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A little bit about the Purple Frog team…

David Finch
personal blog / all posts

Brings to the party:
Business centred thinking.

Gets excited about:
New challenges, travel and beer.

Gets wound up by:
Golf, weather forecasters & politicians.

Inspired by:
Life, my family and exploration.

Nick Lund
all posts

Brings to the party:
An assortment of toys and games.

Gets excited about:
Telling jokes.

Gets wound up by:
Nothing.

Inspired by:
Jimmy Tarbuck, Kenny Lynch and Jimmy Cricket.

Steve Cook
personal blog / all posts

Brings to the party:
Strategic and creative thinking about brands.

Gets excited about:
Individual and group psychology. Leadership, movements and influence. Queens Park Rangers FC.

Gets wound up by:
Inertia. Jobsworths. Queens Park Rangers FC.

Inspired by:
Tribes by Seth Godin. Banksy. Lyrics that affect me.

Marcus Marsh
personal blog / all posts

Brings to the party:
Creative thinking, a toupé and a bottle of cider.

Gets excited about:
Change, difference, aura energy and West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (this week).

Gets wound up by:
Interference, fields of stagnant treacle and the dogs lead.

Inspired by:
Picasso, Miro, and MikeM.

James Olney
personal blog / all posts

Brings to the party:
Web skills, sausage rolls and a bottle of wine.

Gets excited about:
Halloween. Films. Making cocktails.

Gets wound up by:
Laziness. Political correctness. Internet Explorer and just about anything developed by Microsoft.

Inspired by:
Retro pop culture. Horror films. TV channel idents.

Jon Butler
personal blog / all posts

Brings to the party:
Design excellence and pudding.

Gets excited about:
Cake Club. But I can’t talk about it.

Gets wound up by:
A really big key.

Inspired by:
Man’s ability to dream, to create, and… oh **** it. It’s Star Wars. Admit it I can.

Mandy Buzzard
personal blog / all posts

Brings to the party:
Organisational prowess, wine and Twiglets.

Gets excited about:
Vampire and Wizard movies.

Gets wound up by:
Negativity (and buses).

Inspired by:
People with positive energy & passion.

Paul Serjeant

Brings to the party:
Experience (old enough to remember wooden tennis rackets, cow gum and drawing boards), design and artwork skills.

Gets excited about:
Punk rock, cricket, football (Bristol City) and rugby (especially beating the Aussies and All Blacks).

Gets wound up by:
Pretentious people with pre-conceived ideas.

Inspired by:
Single Malt Whiskey.

Uzma Ullah

Brings to the party:
Banter, although I am pretty sure people laugh at me rather than with me…

Gets excited about:
Mr Kipling Lemon slices.

Gets wound up by:
Lots of things, dishonest people, female middle lane drivers, and people who have no idea what they are talking about but seem to be the expert on it!

Inspired by:
Elderly people, they have a story for everything!

Helen Hunter

Brings to the party:
Marketing communications knowledge and gorgeous little goat’s cheese nibbles, with a sun-dried tomato and pesto on top.

Gets excited about:
Online shopping.

Gets wound up by:
Radio 2.

Inspired by:
Edie.

Tina Sullivan

Brings to the party:
Finance experience.

Gets excited about:
A job well done, shoes, diamonds, the sea, generally life itself.

Gets wound up by:
Untidiness, bad manners, people ignoring or dismissing me. Quite a lot of things.

Inspired by:
My husband (you may think this soppy but he does), people who know what they want and go for it.

William Farrow

Brings to the party:
New Business and Theatre.

Gets excited about:
Wolves in the premiership, laughter and a good glass of red.

Gets wound up by:
Grumpy people and liars.

Inspired by:
Oscar Wilde and the family.



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