Harnessing the web to drive membership growth & value – #HTW2013 Conference

Neil joined RCGP in January 2011 and has significant experience of developing organisations in the charity sector. Prior to his appointment at RCGP he was Chief Executive of the Alzheimer’s Society, where he led an impressive modernisation, developing new services, raising the public profile of the organisation, and increasing its revenue from £27m to £60m. He had notable success in lobbying government and chaired the advisory group that led to the National Dementia Strategy for England.

Rich is a well-known speaker and influencer within the membership sector drawing on 12 years of experience within senior management roles at high profile membership bodies including the British Dental Association, College of Optometrists, Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors and more recently the Royal College of General Practitioners. He can only be described as ‘Trouble’ if you are looking to not develop, improve or change your membership offering!

George Land is Chairman and joint owner of APT Solutions, a leading supplier of membership technology to the Not for Profit sector in the UK and Australia. With over 25 years history of working on major database and web projects for many membership organisations across the globe. George has extensive experience of applying technology to the practical problems of running and growing a membership organisation.

Luke has been involved with membership at the RCOG for 4 years. This role focuses on overseeing the delivery of membership benefits and services, as well as improving communications. In addition he is part of a committee which examines the best ways to use the College website effectively for membership engagement.

Tilly is the CEO of Think, the leading content marketing agency for membership organisations. With offices in London and Glasgow, Think delivers award-winning multiplatform content solutions for over 30 membership organisations. Tilly started her career in Paris with Conde Nast before becoming a strategic planner at the French advertising agency Lintas. She moved back to London as new business and marketing director for Lynne Franks PR and Ketchum until founding Think in 1999.

Joni is responsible for CPD policy and strategy at the RIBA. Highlights are growing the CPD Providers Network, introducing mandatory CPD, and a CPD curriculum. Joni is past chair of the CIC CPD Panel, the Interprofessional CPD Forum, Better Skills for Better Places CPD group, and is a member of the International Union of Architects and Architects Council of Europe CPD committees. She has also advised professional bodies internationally.

Managing Director and joint founder of IndigoBlue, Rob has built the organisation into an award winning consultancy which is recognised for its industry leading expertise in Agile management and strategic business change. In addition to his managerial responsibilities Rob continues to provide consultancy services and works with clients to develop and evolve business-aligned technology strategies. He has undertaken strategic reviews for over 30 NFP organisations including the YHA, RCGP, AAT and IChemE.

A Chartered Marketer, Becky has over 15 years marketing experience covering a number of industries and both commercial and not-for-profit. Following eight years in the motorcycle industry Becky moved over to the Fire Industry Association with the brief to review the company’s marketing activity and drive the professionalism of the brand forward. The FIA is now the largest trade association in the fire protection industry.

Sheena Bailey is an expert in applying cutting-edge technology to drive results in training and education. She has designed and developed learning and assessment solutions for over 15 years and is an original founder of TestReach, a company that enables associations to run formal certification exams over the web using remote invigilation.

Janice Liverseidge is the Membership, Marketing and Communications Director at the Royal Society of Medicine. She began her marketing career with the Financial Times and has also held positions within Lloyds TSB, BMA Services Ltd , Jardine Insurance Services Limited and advertising agency Rapp where clients included a number of major professional membership bodies and charities.

Mike Morrison is MD of RapidBI, and creator of the CIPD LinkedIn members group. With over 25 years in people development, Mike is a specialist in organisational development, change management and leadership, often through collaboration.

Ever since being elected as one of the youngest engineers into the engineering council Mike has had a passion for CPD through collaboration. Having started and built one professional group from 0 to over 21000 members, Mike is passionate about the business advantages of collaboration and communities. Follow Mike on twitter @rapidbi

Sue has over 33 years experience in marketing and over the last 14 years has specialised in working with membership organisations on member recruitment and retention issues. Over 2,400 delegates have attended her events and seminars. She is also involved with a number of research and consultancy projects for various associations. She is passionate about helping associations strategically, operationally and tactically with member recruitment and retention issues. She is a firm believer in practical, common sense approaches that are backed up by evidence. Sue is a founder member of the UK Professional Speakers Association.

