Seven Hills

He is co-founder of StartUp Britain, the national initiative for early stage enterprise, which is fully supported by Prime Minister David Cameron and HM Government.

Michael is chairman of entrepreneurs at the private bank Coutts & Co and is chairman of MADE: The Entrepreneur Festival. He is a contributing editor for Real Business and a columnist for Start Your Business.

Michael is a non-executive member of Festivals Edinburgh. He also served as a non-executive director with the cities of Westminster, Sheffield and as a commissioner on the Inquiry Into The Future Of Cities And Local Government Finance.

Nick leads the international media campaign for One Young World, the London based charity which holds an annual youth summit.

This year's summit took place in Pittsburgh and attracted 1,300 young leaders from 182 countries as well as a distinguished group of speakers including President Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Bob Geldof, Natalia Vodianova, Jamie Oliver, Antony Jenkins of Barclays and NASA astronaut Ron Garan.

Nick also works with leading entrepreneurs including Julie Meyer, Doug Richard, David Richards of WANdisco and Paul Lindley, the multi-award winning founder of Ella's Kitchen.

Since joining the company in 2010 she has worked on the delivery of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010 as well as MADE: The Entrepreneur Festival in 2010 and 2011.

During her time at Seven Hills, Jessica has worked with founding Dragons’ Den panellists Peter Jones CBE and Doug Richard. She has also advised Virgin Media Pioneers for whom she delivered the launch of its thought leadership report - Disruptive Influence.

Charlotte spearheads the campaign for One Young World, the international youth forum that brings 1,500 young leaders from over 170 countries together with counsellors including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jamie Oliver and Sir Bob Geldof.

Charlotte also lead the delivery of Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2012 in Liverpool working in partnership with Liverpool Vision. She also works on the Grow For It campaign with East Kent.

Rosanne joined Seven Hills with more than eight years of corporate public relations experience. She is spearheading campaigns for Ariadne CapitaL, Irwin Mitchell, Kent County Council and Liverpool Vision.

Prior to Seven Hills, Rosanne spent six years at Bell Pottinger where she advised UK and international companies across all sectors on a wide range of communication issues, including IPOs, agreed and hostile M&A, litigation and competition issues, crisis situations, as well as long term corporate profile raising and repositioning campaigns.

Rosanne ran campaigns to build business profile for Neil Clifford and Rebecca Farrer-Hockley at Kurt Geiger, Mark Price at Waitrose and Thea Green at nails inc.

Kathryn leads the operational strategy for Seven Hills. This includes recruitment, team development and business operations.

She brings seven years management experience from the John Lewis Partnership to the role. After completing the graduate scheme, she has managed Waitrose branches in Belgravia, Chelsea and Islington, delivering the opening strategy for the Islington branch.

In these roles, Kathryn was responsible for delivering business plans and achieving financial results. She was line manager to over 200 people and worked hard to coach and develop them.

She brings extensive PA and event management experience from both the UK and Australia to the role. Most recently, Jackie was Executive Assistant at Starbucks UK head office for more than two years. In this role she looked after the Finance Director and the Legal Director as well as their teams – a total of 35 staff.

After moving to London in 2007, Jackie worked as an Events Executive at Charlton House Catering, an events and catering company, which holds exclusive contracts at a number of prestigious London venues and has clients including the Queen's Garden Parties at Buckingham Palace and the Lord Mayor's Banquet at the Guildhall. Jackie's role involved both selling event space and coordinating all aspects of event logistics with her clients.

Tom focuses on using financial tools to develop business growth strategies, working in close partnership with the management team to maximise return on investment for clients.

He brings with him over three years of experience managing financial operations for agencies, with responsibilities ranging from day-to-day oversight, to submission of reports, delivery of key financial statements and development of effective strategies for business growth.



 

He works on a thought-leadership programme with the Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, and leads the PR campaign for small business accounting software firm Intuit. He also leads on Paul Lindley's political and stakeholder engagement, and with campaign group Tech London Advocates.

Mark led on the delivery of MADE: The Entrepreneur Festival 2012, liaising with politicians, high-profile entrepreneurs, journalists and sponsors.

Prior to joining Seven Hills, Mark spent four years at public relations firm Edelman, working on a broad range of public affairs and corporate clients. Previous employers include United Business Media and Public Affairs News at Dods, the political publishing company.

Anna works with Dragons’ Den panellist Peter Jones CBE, supporting his Foundation and network of Enterprise Academies. She recently launched Peter's new enterprise challenge for children, Tycoon in Schools.

She is also working with founding Dragons’ Den panellist Doug Richard's School for Startups and Gazelle.

She has delivered superb wins for both corporate and consumer clients including One Young World, Virgin Media Pioneers, Intuit, Ella’s Kitchen and seatwave.com.

She has driven powerful media campaigns for StartUp Britain, One Young World, MADE: The Entrepreneur Festival and Peter Jones’s re-launch of Jessops resulting in international broadcast coverage across outlets including CNN International, BBC and CNBC and both profile interview and feature articles across major national and international newspapers including The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Sun and The Independent.

Krissy works across a range of clients including Intuit, Gazelle and founding Dragons’ Den panellist Doug Richard’s School for Startups.

Prior to Seven Hills, Krissy worked at Bell Pottinger where she delivered high impact media relations campaigns, implemented social media programmes and managed high-end events, both nationally and Internationally.

