meet the team…

Rhodri has a long and successful track record in marketing, and can work across all marketing disciplines. Rhodri has helped his clients grow their business, even through difficult market conditions.

Had it not been for a serious lack of rugby talent, Rhodri may well have joined the long list of great fly halves to emerge from Wales. His love of Radio 4 and ale might make him sound old but there is no doubt that he is young at heart.

Jane is one of our longest-standing staff members and has an impressively diverse range of duties. Jane provides administrative support to creative services, assists the PR and community affairs teams, and is our resident media oracle.

As our resident diet and cooking guru, Jane recently perfected the ‘Wine counts as one of your five-a-day diet’ and will be releasing a book and DVD later this year.

Richard heads up our finance department and is responsible for everything from paying the milk bill to paying the directors' salaries. As you would expect, his financial expertise includes providing support for account handlers and producing management accounts.

A lifelong Aston Villa fan, Rich spends most of his spare time cheering on his beloved Villans, singing along to Absolute 80s, or showing off his encyclopaedic knowledge of 80s cartoons.

Luckily for us, Julie is more than able to keep both our community affairs and PR teams in check and working together like a well-oiled machine. This is in no small part due to Julie's experience of working for some of the Midlands' biggest agencies.

Having stalked the Stereophonics from Cardiff to Cancun Julie decided, with the help of a restraining order, to put her outstanding organisational skills and attention to detail to more productive use.

Johan comes from a web development and online marketing background and covers all aspects of the digital spectrum, including SEO, PPC, web development and online strategy. What a combination.

He has the first name of a rock star and the surname of a geek. Which is useful, because when he’s not in the world of digital marketing, you’re most likely to find Johan at gigs of all the coolest bands – he even plays guitar.

Emma can bring her creative and artworking skills to bear on clients in any sector, can turn her hand to any brief, and often brings a youthful, fresh angle to our clients’ creative work.

Emma brightens up the studio with her creative talents and her infectious laugh. Having spent nine months travelling all over the world, she reckons she’s fluent in Spanish, so brings an international flavour to the agency.

Stu loves going that little bit further to to produce work with a ‘wow’ factor for clients, and meeting seemingly impossible artworking deadlines is definitely Stu’s secret superpower.

In his spare time, Stu’s most likely to be doing one of the following: supporting QPR, running or practicing his Hasselhoff beach strut.

Amy works in our community affairs team, having left her job as a radio news reporter to work in the far more glamorous world of Gough Bailey Wright. Amy’s invaluable broadcasting experience has allowed her to provide media training to her colleagues and clients.

Amy’s nickname really should be Garfield, because of her love of lasagna and sleeping. However, unlike the cartoon cat, Amy is certainly not work shy, as she likes nothing more than playing with her beautiful young daughter, Ava, or launching into energetic, weekend-long, gardening sessions.

Sunny is responsible for the day-to-day management of some of our PR accounts and is responsible for planning and implementing PR campaigns, responding to media enquiries, and even manages some top-notch social media work.

Starting out as a journalist, Sunny’s passion for writing is only matched by his passion for sports and exercise. If he is not running, playing football, cycling or hiking, then he can be found in the kitchen baking tasty cakes.

Beth has the crucial role of overseeing all our production systems and processes; ensuring that all our print work is produced cost-effectively, looks stunning and is delivered on time and to budget.

Once in a while you come across one of those people that everyone likes. Our Zumba-class-participating, Dotty-the-kitten-loving, bargain-hunting, tapas-eating, Wham! fan, office ray of sunshine is always smiling.

Tom has a broad range of experience, having worked in public, agency and charity sectors. Tom delivers consultation campaigns and manages various activities including media and stakeholder relations, communications planning and research.

Tom is brave, courageous, daring, fearless and valiant (his words, not ours), though there must be some truth in them because when Tom isn’t working he’s out climbing hills and mountains around the world to the sound of reggae on his iPod.

Michelle has many years’ experience in consumer and B2B PR and established our award-winning social media team in 2008. She has an excellent reputation with the home-interest sector, and an unrivalled understanding of national press.

Our teenage sprint champion gave up dreams of Olympic gold when she discovered that PR was slightly more fun than getting up at five in the morning. But despite a slowing of her sprint speed, her speedy work ethic often has people trailing in her wake.

Laura is our consumer PR live wire with an uncanny talent for social media. Laura sets her own standards very high. She is involved with the day-to-day account handling of many of our PR clients and will stop at nothing to get outstanding results for them.

Laura always comes to work with a smile on her face. Her love of all things Latin includes Bacardi, Che Guevara and Mexican food.

