The Team

Anthea Lashley-Small, Dip., ACIM, MCIPR

Anthea Lashley-Small is a creative Public Relations professional with strong marketing and communications skills. She has the responsibility of formulating and implementing public relations (PR) strategies and programmes for clients of Clavel Rowe Public Relations Ltd.

A specialist in corporate public relations (PR), including image management, media relations, crisis management (disaster recovery and damage limitation exercises) and public affairs, Anthea is trained in Public Relations (PR) and Personnel Management. She is a university lecturer in public relations and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, CIPR and the Chartered Institute of Marketing, CIM two internationally known and respected self-regulatory bodies who demand high standards from their members.

Passionate about PR and working closely with clients to understand their business requirements, her thirty years as a Public Relations Practitioner has seen her handling such clients as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bayer, Polaris Moves Ltd, Mino Angelilli, Gibson Insurance, Noni Juice UK Ltd., Berger Paints, Karen Jackson Interiors, The Hilton Hotel, ICB, Texaco, Worcester Park Residents Association, Community Links Sutton, Roberts Manufacturing Company Ltd, Caribbean Disaster Information Network - CARDIN, The Mastermind Alliance, CAAM International (UK) Ltd and BBM

Ian Ross
Ian Ross is the company’s strategic business consultant. A successful business executive with extensive experience in the field of advertising, publishing and business development, Ian has operated across a platform of business management, consultancy, international trade and commerce. To our clients, he offers a resourceful and innovative approach to business. Coming with strong analytical and commercial risk management skills, Ian is experienced in creating and delivering marketing plans to achieve a company’s business objective. He has successfully launched and developed two international trade exhibitions; Glassex and Catch, developed patent protection for and redefined the business model for SAFT Needle SA, generating an international strategic marketing partnership for the company and repositioning it as an independent development product contractor to the major houses. Ian’s client portfolio also included Dive Holidays, Network Trading International Ltd., C-Itoh Japan, Swedish Telecom. His career in media included positions as Advertising Manager, Marketing Manager and Publisher, encompassing the Reed Group, Freight Management, SuperCar, Car and Car Conversion, Glass Age and Lady Diplomat.

Edwin Phiri, Dip, MBA, MCIM
Edwin Phiri has wide expertise in various disciplines including Marketing Strategy, Marketing Communication, Marketing research and Public Relations (PR). He has worked in the Financial PR, FMCG’s, Retail, Import and Export (International Trade). He has a Higher Education Postgraduate teaching qualification and his experience of teaching covers all levels from Foundation, Honours, Postgraduate and Professional courses. He also has experience of delivering custom-made executive development training and coaching for corporate clients. Edwin is a Senior Lecturer at The University of the Arts London (London College of Fashion) where he is not only Course Leader for the Graduate Certificate in Fashion Marketing but teaches on other business related courses within the school of management and science.

Edwin has been a Chartered Marketer with CIM since 1998. In the past he has received individual honours and awards and professional recognition for positive contribution to the success of campaigns undertaken on behalf of organisations and clients he has worked for. His research interests include Marketing/Branding Strategy, Communication theory and Corporate Social Responsibility, (CSR).

Belinda Francis
Belinda is our Internet researcher, web master and web design project co-ordinator. She is a specialist in end user software & computer security. She also assists with copywriting, covering press releases, articles, and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and web copy. Belinda’s research skills and diverse interests enable her to grasp project's needs extremely quickly and create innovative creative solutions. She has worked on accounts for Galen’s Gardens, Yaktrax, Noni Juice UK Ltd., and Crystal Master and clientele in health and animal husbandry and care and the nursery trade. She was also instrumental in the development of this site. If you need your house style or house voice cloned onto the copy, Belinda does that with uncanny accuracy. You can guarantee with Belinda on your case the project will be delivered on time, within budget and normally with the added bonus of a few lateral thinking ideas that you'd never have thought of.

Colette E. Buscarini
Colette E. Buscarini is a multilingual and successful creative director with an excellent track record of providing effective e-business and technological solutions for diverse businesses. High-energy, results-oriented with proven ability, she manages multiple projects at once while generating significant revenue and profit improvements for clients.

She is also a seasoned businesswoman who understands project management, new product development, business analysis, e-strategy, usability design, brand building, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and marketing research.

Colette has been involved in developing and managing best business practices toward the discipline of information architecture, user-centred and interaction design, usability testing, editorial, visual systems design, interface development and user research.

Leading companies to new methodologies in understanding user behaviour and perceptions, she has managed successful online solutions for BBCi, ABN AMRO, Abbey, BT, Yahoo!, Sapient, Volkswagen, PubSub Inc, CSC, DDB Tribal, Aquent, The Fuller CV, Parametric Technology Corporation, FM Global, Mentor-Protégé, Premier, Inc, DupontDow, Wellsfargo, exchange-e-steel, edu.com, smith & noble and event zero...