Branding
Andy Spicer
Founder, Crafty Fish
Founder, Crafty Fish
Andy Spicer
Market experience: Automotive, Property, FMCG, Sports, Consumer Technology, Banking and Financial Services Marketing.
Specialties: Typography, illustration, high-end retouching, visualising.
Tanisha Raffiuddin
Founder, Concept Culture
Founder, Concept Culture
Tanisha Raffiuddin
Tanisha is Founder & Creative Director of Concept Culture, a specialist branding & communications agency for the built environment.
A trained architect, Tanisha has over a decade of combined experience in architectural practice, at AJ100 firms, as a contributor at The Architects’ Journal, and as a communications consultant to sustainability organisations, including the Passivhaus Trust, Good Homes Alliance, and the Sustainable Development Foundation.
Tanisha’s current work sits at the intersection of architecture, sustainability, and communications. Through the power of storytelling and design, she helps clients grow their brand and engage with their audience.
She has travelled extensively across six continents (Antarctica is next!), and her work is heavily inspired by people, culture and place.
Tanisha is also a committee member of Women in Architecture UK.
Robert Gordon Clark
Executive Chair, LCA
Executive Chair, LCA
Robert Gordon Clark
Robert founded London Communications Agency and leads on a small number of clients including British Land, Brentford FC and Kings Cross. From 1999 to 2010 he was Chairman and Managing Director, in August 2010 Jonny Popper took over as MD and Robert remains Executive Chairman. Robert has an all-round corporate comms background which began in commercial marketing in the 1980s and broadened out into public affairs, media relations and issues management in the 1990s. Prior to setting up LCA he was Deputy CEO of London First, the business campaign group and London First Centre, the inward investment agency. Before London First, he was Head of Public Affairs for London Arts Board. For recent general, GLA and local elections he has been ITV London and LBC’s political analyst and regularly reviews the papers on BBC Radio London. He was Chair of the Mayor’s Thames Festival from 2012-2020, is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and listed in PR Week’s annual Powerbook.
Rosie Cade
Founder, Jamie Hadley
Founder, Jamie Hadley
Rosie Cade
Rosie has over a decade’s experience in the property sector, leading the communications for well-known agents, developers and parts of London.
Her most recent position was Communications Director at regeneration specialist Argent, where she was responsible for promoting the business and its three projects: King’s Cross, Brent Cross South and Tottenham Hale.
She is now a freelance consultant, helping values-driven property clients identify and talk about their purpose and objectives. She specialises in media relations, brand narrative development, industry profiling, copywriting and crisis planning.
Chris Arning
Founder, Creative Semiotics
Founder, Creative Semiotics
Chris Arning
Chris specialises in semiotics and cultural insight. He has 20 years experience working as a thinker, planner, qualitative researcher and commercial semiotician. He was Head of Semiotics at Flamingo Research and set up Creative Semiotics – a boutique brand consultancy – in 2010. Chris is co-founder of Semiofest, a Celebration of Semiotic Thinking and LinkedIn’s Semiotic Thinking Group. He has worked for clients as diverse as UKTI, Huawei, Netflix, BMW Mini and GSK. Chris led the BBC Humour GAP project which created a strong taxonomy now being used across the organization. He devised the MA Module, Brands and Meaning on Global Media Communications at the University of Warwick and is sessional tutor at University of Creative Arts. Chris is a passionate writer and has written extensively on brand cultures. His essays have been published in Huffington Post, Admap, The Drum, New European. Chris has worked with several brands on refresh and revamp projects including a current project in the built environment sector.
Nina Cadman
Founder, Cadman Communications
Founder, Cadman Communications
Nina Cadman
Nina is a corporate and financial communications specialist. She has over a decade of experience in advising companies from FTSE 100s to privately-owned emerging businesses across the real estate spectrum.
Prior to founding her own communications consultancy, Nina led the development communications for Hammerson, one of the largest British retail REITs, where she was responsible for overseeing all corporate media and stakeholder engagement initiatives and crisis communications.
Nina has also worked at global communications agency FTI consulting. Part of its financial real estate team, Nina advised listed and private businesses, as well funds and asset managers including AXA Real Estate, The Carlyle Group, Helical Bar and Schroders.