News archives July 2001 New staff and promotions Chris Rose: Formerly international marketing manager at Star X Holdings and Chief Press Officer at Denplan, Chris has joined Hallmark PR as account manager in the PR Negotiation practice. Chris Skerry: A geography graduate from Southampton University, Chris spent 12 months at the Defence Agency before joining Hallmark as account executive in February. In that time she also gained a diploma in public relations from the London School of PR. Kirsty Gunner: A recent graduate from the highly-regarded BA (Hons) Public Relations course at Bournemouth University, Kirsty is joining the consultancy's PR Negotiation practice team as an account executive. Patricia Monaghan: With a background in sales and a spell in the US, Patricia is Hallmark PR's new business development executive. She will be working alongside director Jenny Watson and other directors in developing our new business pipeline. Samantha Burton: "Sam" is a Winchester girl and joins Hallmark PR as receptionist/administrator. She studied at the city's Peter Symonds College and gained her Legal Secretary's Certificate. Before joining the consultancy, she worked at a medical centre and for a firm of chartered surveyors. PROMOTIONS Eva Lambert-Smith: Since joining the consultancy in July 1999 from Ordnance Survey, Eva has been promoted twice and became an account director on June 1st. She works exclusively on business awareness clients such as KPMG, Lloyds TSB Commercial, DDI, Foresters Friendly Society, Hampshire Business Awards and Dorset Business Awards. "Eva has been a success for clients and with colleagues since she joined Hallmark PR," said managing director Dr Tom Watson. In her few spare moments, Eva is completing her IPR Diploma in Public Relations with a survey among Worldcom consultancies on the impact of the Internet on public relations. Fiona Peters: Fiona was promoted to account manager on April 1st in recognition of her service to clients such as the Atlantic Housing Group, Explosion! museum and Inside UK Enterprise. Hannah Brown: Hannah has moved up from account administrator to account executive to work as a team with Fiona Peters. Hannah is a graduate in Media Studies and English and joined Hallmark initially as receptionist/administrator. She was part of the team that delivered this year's very successful Hampshire Business Awards. For further information contact Steve Wilson