme Dispatches amongst others. She joined Channel 4 after a career at the BBC which included launching and creating the BAFTA award-winning Victoria Derbyshire […]

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  • Portrait of Claudine Collins

    Claudine Collins

    Claudine Collins started her career 20 years ago at Squires Robertson Gill, 5 years later moving to CIA in the direct department as a group head working on Hoseasons and Prudential. She was headhunted by The Media Business in 1995 to work across numerous clients and then in 1998 set up the press department with […]

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  • Portrait of Damian Collins

    Damian Collins

    Damian Collins has served as the Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe since 2010. Damian’s career before politics was in the advertising and communications industries, working at M&C Saatchi and Lexington Communications. During the Coalition government Damian served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the then Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. From 2012 to 2014 he […]

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  • Portrait of Jim Coleman

    Jim Coleman

    Jim Coleman is the UK CEO and regional lead for global social agency We Are Social. In 14 years the agency has grown to 1,300 people across 18 offices across the world winning multiple awards for their work at Cannes, The Lovies, Campaign, to name a few. They have a who’s-who of global clients that […]

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  • Portrait of Sarah Coleman painting a wall

    Sarah Coleman

    Known for her early pioneering hand-lettering and hand-drawn type, developing styles and approaches now ubiquitous in the creative industries, Sarah’s career in commercial illustration has encompassed live-filmed murals for TV advertising, outdoor walls and giant breeze block murals to the minutiae of cross-hatching, embroidery, sculpture, built objects, wearable pieces and pixel-only creations. Her working background […]

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