Chris
Chris is EML’s resident PR graduate. Back in the days when there were only two PR degrees in the country he dedicated three years of his life to mastering the dark arts in a sacred quest to become the PR equivalent of a Shaolin Monk. He has spent his entire career to date in tech PR and has been exposed to pretty much all walks of technology from engineering and IT to telecoms and electronics. Once a bright eyed and bushy tailed young dynamo, an unhealthy amount of PR experience in structured cabling has left him an aged shell of his former self … he’s now the guy you don’t want to sit near at dinner parties. Chris is an avid follower of the three F’s – football, film and food. When he’s not on shift at the good ship EML he spends his days living in Hampshire with his fiancée and a menagerie of small furry animals for company.
Juliet
Juliet has spent many years working happily as a PR and marketing person in the worlds of fashion, food, travel, concert, BtoB, high tech and sport. Oh, and consumer event management and journalism. Not a technophobe but not a techie so works on the principle that if she can understand it so will most people. She has an artistic bent and has done a shed load of dance / drama, until recently teaching the under 10s ballet, modern and tap. Current claim to fame is taking latin and ballroom dancing lessons with Vincent and Flavia of Strictly Come Dancing fame. Born in Nigeria she lived her life as a nomad until finally settling down in Cobham with her husband and family 20 years ago.
Andrew Oddly, the picture isn’t that far off. Andrew has an answer for everything but it
’s not always right. Luckily he’s also quite believable most of the time so he gets away with it. A techie at heart he likes to make things work - he’s not a fan of technology for the sake of it however and falls in to category of late-adopter. He’s a big fan of the internal combustion engine and loud music, he washes his own car too. Psychometric testing confirmed his ideal career path was as a systems analyst - unfortunately the results came in 5 years too late so PR it is!
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Alex
Fresh of face and as-yet unsullied by years in PR, Alex is EML’s next, best hope for peace. Alex originally came from the recruitment industry, and therefore wins the award for the most inappropriate use of a Classics degree in the world. A philanthropist at heart, Alex’s main hobbies are smiling and dancing at his desk. Alex is easy to please, and his main ambitions involve installing a library in his flat and buying a cat. Alex is also to be found frequenting the theatre and alternative comedy scenes with his other half, and is an unrepentant geek. Alex’s most shameful secret is, though says he was born in Marlborough, he was in fact born in Swindon. Presumably on a roundabout. He now lives in West London, which is a big improvement.
Jo is EML’s official northern ambassador, having been dragged kicking and screaming all the way to Manchester in 2007 by her fiancée. She has since found that it’s not all flat caps and whippets, and the people and places are actually mostly lovely (and they do a jolly fine pie). When she’s not jiving in Stockport, haunting the indie clubs of Manchester or stalking cricket and rugby players, she can be found flitting between Kingston-upon-Thames and her front room/office practicing her expertise in PR and spreading the good word for her clients to those journalists with a passion for anything comms. or technology based.
