Favourite book Churchill by
Martin Gilbert.
Burning career ambition?
To be better at what I do.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
Sky Plus.
Brown, Caraline
Founder, Midnight
Communications
The founder of this
Brighton-based
firm set up one of
the most successful
agencies in the
South East, with
only self-belief and a £2K bank
loan. She recently gave up her
position as managing director to
become chief talent officer.
Address 28 Foundry Street,
Brighton BN1 4AT
Telephone
01273 666200
Born London.
Lives Brighton, with my Sussex
terrier, Vince the Invincible.
Career highlight Winning
PRWeek’s Consultancy of the
Year and International
Campaign awards on the
same day.
Worst moment of career
Selling my company and
watching someone else make
a hash of it.
Professional inspiration?
Morrissey, the greatest living
Englishman.
Media must-haves?
Sky News, The Word, Fortean
Times, Facebook, Empire.
Most respected journalist
Janet Street-Porter.
Most respected politician
Arthur Scargill.
Business or brand to
watch? Midnight
Communications, of course.
Best advice? Always be
nice to the receptionist.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of?
The guy who set up a website
and sold each pixel on it
for a pound.
Favourite book
How to Stop Worrying and Start
Living by Dale Carnegie.
Private members club?
Seven Dials, Massive.
Burning career ambition?
To have the body of Beyoncé.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
Pedro, my pool boy.
Brown, Gill
CEO, Band & Brown Group
Recently taking the
role of CEO at the
agency she formed
with Nick Band,
Brown now holds
group-wide
responsibility for both consumer
and experiential agency Brando
and Band & Brown
Communications.
Address 57 Jamestown Road,
London NW1 7DB
Telephone 020 7419 6955
Born London, 1960.
Lives Islington, alone;
Catford and Suffolk, with
partner Colin and stepchildren
Leila and Theo.
Career highlight Joining
forces with Nick Band and doing
the deal with Cossette.
Worst moment of career
Five years ago, dealing with a
breakaway business.
Professional inspiration?
Helen Calcraft, MCBD.
Media must-haves?
The Guardian, bbc.co.uk,
Google, Facebook.
Most respected journalist
Will Self.
Most respected politician
Barack Obama.
Business or brand to
watch? Cisco.
Best advice? Great ideas will
wither if you don’t take people
with you.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of? Dove.
Favourite book Le Noeud de
Viperes by François Mauriac.
Burning career ambition?
To profit from collective strength.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
My hair colour from Aveda.
Because I am worth it.
Brown, Rob
MD, Staniforth
Last year Brown
picked up the title
of the CIPR’s
Outstanding
PR Professional in
the North West.
He recently switched from heading
McCann Erickson’s PR division to
its fierce rival, Staniforth.
Address Parklands, Wilmslow
Road, Didsbury, Manchester
M20 2RE & 76-80 Whitfield
Street, London W1T 4EZ
Telephone 0161 919 8495
Born Salford, 1962.
Lives Hazel Grove, with
my family.
Career highlight Being
published (Public Relations
and the Social Web,
Kogan Page, 2009).
Worst moment of career
Sailing up the Thames on a boat
pretending to lay a pipeline to
deliver Beaujolais Nouveau
(nobody gave a damn).
Professional inspiration?
John Williams, Charles
Tremayne, Jane Howard,
Tim Lindsay (who I’ve worked
with) and Todd Defren
(who I haven’t).
Media must-haves? Twitter,
Google, Google Analytics, The
Guardian, pr-media-blog.co.uk,
PRWeek, The Sunday Times, The
New York Times.
Most respected journalist
John Pilger, John Humphrys,
Hunter S. Thompson and
Tony Parsons.
Most respected politician
Aung San Suu Kyi.
Business or brand to
watch? Twitter and Apple.
Best advice? Two ears,
one mouth.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of? M&S and
Jeremy Paxman’s underpants.
Favourite book A
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
Genius by Dave Eggers.
Burning career ambition?
Always to be excited by
emerging media and technology.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
Saint-Véran.
Brownlee, Scott
General manager, press and
public affairs, Toyota
As head of press
and PR for Toyota
& Lexus GB,
Brownlee holds
one of the most
high-profile jobs in
the automotive world.
Address Burgh Heath,
Surrey KT18 5UX
Telephone 07768 306700
Born Scotland, 1962.
Lives Sussex, with wife Wendy
and an indeterminate number
of children.
Career highlight It has all
been pretty good.
Professional inspiration?
Steven Spielberg.
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Media must-haves?
BBC News, Radio 4 podcasts.
Most respected journalist
Tintin.
Most respected politician
Mikhail Gorbachev.
Business or brand to
watch? The BBC.
Best advice? Original thought
is a wonderful thing... and you
will never have one.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of?
Christianity.
Favourite book Rupert Annual.
Burning career ambition?
To fail (get paid off) on a scale
that makes me financially
secure for life.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
Coffee and bagels at the local
bookshop on Saturdays.
Bungawala, Inayat
Media spokesperson,
Muslim Council of Britain
Address PO Box 57330,
London E1 2WJ
Telephone
0845 262 6786
Lowdown Islam is rarely out
of the media: the job of trying to
change misconceptions and
combat negative perceptions of
Muslims in the UK is a
challenging task. Terrorism and
fundamentalism dominate
headlines in the modern age,
and Bungawala heads comms
for the body charged with
promoting an understanding of
Islam in the UK.
Bunn, Thomas
Co-founder, Mission Media
Bunn set up
Mission Media
with fellow Freud
Communications
alumna Nicola
Quayle in 2002.
The agency has worked for, among
other clients, Naomi Campbell’s
agency Premier Model
Management and the British
Independent Film Awards.
Address 6 Mercer Street,
Covent Garden, London WC2H
9QA and 560 Broadway, New
York, NY, USA 10012
Telephone 020 7845 7800
Born London, 1978.
Lives Balham, alone.
Career highlight Opening a
New York office in 2009.
Worst moment of career
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