Andy Skinner & Partners
 

Andy Skinner, Managing Director

Andy Skinner has almost 20 years’ experience of business journalism, having run his own newspaper Business Report for 14 years.  He has also provided PR services to MFG Solicitors (formerly Morton Fisher and Gwynnes).  He co-founded Marketing Management (Midlands) Ltd, our sister creative agency, and since the formation of ASAP as the dedicated PR arm, the company has won major accounts in the business and professional services marketplace.

Andy Skinner was the launch editor of Venture Report, the quarterly newspaper supplement of Dudley Business Venture which was published within Business Report newspaper in the late 1980 and early 1990s.  He has followed and reported on the establishment and the growth of the Business Link movement since its inception.

He has written on business issues since 1985 and as well as being a Midlands correspondent for the journalist’s weekly trade magazine Press Gazette, he is also a judge for PG’s Regional Journalism Awards, this year judging the Business & Financial Journalist of the UK, Features Writer and Best Supplement.

   
Suzanne Orsler, New Business Director

Before joining the ASAP team, Suzanne was Group Account Director for the Business to Business Team at McCann-Erickson Central, so has worked on a wider variety of B2B accounts.  These have ranged from lobbying for Transco to start-up businesses.

Suzanne established the B2B PR function at McCanns.  The team mainly dealt with trade and technical B2B PR, but also has particular expertise in European and Global campaigns.  When Suzanne left the business in 2002 (due to family commitments) the B2B team was six strong including two account directors.

Suzanne’s work has also been recognised nationally and regionally, winning awards from PR Week and Adline for Transco.

Prior to working at McCann, Suzanne worked in-house and in consultancies, mainly on B2B PR but with a bias towards IT and personal finance.

Suzanne was national press and PR manager for Lloyds TSB Bank responsible for generating positive coverage in the national daily and Sunday newspapers.  Before that Suzanne was operations director at Buffalo Communications, one of the UK’s first specialist IT PR consultancies, responsible for day to day running of the business.  Clients included – IBM, ICL, Dun & Bradstreet and the London Cable TV companies.

 
Chris Mowbray, Account Director

Chris Mowbray is a widely experienced freelance journalist and writer who has worked in West Midlands media and PR for more than 30 years and has a particular affinity with and fondness for the Black Country.

He trained there as a junior reporter and worked on several local papers in the West Midlands Press group including the Walsall Observer, the West Bromwich News, the former Wednesfield and Willenhall News and the Cannock Chase Courier.  Later, as a senior journalist, he worked regularly in the area covering news and features for the Sunday Mercury, the country’s largest provincial Sunday newspaper.

Since then, he has become a widely experienced freelance journalist working has been by-lined in virtually every national daily and Sunday newspaper.

In recent years, he has worked increasingly in the world of PR and has been involved in a number of major publicity initiatives for Black Country companies and organisations. In particular, he was solely responsible for the hugely successful PR campaign behind a Black Country Export Show sponsored by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council with backing from the Sandwell Regeneration Partnership and several other local stakeholders including Business Link Sandwell. This project included persuading the Express and Star to lend its name to an Export Excellence Award which generated a huge amount of publicity for the event.
 

 
 
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