Our people
The founders of The Event Academy bring together over 80 years of experience in event management training and delivery. Check us out
Joanna Lawlor
Joanna has over 17 years experience in the events industry, gained both as a ... Read More
Mark Spragg
Mark is a smart thinker, inspirational leader and highly experienced events expert, ... Read More
Rob Bagust
A seasoned events professional with over 20 years’ of experience mixed between ... Read More
Molly Aldridge
Molly Aldridge is the global CEO of M&C Saatchi PR managing ten markets ... Read More
Rachael Hamilton
Rachael’s past experience as a branding professional and creative producer for ... Read More
Justine Kane
Justine has spent the past 5 years as Course Director for an event management ... Read More
Lorne Armstrong
As the founder and joint MD of experiential agency INVOLVE Lorne has created some of ... Read More
Richard Bradshaw
Richard has considerable knowledge of production and safety management, gained from ... Read More
Josef Jammerbund
Josef Jammerbund started his career in the events industry in London in the early ... Read More
Martin Turner
Martin Turner has been in the events industry since 1981 beginning his career based ... Read More
Karin Pointner
As our Head of Admissions, Karin Pointner is the first point of contact for many new ... Read More
Clare Thomas
Clare lectures for the Event Academy in marketing, with over 17 years experience ... Read More
Claire Derrick
Claire has worked in an event management or consultancy capacity for clients in the ... Read More
Susie Butchers
Susie's desire to assist young adults in exploring their true potential led her to do Read More
Rupert FitzMaurice
Pioneer of involving and experiential events as a means of developing leaders and ... Read More
Rebecca Sears
Rebecca has over twelve years of marketing and events experience working on both ... Read More
Leonora Mannering
Leo looks after our Postgraduate Student Placements and the Alumni as they journey ... Read More
Kirsten Norbury
Kirsten looks after all aspects of our marketing but the most important is her work ... Read More
Anna Leatherdale
Anna joined the student services team in the summer of 2015. This role effectively ... Read More
Rob Paterson
Rob spent 20 years as Group MD of The Friday Media Group. Since leaving FMG he has ... Read More
Andrew Gemmell
Andrew is a Film Producer with over 20 years experience specialising in high end VIP ... Read More
Cheryl Busby
Cheryl is the HR Director for the global events giant Clarion. One of the recent ... Read More
Fay Sharpe
Fay runs award winning events agency Zibrant...one of the largest full service Global Read More
Laura Carter
Laura is currently Director of Events at Adoreum, looking after all event delivery, ... Read More
Kirsty Christie
Kirsty's expertise in the 3rd sector is a invaluable asset to our teaching programme
Mark Beaver
Mark has been delivering some of London's most iconic events, launches, opening ... Read More
Liam Lambert
With 36 years experience of managing luxury hotels, we are very pleased to have Liam ... Read More
Colin Payne
Colin started his career as a musician signed to Fiction in the 90’s where ... Read More
Kim Myhre
Kim has led one of the world's largest event and experience marketing agencies and ... Read More
Luke Fredberg
Based in London and responsible for developing and implementing global communications Read More
Mark Riches
Mark is a dynamic and creative leader who is a well-respected player in the field of ... Read More
Natalie Lloyd
Natalie is Director of Say Digital, a digital innovation agency. She's also Curator ... Read More
Neil Wood
With his experience as CFO of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games Neil provides ... Read More
Lucy Gemmell
Lucy is the founder of Rhubarb, the 'go to' UK catering and hospitality agency for ... Read More
Jonathan Byrne
Jonathan has a varied 30 year career in Events, Hospitality and Tourism including ... Read More
Anita Stubbs
Over the past decade Anita has generated extensive learning experiences for the CIM ... Read More
Jon Coventry
Jon began his career in technical theatre working in the West End and also on tour ... Read More
Sonia Abrams
Sonia Abrams is a Professional Certificated Wedding Planner who founded London based ... Read More
