Piers Pottinger
Christopher Satterthwaite
Mark Smith
Crispin Beale, aged 39
Crispin Beale is one of the UK’s leading market research industry figures with a reputation for insightful and strategic vision, coupled with an entrepreneurial and dynamic approach to business. He has a proven track record of leveraging expertise from across a business to deliver best practice to clients, which is demonstrated in his consistent delivery of positive annual results. Crispin was promoted to CEO of Chime’s Research Division in 2010, having produced a record turnover for Facts International in his previous position as Chief Executive of the company.
Prior to working for Chime, Crispin held a number of influential and senior roles including Group Director at Royal Mail Group plc, running insight, intelligence and analysis across Royal Mail, Post Office Ltd and Parcelforce Worldwide, and responsibility for marketing services including advertising for Post Office Ltd. Crispin was a key player in the launch of Post Office Financial Services and Post Office Home Phone/Broadband. Prior to this, Crispin was Head of Customer Satisfaction for BT plc as well as leading the BT Research and Intelligence teams. Crispin joined BT plc from Dixons Stores Group (now DSGi plc) where he was head of research and customer action across the Group.
Crispin originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand, specialising in financial services, before moving into marketing and consultancy with Coopers & Lybrand and then PricewaterhouseCoopers. For the last five years Beale has been a Director and elected Council Member of the MRS.
David Beck, aged 50
David Beck has been the Bell Pottinger Group's Client Services Director since he returned to the Group in 2009. He was tasked with revitalising the Group's financial PR offering which was achieved through the merger of Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial with Pelham in early 2010. David oversaw the merger and subsequent integration of the two firms.
He was previously Director of Communications at Marconi, responsible for all internal and external communications globally. He has 25 years' experience in public relations, and before Marconi was Managing Director of Bell Pottinger's financial public relations business. His current clients include Deloitte, Fujitsu and Canary Wharf Group.
Bart Campbell, aged 41
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 48
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.
Sue Farr, aged 55
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. 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.
Sue also has a Non Executive career. She has been a Trustee of the Historic Royal Palaces since 2004; in 2008 she was appointed a Non Executive Director of Motivcom plc and in November 2011 she joined the Board of Dairy Crest plc. Previously she was a Non Exec of New Look plc.
A Director of The Marketing Society since 1984, Sue was the first woman Chair in 1991-1992 and 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. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire in 2010.
Jim Glover, aged 46
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.
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.
Joanne Parker, aged 46
Jo is Chief Executive of Teamspirit, the financial services specialist agency that has been a part of Chime for 11 years.
Part of the founding team 15 years ago, she has always believed that specialist agencies best serve clients that work in complex markets. She is a passionate advocate of integrated marketing and has developed Teamspirit’s offering on this basis. Its’ services span marketing consultancy, brand development, advertising, marketing communications, and digital. Three years ago she set up Teamspirit Public Relations which is now one of the fastest growing PR consultancies in the UK.
She has worked for some of the best known financial services brands in the market, has over two decades of marketing experience and has seen the agency double in size in the last 5 years.
Ian Priest, aged 48
Ian Priest is one of the founding partners of VCCP which launched in January 2002. Having started his career below-the–line he became a director of IMP, then a partner and Managing Director of HHCL. He now heads up Chime Ventures and is a member of the IPA Council member.
Alan Pascoe, MBE, aged 64
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.
Nick Taylor, aged 59
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.
David Wilson, aged 45
David joined in 2000 to lead its signature account with Emirates Airline and Group, a client for which he still holds core responsibility today. He became Managing Director of Bell Pottinger Public Relations in 2002, subsequently becoming its Chairman, with responsibility for the group's Business and Brand, Change & Internal Communications, Digital, Issues & Crisis Management practices. He has also helped Bell Pottinger to build its business internationally with a range of regional and global clients. Before joining Bell Pottinger David was Head of Communication for Pfizer UK, Head of News at British Airways and then Managing Editor of BATV - its award-winning internal staff TV channel - and PR Manager at P&O European Ferries. He began his career as a journalist.
