The Very People | Meet The Very People

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So, how can we add value to your business? Our unique selling point is direct access to senior advisors.

We don’t hire juniors or office temps, so when you call us, you’ll speak to a director and decision-maker every time.

That means instant response - and rapid results.

Mobile networking technology also allows The Very People to work remotely from any destination, as a bespoke unit or individual service provider.

Because you’re always on the move, we are too.

Click on each member of The Very People to find out more

Kenny Kemp

Kenny is a journalist and writer with 25 years' experience in UK national dailies and Scottish Sunday newspapers. He was a staffer on the Evening Standard in London and Features Editor on Today. He spent 10 years on The Scotsman and was the founding Business Editor of the Sunday Herald. He is co-author of Go: An Airline Adventure with Barbara Cassani; author of Flight of the Titans, Boeing, Airbus and the battle for the future of air travel, Destination Space. He is also writer of the Entrepreneurial Exchange's book Portraits of Inspiration, a celebration of Scotland's entrepreneurs, and co-wrote Sir Richard Branson's best-selling business book, Business Stripped Bare. He lives in Edinburgh and owns Kemp Communications (UK), a media consultancy.

Neil Fitzgerald

Neil is an editorial consultant whose clients have ranged from Scottish & Newcastle plc to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and IMD, the international business school in Lausanne. His expertise draws on 25 years’ City and business-to-business journalism and also turning a worthy members' journal into a communication (and commercial) success); delivering a must-read vehicle to maintain dialogue between an expanding group's managers increasingly scattered worldwide; topping off prestigious events with yearbooks and other literature of matching quality; creating smart, niche article series
raising organisations' profiles through the right media; holding reluctant or too-busy communicators' hands and writing what they need to say for them. All done with diplomacy, determination and a keen eye for the interplay between text and graphic – on page, online. Anyone can make words. Neil makes words sweat.

Elizabeth Taylor

Liz started her career in marketing defining markets for alarms on stand-by diesel generators on an industrial estate just outside Glasgow.

Following a graduate sales and marketing trainee programme at Golden Wonder (then part of the Imperial Group), she has developed a successful career in fmcg marketing across a broad spectrum of food and drink companies, in both domestic and global markets, latterly
working for The Edrington Group, on The Macallan brand in Perth, Glasgow and Shanghai.

She is a successful team player, an excellent communicator, highly organised in her project work, passionate about planning and believes strongly that creativity is essential in all aspects of business.

Ian Spinney

Ian has over 20 years' experience in PR and is highly respected for his professionalism within the Scottish media. Prior to launching his own consultancy, Spinney & Partners, he was head of corporate and business-to-business with the global communications group Weber Shandwick in Scotland. He was also previously head of marketing and communications for Big Four accountancy group KPMG in Scotland. He has worked with a wide range of leading corporate, public sector and business-to-business clients in Scotland, including the Intermediate Technology Institutes, Business Gateway, Scottish Enterprise, Tenon and Braehead Shopping Centres. Areas of specialism include professional services, corporate issues and intrusive media management.

Ruth Webber

Ruth launched her marketing career with a US multidisciplinary company in London, concurrently becoming qualified with the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She established her own consultancy in 1989 and has provided strategic and operational marketing support for a wide range of private and not-for-profit organisations.

A confident speaker and networker, she runs courses on both and has provided a marketing advisory service to members of the Law Society of Scotland and the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

Ruth passionately believes that marketing is misunderstood and undervalued - it’s not about advertising and selling, but about planning and being in control of your destiny.

Vicky Masterson

Victoria is a respected business journalist and editor who specialises in corporate writing and media consultancy for clients
including the Scottish Government and the City of Edinburgh Council. Previously Scottish business editor of The Sunday Times, she was also business editor of Scotland on Sunday, deputy news editor of Business a.m. and a business correspondent with The Scotsman, the Aberdeen Press & Journal and the Edinburgh Evening News. Her freelance experience includes the Daily Mail, BBC Scotland and a raft of banking magazines including Scottish Banker and Private Word - Clydesdale Bank’s private client magazine. During her 15-year career, Victoria has covered watershed corporate, economic and political events including the dotcom boom and bust, the pensions crisis, the Scottish Parliament referendum, the rise of China and decline of UK manufacturing. She graduated from The University of Edinburgh with an
MA Honours in English Literature.

Stewart McIntosh

Stewart’s career in journalism started with the BBC in 1983, covering news and features in both radio and television.
By 1988 he had switched to print journalism, working freelance for a wide range of newspapers and magazines including the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, Investors Chronicle and a wide range of Scottish titles including The Herald, The Scotsman, Sunday Herald and Scottish Business Insider. He has also edited an athletics magazine and was Scotland’s first personal finance editor. As a specialist in UK commercial property, construction and business affairs, Stewart has picked up 16 UK press awards. While still writing for the specialist press, he is in regular demand from construction companies seeking help in preparing bids for large-scale projects. He also offers short, sharp, highly practical courses for business people seeking to improve their dealings with the press.