Nicole brings a wealth of brand development and web experience to accounts including Gazelle, Liverpool Vision and East Kent.

She recently supported the team on the delivery of the London Preview of the International Festival for Business 2014 and the London launch of the Grow For It in East Kent campaign at the London Stock Exchange.

Before joining Seven Hills, Nicole was working at Channelzero where she developed strategic and effective marketing strategies for a portfolio of high profile clients including, News Limited, Pfizer, Citizen Watches and Gloria Jean’s Coffees.

She is currently focusing on the delivery of Accelerate 2013, the new festival for Britain's high-growth, fast-potential businesses and supporting on the delivery of the International Festival of Business 2014, both taking place in Liverpool.

Over the last two years, she has worked on major events including the government-backed entrepreneur initiative StartUp Britain and Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2012.

She was also an integral member of the team that delivered MADE: The Entrepreneur Festival in 2011 and 2012.

She has worked on a number of campaigns and events, both nationally and internationally and works across a range of clients including One Young World, the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, Ariadne Capital and Liverpool Vision.

Henrietta was a core member of the team driving the media campaign for One Young World, the international youth forum that gathers 1,500 future leaders from 180 countries around the world, securing international and national broadcast and print coverage.

She also works with Dragons’ Den panellist Peter Jones CBE driving campaigns to support the Peter Jones Enterprise Academies and more recently on the media relations campaign around Peter Jones’s re-launch of Jessops.

Stuart works across a range of clients including Liverpool Vision, Kent County Council and software company WANdisco with expertise in media, copy-writing and stakeholder relations.

He has a strong background in destination marketing campaigns, as a key member of the teams working to deliver the ‘Grow for It in East Kent’ campaign and Liverpool’s International Festival of Business in 2014.

He was a core part of the media team that delivered the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Liverpool and the third annual One Young World summit in Pittsburgh.

Specialising in entrepreneurship, Kate has interviewed some of the country’s best-known business owners, including Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis, Specsavers founder Dame Mary Perkins and Monitise CEO Alastair Lukies.

Her work has appeared in the Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Independent.

She has chaired events ranging from the Inspirational Women’s Network to the annual Entrepreneurs’ Summit and the Growing Business Awards. She was a recent guest speaker on BBC News programme, Show Me the Money.

He works on campaigns for Gazelle, Kent County Council, and Ariadne Capital founder and CEO Julie Meyer. 

In 2012 he helped deliver media campaigns for MADE: The Entrepreneur Festival and One Young World, the international youth forum that gathers 1,300 future leaders from 180 countries around the world. 

This year he has worked on Peter Jones CBE's relaunch of Jessops, and Tesco Clubcard pioneer Edwina Dunn's investment in the arts.

Prior to joining Seven Hills he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first-class degree in History. 

She specialises in media relations, research and social media campaigns.

Prior to joining Seven Hills, Alice gained experience at the PR firm Porter Novelli and the retail company Crave Maternity, covering its buying, merchandising and marketing.

She also has experience working internationally. In 2011, she worked for the S.T.A.R.S Foundation, an environmental agency in Beijing, China. She focused on widening the organisation’s outreach campaigns to European technology companies.

She works on campaigns for the Peter Jones Foundation, Gazelle, Liverpool Vision and Doug Richard’s School for Startups.

Hayley-Jane was responsible for the delivery of the Peter Jones campaign Tycoon in Schools, which included copywriting for the website, creating a portfolio of campaign photography, organising the awards ceremony and supporting with the media relations campaign.

She has also been involved with the delivery of the School for Creative Startups, Startups Showcase at Somerset House, organising a press preview attended by national newspapers’ consumer correspondents.

James specialises in research, media, stakeholder relations and driving high-impact social media campaigns.

Prior to joining Seven Hills, James spent ten months working in public affairs. His previous clients including Tesco; property developer, Dolphin Square Foundation; and REG Windpower.

James completed his studies in law at St John's College, Oxford in June 2012. 

Ronan works across the Gazelle and Grow for It in East Kent campaigns.

He played a key coordinating role in the award winning Bridging the Gap programme which delivered 5000 qualified young people to support security function at the London 2012 Olympics.

He has extensive experience in social enterprise and played an important role in the design delivery and promotion of the ground-breaking Pantrepreneur Project across 16 UK further education colleges in 2012.

Jenny works on campaigns for Gazelle and Intuit and was recently involved with the media launch of Intuit Pay resulting in national print and online coverage including the Financial Times and TechCrunch.

Prior to joining Seven Hills, Jenny spent six months at Cubo PR gaining experience across both B2B and B2C clients. She was instrumental in implementing campaigns for SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, MediaCom, AMV BBDO and more.

Matthew is currently working for Liverpool Vision in the delivery of Accelerate 2013 as well as Doug Richard’s School for Startups and WANdisco.

Prior to joining Seven Hills he worked as a journalist in the Middle East. Based in Beirut, he served as a reporter, sub-editor and lifestyle editor for The Daily Star, one of the region’s most respected English-language daily newspapers.

After completing her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge in 2012, Elena gained work experience at Roche Communications and TVF Media before joining Seven Hills.

While at university, Elena co-founded the research group Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures, which organised fortnightly seminars and two annual conferences.

She also wrote for the student newspaper The Tab and was a stage manager for the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club.