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The directors
Vivienne Maunder
Vivienne is an experienced PR practitioner, with over 25 years experience of journalism, public relations, marketing communications and related activities.
Building on early experience as a journalist for the East Anglian Daily Times, she moved to work at Grigsmore - then Suffolk's leading PR and marketing agency - before taking on a marketing & communications role at Tor Line, a large Scandinavian passenger and freight shipping line.
More recently, she spent nine years at Marriott Howard Publicity, consulting on public relations for a wide range of regional businesses.
Immediately before setting up her own business as a freelance writer and PR consultant in 2003, she worked at Ryan Insurance, managing their public relations programme and overseeing a range of marketing functions.
In 2010, Vivienne was named a member of the Suffolk 100, the East Anglian Daily Times' listing of the county's most influential business people.
Colin Maunder
Colin has over ten years' experience in brand development and the delivery of high impact communications, centered on the information and communication technologies industry.
Until September 2004, he managed brand development, public relations and other communications activities for BT Exact - one of the UK's largest ICT businesses.
In 1995, he launched one of BT's first public web sites and played a key role in the early development of the company's web presence, www.bt.com. More recently, he managed the production of marketing collateral to support BT Exact's launch as a commercial business in 2001.
His career has also included membership of the editorial boards of several award-winning publications, the organisation of major industry conferences and exhibitions, and the delivery of high profile speeches on technology and business topics.
While no longer personally involved in the development of new technologies,
Colin remains a Member of the Institution
of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and a Senior Member of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).