Jonathan Simnett has over 20 years experience - winning in excess of two dozen awards - in helping private and public sector clients in fast-growth, business-to-business segments develop and deploy communications strategies to: enter new markets; reposition; raise finance or deal successfully with crises.

The managing director of Big Stick Communications, a consultancy specialising in delivering high level corporate strategy, business development and communications management skills to agencies and clients, he was formerly vice chairman in the UK of Brodeur Worldwide, a global technology public relations and marketing communications consultancy. At Brodeur, he was part of the core team that built a company of nearly 650 people and $95 million turnover worldwide, over a period of 15 years before selling to Omnicom. There, he also sat on the board of Brodeur in Europe (a $30 million entity), running, in turn, people and business development and led the company to become one of the UK's first Investors in People.

He has delivered programmes across Europe for established companies such as: AT&T; BT; Cable & Wireless; Cisco Systems; Compuware; Comverse; Datatec; HP; Infosys; Intel; Nortel Networks; Informix; IBM; Philips; QAD; Siemens; Sharp; Sony; Sybase and TCS. In addition, he has worked closely with small fast growth and venture backed companies such as: @stake; BlueKite; Bytemobile; Cape Clear; Corigin; Envisional; e2v technologies; Global Switch; GFI; Go2Call; Intuwave; Interoute; InterSystems; Logicalis; Relativity; Roboscience; OnInstant; PaloAlto Software; Sapiens; Star*Home; THINQ and Vecta. He has also delivered campaigns for other parts of the technology ecosystem: for finance and advisory firms such as Battery Ventures and Ariadne Capital; and for government organisations such as the European Commission; Locate in Scotland; Thames Valley Enterprise and Salford Regeneration. He is columnist in the US magazine Technology Marketing and Technology Marketing Insider Pass Newsletter.

He commenced his career as a research fellow in the Programme of Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology at the University of Manchester.

Jonathan Simnett