Cathy O'Neill Senior Account Manager

Cathy graduated from Cardiff University with a 2:1 degree in Journalism, Film and Broadcasting and joined National Chartered Surveyors, Atisreal in February 2005 as a research and marketing assistant based in Cardiff. Cathy enjoyed the marketing elements of her job and decided to focus completely on PR and marketing and subsequently joined C8 Consulting in August 2006 as a Junior Marketing Consultant. She then worked her way up to the position of Account Manager before leaving to travel in September 2009. Since this time Cathy has travelled, also working to assist the seminars departments at Thomson Reuters for 6 months while living in Melbourne, Australia, and returned to C8 Consulting in January 2011. Cathy's responsibilities include; generating news through press releases, liaising with journalists, responding to activity in the news, copywriting, and event management and managing the running of her accounts on a daily basis.

Katie Astbury – Senior Marketing Executive

Katie graduated from Nottingham Trent University in June 2009 with a 2:2 degree in Real Estate Management BSC (hons) and promptly joined the C8 team in the following July. As part of her degree Katie spent 12 Months’ working for national Chartered Surveyors Colliers CRE as a trainee surveyor. Katie’s role at the company was predominantly property agency and she particularly enjoyed the marketing aspect of her job which involved using the website, trade press and local media to promote investment opportunities. Along with her keen interest in media relations this experience prompted Katie to broaden her marketing experience and join the C8 team.

Katie is a sports enthusiast, and in her spare time plays for Reading RFC. Prior to graduating her interest in sport led her to work at numerous high profile hospitality events including Royal Ascot, the RFU Six Nations, the British Open, and the Cricket Test Series. This experience has provided her with an invaluable insight into the functionality of corporate hospitality.
 

Janine Mitchell - Senior Marketing Executive

Janine graduated from Cardiff University in 2009 with a 2:1 honours degree in English Literature and became involved in Marketing and PR straight away. Janine worked at John Goodwin Ltd; a premium fashion store in Windsor, from 2005 throughout University and developed strong skills of communication and creativity. Her abilities were later employed when the company launched its own website in December 2009 and Janine was involved in elements of copywriting, image selection and email campaigns.

In April, 2010 Janine started at Zaboura PR, an agency that specialises in technology. Janine gained significant experience of both the IT press and the industry as a whole, dealing with accounts such as Kingston Technology, FaceVsion and Cyberlink. She was responsible for conducting weekly conference calls, reporting, assessing coverage and securing meetings. Janine executed a successful press event and supported three others during her time at Zaboura. Janine is passionate about writing and literature and has a keen interest in social media.

Fiona Kenny - Senior Marketing Executive

Fiona has more than five years experience working in marketing specifically on events, sponsorship and hospitality for companies such as Friends Provident, Serco, and IBM. Throughout her roles she has managed small meetings and private dinners for C-Level Managers and VIPs, to large, high profile client events and multi-million pound international recognition events. Fiona is now expanding her marketing and PR skills with C8.

Nigel Elliott - Finance and Operations Director

Nigel joined C8 Consulting in July 2007, having previously worked for worldwide software company, Microsoft.   Nigel has excellent commercial and business acumen and a proven track record spanning over 20 years, working with Fortune 500 companies. During this time, he has held senior sales and business management positions both in the UK and internationally. He is a good problem solver, with a pragmatic down to earth approach, which combined with his first-rate customer relationship management skills, means he is well liked and respected by clients. Nigel is responsible for the management of C8 Consulting’s business operations, but continues to work closely with clients, both in a business development and consultancy capacity.

Richard Hall - Board Advisor

Richard Hall graduated from Oxford in English. He worked as a client first in HR and then in increasingly senior marketing roles with Reckitts, RHM Foods and Corgi Toys and in advertising with French Gold Abbott, FCO and Euro RSGG. Richard has chaired a leading film and stunt company and a PR consultancy. He is currently chair of Shaftesbury Young People, Showcase Presentations and RH&A and non-executive director of C8 Consulting and Ballet Black. Currently working on his fourth book - the first three were: “That Presentation Sensation”, “Brilliant Presentations” and “Success”. Published in English, Chinese, Korean and Romanian, Richard says this doesn’t make him a global citizen but it’s a step in the right direction!

David Bicknell - Associate Consultant

David is a writer with over twenty years experience covering the business, technology and IT sectors. He has a journalistic background, having begun his career working for a news agency in the East Midlands, before joining BBC local radio in Leicester. On moving to London, he began writing about IT, eventually spending 17 years in the weekly IT press, working for Computer Weekly as News and US Editor, then launching a sister title to Computer Weekly, e-Business Review. For a number of years since then, he has been a freelance writer, contributing magazine articles, editing titles and specialising in corporate writing across a range of subjects and sectors. He is also co-author of a successful book about IT projects.

Tatiana Miller – Associate Consultant

Tatiana is an independent communications consultant with over 14 years experience in the IT sector – both agency and in-house.  Prior to becoming a consultant, Tatiana worked at Symantec where she was responsible for enterprise public relations across the Northern region. In addition, Tatiana developed and managed Symantec's pan-EMEA corporate communications programme, focussing on executive speaker and media relations programmes, executive tours and managing media plans around M&A activity.  Prior to Symantec, Tatiana developed and managed Veritas Software’s EMEA corporate communications programme across 18 countries in EMEA. Tatiana started her communications career at London PR agency Brodeur where she ran media relations programmes for IBM Global Services, IBM Networking Systems EMEA, IBM Software EMEA, AMP and Claris.