Steve has a broad career background with experience ranging from youth development to juggernaut engineering, and from voluntary-sector fundraising to commercial banking. His speciality is strategic brand management, where he has developed and implemented many successful campaigns.

As Director of Marketing & Fundraising at healthcare charity Sue Ryder Care, Steve built a high-performance department from scratch and led a major re-brand project to revitalise its fading image. Steve is a passionate advocate of the unrecognised (and unrealised) power of “whole-organisation marketing” and a committed practitioner of integrated marketing communications. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the RSA.

Ian set up Think in 1999 using the commercial publishing experience he had gained both within national newspapers and magazine publishing to bring a clear commercial and marketing-led focus to Think’s clients. Think is a full service content agency which works with its 35 clients to deliver effective and engaging cross-platform membership communications.

Shiela has for many years worked closely with organisations in the professional and financial services sectors helping to place brand at the strategic heart of business thinking. Able to translate the most complex business challenges into branding opportunities, Shiela has worked on strategic branding projects for a number of years with the UK Actuarial Profession.

Melanie has been working in marketing and research for over 25 years and within the membership sector for 12 years. Melanie has worked with some of the biggest membership organisations including the NFU and the CIM, working to understand member’s needs and enabling organisations to create strong, compelling membership offers.

Dominic is chairman of Deeson Member Communications, which has been providing solutions for membership organisations, professional bodies, trade associations and trades unions for more than 50 years. All work is carried out in-house and the team includes communications specialists, marketers, editors, designers, web developers and social media strategists.

Christine Joyce is Managing Director of the CJAM Group founded in 2009. With more than 30 years’ professional experience, Christine has formerly held several senior positions in industry, including the commercial director of Cego Galvanizing and CEO of the Tyre Recovery Association. Christine provides tailored marketing services to a wide range of private and public organisations in diverse sectors, from automotive industry groups to charities and schools.

Stephen O’Reilly is a professional marketer. He set up Loud Marketing in 2005 to focus on providing a flexible extension to his clients’ marketing resources. Clients include architects, membership organisations, SMEs and entrepreneurs. Loud Marketing is media-neutral and specialises in strategy, market research and marketing communications services. Stephen leads the team and manages all client projects.

Johny is a multifaceted web-based designer and developer working for Sterling. In the past year his career path has lead to a specialisation in mobile app design and development and in particular a vast knowledge in Augmented Reality.

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Mike is responsible for marketing the Direct Debit scheme; operated by Bacs; to a wide range of organisations, including commercial organisations, donation-based charities, membership organisations and associations. As a member of the Bacs senior management team Mike is responsible for the development of new opportunities for Direct Debit, increasing consumer usage and improving attitudes towards, and marketing understanding of the scheme.

Andrew’s background is in Consumer Finance / Training. He became a Bacs Accredited Trainer in 2008 and was appointed Senior Trainer for Direct Debit Limited / Bottomline in 2010 responsible for delivering Bacs Scheme Training to Service Users and Paying Banks. He has delivered in excess of 500 training courses.

Gavin has comprehensive knowledge of Direct Debits & established Clear Academy (Bacs accredited training and consultancy) in 2009. Having helped 400+ organisations since, Gavin is frequently invited to industry events to provide expertise on software, rules and tips to improve collection rates. Gavin previously worked at Direct Debit and Experian.

Jonathan joined Bucks Net in 2005, following a 25 year career in Banking. Jonathan has worked for a variety of banks, including HSBC, Credit Suisse, Nat West and ABN AMRO, where he was Senior Vice President for Global Transaction Services. At Bucks Net, Jonathan has led the Company to become a multi-platform payments processor, with the development of strategies with several key Banking partners. Bucks Net is a specialist Payment Solutions Provider, active in the provision of payments to the Membership Sector, the Public Sector, and Educational and Charitable Sectors.

