Client Services Team
Jill Ury – Global Account Director
Who would have known that an internship in college would lead to more than fifteen years in the media research and analysis field. While attending Emerson College in Boston, I started working for a small startup company called The Delahaye Group looking for articles mentioning relevant companies and brands, and coding articles for our clients.
It has now been my pleasure to have worked with many top Fortune Brands and major PR agencies, partnering and supporting clients with reputation management, competitor intelligence and brand analysis across nearly all business sectors. Now based in Eliot, Maine, my role at RI utilizes all that experience with consultative needs analysis for PR professionals, through to setting up programs, and delivering reports in dozens of countries.
Lucas Galan – Account Director
Before landing up at Report International, I spent my formative professional years working for a number of firms in a variety of analytical roles, including, most recently, the illustrious Walt Disney Company. I originally hail from Madrid, though I grew up in Rome. Probably because I come from a family of journalists, I have an inclination towards thinking too much and using long sentences, which resulted in me graduating from Warwick University with a BA in Philosophy and Politics.
I am a very gregarious person, and make maximum use of my free time by cavorting with friends in London’s trendy East End. Whatever time is left, or when it’s raining too much, I dedicate my hours outside work to my love of film and literature, or to my fledging vocation as a graphic artist.
Adam Hibbard – Account Manager
Welcome to the world, well Wales at least. Where would you like to go?
Well, I’ll stay here until my parents don’t own a pub anymore. I’m not as stupid as I look.
Apparently not. What then?
Well, let’s see what the neighbours are like. England can’t be all that bad. After all, Salford does have the best football team in the world.
Done. After that?
The lost university years – let’s go to Essex.
Now time you need to knuckle down. Welcome to the real world.
I was dreading that. Ok, might as well start in London then.
Thanks to my English Language and Sociolinguistics degrees, Report International took me on as a fieldworker back in 2003. I have since moved into account management, which provides a happy combination of granular detail analysis and space to design evaluation tools that best fit my clients’ requirements.
When I’m not measuring the impact of the latest environmental campaign in Timbuktu, you can find me listening to Dylan and preparing a tasty oxtail casserole.
Nadin Vernon – Account Manager
Born to Armenian parents I grew up in Germany, and with such a multi-cultural background and an affinity for languages, I’ve ended up speaking five fluently. It seemed a good idea to swap the tranquil spa surroundings of my home town for rock n’roll London, gaining a degree in Literature. I fell into working on media analysis more than a decade ago, and now really enjoy my client facing role and the challenges of managing large-scale global programmes in a variety of sectors.
Outside work, my family keeps me busy but I manage to find time to follow my great passion: figure skating – these days not so much on the ice itself but reporting from the barrier. Travelling to many competitions and shows allows me to indulge my love for travel, classical music, interesting food and journalism.
Andrew Rowan – Project Manager
I represent Report International’s Northern England outpost, based in the wilds of North Derbyshire. An English graduate with a love of charts, Report International has been my natural working environment for eight years. In that time I’ve covered most of the elements involved in our projects – from freelance analyst through to my current role as one of the the project management team. I now spend most of my time working alongside our consumer electronics clients (so if you want to know which phone or TV to buy, I’m your man). When I’m not working, you’ll find me at a car boot sale or in a record shop. If anyone reading this has a copy of “‘Soul Travelin’ by Gary Byrd” for sale, please let me know…
Will Hayward – Sales Manager
With a degree in English with Spanish (minoring in Socio-Linguistics), and a background in media (I worked at The Economist and AOL Time Warner), perhaps it was inevitable I’d end up on the analysis side of the fence, working with our new clients and prospects to create robust and business-focused solutions.
I’m borderline obsessive with health and fitness, which I like to think spills over to a passion for working as hard as possible for the clients that are at the centre of everything we do. Oh, and I’m a massive internet/gadget geek.
Sarah Potter – Operations Manager
I studied Linguistics with Sociology at university, where part of the course was about analysing media content to see how different journalists portray the same event. Little did I know at the time that you could actually make a career out of that sort of thing, After a 12 year stint managing print production for The Economist Group I came to work for Report International 8 years ago. As Operations Manager, I now plan and manage all our resources and workloads, to ensure that reports are sent to clients on time and to the highest quality standards . Outside of work, I enjoy live comedy, theatre, cooking and cycling.
Sam Pegley – Fieldwork Manager
I first joined Report International in the late summer of 2003, after three years of university in which I gained a Geography degree, an obsession for 80s US indie-rock and an unhealthy dependence on frozen pancakes. As an in-house coder at the company I began analysing UK newspapers and magazines. After two years I moved to account management and then into my current role of fieldwork manager, where I oversee the massive influx of material – around twenty thousand articles per month, currently, from our analysts all over the world. It’s challenging to say the least as we have teams from some 40 countries, all with very different cultures – and time zones! Fortunately, I still have time to learn to cook and track down obscure Dinosaur Jr singles. But generally not at the same time.
Francesca Hardy – Account Executive
Having delayed my entry into the world of work for quite long enough by completing a Master’s Degree in Screen Media and Cultures, I waved goodbye to academia and joined Report International in 2009.
Day-to-day my job involves a wide range of activities, from providing general project support to report writing, coding and quality checking.
I remain keenly interested in understanding the mechanisms which drive real-world events and issues, and at Report International I can help fathom the great shift which is already occurring amongst the world’s press, in the way that content is delivered, consumed and ultimately enjoyed.
Laura Whigham-Trouvé
Like many university language graduates (French and Russian studies at Emory University), I thought I was bound to end up with a career in education. So I left my Atlanta hometown and moved to France shortly after graduation to teach English. As I was exploring translation and interpreting opportunities on the side, Report International took me on as a freelancer for fieldwork, report writing, and other day-to-day tasks. Soon I was involved enough in the business to know that media analysis was more fulfilling and interesting to me than teaching! After two years of working for Report from my home in Bordeaux, I moved to London (with my newly acquired French husband) to become a full-time account executive.
In my spare time I enjoy running, yoga, vegan cooking, reading, and learning even more new languages.