Steve Virgin

Media analysis and PR professional with international turnaround management experience. Strong client management skills and a proven track record in creating new products and revenue streams...Gobal client sales and business development experience... New product development... Ran high pressured online service that delivered a vital daily service to global corporates... Multi-lingual - comfortable working in French and Spanish and have worked with teams across up to 20 other language groups

A lobbyist mainly working for the building industry - helping to develop and construct 'official' public consultation exercises for controversial planning applications in small rural communities around the UK. Also involved in the energy industry planning application side in the upgrade of power stations

- Turnaround management experience - turned loss making office into a highly profitable revenue generator. Our London office became one of the 'success stories' that helped convince the Cision Group to buy up Delahaye and to merge it with the rest of the group - One of the main drivers behind a new market-leading tool (then called Media Compass) now called Executive News Insight. This tool brought real-time news analysis and traditional monthly/quarterly analysis together in a single package

Developed expertise in Intellectual Property Rights PR while working for millionaire inventor and serial entreprenuer Mandy Haberman - inventor of the world famous anywayupcup Worked on coordination and setting up of an innovative new online forum for entrepreneurs and IPR professionals called 'Make Sparks Fly'

Undertook extensive research into the UK Parliamentary Boundary Review 1992 - 1994. I wrote up the detailed strategic management practice of the major UK parties - including writing up case studies on four major public enquiries at which the outcome was skillfully manipulated by Labour