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conference producers

Stuart Barker
Stuart has a wealth of experience in producing high quality business conferences and training courses. Stuart started his career at IIR holding senior positions in a number of different divisions including IT / telecoms and defence. For the last five years Stuart has worked as a consultant to conference, exhibition and publishing companies, working with them to develop their commercial conference business in a wide range of industry sectors.

Stuart’s clients include Sunday Times Business Week, IBE, Vitesse Media, IIR and Upper Street Events.

tel: + 44 (0) 20 8854 9389
mobile: 07798 691093
email: stuartjbarker@mac.com

Amanda Crabbe
Amanda spent over 12 years with IIR both in their London and New York office before becoming freelance.  Amanda set up the public sector division at IIR and  then became a senior manager firstly in their energy and transportation division and then in their telecommunication and technology division.

Amanda has total p & l responsibility for divisions including topic generation, research, production, marketing, sales and logistics functions. Her event portfolio includes large scale events (250+ attendees and 25+ exhibition stands), standard conferences, stand-alone seminars and training.

tel: 01732 88 67 88
mobile: 0771 836 8045
email: acrabbe@btinternet.com

Glenn Fallows
Glenn Fallows is a freelance conference producer with a strong background in product development, product positioning, sales and marketing strategy and business development. He has been able to fuse a diverse range of skills into the production of events which are focused enough to provide significant value to delegates, whilst being commercially valid enough to attract key sponsors.

Past clients include IIR, Infoline Conferences, Emap and IBDG, working across various markets, but with a particular specialisation in the Financial Services markets.  He has also developed conferences in various key business areas including Finance, IT, Human Resources, Marketing, Sales, Audit, Governance and Compliance.

Glenn is also trained in copywriting and qualified in PRINCE 2 Project Management to Practitioner level.

Carl Goodman
Carl is the Managing Director of Goodman Production; the UK’s premier conference production consultancy offering research, program writing, speaker recruitment, marketing and sponsorship sales services tailored to its clients’ requirements.  Carl has over 10 years experience in the events business; most of which has focussed on conference production of highly profitable events over 3 continents.  Having previously held senior conference production roles in First Conferences and Euromoney plc, Carl set up Goodman Production to offer world-class freelance production services on a cost-effective basis. 

Having produced profitable international conferences in the pharmaceutical, travel, music, IT, retail, finance, FMCG, HR and marketing industries; Carl has a proven track record to apply his expertise to any market.  To date he has produced profitable events for First Conferences, Euromoney plc, Netmarkets Europe, IBDG, Marketing Week Conferences, Vitesse Media plc, Business XL Magazine, Growth Company Investor Magazine, William Reed Publishing and IDG. 

tel: 0151 707 9522
Skype: carl.goodman
email: carl@goodmanproduction.com
web: www.goodmanproduction.com
testimonials: http://www.goodmanproduction.com/port_references.php

Yvonne Hynes
Freelance by choice since 2002, Yvonne produces and manages UK and international conferences for clients including Informa, Haymarket, Euromoney Institutional Investor, EMAP, Melcrum and the London Stock Exchange. The events, typically lasting 1-3 days, cover a wide range of sectors including finance, telecoms, energy/environment, marketing & communications, public sector and more.

Yvonne has worked in the conference and training industry since 1997, initially with IIR as senior conference producer and subsequently with Euromoney in roles including Deputy Director of Seminars and General Manager of MIS Training EMEA.

To see examples of past events and to check availability, please email: yhynes@conferenceproducer.com

Rachel Joshi
Rachel has many years of experience in conference production, beginning her career as a telecoms producer, before overseeing the successful re-launch of the telecoms and energy sector at an international conference company.  She moved to a new company to produce information and knowledge management events where she went on to manage the company’s entire event portfolio, including IT and online environment events for the public and private sectors and marketing, finance, risk and HR topics for the professional services and law firm sectors. She has also produced internal communications, external communications and HR conferences.

Rachel has extensive experience in topic generation, programme research, speaker acquisition and generating marketing and sponsorship leads for large-scale and smaller, niche events.

She has produced one and two-day conferences, high-level masterclasses, interactive workshops and seminars and broader expo and one-to-one business meeting conference programmes. 

tel: +44 (0)20 7223 4918
mob: +44 (0)7775 731 303
email: rachel.joshi@freelanceproduction.co.uk

As a freelance, she has worked for conference companies:
IQCP, Emap, Campden, Day Robinson, IBE, ATE, Euromoney and Haymarket Events

and membership bodies:
CIBSE (the Chartered Institution for Building Services Engineers)
IFB (the Institute for Family Business)

producing conferences on a diverse range of topics, including:

• Gaming investment
• Coal investment
• Family business finance
• Generation Y in business
• Outsourcing BPO
• Retail (store) profitability

She enjoys repeat business from her clients, delivering polished conference content on time and on budget.

