Key Associates

Jennifer Alford, who has extensive experience in communications and marketing strategy and project management, is now working as a freelance consultant for a range of clients including entrepreneurs, established industry and governments. She is the former Director of Marketing for The Calgary Herald newspaper, she has worked as a copywriter for major advertising agencies and is a former broadcaster and producer for CBC Radio and TV. Jennifer is a regular contributor to Marketing Magazine.

Daryl Zerr specializes in media relations, media training, corporate video production and professional writing and editing. He is the former Director of Media Relations for GPC Communications in Alberta and has spent 15 years in both private and public broadcasting in a wide range of roles including radio and television news reporter, producer, director, announcer and sportscaster. Daryl has also contributed many articles to a variety of quality publications. He has served as a member of the Broadcast Advisory Council of Calgary's Mount Royal College.

Neil Sawatsky apprenticed and established a freelance business in graphic design and illustration in Montreal, 1976 - 78. He is former Art Director of Montreal Business Report Magazine and has worked as a freelance designer and illustrator in Hong Kong and Manila. Currently based in Montreal, Neil works with a range of clients to produce corporate ID logos and graphics, communication materials for print production, as well as website designs.

Douglas Hamilton has had a long career as a journalist and editor in Europe and in Canada. He has worked in a senior capacity as a business writer for The Glasgow Herald and for Business A.M. in London. Prior to that he worked for Canadian Press and The Montreal Daily News covering parliamentary affairs, and is at home in broadcasting as a former editor/producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal. He has also worked as chief speechwriter for the Canadian Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources.

Alex Wynter is a freelance consultant, advising clients on media relations and strategy and creating or editing multimedia products for a number of agencies including the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and WWF International. He has also worked extensively in broadcasting for such organizations as BBC World Service, Worldwide Television News and Associated Press Television. Alex is now an accredited media tutor for the Reuters Foundation.

Sophie Campbell is an editor for Condé Nast Traveller magazine and a former freelance journalist writing for numerous publications including The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Financial Times, Observer and Tatler. She has an outstanding contact book of international stringers and UK freelancers. Sophie has also worked as an advertising copywriter for Leo Burnett Advertising in Singapore and BBDO UK in London. Sophie regularly conducts courses in writing and photography.

Sheryle Bagwell is one of Australia’s leading business journalists and broadcasters. She is a former columnist and former European Correspondent for the Australian Financial Review newspaper and has worked over the years for a variety of other leading media organizations. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book about current affairs in France, entitled 'My French Connection'. Sheryle is currently Business Editor for ABC Radio National’s flagship morning programme.

Caroline Falls has been working as a journalist and editor since 1979. She is the former Sydney correspondent for Bloomberg Business News, where she specialized in currency, bond and equity markets, and she is the former Director of Public Affairs and Information, for Australia's Federal Department of Industrial Relations. Caroline also has extensive experience in custom publications services, including editing, desktop publishing and book production.

Bruce Pollock has spent more than 30 years working as a journalist, editor and communications professional in Australia and Asia. His specialty is print production, design and layout and sub-editing. He has worked for a range of media, including the Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Social Change Media/Pluto Press, and the China Mail and The Star newspapers in Hong Kong. Bruce is the former Publications Editor for the Australian Bicentennial Authority.

Bambang Nurcahyadi, known as BB, is a web designer and video artist who uses a range of digital media in his work. Combining text, photography, graphics and video, BB creates a range of products from corporate-style sites to individual artists' sites. He has designed websites and web presences for very large organizations such as the Sydney Olympic Park Authority, and for medium-sized enterprises and micro-businesses. BB spent the first fifteen years of his working life in the corporate world in Indonesia before settling in Australia.

Robert Karniol is a veteran military affairs journalist and was Asia-Pacific Editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly from 1988-2007. He is now Senior Writer for the Singapore Straits Times. He has extensive military, government, industry and media contacts throughout Asia and Europe. He has delivered conference papers for the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies, the US Pacific Command, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the US National Defence University, and the Australian Joint Services Staff College.

British/Italian journalist, editor and writer Vittoria D'Alessio has worked as a staff member for publications around the world, including The Hong Kong Standard, The Eastern Express, Marie Clare and Eve. She has written articles for New Scientist, The Times , The Guardian, The Independent, South China Morning Post and Australian Doctor Weekly. She is the recipient of an Amnesty International Press Award for her coverage of the plight of exiled Tibetan women in India. She moved to Singapore in 2005 and recently started running training workshops in journalism and creative writing.

Gwen Robinson, former Comment Editor of the Financial Times, is currently a correspondent for the FT in Japan, where she returned this year for a second stint after working in Tokyo from 1990-97, first for Nikkei Weekly, then as correspondent for The Times of London. Before 1990, Gwen covered politics and economics in Southeast Asia based in various countries, including three years in Thailand writing primarily for Economist Intelligence Unit publications. From 1985 to 1988 she worked in Manila as correspondent for The National Times, an Australian weekly current affairs newspaper.

Nick Kotch is a media consultant, journalism trainer and news correspondent. Formerly Africa Bureau Chief for Reuters, and a 27-year veteran of that wire service, he now travels widely on the continent, conducting courses for journalists and those who work with them. Nick also runs workshops for people and groups who want to communicate more effectively, particularly with the media. He was one of the Eminent Persons in the Commonwealth Observer Group at Cameroon's presidential elections in 2004.

Andy Hill is a former Reuters journalist with 27 years of broad reporting and editing experence around the world. After leaving Reuters, he spent four years working on communication projects for Oxfam in Israel/Palestine and was Regional Manager there for two years. Andy is now a media consultant and freelance editor, but spends much of his time on training projects in Africa, South Asia and elsewhere.

Fernando Dantas is a specialist in macro-economics and financial issues, working now as Special Correspondent for the respected Brazilian daily newspaper O Estado de São Paulo in their Rio office. He has very strong contacts in the business community and in government across South America. Fernando was London correspondent for Gazeta Mercantil in the 1990s, and is a former Visiting Fellow of the Journalists in Europe Foundation in Paris.

Greg Brosnan has extensive experience in Latin America, having covered the spectrum of news there as a Reuters correspondent in Mexico City and before that tracking Latin American financial affairs from New York, particularly International Monetary Fund and World Bank decisions affecting the region. Greg has also worked for The Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg in Mexico. He holds a degree in Latin American studies from University of Portsmouth in the UK, and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.