Harbour is a global litigation funder, operating hubs in London and Asia Pacific, with experience of funding disputes in 13 international jurisdictions and 4 arbitral forums. It pioneered litigation funding in the UK and has one of the largest teams in the industry.Responsibilities:To maximise the effectiveness of investment opportunity origination and undertake relevant brand and profile-building.

Devereux is one of the UK's top civil and commercial barristers sets with some 50 specialists in the areas of commercial litigation, clinical negligence, personal injury, employment and tax.Responsibilities:To develop, manage and execute marketing and business development strategies for each of the core practice areas. Responsibilities are similar to those at 11 Stone Buildings with the difference that Devereux has more unique practice areas which each have their own target audience and plans.

11 Stone Buildings was a leading set of commercial and chancery barristers practising in business law with specialist groups for all types of contract, company, insolvency, property and private client disputes to assist them with their marketing and business development. Responsibilities- to develop and execute the BD and marketing strategy for the set as well as for practice groups and individual practices through individual BD plans- to analyse client data to identify areas for potential growth through cross-selling or establishing new business- brand / reputation management- to create and run a client care programme- to implement dedicated marketing campaigns- to introduce and manage the social media strategy / implementation- to coach and educate staff and members on marketing and BD matters

Advent International is a global private equity firm with 18 offices globally, of which 10 are in Europe. Marketing and BD is mainly directed towards investment banks and corporate management teams and helps investment professionals maintain key relationships.Responsibilities reporting to Group Marketing Director: • Efficient delivery of an effective European marketing/BD programme and sector plans. • Founder and manager of ‘MNT’, an in-house cross-border marketing network. • Assist local offices/sector teams with the execution of their marketing projects.• Contributor/lead on group marketing/BD projects as required.• Up to 2009, developed and coordinated the European PR strategy including the management of 6 European PR agencies.• Copy writing: case studies, epromos, press releases, newsletter.• Coordinate design of marketing material as well as writing its content. • Budget management.

A leading set of over 50 barristers specialised in EU, Competition, Procurement and VAT Law. Clients are magic circle firms, large legal practices, regulators, OFT, CC, HRMC and top 50 accountancy firms.Responsibilities included:• Development and execution of the marketing strategy/budget.• Brand management.• Creation of marketing material. • Educational marketing programme• Website management. • Client care ethos.• Relations with editors/journalists; write press releases.• Co-run 5 Practice Groups to identify BD opportunities.• Advise individual members on practice development.Achievements- Highly commended as ‘Best Marketed Chambers’ at the Legal Marketing Awards 2007; nominations as ‘Marketing Director of the Year’ and ‘Best Marketed Chambers’ in 2006.- Between 2003 and 2007, Monckton Chambers was nominated for 18 awards incl. ‘Chambers of the Year’ at The Lawyer Awards 2007. - An independent study in 2004 regarded www.monckton.com as one of the best websites for sets (number 1 in navigation, number 3 overall). - Directory nominations increased from 49 to 84 in the years 2004-2007.TESTIMONIALLegal Marketing Awards wrote: “As a specialist set that targets a very specific audience, Monckton Chambers impresses with inspired marketing strategies that favour direct and innovative campaigns. Among its recent business development initiatives, the inventive ‘teaser campaign’ stands out most: chambers devised 4 mailings of 4 different pieces of merchandise and posted them to 1,881 hand-picked clients over a one-week period, concealing its name and slogan until the final stage. This quirky campaign made a real splash but the set also has utilised the promotional benefits of website, newsletters, educational marketing, media relations and PR to raise its profile. Its recent efforts have paid off and in 2006 Monckton Chambers posted a 15.9% climb in turnover, a 10.4% rise in new instructions and a 15% increase in recommendations from legal directories.”

Carr Futures was a global multi-derivatives broker. Clients were top financial institutions and commodity houses. This role was mainly a 'change management' role whereby both the CSD and SS teams (total of 8 people) needed to be re-focused on executing client care procedures besides the pure operational role they had. Part of the job was also to support the brokers in their pitching for business.