Piers Pottinger
Christopher Satterthwaite
Mark Smith
Paul Bell, aged 55
A graduate in History and Politics of the University of Cape Town, Bell spent the first part of his career as a journalist, writing and reporting on South Africa’s transition from apartheid. During this time he held senior posts on several leading publications, and was a two-time winner of a Mondi Gold, South Africa’s leading award for magazine journalism. In the mid-1990s he served as director of communications for the country’s Electoral Commission, helping deliver its historic first non-racial, democratic general election. A year later he led the team which produced the three-volume Candidature File for Cape Town’s bid for the 2004 Olympics.
In 2000 he returned to Britain to take up a post as a consultant for Bell Pottinger. From 2004 he led the team which built the company’s specialised practice in the development and deployment of strategic communications for security-stabilisation and conflict-mitigation. In 2008 he was appointed Chief Executive of Bell Pottinger Sans Frontières, the Chime Group’s strategic and geopolitical communications agency and, effective January 1st 2010, he became Chief Executive for the Bell Pottinger Group.
Bart Campbell, aged 39
Bart has worked in the sports industry, as a lawyer, athlete manager and sports marketer since 1994. In his native New Zealand he attended Otago University obtaining a BA and LLB, subsequently being admitted to the bar as a barrister and solicitor to the High Court of New Zealand in 1994. In the right place and the right time when rugby turned professional in 1995 he has been able to combine his career with his vocation.
After completing a M. Com. Law (hons) he founded Global Sports Management in 1999 which grew to become the leading rugby union player management business in the world representing many of the leading figures in world rugby, with offices in UK, New Zealand and South Africa. Bart was also a founder shareholder of Accelerate Sport & Music Ltd, a niche sports marketing agency focussing on rugby union, whose clients included the British & Irish Lions, the Magner’s League, Rugby World Cup 7’s Dubai 2009 and the New Zealand Rugby Union. These businesses were acquired by Essentially Group in 2006 at which point Bart became CEO of Essentially in November 2006, a position he currently holds.
Essentially has undergone much growth and transformation during this period, from initial IPO on the Aim market May 2006, with staff growing from 25 to over 100. In November 2009 he oversaw the sale of the Group to Chime.
Adrian Coleman, aged 46
Adrian Coleman is one of the founding partners of VCCP, which was launched in January 2002. Since joining Chime, Adrian additionally now jointly heads up the VCCP Group, which comprises VCCP, VCCP Digital, VCCP Search, VCCP Blue, Pure Media, BMT, SFW and SomeOne.
Prior to this he was Chief Executive of the AMD Group (Chime owned) where he oversaw the media group responsible for publishing, design and online, as well as advertising. Before joining AMD, Adrian was a partner at HHCL & Partners, a director of IMP, and started his career working for Exxon on the client side. Coleman's wide experience gives him a broad and incisive understanding of the marketing mix.
Viki Cooke, aged 55
Following a successful career in advertising, communications and planning, Viki co-founded and is joint CEO of Opinion Leader. Viki has played a pivotal role in developing new thinking about the drivers of corporate reputation and the use of deliberative methods to help shape policy. She is also expert in ways of identifying, understanding and engaging with hard-to-reach audiences - ranging from those at risk of social exclusion to chief executives. Viki is also a Trustee of Global Action Plan and Changing Faces.
Sue Farr, aged 53
Sue Farr has been a member of the Management Team of Chime since 2003 and is currently leading Chime's strategic and business development programme. Prior to joining Chime she was European Managing Director of Golin/Harris, an IPG owned public relations group where she ran several businesses across Europe. Most of Sue's client-side career has been spent in broadcasting; firstly as Director of Corporate Communications for Thames Television plc (1990-1993), which saw her launch UK Gold, and subsequently as Director of Marketing for the BBC (1993-2000), where she was responsible for marketing strategy, planning and implementation across all the BBC's public service brands.
A director of The Marketing Society since 1984, Sue was the first woman Chair in 1991-1992. She was a non-executive director of New Look plc from 1994 until 1996 and was Chairman of The Marketing Group of Great Britain from 1999 to 2001. Sue was voted the Advertising Woman of the Year in 1997, a WACL Woman of Achievement in 1998 and was awarded The Marketing Society 'Grand Prix' in 1998.
Jim Glover, aged 44
Jim has worked in the sports marketing industry for over 15 years. After beginning at IMG specialising in golf clients, Jim joined US based golf management company Cornerstone Sports, managing the European office.
