Marianna Marks

Award-winning public relations consultant Marianna Marks has 10.5 years experience as a communication specialist. Her core skill is the ability to understand the expertise clients apply to the benefit of their customers and interpret this for various target audiences.

Leading the winning team in the 2006 Chartered Institute of Public Relations Pride Awards in the Business to Business category, Marianna has extensive experience in both mainstream and trade media. She has worked in the private and public sectors in her home country of Namibia, before relocating and working in consultancies in Cape Town, South Africa and then Cardiff.

She has provided regular specialist media consultancy services to companies active in the financial services, information and communications technology (ICT) industry, technology companies (manufacturing, construction and engineering), property developers, broad-based consumer brands and learning and development.

Marianna’s strength is her ability to gather complex material and interpret it in a way that is easily understood by the client’s key audiences. She is able to ‘translate’ the same material in different ways to suit the needs of different publications.

Specific career highlights include:

  • Leading the winning team in two consecutive CIPR Pride Awards in the B2B, newsletter, low budget, Grand Prix and public sector categories;

  • increasing publicity tenfold for one of the largest asset management companies in South Africa within the first year;

  • Helped to manage the media launch in South Africa of World Online with events in both Cape Town and Johannesburg. This campaign won a Financial Mail/Prism silver award for PR excellence;

  • event management and media relations around the Miss Universe Pageant in Namibia;

  • launching the first mobile phone for Telecom Namibia;

  • setting up the Marketing and Communications Department at the Namibia National Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Based in Cardiff for the past five years, Marianna runs her own consultancy and is part of a network of independent PR and marketing practitioners who call on each other to provide specialist support when needed.

The skills available through this network include launch and event management, media relationship programmes, conference and incentive scheme management, design of corporate image and supporting collateral, and crisis communications.

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