Niki Webb

CEO

Niki is a publisher with 20 years branded content experience and is a frequent media commentator on the evolution of content. Niki has developed content propositions for some of the biggest brands, including Boots, Reuters, Specsavers and HSBC.

Philippe Crump

Commercial Director

Philippe is passionate about brands, business and understanding clients’ needs. Having started his career working with Omnicom, he has gained a strong grounding across all marketing channels. As a brand strategist at LIVE and Circus, he has worked on a range of projects across public and private sector organisations, including Virgin Atlantic, PepsiCo, London Underground and Home Retail Group.

Ross Wilkinson

Content Director

Ross is responsible for ensuring that the content Specialist publishes across a multitude of platforms continually hits the mark when it comes to engaging target audiences. From engrossing magazine features to the highest quality video for brands' YouTube channels, as far as he's concerned content is most definitely king!

AJ Howe

Creative Director

AJ runs the creative department with his visionary values gained from experience at top London publishers. His visual solutions have the ability to turn strangers into customers. He is an expert in all media concepts and strategy developments, and has the ability to motivate and inspire the creative team to deliver superb creative work under tight deadlines.

Mike Crook

Digital Director

Mike's our digital chief, responsible for developing mobile Apps, iPad Apps, websites, animations, ezines and all our digital communications. With his finger on the pulse on all that's new in the digital world, he knows everything...

Jill Fitzgerald

Financial Controller

Jill is responsible for the finances of the company – keeping the books balanced and ensuring the creativity and talents of the team are converted into a profitable and growing business.

Amy Fielding

Picture Researcher

Amy's never happier than when she's rifling through hundreds of images to find the perfect picture. Photographer and fashionista, she's a cheery soul and unflappable to boot. Along with Sinead, she completes our picture desk team to make it a bottomless well of visual inspiration.

Andrea Vassallo

Editor

Andrea has bags of experience managing customer and internal publications, plus websites, CMS, eCommerce, rebuilds and content generation. This puts her in pole position to deliver engaging content that boosts engagement on and offline.

Andrew Ganassin

Creative

Trekking across the world in his Driza-Bone to Bristol, with a swag of award-winning commercial and customer publishing experience, Andrew first joined Specialist as a freelancer and soon became a permanent member of the team! With his unique eye for detail, Andrew is responsible for crafting multi-media customer publications for clients including npower and Siemens UK.

Anna Harris

Editor

Anna manages a team specialising in delivering engaging internal communications. With 18 years' contract publishing experience, she's a corporate communications expert with a fantastic ability to turn lacklustre nuggets of business information into sparkling, must-read copy.

David Mohan

Editor

As part of our internal communications team, David has over 10 years’ experience producing newspapers, magazines, newsletters, websites and intranet sites for many private and public sector clients.

Emily Selwood

Creative

More than 10 years at Specialist means Emily is the go-to girl for designing award-winning publications. She knows exactly how to create concepts that bring a brief to life – both for magazine and digital content.

Esther Lamb

Creative

Esther has more than 10 years of experience designing magazines for everything from computers to leading financial institutions. She loves finding new and exciting illustrative talent, and her ability to root out the weird and wonderful on the interwebs has led to her being one of our regular bloggers.

Gaby Staniszewska

Receptionist

Gaby is the chirpy voice at the end of the phone. Our bubbly receptionist also handles all our promotions, and is responsible for all those fabulous prizes we give away in our publications. She is also the go to person for all those little jobs that start with "could you just..."

Gina Dyer

Editor

From fashion, to finance and even cement, Gina has covered it all. Her six years of experience in creating all sorts of quirky content for both online and print means she’s ready for any challenge you’ve got – however obscure it might be!

Greta Solman

Creative

As a senior member of our creative team, Greta has a wealth of experience in producing inspiring and captivating content for print and online. Whether coming up with creative concepts for pitches or art directing photo shoots, Greta has a real eye for detail and always brings enthusiasm and energy to any project she works on.

Helen Martin

Editor

After working in magazines, newspapers, online and launching her own print title, Helen’s happily immersed in Specialist’s internal communication titles. She thrives on editorial challenges, searching for stories and coming up with bright ideas to bring them to life.