In 1994 he set up Lighthouse Communications, one of the first independent agencies to offer the corporate world independent, impartial advice on sponsorship. Over the next ten years, Jim built the company into one the leading and most respected independent consulting agencies in Europe, responsible for creating successful sponsorship programmes for Heineken International, GlaxoSmithKline, MMC and Ford.
In December 2005, he oversaw the successful acquisition of Lighthouse by leading sports marketing agency Fast Track and was asked to join the merged company as Managing Director with responsibility for the client facing elements of the business. Jim lives in London and is married with 4 children.
Deborah Mattinson, aged 53
Deborah Mattinson, joint chair of Chime's research and engagement division, is one of Britain's leading practitioners of issue-based research and consultation. She has unparalleled expertise in accessing and understanding public opinion, in stakeholder dialogue, and in citizen engagement. Deborah writes and broadcasts widely on public opinion and is a Trustee of the Green Alliance.
Kevin Murray, aged 53
Kevin Murray is Chairman of the Bell Pottinger Group, the Public Relations Division of Chime Communications.
Kevin specialises in the field of strategic communications and reputation management and has years of experience advising chairmen and chief executives, as well as managing complex and global communications projects and departments.
Previously he was the Director of Communications for British Airways and, before that, Director of Corporate Affairs for AEA Technology, the international science and engineering business that was floated off from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
Prior to AEA, Kevin was Group Public Relations Manager for Bayer companies in the UK. He is also a former national newspaper journalist, magazine publisher and marketing director.
Alan Pascoe, MBE, aged 62
Following a successful athletics career in which he represented Great Britain at three Olympic Games and won a silver medal, Alan became involved in sponsorship, where he has worked for over 30 years. This has involved managing and delivering major sports and entertainment programmes, acting as a consultant to some of the world's leading brands and creating and organising some of Britain's most successful events.
In the mid 80's, Alan set up API which grew to become one of the top three sponsorship, television and sports marketing companies in the world, employing over 300 people in 13 offices around the world. After selling API to the Interpublic Group in 1998, Alan set up Fast Track as a specialist sponsorship consultancy with the initial task of supporting UK Athletics to revive and re-launch British athletics.
In September 2003, Alan was appointed to one of his most challenging roles yet as Vice-Chairman of the London 2012 Olympic bid which, was awarded to London by the IOC on July 6th 2005. In 2004 Alan was voted Sponsorship Personality of the Year by Hollis Publishing and has led Fast Track into a hugely successful period of growth and industry recognition, becoming the first ever company to win back to back sponsorship industry awards as well as being nominated as the leading sponsorship agency in the UK by Marketing Magazine in 2005 and 2006.
Ian Priest, aged 44
Ian Priest, Founding Partner at VCCP and joint head of the VCCP Group, started below-the-line and migrated to advertising, with excellent integrated credentials. His approach to work is team based and to encourage respect, fun, ambition and speed. He loves working with like-minded clients and has proven time and time again that he delivers outstanding work that gets it right. From Account Executive at IMP in 1986 to Managing Director of HHCL & Partners in 1999, Ian's career has been carved out of brilliant campaigns and hard-nosed business reality.
Jon Ridgeon, aged 42
Jon is a former two-time Olympic track and field athlete, world championship silver medallist at 110m hurdles and graduate from Cambridge University. Post his athletics career, Jon entered sports marketing in 1994, initially specialising in rights marketing. When Fast Track was established in 1998, Jon created the communications department before moving on to becoming Managing Director, with particular responsibility for events, communications and rights marketing.
Currently, Jon leads a team of close to 50 people responsible for delivering a number of world class event and commercial rights programmes including the UK School Games, the Paralympic World Cup and UK:Athletics' (UKA) televised event series. Recently, Jon led the renegotiation of the Norwich Union / UKA contract, resulting in a six year £50 million contract, the biggest commercial sponsorship in British sport outside of football.
In addition to his role at Fast Track, Jon is a presenter for Sky Sports and has also presented for BBC Television and Radio 5 Live. Jon is married with one child and remains activity involved in sport through climbing and mountaineering.
Nick Taylor, aged 57
Nick Taylor began his commercial career as a graduate trainee in the aerospace and medical divisions of Smiths Industries plc. In 1979 he founded Harvard Public Relations which went on to become one of Europe's leading TMT consultancies, with offices in London, Paris and Munich. Following Harvard's acquisition by Chime in 2000, Nick joined the Executive Management Board with responsibility for Chime's overseas offices; he is also a member of the Corporate Development Team handling M&A activity. Nick is a non-executive director of Merityre Specialists and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
