Key People
Sarah Woodhouse Director
Sarah is a seasoned public relations & communications professional with 17 years experience working in the UK and Asia. She has worked with numerous international brands across the consumer, trade and corporate spectrum, both at her own agency and at industry stalwarts including Edelman and McCann Erickson. Her experience includes luxury goods, hospitality and tourism, property, professional services, design, art and culture and the creative sector. Sarah previously co-owned impactasia, a PR agency network of three offices and 40 PR professionals in China that was sold to Cohn & Wolfe (WPP) in 2011...
Lis Anderson Director
An experienced consultancy MD, Lis has over 20 years experience in PR and marketing communications, working with regional, national and international brands, businesses, organisations across B2B, B2C and the public sector. Her sector experience includes fast growth & funded start-ups, family businesses, creative agencies, SMEs, leisure retail and food and drink and she has won a number of industry accolades for her campaigns and PR programmes. Passionate about the industry she works in, Lis is a Board Director of Bristol Media, Advisor to Digitech Studio School, an accredited PR practitioner and Fellow of the Charted Institute of Public Relations. She served as Chair of the West of England Group for four years and was honoured with an Outstanding Contribution to PR award for her contributions. In addition to co-founding AMBITIOUS, Lis is founded Talking Heads, a training consultancy for professionals working in the marketing communications creative sector.
Mel Beeby Clarke Director
Mel has worked in corporate and business-to-business communications for the past 15 years. Commercially astute with a commitment to delivering strategically sound PR and marketing campaigns, Mel has helped organisations in both the public and private sectors achieve their business objectives. Starting out as an intern in Washington DC in the late 1990s placing lawyers as expert media commentators, Mel quickly developed an appetite for what makes a good news story. Following this, she spent several years at international technology PR agency Text 100, working with the likes of IBM and Xerox. Prior to co-founding AMBITIOUS, Mel was Associate Director of the business-to-business public relations team at Bray Leino. During her time at Bray Leino her clients included Bibby Financial Services, Mitel Networks, The Technology Strategy Board, South West RDA, European Regional Development Fund, Barratt Homes and Remploy. To date, Mel has worked with a huge variety of organisations from start-up to multinationals with financial services, professional services and SMEs and start-ups areas of particular interest and experience. Mel is also Chair of Bristol womens business networking group Women Outside the Box and an active member of the Bristol Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mel has an energy and enthusiasm for getting to the...
Key Skills
- communications strategy
- pr
- copywriting
- content creation
- content marketing
- media relations
- blogger relations
- corporate storytelling
- stakeholder engagement
- influencer engagement
- social media marketing
- seo
- personal brand pr
- digital pr and market
Key Clients
- Accord Emena
- Asdan
- Access Creative College
- Barcankirby
- Procorre
- Hca Healthcare
- Icaew
- Reygar Marine
- Solverboard
- Cobuy
- Cherry Capital
- Dickies Workwear
- Origin Workspace
- Cbre
- Marriott Hotels
- Fundsurfer.com
- Smwbristol
Location
127 Hampton Road, Redland
Bristol
BS6 6JE