Our Team
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The Team
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A diverse team with a wealth of experience from the likes of Hill and Knowlton, Freud, Shine, Exposure, Bite, Macmillan Cancer, Synergy, Balance Live, Naked, Making Waves, Billington Cartmell, Punch Taverns, Lawson Dodd, Slice, Pasha, Alchemy, Get Involved, Gorgeous, The Communication Group, Capital PR, Motorola, Lexis, Band & Brown, College Hill, Brand Nation, McCann Erickson, Sputnik, The Marketing Store, Beatwax and BVHE to name but a few!
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Charlie
The House Pet
Has a love of flies and changing things around. Gets particularly upset when he’s called a lizard, when everyone actually knows he’s a chameleon.
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Mark Stringer
Founder
Mark founded PrettyGreen 4th July 2008 as a way of fulfilling his entrepreneurial dream of helping create and own new brands and after being convinced by one particular Client that it would be fun (as well as realising that he wasn’t quite ready to retire).
With over 15 years of Client and Agency experience, an integrated thinker, who’s not bad at coming up with an idea or two.
Was once high jump champion at school (but he was 9).
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Emma Grace
Client Servicing Director - Media Comms
Emma has been at PrettyGreen since the company was born and now heads up the total Media Communications offering. Having worked in PR for over 8 years, she has planned and implemented a vast array of communications campaigns for a variety of leading FMCG, lifestyle and entertainment brands.
She started off in advertising staring in a JJB sports ad, having to dance like a mad lady all day at The Cross nightclub in Kings Cross (without alcohol) with a wooly hat, vest and shorts on. Her career in advertising ended with JJB and a Comms path, was then chosen.
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Wendy Stringer
Head of Brand & Operations
Wendy started off her career in Account Management, heading up Clients like Levi’s, Converse and Coca-Cola, before moving into a Brand Director role. Responsible for HR, Finance, Office and brand development, she’s particularly loved at payday.
She once seduced a Director at her old company, but is happy to admit that he since became her husband and the father of her two children.
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Jessica Hargreaves
Client Servicing Director - Experience
Jess heads up PrettyGreen’s total Event and Experience offering and works closely with the Comms team to deliver campaigns that can be amplified through traditional and social media channels. With over 8 years of delivering integrated promotions, she has a broad experience base to draw from.
As a Geordie, who started her career working in the pub trade, she bring a level of groundedness and her love of spreadsheets is only surpassed by her love of Christmas, where planning starts in late Spring.
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Hamish Duncan
Creative Producer
Hamish has had a diverse career having run his own umbrella business. He has a creative slant, looking after the development of PrettyGreen’s moving image content and helping with creative campaign development.
Hamish was once an outstanding semi-professional snowboarder, who’s career was cut short in its prime (we’re not actually sure what a semi is, but we think it involves riding hard runs).
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Lucy Windsor
Associate Director
Lucy has a wealth of experience in her 12 year career starting at The Communication Group in 1997. A brief hiatus Down Under, Lucy worked for two Sydney 2000 Olympic sponsors – Coca Cola and Cadburys.
Coming back to Blighty, Lucy worked for the family business before heading back to Hill & Knowlton, heading up the adidas account, working on the Rugby World Cup, Beijing Olympics, Lions tour and The Ashes. During this time, Lucy also worked on Barclays ATP World Tour Finals before moving to PrettyGreen to head-up the Cadbury’s 2012 PR Team.
Lucy has an international tennis ranking. Although this is only in Bermuda, she is still the bookies favourite British female to win Wimbledon in 2010.
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Nick Stocker
Account Manager
Nick started off promoting high profile political events before realising that there was a more important calling working in Sport PR. He soon moved to Synergy and worked on activating sponsorship of national and global sporting events and dealing directly with some of the world’s most recognised athletes. Clients included such brands as Guinness, British Airways, NFL and 888.com and projects ranged from the British & Irish Lions to the Olympics and from American Football games at Wembley to Polar Expeditions.
Nick now works on the Red Bull Sport account and Cadburys 2012 Olympic sponsorship.
He has a love of rock music and once ended up in hospital after stage-diving to a band called Nashville Pussy. Rock ‘n’ roll indeed.
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Faye Neighbour
Senior Account Manager
Faye has over 6 years experience as a publicist and has delivered too many campaigns to mention! Moving to PrettyGreen whilst heavily pregnant gives an indication about her passion for new challenges and her job.
Coming from a sporting family, Faye has more football knowledge than the Shoot Annual and was a talented gymnast as a child. Faye came close to being an Olympian, but her hula hoop was stolen the night before her final qualifier.
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Claire Ashman
Account Director - Entertainment & Culture
Claire has a wealth of experience in running entertainment and music campaigns – in the past PrettyGreen’s very own musical maestro has managed the press offices for numerous festivals including Bestival, Underage Festival and Snowbombing, as well as looking after Pete Tong & Fat Boy Slim.
A talented writer and singer (if you count Lucky Voice!) Claire has the highest grade possible in dance – a Blue Peter badge for a live gymnastics routine!
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Folu Babatola
Account Manager
Proud of his Welsh roots, Folu started his PR career in Birmingham before the bright lights of London beckoned.
