ABOUT US

• Alan Frost: A background that straddles the media and commerce includes work in broadcast television as researcher, scriptwriter, cameraman, studio director and news producer. He has worked with several major corporations on establishing crisis management procedures and has sat on crisis management teams during genuine crises. An officer in the Reserve Forces, he was part of the information co-ordination team at Ministry of Defence, London during the Iraq combat operation in 2003 and co-ordinated the media operation surrounding the military element of President George W Bush’s visit to the UK.
  
  
• Robert Partridge: Also a former senior army officer in the Reserve Forces, Rob has directed teams within both the military and private sector. He has worked in media operations around the world, including Kossovo where he was responsible for planning and implementing the Media Operation and Information Campaign during the first democratic regional elections, and Sierra Leone where , as Senior Civil Affairs Advisor, he performed the same role during the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Operation. During the Iraq Combat Operation he was Deputy Director in the US Specialist Media Unit. He is a guest lecturer on Media Operations at the Kofi Annan International Peace Training Centre in Ghana.
  
  
• Angus Taverner: A former Regular Army officer and currently a member of the Reserve Forces, Angus has also spent some years working in commerce and the public sector. A key figure in formulating the Ministry of Defence’s Media Operations policy, he is also an advisor to the UK Government on Media Operations strategy. He was the British Army spokesman for the North of England during the Foot & Mouth epidemic, and has spoken and trained on Media Operations issues in USA, Germany, South Africa, UAE, Estonia, Armenia, Hungary, Romania and Bangladesh.