Member of the European Parliament for South East England 2017-2020 (S&D Group). Committees: Budgets (BUDG), Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Regional Development (REGI), Budgetary Control (CONT). Rapporteur, General Budget of the EU 2019, Standing Budget Rapporteur, EU Space Programme and Fusion Energy, Creative Europe 2021-27, Shadow for Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ 2021-27 Delegations: Nations of South Asia (Vice Chair), Palestine, North Macedonia (then FRY Macedonia) and the CARIFORUM (Caribbean) states. Constituency: Representing 8.2 million people in the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of White, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.

Facilitator and critical friend consulting.Stakeholder engagement.Public engagement and communications for planning and regeneration projects.

Helping people and organisation to communicate better in commercial, government and not-for-profit/UK charity sectors.BRAND DEVELOPMENT, re-brand and refresh. Creating and designing brands, delivering strategies, promotional campaigns and management of brands in digital and conventional media. Using workshops for more successful brand development in particular within the Not for Profit/NGO/UK Charity sector.MARKETING, advertising and public awareness campaigns for brands, products and services from strategy development through campaign design and delivery in both digital media and traditional formats.DIGITAL DESIGN, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS: Mobile-friendly, responsive website design and development for SEO optimised, content managed deployments to get you found on-line on desktop, smartphone or tablet. Social media marketing, training and strategy to get the best from your use of Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Effective design and visuals to set you apart from the competition.INBOUND MARKETING with Hubspot: exciting new ways to turn your existing web and social media content into lead generating activity to product sales for business and donations and volunteers in charity and not-for-profit. Manage your sales process through the funnel from initial interest to closure.SPEAKING AND WORKSHOP LEADING: John is an experienced, thought provoking and entertaining public speaker and a skilled facilitator of high-level workshop discussion.John has SECTOR EXPERIENCE in information technology, healthcare, local government, financial services, education, transport, logistics (wholesale) and in numerous not-for-profit/NGO and charity organisations and campaigning bodies.

Responsible for strategic planning policy, transport policy and services. Personal achievements in this role included: - the modernisation, restructured governance and re-branding of the municipally owned bus company, - securing Government funding in the region of £70 million for the rebuilding of M4 Junction 11 – the largest such project undertaken by a UK local authority, - the recognition of the authority as a leading UK transport authority with the highest level of per-Capita funding in the UK over a twenty year period, - as Chair of the Reading Station Project Board building the coalition to win £700m funding to expand track capacity on the Great Western Mainline, create the capacity for Crossrail and rebuild the station as an interchange hub.

Leading and assisting in projects for businesses and third sector organisations including: public sector/OJEU tendering, marketing and business development strategy, marketing communications planning and implementation, early web and e-commerce strategies, press and media strategy, handling and training, events and conference organisation.

Responsible for marketing efforts across three companies on corporate, strategic and tactical levels. Co-ordination of OJEU tendering, Marketing budgets, marketing programmes, public sector marketing, brand management and development, marketing communications, events programmes, internal communications.

Campaigns organisation, events organisation, re-brand roll out, training, member development, election campaign organisation, by-elections, voter targeting, print and publicity organisation, training and logistics.