Our multi-skilled PR Account Manager is part of our award-winning community affairs team. He also finds the time to manage our own PR and social media accounts whilst turning his hand to creative copywriting and ‘brainstorming’.

As half-Liverpudlian and half-Brummie, Rich has a pretty sharp sense of humour and holds the current office title of ‘King of the one-liners’.

Janine ensures the smooth operation of the day-to-day business of the company, including responsibility for our facilities management, procurement, IT support, and everything else that GBW would grind to an immediate halt without.

We think a sense of humour is essential when working in an agency, and luckily, Janine is fine on this count. She must be, as she’s been to see both Steps and S Club 7 live…

Always chirpy, GBW’s Mr Nice Guy works hard in our Public and Community Affairs department. With a genuine passion for working in communications and dealing with every type of personality, he never stops smiling.

He enjoys taking the initiative, he once emailed the CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi asking for work experience. They we’re so impressed that he’d gone straight to the top, it worked! Never happier than being indoors with a roast lamb, pint of beer and a good film. Josh is also a huge tennis fan. One of his aims is to go to all four major tournaments. Wimbledon and The French Open have been ticked off the list. Just New York and Melbourne to go and it’s game, set and match.

Darren’s 20 years’ of creative experience includes stints in many of the big-name Midlands ad agencies, and time as a freelance creative. He’s always up for a challenge and his experience means that he can translate the driest of subjects into eye-catching and effective creative work.

Gough Bailey Wright’s answer to Jackie Chan is a serious fitness fanatic. Whether working out at the gym, working as a martial arts instructor or de-stressing with his favourite punchbag, Darren is always up for a work out, mental or physical.

Joyce has considerable experience in consumer and trade PR across a number of sectors and is a key member of the community affairs team. She brings together all our disciplines to deliver public exhibitions and community projects.

When asked to describe herself in five words, Joyce replied, “more than meets the eye”. We’re not quite sure what that means, but having seen her at the Christmas party...

When Paul isn’t polishing his collection of 1980s classic cars, he is responsible for advising clients on their relations with central and local government politicians and officials and other political stakeholders.

Paul has considerable experience of government affairs, having been Director General of three trade associations and holding two senior civil service posts. He also served as an Edinburgh City Councillor, elected at the age of 21, and has twice stood for Parliament. Paul enjoys cooking and being walked by his barking mad Springer Spaniel, Sweep. He is always a first choice member of the GBW pub quiz team as his first claim to fame was winning the Scottish Television quiz programme for schools, 'Ask About America'!

Ali is a master of all things PR but specialises in b2b PR. A whizz at client newsletters, she writes targeted copy and manages often demanding deadlines. Her work ethic is second to none and she still manages to maintain strong links with her media contacts.

Ali’s positive nature could be attributed to the constant stream of endorphins released by her regular gym sessions, or maybe it’s because at heart, Ali still dreams of driving a camper van and surfing for a living.

After spending four years trying unsuccessfully to discover the secret to baking the perfect tiger loaf in a Sainsbury’s bakery, Alex decided he was better suited to helping people find your website with a simple Google search.

Equally at home editing website content or updating a pay-per-click campaign, Alex puts his vast knowledge of all things digital down to a web development obsession from an early age. When not making your website sit proudly at the top of a Google search you can find Alex at the Hawthorns cheering on his beloved Baggies. And, sharing his name with young rockers the Artic Monkeys we hear Alex certainly looks good on the dance floor!

Tess has worked in PR for over 15 years and has led communications for two successful national regeneration programmes. She is a full member of the CIPR and her experience includes PR, community affairs, marketing, public affairs and consultation.

With more energy than British Gas, our caring, daring PR Account Director always manages to make a positive impact with her clients. Tess certainly needs her high energy levels to look after her young family, to go for a long run around the Cornish coastline and to charge up her super power, which, we’re assured, is to “see through you”!

After working as a trainee chef at a local restaurant, our cheeky Bromsgrove lad uses his quick thinking and organisational skills to play an important role in the smooth running of our Public and Community Affairs projects.

He makes equally light work of demolishing a Greggs Mega Deal within an impressive 20 minutes of his lunch break. 
This combined with the occasional ‘social’ drink with friends at weekends put an early end to his promising professional football career. He’s represented Worcester and played at a national level at school. These days on the football pitch, he still 
displays Messi-esque skills, although now it’s on the Xbox!

You won't hear from Jayne unless you haven't paid your bill.  Jayne provides vital support to our busy financial department, ensuring payments are made and received promptly.

Jayne has a pretty sophisticated taste in music; The Stylistics, The Style Council, Paul Weller and, err, Donny Osmond… She reckons she’s also a whizz in the kitchen, though we’re all impatiently waiting for the evidence.