She is based in Wokingham, Berkshire, and can be reached on:
tel: 0118 989 3829
mobile: 07775 621419 or
email: nicola_joyce03@yahoo.com

Jasper Lim 
Jasper develops state-of-the-art conference programs for professional event organisers as well as for academic organisations. He develops conference topics using grounded theory techniques, which ensures that the programs developed are relevant and attractive to the target audience. He has a track record for developing successful conference programs in the field of innovation, R&D, finance, telecoms, IT and transport subjects. His clients and partners include the European Networking Group, Association of Regional Development and Entrepreneurship, International Telework Academy and the Emerald Group.

Jasper is based in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. For additional information or request for references, please do not hesitate to contact him by phone or email below:

tel: +31 (0) 6 343 45901
fax: +31 (0)10 751 2281
email: events@merlien.org
web: www.merlien.org/events

Susan Nelson
Susan has a wealth of experience in producing conferences and training courses (both in -house and freelance). With responsibility for research, topic generation, programme contents, speaker procurement, media partners and trade associations.

She has worked in a number of markets including financial fraud, anti money laundering, HR and risk management. Susan has worked with Network International, S J Berwin, Foulds Ingham and Business Forums International.

tel: 020 7233 1293
fax: 020 7222 2826
mobile: 07764 609390
email: davidandsusienelson@btinernet.com

Julia O'Hegarty
Julia is a highly experienced conference producer/marketer, with over 17 years' experience involving the development and marketing of over 230 conferences, exhibitions and events including numerous international programmes. She has been freelance for 10 years. Her conference portfolio reflects a strong focus on market analysis and in-depth research skills to closely define subject identification and programme content within many key industry sectors eg: supply chain management, consumer insights, retailing, retail banking; insurance; fmcg consumer marketing, wireless technology, brand advertising; foreign investment, capital markets including oil and gas/energy markets

Julia has a proven record of successful identification of sponsors and business partners within each market sector and on-going close team work between in-house sales teams, sponsorship and marketing including new on-line viral and interactive web/email campaigns

Conferences Produced for: Informa, IIR, Centaur, The National Children's Bureau, Rock Media, Terrapinn, Lafferty/VRL Publishing, Thomson Financial and Euromoney

office tel: +44 (0)1747 841315
fax: +44 (0)1747 841374
mobile: +44 (0)7771 547086
email: juliaoheg@btconnect.com

Simone Roberts
Simone started her conference career in 1998 in the telecoms division of IIR. She then worked for companies such as Yankee Group and PBI Media as a telecoms analyst and consultant. Simone has been a freelance conference producer since 2002. Her clients include Informa, IIR, Emap, Haymarket, Vitesse Media, Newzeye and Infoline Conferences. She produces niche and large scale events across a broad range of industries including Telecoms, Life Sciences, Financial Services, Architecture, Plastics, Media, Medical, Environment and Construction.

tel: 020 8368 7272
mobile: 07720 289303
email: mail@sroberts.net
web: www.sroberts.net

Stephen Roberts
A freelance researcher, analyst and consultant, Stephen has been producing events since 1998. He has worked in-house for IIR and for Vision in Business, and as a freelancer for Informa, EMAP, IIR, Infoline, First Conferences and other conference organising and publishing companies. His main areas of expertise are telecoms & technology, general management & finance, marketing & brands and public sector. Stephen also has extensive experience in market and competitive intelligence research and analysis.
 
email: stephen@sroberts.net
tel: 44 (0) 20 8361 4955
mobile: 44 (0) 7742 244772
web: www.sroberts.net

Tess Townsend
Tess Townsend is a Senior Conference Producer of high quality having created conferences, video programmes and other live events from scratch for 25 years, both for other production houses and direct for clients. Tess is fully able to work at all levels from CEO down, liaising with the client on your behalf, as needed.

Tess also works as a showcaller and would welcome the opportunity to assist you on future events.

If you are interested in meeting Tess or viewing her CV, contact her on:
mobile: 07778 277805
landline : 01483 455525
email : tess@studiob.co.uk
web : www.studiob.co.uk

Claire Tranah
Claire is a seasoned freelance events professional with over 10 years experience in conference production,  speaker acquisition, copy writing, topic generation and marketing across a number of industry sectors.  She started her conference career at Euroforum and then moved to IIR as a Senior Conference Director.  She has also worked in a senior management capacity for TEN – Telecommunications Executive Network as a Product Portfolio Director responsible for developing their entire range of events.

Since deciding to freelance in 2005 Claire has worked across a number of markets including telecoms, energy, retail, law, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Her clients include Informa, Infoline, EMAP, WCBF, IIR, Newzeye and Whitepaper Conferences.

mobile: 07747 012 119
office: 0208 133 1373
email: clairetranah01@aol.comor claire.tranah@conference-team.com

Nadine Zrinzo
Operating under the name bright conferences, Nadine Zrinzo provides an outsourced conference production solution. With experience in producing events across Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, Nadine has produced a variety of conferences, e-symposiums, summits and training courses in the finance, IT and energy markets. Based in Australia, Nadine is available to produce events in Australia, Asia and Europe.

email: Nadine@brightconferences.com
mobile: +61 4 1917 5544
tel: +61 7 3103 2412 /0207 871 6888
web: www.brightconferences.com