All the young(ish) dudes

Keelin joined Merchant in 1989 and has been a Partner since 2000. With over a decade of project management experience she is responsible for developing MerchantCantos' client service, recruitment and internal initiatives. An Exeter University graduate, she previously worked with Burson Marsteller and in the financial community for NatWest Unit Trusts and Ivory & Sime.

With a long history of creating interactive communications strategies and solutions, Mark is one of the UK’s most experienced digital practitioners. Over the past ten years he has led the creation of corporate websites for some of the UK’s largest businesses, including Unilever, Marks and Spencer, Arts Council England, BAE Systems, Sky, Arup, Henderson Global Investors, Arup and Capita. Mark has a deep knowledge of site strategy, information architecture, web technologies, social media, and traffic analysis, and was Director at LBi for five years.

Toby joined MerchantCantos as M.D in September 2011. He started his career at CNBC where he became news editor. From there, he moved to BBC News and then on to run The Money Channel. Toby moved into the corporate sector with Medialink where he specialised in broadcast PR. Prior to joining MerchantCantos, Toby has been UK Managing Director at World Television. His clients have included HSBC, Nokia, Ford, E.ON, Carphone Warehouse and Louis Vuitton and experience covers video production, live event broadcasting, webcasting and broadcast PR.

Amanda has been advising communications teams for over 20 years. At PR Newswire her focus was IR and PR distribution solutions for international companies. This broadened into Internal Communications, sponsorship and marketing whilst at World Television where she advised clients such as Save the Children, Eli Lilly and BAA on how to make the most of online video communications opportunities. She joined MerchantCantos in 2009 and works across all areas of the business – webcasting, corporate video, branding, digital and corporate reporting.

Jarrad oversees all creative projects and is responsible for the overall quality of work produced by the creative department. He is also involved in higher level issues of branding and marketing, working directly with you throughout a project. Jarrad has 14 years of experience working on world class brands including Alliance and Leicester, BAE Systems, BG Group, Burberry, British Airways, ENRC, Eurostar, O2, Orange, O3b, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Thomas Cook, Qinetiq and United Utilities. He is a specialist in corporate communications and has worked on many FSTE reporting requirements.

Annie has been working in the annual reporting industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining MerchantCantos, she was Associate Director at Green Target and advised a range of companies including BT, HSBC and FirstGroup on their reporting and shareholder communications programmes. She was previously an account director at other leading agencies including Pauffley and Corporate Edge. Prior to that she worked client side in investor relations at Man Group and Wellcome.

Before joining MerchantCantos, Richard was head of reporting at Radley Yeldar. He has also been a financial journalist including stints on the Mail on Sunday and as editor of Investor Relations magazine. He is author to several publications including the London Stock Exchange’s Practical Guide to Investor Relations. He sat on the ICSA working group on electronic communications. He is currently a board director and member of the Policy Committee of the UK Investor Relations Society. He also helped write Business in the Community’s original environmental index and, subsequently, its CR index. He has worked on reporting programmes for a range of companies including ADIA, Aviva, BAT, Ladbrokes, Mothercare, Old Mutual, Starbucks, Tesco, Urenco and the John Lewis Partnership.

Tim brings hands-on film-making experience to his role as Director, Film & Video. He started his career at the BBC directing documentaries for the acclaimed arts series Arena, and series producing the award-winning ‘Rhythms of the World’ and ‘Poems on the Box’. As a freelance writer/director he made films all over the world for clients like BP, Sony, Barclays and the Commonwealth Development Corporation. He moved on to become Creative Director at WPP agency, Clever Media, specialising in the integration of video, digital and events, before joining World Television as their Executive Producer. Tim’s programme experience spans brand, internal and investor communications and his work has picked up more than 40 industry awards, including Gold at the IVCA and New York Festivals, and the Grand Award the Mercomm Questar Awards.