Once in the big smoke, Folu worked on a multitude of high-profile accounts such as Nectar Card, Cadbury’s and Speedo International with Clarion and Sputnik. After working for MacMillan Cancer Support in 2008, helping set up Macmillan’s first ever large scale music event in the process, Folu joined PrettyGreen to manage the Red Bull and Trident music projects.
Folu is a pretty big deal, having played with his band in front of 30,000 people at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. Are you reading this Simon Cowell?!
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Danny Payne
Musical Youth
With over a decade’s experience in entertainment PR, Danny brings extensive music and events knowledge to the PrettyGreen team. Having conducted PR campaigns for festivals including The Big Chill and Benicassim, he’s well placed to cope with the creative insanity of the PrettyGreen offices.
Danny will try and stay out of London’s music venues and Europe’s music festivals for long enough to join our culture team on the Red Bull and Trident campaigns.
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Coco Stephens
Account Executive
Coco is PrettyGreen’s resident Student Intern who is currently working in between her studies at Bournemouth University.
Coco has become an integral part of the PrettyGreen machine, working across the Red Bull, Nandos and Trident accounts. Whether it be conducting research for the team, helping arrange media launches or dressing as a Nun for the Red Bull Cola party, she is always fully committed.
She will be missed when she returns to the sandy, sunny beaches of the beautiful South coast in September to continue the hardships of student life…
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Pete Shepherd
Account Executive
Pete recently graduated from Exeter University and has now become a firmly established member of the PrettyGreen Team.
In 2009 Pete helped form a ‘Beard-based Entertainment Company’ that toured music festivals in the UK, embracing a more hirsute pursuit of life. Pete’s experience across the UK meant he was a valuable addition to the Trident and Red Bull music teams.
Pete does not have a beard, he just wishes he had one.
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Mandy Poernig
Senior Account Executive
Another Bournemouth University graduate, Mandy joined Pretty Green in 2008.
Mandy’s internship placement at Ministry of Sound as a Press Assistant stood her in good stead with her first role at experiential agency Balance Live. Gaining experience designing events and campaigns for Adidas, Coors Light and Converse, Mandy joined the PR Team at Pretty Green and currently works across Nando’s and The Kitchen accounts.
Mandy likes a Scotch Egg or two.
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Sian Baker
Head of Experiences
The greenest of all at PrettyGreen, our very own Captain Planet Sian started her career in music, even stating her own label, Pure Mint.
Moving to Making Waves, Sian throughly enjoyed the benefits of working across Malibu, Cuervo, Sourz, Unite and Aftershock before joining Lunch Communications to manage events in the UK and across Europe.
After a year in Oz, enjoying the sun, sand and surfers, Sian returned to the UK to become Head of Events, working across Cadbury 2012 and growing the Pretty Green events offering.
Also a fitness instructor, Sian can do 100 press-ups in a minute (even whilst saving the planet.)
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Dani Caplin
SAM Experience
Dani has enjoyed an eclectic career to date, begining at her local newspaper in sunny Bournemouth where she revamped numerous magazines, then moving to London Village to become Marketing Manager for the sports cafe where she dreamed up many an event, publicity stunt and clever promotion. Dani most recently worked her magic at iD experiential as account manager and new business development manager working with clients such as Nestle, Estee Lauder, French Connection and tons more.
Creative flair is the key to what makes Dani tick both in an out of work- she played an astonishingly accurate ‘Annie’ as a child at the age of just 8 , played ‘Nancy’ in Oliver has written and recorded a song with Aswad, (no, not that one) and now fronts a band as a rock diva in her spare time.
Dani is excited to have recently joined the PrettyGreen events team working on the Cadbury account.
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Lisa Pearson
Associate Director - International
Lisa has a love of consumer brand communication and worked with some of the world’s most exciting companies, including Nescafe, Aero Hot Chocolate, Aquafresh, Tropicana Smoothies, Pizza Hut and (RED). She has also planned and managed consumer campaigns for Coca-Cola, including maximising its global sponsorship of the Olympic Games.
Lisa’s experience ranges from media, experiential, brand partnerships through to talent management and heads up our International Projects (having spent the last 10 months working on a top secret project in the US).
She has a love of dancing (was once in a Skittles ad dancing to Wham) and is the only one at PrettyGreen to have outrun a Kangaroo. Eat your heart out, Steve Irwin.
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Ravi Matharu
International Press Officer
Ravi is a self-confessed ideas man. Joining us in January 2010 as PrettyGreen’s International Press Officer, he’s interested in all things digital and has a track record of getting the message across using the right channels and conversation.
He’s developed multiple propositions for Unilever including global strategies & toolkits, crisis comms plans and sustainable partnerships and in 2006 helped reposition 3 to become a mobile media company.
Ravi’s not one to shy away from important issues. He has worked for 1GOAL to unite several Heads of State and the footballing elite to commit to a world with access to education for all. Separately, he’s created a number of peer-to-peer platforms for Department of Health and Department of Children, Schools and Families to tackle teenage pregnancy in the UK.
Brands& Comms aside, Ravi lives for music, mostly of the layered electronic and deep bass variety.
Bass in the PrettyGreen place, London.