Marcie Bell

Marcie has over 20 years experience in PR and marketing, gained through a combination of agency and in-house roles in the public and private sectors.

She began her career in financial PR but went on to handle a wide range of consumer and B2B communications briefs across a variety of sectors from drinks and tourism/leisure to parenting, aviation, investment and retail banking. Her early career was focused around media relations and project management but she then went on to work on broader marketing communications campaigns. She therefore offers an unusual mix of skills straddling traditional PR/marketing channels and the social web.

Marcie now runs The Foundry House® where she specialises in scoping projects and planning strategic, integrated communications campaigns. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Luke Brynley-Jones

Luke is one of the UK's most experienced social networking experts who has worked on more than 40 major online and mobile services.

Back in 2001 he co-founded the UK's first social networking consultancy, advising clients such as British Airways and the YMCA on how to facilitate online interaction with and between their customers.

In 2005 he launched etribes, the blogging and photo-sharing network, before leaving to head up the Product Team at Trutap, the popular mobile social network. In 2009 Luke set up School for Startups with ex-Dragon's Den star, Doug Richard, touring the county teaching other entrepreneurs how to succeed in their ventures.

In his "spare" time Luke teaches Social Media Marketing at the University of Essex and various marketing training organisations.

Dave Briggs

Dave is an expert digital enabler, with a wealth of experience in harnessing the potential of the social web.

He writes a well read blog, http://davepress.net/, on public sector digital engagement and has worked with a variety of clients including the Learning and Skills Council, DIUS, UKTI, BERR and several Councils.

Dave spends most of his time with the team at Learning Pool where he focuses on building online communities but as we have worked together in the past we are lucky to be able to pick his brains and sometimes get him involved in our work.

Alex Challinor

Alex is a results-driven and creative communications professional with over 17 years experience in delivering local, European and global PR and marketing campaigns.

The majority of Alex's career has been spent within agency PR, focused on B2B press, public relations and corporate communications. She has led cost-effective and successful campaigns for a range of companies in the hi-tech sector from large global organisations to small, local companies.

During the course of her career Alex has worked in the electronics, IT, print/packaging and industrial automation sectors. More recently she transferred her project management skills and effective organisational and communication expertise to the charity and public sectors.

Dee Dee Frawley

Dee Dee is a highly effective project manager and facilitator with experience in both the UK and the US.

A civil/geotechnical engineer by training, Dee Dee has managed a range of projects during her career, from high risk dam safety projects which saw her liaising with key personnel in government, media and the public, to community campaigns that demanded consultation, research and carefully managed stakeholder relations.

Dee Dee's experience also includes project managing the installation of a complex CRM system. She led an interdisciplinary team and, by establishing effective project management processes, gained support for the system as project milestones were successfully met.

Dee Dee enjoys problem solving and, as a skilled facilitator, has wide ranging experience of building teams, establishing effective communication channels and finding creative solutions to difficult problems.

Suzy Howes

Suzy has amassed strategic and tactical event experience during 20 years of creative event planning and delivery.

Her meticulous approach to scoping events has seen Suzy and her team successfully deliver events of all sizes, from small dinners for 20 to large conferences for 1000+ delegates with streamed breakouts. Forward planning is a particular strength and Suzy is adept at considering the needs of multiple stakeholders, from delegates and speakers to caterers, sponsors and sound technicians.

Suzy is an occasional lecturer on events management to the University of Cambridge Careers Group and has recently been approached by Anglia Ruskin University with a request to mentor a student from their prestigious BA (Hons) Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Management.

Angela Murray

Angela has more than 20 years' experience in marketing communications, copywriting and PR, with local, national and international organisations across a wide range of sectors.

Delivering assignments of every size, from a snippet destined for the regional press to a major communications strategy review, Angela is also author of "Teach Yourself Business Presentations " (Hodder and Stoughton, 1999), and "Teach Yourself Public Relations" (first edition 2001, second edition 2005), the third edition of which is scheduled for publication in 2010/11

With copywriting a particular skill, Angela has written for in-house journals, websites, trade magazines, and the national press, and produces copy for all forms of marketing collateral - in fact, for any document which needs to be clear, concise, easy to understand, and which gets its message across to the right audience in the right way.

Jem Thomas

Jem has extensive experience in media relations and strategic communication, having run media campaigns for the UK armed forces, NATO and the European Union.

He has trained senior government officials and officers of the police and military forces of the UAE in public relations and media communications and he regularly advises and trains non-governmental organisations. He is also a media consultant for Thomson Reuters.

Jem also has an academic background in strategic communication, public diplomacy and public relations, with a diploma in PR (highest industry standard), a Masters degree in International Relations from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in Security Studies from St Andrews University. He is a Member of the UK's Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).