Who are we?

Paul Nixon (CEO)

Paul has spent the last 10 years in the online Corporate Communications world. He previously spent 7 years at Investis as one of the founding directors, responsible for the delivery side of the business as well as running some of the largest accounts.

Prior to that he spent 14 long years at Accenture.

Lucy Nixon (Executive Editor)

Lucy set up and manages the Corporate Eye blog and heads our editorial team. She also developed our new approach to benchmarking corporate communications websites. Occasionally she finds time to write a post, too …

Her previous experience is benchmarking and thought leadership work on online corporate communications and running a small web development company. Before that, she spent 10 years at Accenture (nee Andersen Consulting).

Lucy tweets for Corporate Eye - find out more - and was on the panel of judges for the 2010 Digital Impact Awards.

Chris Milton (Responsibility writer)

A former CTO, Chris has a broad and varied background. He’s been involved with blue chips, consultancies & SMEs across a wide variety of sectors and has worked in Europe, the Middle East and Australia. In 2007 he decided to combine his knowledge of business and IT with his passion for all things sustainable and has been busy writing ever since. However, his greatest ambition remains to brew the perfect cup of coffee.

You can find out more about Chris at Britesprite.

Susan Gunelius (Brand writer)

Susan Gunelius is the author of multiple marketing, social media, branding, copywriting, and blogging books, and she is President & CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a marketing communications company. She also owns Women on Business, a leading blog for business women. She is a featured columnist for Entrepreneur.com, a featured blogger for Forbes.com, and the Guide to Blogging for About.com. Additionally, her marketing-related articles have appeared on websites such as MSNBC.com, FoxBusiness.com, WashingtonPost.com, TheStreet.com, SmartMoney.com, TodayShow.com, BusinessWeek.com, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Small Business, and more.

She has nearly 20 years of experience in the marketing field having spent the first decade of her career directing marketing programs for some of the largest companies in the world, including divisions of AT&T and HSBC. Susan also appears at in-person and virtual events where she speaks about marketing, branding, social media, and more (visit www.SusanGunelius.com for more information). You can connect with her on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

Ed Konczal (Corporate Governance and Employee Issues writer)

Ed Konczal has an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business (with distinction). He has spent the last 10 years as an executive consultant focusing on human resources, leadership, market research, and business planning. Ed has over 10 years of top-level experience from AT&T in the areas of new ventures and business planning. He is co-author of the book “Simple Stories for Leadership Insight,” published by University Press of America.

You can learn more about Ed at his site ClevelManagers.

Bridget Wright (Media writer)

Bridget is a freelance writer, blogger and professional motivational speaker who primarily focuses on business content, offering her clients strategic marketing strategies for their businesses. She has been a work at home mom for over 10 years, after having worked extensively in corporate America. She started her own consulting practice in church ministry and non-profit marketing in 1997.

She enjoys writing and views it as a vital form of communication and self-expression. It offers her flexibility and the venue to communicate effectively in all areas of her life, both business and personal. She and her husband live in (US) Alabaster, AL and have three children.

You can find out more about Bridget at her site www.bridgetwright.com

Brian Nelson (Investor Relations writer)

Brian is a small business owner, consultant and freelance writer. Brian began his professional career in the computer industry as a consultant where he became keenly aware of the internal workings of companies from Fortune 100 giants to small two-man shops. While working with a mutual fund company, Brian developed a strong interest in finance and became a Certified Financial Planner. As a financial professional, Brian specialized in working with small business owners. Brian is the co-founder of ArcticLlama, LLC a premier business writing and consulting firm. He also runs a real world personal finance blog. Brian lives in Denver with his wife and daughter.

John Palizza (Investor Relations writer)

John works with strategic communications and consulting firm Three Part Advisors, to assist them in their investor relations practice, and is a Lecturer in Management at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management, where he teaches investor relations. Prior to this, John was in charge of investor relations for Sysco Corporation and Walgreen Co. He holds a MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a law degree from Loyola University of Chicago.

You can learn more about John’s thinking about investor relations at his blog, Investor Relations Musings.

Cynthia Giles (Recruitment writer)

Cynthia Giles has followed a serpentine career path from academia to publishing to marketing and design to information technology and corporate communications. There’s plenty of detail about this journey at www.cynthiagiles.com, but briefly–the common theme has been ideas, and how to present them effectively. Along the way, she became an accidental expert on data warehousing and business intelligence, and for the past ten years she has combined corporate contracting with an independent consulting practice that focuses on marketing strategy for smaller businesses and non-profits.

Having spent quite a bit of time looking for work, and anywhere from two weeks to two years inside a wide variety of American companies—she has given much thought to what works (and what doesn’t) when it comes to creating a great employment fit.

Helen Baker (Accessibility and whole-site issues writer)

Helen provides a range of freelance web content services, with a focus on accessible, usable copy in plain English. She started out in technology PR for a global firm before moving on to the corporate communications team of FTSE 250 engineering company Balfour Beatty. She was responsible for www.balfourbeatty.com, when she was first introduced to the issues surrounding corporate websites.

In 2008, Helen moved from London to Spain, from where she works for a range of private and public sector clients across Europe. She has a first class engineering degree, which might not be the most obvious qualification for a copywriter. However, it has provided her with strong analytical skills and good technical understanding, as well as the ability to communicate complex issues clearly.

When not fuelling her interest in accessibility and usability via Twitter and a frankly out-of-control blog feed, Helen likes to read about language, learn Spanish and German, and spend time outdoors on rock faces. Find out more about her on www.concisecontent.co.uk.