The Team

Directors:

	Nigel Robinson, whose 12-year journalistic career included the Reporter Dispatch in New York, business correspondent on the Birmingham Post and business features editor with the Sunday Times in Johannesburg. His first PR job was with an agency whose clients included Peugeot, Hyundai and Eveready. He set up Newsline 1979, and became a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists and the Institute of Public Relations.
	Sarah Whitehouse joined Newsline from university in 2004 and specialises in business-to-consumer clients. Sarah, who gained her media experience on the Coventry Evening Telegraph, has a BA and an MSc.
	Peter Robinson, who has a business degree, joined Newsline in 2005 after working for William Hill and Enterprise Cars. He specialises in marketing, business development and crisis management.

Newsline's project teams include:

	Mike Rigby, a top PR strategist whose career began with confectionery company Rowntree Macintosh before joining Countrywide Porter Novelli in 1980, one of the largest PR agencies in the UK, where he became managing director and handled such clients as BAA, GSK, Rolls-Royce, Enterprise Oil and Pilkington.
	Jeff Berliner, who spent 25 years at the highest level of television news with the BBC, Thames Television and breakfast television. He was UK News Organiser for BBC Newsgathering in London, responsible for all national and regional television and radio news.
	Martin Lawson, a newspaper editor for 30 years with EMAP and Johnson Press. He was most recently group editor for the Leamington Courier, Warwick Courier, Kenilworth Weekly News and Midweek newspapers.
	Rosanne Sayers, an expert in digital marketing who has advised a range of organisations from The Ritz Hotel to Alton Towers on digital media and social networking sites.
	Nicola Mills, a former marketing manager of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust with 20 years experience of marketing within the tourism industry. Nicola spent eight years with Visit Britain (formerly the British Tourist Authority) where she was on the European Marketing Desk at head office in London.
	Tim Sherriff, who set up the House of Fraser's marketing department in London and then ran it for three years, is a former director of the McCracken Ward marketing agency and account director of Cravens Advertising. He has run the European marketing campaign for Bridgestone/Firestone UK - Sports Division, and the worldwide advertising for international philatelist auctioneers Warwick & Warwick, and both Greg Norman and Reebok golf wear in Europe.
	Richard Purkiss, who has extensive experience of the printing industry and has been involved in newspaper production at managerial level for various publishing groups. The studio has worked for organisations as diverse as Peugeot and Warwickshire County Council.
	Andrew MacLeod, who is a former business editor of the Coventry Telegraph and a business correspondent for the Birmingham Evening Mail, also specialises in media training.