He created The Festival of Media and has recently led the restructuring of Cream, taking brand from the global magazine he launched while still an advertising industry consultant into a sophisticated web-based news and knowledge management tool with a dedicated team and a network of global representatives.

Charlie began his career as a financial journalist for Euromoney magazine after a short spell as a researcher for the Rt. Hon Tony Benn MP, one of the UK’s longest serving members of Parliament. He holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics (PPE) from New College, Oxford University. Charlie is a well-known figure in the global media business and has written for many publications including the Financial Times and spoken at, or chaired, major industry conferences around the world. He is also a non-executive director of Consume Satellite Ltd. and is married with two children, Edie Grace and Martha Rose.

After graduating in History from Peterhouse, Cambridge, Simon started in media in 1975 at  Benton & Bowles advertising agency. In the 1990s he was the Editorial Director of Haymarket Publishing and then CEO of Zenith Media UK, a large media planning and buying company. He has written columns in Campaign, Marketing and The Guardian newspaper. 

Simon takes an active role in C Squared. On top of the monthly Board meetings, Simon is in daily contact with the CEO and is frequently on hand to assist with staff training and mentoring. Simon shares his time between his London base and his family home in Cornwall.

Mike originally worked with C Squared on a stand-alone NHS publishing project, prior to getting directly involved in C Squared's business. Mike is currently the non-executive director at C Squared and is also the co-founder of Triplepoint, a specialist City investment fund.

Katharina has also been involved with improving the CRM systems in the company and in improving the circulation efficiencies of all the publications. She also has an active role in new business, having successfully developed relationships with powerful UAE-based corporates, including Dubai Holding.

Before joining C Squared, Katharina was the marketing manager of Tank Design and a consultant to the City of New Orleans, after spells at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Taittinger Champagne in the US. A German national, Katharina was born in Venezuela, grew up in Florida and now often has to commute to the new family home in Italy. Katharina graduated BA (Cum Laude) in Business , Marketing & Political Sciences at Tulane University and is fluent in three languages.

He began his career in 1984 at Centaur Communications, moving into the International market place in 1989. Following 7 years as a representative for National Geographic magazine, Richard joined CNN as a Sales Director in Broadcast before launching CNN's online operations for EMEA. Following a spell as Commercial Director for News International's Digital Publishing Division, Richard launched the GE Equity-backed European Operations for Phase 2 Media, fulfilling the role as the European Managing Director. During his career, Richard has served on the IAA Associates Committee and was President of the Oversees Press and Media Association (OPMA).

Before joining C Squared Richard developed a separate career outside of media, latterly as the Development Officer and Community Coach for the RFU (Rugby Football Union) - and he still continues this in some way by offering dietary advice and personal fitness instruction to the rest of the C Squared team.

He is also the author of the leading UK text "Digital Marketing for Dummies" and editor of "Marketing for Dummies". Greg obtained a BA (hons) in Journalism from the London College of Printing & Distributive Trades.

Pip joined M&M from Promotions & Incentives, the Haymarket title focusing on below-the-line marketing in the UK, and, before this she worked on two rather more niche titles - Trace, which covers the mysterious world of stolen art and antiques, and one of the UK's most famous and venerable publications, the Antiquarian Book Review. She studied History at the University of Sheffield, and undertook a post-graduate course in magazine journalism at PMA Training in London.

Before joining C Squared, she worked at Media Week where she was a reporter. An Oxford graduate in Spanish and Philosophy, Olivia received a distinction in her MA in journalism at Goldsmiths College before launching her career in media journalism.

Martina attended Centennial College in Toronto, Canada where she studied print journalism. While at Centennial Martina was an editor on the campus paper The Courier and worked as a reporter on the East Toronto Observer.  Martina is married with a bunny rabbit named Mimi. Her interests include Manchester United and indulging in celebrity gossip.

Paddy has over 12 years experience in media sales, of which 9 years have been in the international arena working for CFO Europe, Industry Standard Europe and TIME. During his tenure in London he was an active member of the IAA Associates Committee helping to organise amongst other things PAC, Media Question time and the pop quiz.

She began her media career at Mindshare and after 4 years moved to Discovery Networks Europe to experience the world of sales. Within her first year at Discovery Caroline had won  Deal of the Year at the company’s Global Sales Conference, and during her time there was shortlisted  for two M&M Awards. Her most recent role as Sales Director at Metro International was to take charge of Metro’s relationship with key UK International agencies, as well as work with major advertisers to develop and implement global partnership deals to ensure their long-term association with the brand.       

Clare has over 20 years' experience of running trade events. Clare has been responsible for awards evenings, sales conferences, industry conferences and parties - with budgets ranging from $1,000 to $1,000,000. Before joining C Squared, Clare ran the conference business of Centaur Communications, publishers of Marketing Week and many other leading trade publications and was for many years the producer of the UK television industry's annual summit in Monte Carlo.

Prior to C Squared, Yuliya worked in the Castrol Global Marketing team, where she was involved in Formula 1 and World Rally Championship sponsorship initiatives. Yuliya graduated with a first class honours degree in Business from the Cass Business School in London. She was born in Ukraine and has lived in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Helsinki.

Gee has been a designer for more than 10 years and has a huge portfolio of work. She has worked on the Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Natwest magazine and designs for Virgin. She spent a large part of her freelance life working for The Guardian newspaper in a variety of design and production roles and spent many years at Emap Media, working across Broadcast and Screen International magazines. Gee studied Graphic Design at East Croydon School of Art and Design. A great deal of her design inspiration is taken from her love of art galleries and contemporary architecture.

Before joining C Squared, Emily had a variety of roles including being an English teacher in Italy and working as an Executive Assistant to the Director of a letting agency in Paris. C Squared is her first foray in the media industry. Emily holds a French and Italian degree from Christ Church, Oxford University.

Prior to C Squared, Anis worked in the leisure and entertainment sector as an IT manager and his areas of expertise are system and database development, IS infrastructure, project management, dynamic websites development and e-marketing.  Anis obtained a BEng (hons) in Telecommunication and Computer Networks Engineering and MSc in Advanced IT from the London South Bank University.

Paul has been a qualified ACA for fifteen years and for the last five years he has worked for SME’s as a part time Finance Director specialising in guiding businesses through funding to rapid growth stages to ensure that all systems keep pace with a maturing business.

He continued his career as Management Accountant at Research International (WPP) where he progressed to Chief Management Accountant and led a team of five before leaving for his next challenge. James is married and very excited at the prospect of becoming a father for the first time later this year.

Ray is well known expert on media affairs and has been a TV presenter for "Hard News" on Channel 4 and "Media Monthly" on Sky News. Ray is currently the presenter of "NewsWatch", the BBC News 24 accountability programme. His books include "The Good, The Bad and the Unacceptable" on presentation standards and "Greenfinger" on Michael Green and Cartlon Communications.

Born in Larne, County Antrim, and educated at Queens University Belfast, Ray is married with two grown-up children, both working in the media. His interests include chess, opera and supporting Queens Park Rangers.