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Matthew Trickey is the Membership Service Executive at the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT). He will be leading a session on successful ‘paperless’ Direct Debit implementation.

Ali Moiyed is one of the payments industry’s true visionaries and a genuine pioneer. Frustrated by the slow pace of innovation within the global payments industry, Ali created AccessPay to remove unnecessary costs and complexity from payments processing, cash management and treasury systems. His expertise in developing technological solutions to meet corporate needs allowed him to see what others didn’t – that while online payment and cash management tools were increasingly being used, they were costing more time and money than they actually should.

Sinéad has spent the last nine years in a variety of marketing roles within the charity/membership body sector focusing on maximising income from products, events and driving recruitment/retention of large membership audiences. In her spare time, Sinéad can be found swinging hockey sticks across Surrey and provides voluntary advice and support to small charities and businesses in voluntary advisory roles.

Susie Kay, founder of The Professionalism Group, has worked with professional associations for many years. She has developed standards and strategies both in the UK and overseas and worked with a wide range of organisational structures and stakeholder groups. She is passionate about enhancing professionalism in all sectors of the economy.

Simon works in digital strategy at Deeson Member Communications (DMC), who have been working with professional bodies, trade associations and trades unions since 1959. DMC, which currently has more than 40 membership clients, is part of a group including Deeson Online, the UK’s biggest and brightest Drupal agency, working on projects with clients including Johnson & Johnson, ITV, the Royal Collection Trust, the Department for Education, and Robbie Williams.

Charlie understands membership management, website development and all things digital. He uses his extensive knowledge of the web and expertise in the membership sector to help clients implement CMS, CRM, MRM and event management solutions at a strategic level. He oversees all commercial and technical elements of the Premier IT Websites business which provides digital and membership software solutions to over 50 membership, NFP and charity organisations.

Scott is a highly experienced consultant and has many years’ experience within the Internet and web design industry. His business portfolio includes companies such as NetApp, Konica Minolta UK, Mitel, BT and Oracle. Since joining NetXtra 3 years ago, he has supported organisations such as PCS, RMT PCG, RCVS and the Association for Science Education.

Jacqui has 10+ years experience of helping professional associations and membership bodies make the most out of the web to support their members’ professional development, qualifications and CPD.

Working for Nelson Croom, Jacqui has been involved in the development of a number of award winning elearning services, and has developed particular expertise in what makes successful online CPD.

Prior to her time at Nelson Croom, Jacqui held senior roles in the educational publishing market before turning to elearning in 2000, when she joined FT Knowledge as Marketing Director for their online learning businesses.

Evan Rudowski is co-founder and CEO of SubHub. In 1996 Evan joined the pioneering internet search engine, Excite.com, as one of its earliest employees, and from 1998-2001 he was managing director of Excite Europe, overseeing all European operations. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Evan worked on some of the earliest online news services at both News Corporation and Newsday, the suburban New York daily newspaper. Evan is a long-time member of the worldwide Entrepreneurs’ Organization and currently serves on its Global Communications Committee. He has been a contributor to Mashable, PaidContent and TechCrunch, and is a 1993 graduate of the highly regarded Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Tom has an MA in Classics from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh. He has five years’ experience creating innovative solutions for new and established membership organisations, from which he has amassed a complete understanding of the latest web and data analysis technologies. Through his company, Feusd, he provides a new type of membership management system, which combines together professional networking, subscriptions, event booking, content delivery and sophisticated analysis in a single easy to use interface.

Jyoti is leading software consultant at ASI Europe, engineering upgradeable NFP solutions exploiting the latest concepts and technologies. With a manufacturing automation background, Jyoti has been involved in the NFP industry in the UK for over 15 years.

Heather has over 30 years of experience managing research and information needs for membership, private and public sector organisations. She is the founder director of Research by Design Ltd, an established leader in membership sector research, with clients including the Royal College of Physicians, British Veterinary Association, Federation of Small Businesses and the British Chambers of Commerce. Passionate about new techniques in market research, in particular the rise in digital technologies, Heather is considered a thought-leader in her field.