Frank Lampen started off working in broadcast TV at ITV and the BBC before joining Channel 4 as Editor of Programme Strategy in the team which developed and launched E4. He then left to work independently, producing branded content for Nokia, Nike and BT and working with companies including Virgin, BT and MSN on emerging consumer and digital media trends.
Shilen Patel has a background in consulting and brand management. His last client side job was as Marketing Controller for Guinness in Ireland, where he set up the Witnness music festival. He left to set up his own business whose clients included Orange, Baileys, Jobsite and ThisisLondon.com. He specialises in marketing innovation, and consumer planning.
Becks Robertson has worked on major festivals, sponsorships and entertainment brands, including spells at Freud Communications, Cake and the Mean Fiddler. She has worked on Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and Homelands, and has run major global communications platforms for Orange, Carling, Nintendo, Motorola and Lynx/Axe.
Rob Povey graduated into a multi-disciplinary marketing agency and quickly specialised in media and entertainment brands. At KLP he developed exploitation around The Guardian's sponsorship of Glastonbury and went on to look after brand activation for Guinness and Carling at festivals. He specialises in the delivery and exploitation of brand experiences at events ranging from Homelands to Bestival, where he worked on key brand sponsorships for the first three years. Most recently, Rob has been focused on the innovative mobile marketing platform www.getjam.mobi
Shevaun Haviland has worked in marketing planning, strategy and research for 14 years, starting her career working at Datamonitor in London before moving to New York. She came back to Europe to join the Walt Disney Co in 1999 running strategic planning for the Parks and Resorts business in Europe before joining Millward Brown as a Global Account Director for Nestlé and Coca -Cola.
Victoria Valius has worked internationally in Toronto, Los Angeles, London and Florence, Italy in media and fashion. She began her career as a PR executive handling Volkswagen/Audi/Porsche, Bristol-Myers Squibb (Clairol) and Dr.Martens at DDB Needham in Toronto. Her work with local media soon lead to a career in international television distribution with one of Canada’s most innovative broadcasters - Chum (MuchMusic and Citytv) distributing television programming, licensing formats and developing television channels. Most recently, she has acted as the global marketing consultant for Nomination, an Italian jewellery brand with a retail presence worldwide.
Bobby Mutraporn worked in digital PR at Slice before moving to independent record label Hooj to establish their online store. He then established his own record label and set up two of London's most successful club brands Issst and Slaang, both of which pioneered the use of social networking sites to build a loyal following. He has also run businesses supplying mobile content to Japan.
Rachel Bishop Sunter worked as a production assistant at our sister company CC-Lab on projects including the Isle of Wight Festival. She brings a background in theatre, having studied Text and Performance Studies at RADA and produced plays at the Edinburgh Fringe, in London and on a garden tour across England.
Josh Jones is a music/graffiti writer whose work appears regularly in magazines including Clash and Huck. He is UK Editor of NY based magazine 'SUP and is an editor of Le Cool London. He's also founder of the international street art fanzine Pavement Licker..
Clare Beaumont has a background in music promotion including TV and radio campaigns for artists including Oasis, U2, The Strokes, The Libertines, Coldplay, Kylie, Gorillaz and Lily Allen during stints at leading independent promotions company Anglo and at Parlophone EMI. She ran the Take Me Out club night in Notting Hill and Camden before taking two years off to work and snowboard in France before returning to London to work for IU.
Nick Roe returned to London in 2007 following 14 years in Hollywood, including nine years working with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's C/W Productions on such films as the Mission:Impossible franchise, The Others and Elizabethtown. He has also worked at Picture Production Company, the largest specialist film marketing agency outside North America.
Polly Aspinall recently graduated with a degree in architecture and has previously worked in fashion retail. She is a cousin of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the internet.
Melissa Waters has previously lived and worked in Madrid for Hello magazine, as well as at Slice in London where she ran experiential platforms for Southern Comfort and Heineken. As well as her work for IU, she volunteers for Age Concern, working on their mentoring programmes.
Ruth Clarke graduated in American Studies before starting work with Cake, where she worked on events and PR campaigns for brands including Orange, Rizla, V Festival, and Oxfam. She sidestepped into the music industry to work for two of the industry's most esteemed independent music press companies (BestEst, and then Toast Press) working with some of the best independent labels on campaigns for established and new artists ranging from Morrissey to CSS.