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The Team - a selection
Jill Cochrane
MD and founder member of The Vertex Group,
Jill Cochrane, has worked extensively in Radio
and Television in the United Kingdom since 1976.
She won the Gold Award at the New York International
Television and Film Festival and the Sandford
St Martin Award for Radio. Her fifty half-hour
interviews on Channel Four include: Lord Carrington,
Denis Healey, Robert Maxwell, Jonathan Miller,
Sir Peter Hall and Bishop Trevor Huddleston.
She was chosen by the ITV Network to conduct
the only half hour interview with the Prime
Minister of India (at the time), Mrs Gandhi,
on her last visit to Britain. In addition to
continuing her work as a film maker, she has
been teaching media and presentation skills
since the early '80s.
A selection of further trainers
are available at specific request.
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Eric Dixon
Eric Dixon has over twenty years experience as a media consultant, journalist, and
presenter. His training experience includes media management, presentation and
negotiation skills for some of the world’s largest companies - including Astra Zeneca,
Barclays, BAA, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Greene King, Lloyds TSB, NatWest,
Northern Rock, Woolwich and Vodafone. In addition, he also coaches journalists and
presenters in voice, presentation and interview technique
He has worked within BBC National Radio and the BBC World Service and has presented
all-news breakfast show on News Direct, produced by Reuters and ITN.
He hosts events across the country for BBC Exhibitions – including the BBC Good Food
Show, BBC Gardener’s World Live, and the BBC Good Homes Show at Earl’s Court,
London and the NEC, Birmingham. As a print journalist he has written articles for the Daily
Telegraph, the Guardian and The Observer, plus national tabloid newspapers.
Eric is an experienced and valuable member of the Vertex training team. |
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Jane Bennett-Powell
Jane has also worked with Vertex pharmaceutical clients at various stages of product
development and launch, in preparation for media and conference appearances, working
with Universities of Cambridge, Maryland, and Imperial College.
As a news correspondent for BBC TV, Radio News and BBC World she has worked on
major documentaries and series, reported on five tours to Bosnia, helping to win Amnesty
International media award and was nominated in New York TV awards for report on raped
Bosnian women. She also covered the fall of Margaret Thatcher for award-winning edition of
Channel 4 News and on the death of Princess Diana.
Jane has trained representatives from three Royal Colleges for media appearances and
representatives from Government agencies for select committee appearances
She has produced documentaries for BBC World on the treatment of schistosomiasis,
the development of a vaccine for malaria, the development of tests for chlamydia and
trachoma, maternity conditions in Uganda. |
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Clive Lawrence
Ex programme organiser and deputy manager at
Radio Kent for the BBC and an extremely capable
trainer in both radio and television techniques
as well as print journalism skills, Clive is
a journalist with more than twenty-five years
experience in print, television and radio at
local, regional and national levels in the UK,
working as reporter, news editor and senior
manager. He broke the Watergate story in the
UK and went on to serve as a News Editor with
major radio stations.
He is an experienced trainer and has worked
with Vertex, contributing both training and
strategy for the past 10 years. He instinctively
knows how to make his session both practical
and fun, with a great learning outcome. |
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Gill Pyrah
Gill Pyrah is an experienced radio, television
and print journalist, recognized for her extensive
work on national radio and television in the
UK. She presented The World this Week and worked
on “Medicine Today” for two years.
She had her own ‘Pyrah Programme’
and, this summer, presented an interview series
on national BBC Radio She brings her insider’s
understanding of the UK media to her parallel
career as a media and presentation skills tutor.
Gill has worked with Vertex for a number of
years. Her training covers pharmaceutical, financial
and other blue-chip businesses as well as health
authorities, government agencies, arts organisations
and numerous major charities. She has a degree
in psychology and has written for newspapers
and journals ranging from The Daily Telegraph
to Cosmopolitan. She has been a judge of both
the Whitbread Book of the Year and Laurence
Olivier Theatre Awards. She has been a member
of the Vertex training team for the past 7 years. |
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