The International Red Cross

Proctor and Gamble

Microsoft

Sotheby's

HM Prison Service

The Royal Opera

Campbell's Grocery Products Ltd

Carat Group UK

Comet Group PLC

Doner Cardwell Hawkins

EuroRSCG

GE Fabbri Ltd

Grey London

J Walter Thompson

Ketchum

Leo Burnett Ltd

Mars Confectionery

Royal Academy of Dance

Safe Ground

Sotheby's International Realty

St Helen's Private Equity plc

Warner Fox Associates

Weber-Shandwick

Young & Rubicam

ASSOCIATES

Deirdre Cordwell
Creative Compass

A qualitative researcher with more years experience than she cares to remember. Most of her career has been spent in advertising - working for what were the best two agencies in London at the time - Boase Massimi Pollitt and Abbott Mead Vickers. Learnt over her years in advertising that presentations must be short, sharp, and move things on. Thrives on making research really useful to the top people in companies who have the power to make the key decisions based on consumer understanding.

 

Lucinda Craig
Elucidation Research

Lucinda has over 15 years research experience giving her a broad perspective. Her involvement over the years in seminal and pioneering projects on brand equity, customer care, loyalty and customer relationship management has developed her acute insight into all matters to do with customer focus and customer communication. She also has particular enthusiasm for strategic overviews, brand image and personality work, design work and new product development. Lucinda is a Full Member of the Market Research Society.

 

Richard Tierney
Reachout

Richard Tierney has working in Theatre, Television, Opera, Ballet, Pop Concerts and Trade Events. For over 20 years he has run the production company Reach Out Productions Ltd. As a Director of Creativity company Creative Talks he is writing a book on creativity and Innovation, has lectured at conferences and at the London Business School. Currently dividing his time between teaching and consulting.

Rupert Davies-Cooke
Producer and Founder 

I set up Acorn Films in 1994, after working in advertising for ten years.  Working on commercials is the best training ground for making business films.  It taught me that every second of time on the screen counts. 

I have also worked with the BBC as well as the Japanese television channel, Telebi Asahi (Newsstation Desk).  The interesting difference between commercials and broadcast is not just the budget, but rather the need to carry a story over a longer period of time.  Sixty seconds is too short for broadcasting. 

I bring this experience to my work.  There are always budget and scheduling issues, but from the first meeting I focus on the story -- only after we understand how the story can be told, do we focus on the budget.  Some films will be snappy little edits to jump-start presentations while others are much longer, such as training films.

And finally, after all is said and done, the film must entertain, it must inform.  And that is the prime focus of Acorn Films.