HAMISH HAYNES, MCB, ACIPR

Hamish Haynes has spent over 25 years in the IT, manufacturing and TV media industries. He and the team can offer practical help on all aspects of effective two-way communication from first-hand experience.

As Group Head of Internal Communications for British Sky Broadcasting, he established the first Sky Forum, an elected group of staff representatives from all areas of the business. Sky's Vision magazine won the CiB's best internal publication in 2003, and digitalk won a CiB gold award in 2005 for best newsletter. He established over 20 channels to communicate across the 13,000 staff operating in over 900 shift patterns during the five years he was with the company.

As Marketing Director for Compaq Computer Ltd he was responsible for guiding staff through the largest merger in IT history, the setting up of staff communications channels, hosting world-wide sales conferences for 7,000 delegates and organising media parties for 3,000+ staff.

His public engagements have included presenting as a guest speaker for the Marketing Week Brand conference, the Institute of PR annual conference, the CiB annual conference, Communications Directors Forum, the Cabinet Office and many, many more.

JUDE MEADOWS

Jude Meadows has spent over 22 years in IT, manufacturing and sales training.

As a Vice President of Hewlett Packard responsible for the Personal Computer Products Division in the UK, Jude was involved in all aspects of sales & marketing of the award winning i-Paq range of hand-helds.

Prior to that, Jude was the Director of Consumer products for Compaq Computer Ltd.