Nicki Ramsbottom MCIM

A Marketing Consultant based in Suffolk, Nicki has extensive experience of B2B and professional services marketing managing marketing campaigns for a variety of companies throughout East Anglia. She provides a full service marketing consultancy, with a particular interest in supporting businesses with their Corporate and Marketing Strategy and Digital Marketing.

Before starting her own agency in 2012, she spent eight years as a Marketing Manager for a Top 100 law firm.

Nicki has worked with the East of England Committee for a number of years, helping to organize the Committee's conference programme for the East Anglian region.

Terry Nicklin DipM FCIM Chartered Marketer

Terry has worked with Cambridge Marketing Colleges for over 10 years, and has taught modules at all levels. He was the author of ‘Stakeholder Marketing’ – part of Pearson Education’s ‘Marketing in a Box’ series, and the Cambridge Marketing Handbook ‘Stakeholder’, published with Kogan Page.
Terry is Chairman of The Chartered Institute of Marketing Cambridgeshire branch, and a member of the CIM East Regional Board alongside being the organiser of the CIM Cambridge Digital Marketing Conference which is now in its eighth year. He is a Fellow of the CIM and of CMC and holds the CIM Diploma in Marketing and has an MBA from Warwick University.

He has over thirty years’ experience of marketing in product and service based organisations. He has worked at Marketing Director level in global markets for companies in technology and professional services, and has consulted for public and private sector clients including BT, Bosch, GE and Unilever.

His company, KeynotePR, provides PR and marketing communications support to organisations in technology and business services sectors, and won a CIPR Pride Gold Award in 2012.

In his spare time he has keeps up with all that’s happening in digital marketing (having teenage children helps!), enjoys travel and tennis.

Joao Marques MCIM

Over ten years of experience in marketing, mainly in hospitality with the last two in tech and engineered products. In my current role I head the marketing function for VEXO globally, working closely with distributors in the UK, North America, Spain, and others. As well as marketing strategy, I manage a team of designers to ensure the brand is consistent in all markets and all packaging, technical and marketing literature is up to standard. As a small team, I also currently contribute with my content making skills (graphic design, video) as well as digital marketing (web, email, ppc, seo).

In the past some of the achievements I’ve been proud of as a team have been securing private equity investment for a hospitality chain, collaborating on events with Time Out in Shoreditch, securing a Series A investment for a restaurant tech start-up that was also shortlisted for 3 awards and highly commended for Innovation of the Year in the Restaurant Marketer & Innovator awards.

Lauren Wiffen ACIM

Lauren has been working in Marketing & Communications for over seven years in local government at Braintree District Council.

She started off her career as an apprentice and won a national and regional apprenticeship award for her commitment and love for the job. Over the years she has had a variety of roles and gained professional experience and skills in creating and driving strategic marketing plans and strategies, delivering effective campaigns, advertising and PR.

She has a particular interest in digital marketing where she holds a CIM Level 6 Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing and in her early career years studied the Level 3 and Level 4.

When not working, Lauren shares her love for interior design and home décor as an Instagram content creator, likes travelling and enjoys yoga/Pilates a few times a week.

Joanna Ross DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer

Jo Ross is a Chartered Marketer with over 13 years’ experience within sales & marketing and has been a member since 2009. Responsible for a diverse range of marketing functions across a varied range of industries including Finance and Digital Advertising. The last 8 years’ have been within the Arts & Culture sector working as a Head of Marketing and Data Insights collaborating closely with artists, producers, creatives, and stakeholders to deliver strategic campaign plans to sell events to the wider public.

With a CIM Top Worldwide Student Award for the Level 7 Professional Marketing Leadership Programme (Masters Equivalent) in Nov 2022, a Professional Diploma in Marketing and BA Hons in Business and Design. Jo specialises in campaign planning & management, team leadership, digital marketing, CRM management, marketing audits, analytics, strategy, and the ability to translate customer dynamics into detailed strategic plans for business growth.

Within her capacity as a CIM East of England committee member, Jo’s position as Events Ambassador is to be responsible for coordinating & supporting the CIM East of England Events team.

Outside of marketing, Jo is an amateur musician who enjoys playing a range of musical instruments including the Eb, Alto and Bb Clarinet in her local military band, orchestra and clarinet choir.

Tom McHarg ACIM Chartered Marketer

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