Jenna Fulford

Editor

From the depths of the Welsh valleys, Jenna is a writer and deputy editor who creates engaging content for print and online. With a varied background of experience in magazine publishing, radio and television production, Jenna thrives on new challenges, seeing the world, and meeting extraordinary people in the process.

Jo Howell

Creative

Jo is only happy if she's flitting between photoshoots and client meetings, and art directing great creative photography, video and design for all our clients. She handles most of the fashion and beauty content for Specsavers.

Kate White

Editor

Kate works on the busy Peugeot account, producing everything from high-end magazines for both retail and business customers, to interactive e-mags and iPad apps.

Kevin Moir

Creative

Kevin heads up the design of all Peugeot media across print, video, online and iPad apps.

Kirsty Kelly

Editor

Kirsty has bags of agency experience, crafting multi-channel content for clients in a range of sectors, from finance and technology to equestrian and skydiving. She believes being a great editor starts with truly understanding her audience, and even learnt to skydive in order to do so! Whether she's jumping solo from a plane, producing specialist content or liaising with clients, she does it all with a smile and an eagle eye for detail.

Larissa Wood

Financial Accountant

Larissa has many years in the finance sector – from working in tax accounting and the music industry, to private children's homes. She's now with Specialist as part of our finance team.

Lucie Wood

Editor

Lucie is a sharp-eyed editor with invaluable experience creating consumer-style content aimed at an older demographic. She works closely with Foresters and Sun Life Direct to ensure that their customer magazines provide an entertaining and money-saving read for their loyal customer base.

Melissa Stewart

Editor

Melissa is an editor and account manager experienced in producing engaging, snappy content for print and online. She's an ideas machine who loves seeing a project through from concept to execution - as long as she can inject a few silly puns along the way.

Nigel Morrison

Creative

Nigel is not only one of our most reliable and tricksy designers, he’s also a genius when it comes to InDesign, Photoshop or anything technical. He designs several of our business publications and is a very nice man.

Paul Dicken

Editor

Paul is happy to take on any challenge when it comes to creating business and consumer-facing content, with a background as a news journalist and copywriter in financial services.

Paul Hugo

Web Developer

Paul is an e-whizz and our go-to-guy for all things online. He is a master of all things PHP, Jquery, MySql database, javascript, CSS - basically all those words we don't understand but know are important!

Peter Wilson

Editor

As head of Specialist's Finance team, Peter's passionate about quality journalism and engaging content. With a PG Diploma from City University's journalism school, he has spent the past 10 years writing for newsstand titles and developing branded content for clients including Ford, Standard Life and Barclays. Shortlisted for the PPA's Young Editor of the Year and picking up an award for Best Financial Title in 2011, Peter brings the same energy to pensions and investments as he does for his other 'specialisms': cars, travel and sport.

Pip Leyland

Production Manager

From paper and inks to 3D covers, Pip spends her time researching and negotiating print buying for our magazines to make them stand out from the crowd. Also an expert at guiding projects from concept to delivery, ensuring outstanding final results, Pip has got production management down to a T.

Sarah Edwards

Web Developer

Sarah splits her time between coding websites and analysing their analytics to discover popular trends. She's happiest when given a great big PHP project to work on, especially if there's a cup of tea nearby!

Sinead Millea

Picture Researcher

Sinead is the girl with her finger on the pulse - the pulse of some of the world's best image libraries that is! As picture researcher she's on hand to source images for all our titles – magazines and online – as well as organise photoshoots. Her contacts book is brimming with the names of some of the top photographers and PR companies in the business.

Siobhan Schafer

PA

As PA to Niki, Siobhan is the 'Monica Geller' of the publishing world - scarily organised and a genius at getting things done - one of those people we didn't know we couldn't live without until she arrived

Ti Singh

Editor

Astronaut, dinosaur hunter and world's greatest spy were all jobs that Ti Singh craved when he was a young boy, but instead he found himself in the world of publishing. Over the past six years, he's carved out a career as a creative copywriter and online editor, writing articles on everything from commercial insurance and genealogy to the latest blockbuster movies and alternative energy.