Arthur op den Brouw has extensive experience, skills and know-how of branding, design and marketing communication across a wide range of media. His passion for working in the innovation sector led him to increasingly focus on sustainability and green tech issues. As an early adopter of the Internet, Arthur offers consultancy and mentoring as well as sales and branding strategies for businesses that seek to make the best use of web-enabled technologies.

His core passion is for helping to create clearly branded and profitable businesses. In 2007 Arthur had the privilege to be mentored by brand guru Wally Olins, and also says he owes much of his unique view on branding to the psychology and executive coaching professions.

Adrian is what you might call a down-to-earth blue sky thinker. He has the unique ability to simultaneously see the global picture and understand the constraints and challenges of the here and now. Adrian offers pragmatic strategy advice coupled with marcoms and brand consultancy for businesses in engineering, green-tech, energy and plastics.

Previously, Adrian had a 33-year multi-functional career with GE Energy where he led marketing strategy, innovation and cross-border opportunities for the Europe and CIS regions. Between 2013 and 2019, as S&M Director, he and Arthur worked closely together on the development of the Recycling Technologies marcoms strategies.

Derek has creative flair, up-to-date knowledge of industry software and a professional approach to time, costs and deadlines. He works on a variety of projects and activities such as websites, advertising, books, magazines, posters, exhibitions and displays, corporate communications and brand identity.

Derek & Arthur first met when they worked for one of Oxford’s boutique agencies. He lived and worked in London for several years for publishers and also design agencies before moving to Reading to work at the design agency Designation.com.

Derek worked in the charity sector for nearly a decade, where he was able to fulfil his strong desire to directly help people in their everyday lives. He now works on graphic design and brand development, is known to take the occasional good photo and is also heavily involved in the initial research and discovery phase.

Elena supports the agency with management of resources, Russian and Ukrainian language and general administration.

Elena is Connexxions’ newest employee, however, as a qualified MD with a PhD in qualitative clinical research and a deep interest in psychoanalysis, she offers an analytical overview to support the creative process. Additionally, Elena has a global outlook having lived in Eastern Europe, India, Australia and presently the UK.

Jakob has extensive cross-media capability. He designs and develops websites and web applications that are responsive and scalable across a spectrum of devices, screen sizes, platforms and orientations using a mix of flexible grids and layouts, images, and an intelligent use of CSS media queries.

He has over 10 years experience in WordPress, Drupal and their related platforms. Furthermore, he is an outstanding musician and videographer with extensive experience in combining footage, dialogue, sound, graphics and special effects.

Prior to joining Connexxions in 2022, Harri worked at AXELOS (A JV by Capita and the Cabinet Office) from 2015 to 2021. His initial role was to manage an online community of up to 500,000 PRINCE2 and ITIL subject-matter experts and practitioners globally. Starting as a Community Analyst, he then went on to manage some 10,000 active posters as the Community Manager. In his later role as Brand Manager, he was responsible for steering community policy, developing new multimedia, ensuring the consistent application of branding across multimedia projects and working to refresh the brand of the entire organisation’s portfolio.

Additionally, Harri’s real passion is music, film and script development. Appropriately, he is obsessively engaged in trends of online content marketing.

With over 20 years experience, Steve offers strategic consultancy on digital development strategies. He’s helped successfully deliver digital projects for Adobe, BP, NHS, Npower & Southampton University.

Steve’s particular areas of specialism include PHP, CSS, JQuery and MySQL. He offers expert knowledge in search engine optimisation, competitor research, link building, keyword research, analytics and assessment reports. Steve provides transparent recommendations for improving website visibility to search engines whilst maintaining the integrity of your website’s alignment with best practice – and so the avoidance of blacklisting.

Suki uses semiotics when brands are challenged to find new spaces for growth where strong norms and category identifiers dominate the visual category.

By identifying codes in culture and visual communications, he can provide blueprint design triggers that can help inform the development of brand strategy and creative execution. This results in brands that are culturally relevant, progressive and that make sense. Areas of expertise include creative direction, brand visual audits, competitor analysis, idea generation, design strategy, packaging analysis and cultural access to the Indian market.

Viveka is a business consultant with key competencies in sustainable leadership, ethics, human rights and decent work and has over the years worked with social responsibility programmes covering ISO 26000/20400, UN Guiding Principles, UN SDSN SDGs. She has extensive international experience.

She has a deep understanding and passion for branding and communication, especially how it impacts leadership and team values. Swedish by birth and British by nature, Viveka’s passion lies in the Middle East and she has extensive experience acquired from the whole region, having worked and lived in the UAE, Oman, Kuwait and in Egypt.