POLLEN APPOINTS DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Friday, 25 July 2008

London — Pollen, the brand and design consultancy, has appointed Lucy Protheroe to the position of Director of Operations. With immediate effect she will be responsible for providing a dedicated focus on client accounts, overseeing production and excellence in client service.

Lucy joins from Stream Digital Media, a division of Ascent Media, where she led the development of digital services and headed up production and client services. Clients included many global media brands including BBC, Sony Pictures and Universal Music. Lucy was formerly with marketing and communications agency DeepSync, advising football clubs such as Manchester United and Liverpool.

Dan Dimmock, Director of Strategic Development said; “Lucy is an utter professional. Her experience will act as a catalyst for the seamless evolution of our client campaigns and the consistent high standard of production in Pollen’s output.”

Pollen is an experienced and professional brand and design consultancy helping clients to engage
with customers and employees, grow their businesses and develop purposeful, exciting brands that drive results. Priding itself on clear strategic thinking and strong ideas, Pollen works with FremantleMedia, AREF (The Association of Real Estate Funds), BSkyB, VWater (Pepsico International), Renew, MPG (part of Havas Media, the 6th biggest worldwide communications group) and E! Entertainment.

Earlier this year Pollen appointed specialist consultant and ex-Enterprise IG (The Brand Union)
Creative Director Peter Stimpson as a Senior Branding Advisor.

GREEN ROW COMMUNICATIONS APPOINTS CHAIRMAN

Ethical and lifestyle specialist Green Row Communications has appointed Christopher Broadbent as non executive chairman. Green Row’s current clients include Ban Bullying at work, Percol Coffee, Fairhills, the world’s largest Fairtrade wine producer, London Aware and Green Cuisine.

Helen Trevorrow, Green Row’s founder said; ‘Christopher brings a great combination of long term PR business knowledge with considerable experience of the areas of CR, and sustainability. He is very well connected in the business, political and NGO communities around these sectors, all of which will add strength and knowledge to our offering.’

‘Last year, more was spent on ethical goods and services by UK consumers than on alcohol and tobacco, at over £28bn’ added Christopher. ‘This is a great time to be specialising in this area. Add to that the sustainability agenda, which is not going to go away and any PR company knows its stuff will thrive.’

He remains on the boards of travel specialist Brighter Group and of Argyll Consultancies, the parent Kaizo.