The board

Mocky Khan, Chair

I feel very privileged to be taking over as GLR Chair. The Institute is going through some exciting times and I believe that with my commercial experience, my understanding of marketing and my familiarity with The Institute, I can help move central plans forward and also develop resources for members in the Greater London Region. My key aim as Chair will be to engage and interact with members – from students to board level marketers – by making The Institute a key partner as they progress up the career ladder. I also want to strengthen relationships with businesses of all sizes in the Region – as well as with other trade and professional bodies. I believe that all institutes like ours can learn from each other for the benefit of members. To make GLR the premier region, I ask for continued support from a great Board and contribution from all GLR members. Please feel free to get in touch and send me your ideas and opinions on what your Institute should be doing for you.” I look forward to hearing from you.

Steve Revill, Vice Chair

Steve was instrumental in the newly re-launched Central London team and now is again in a leading role as GLR Vice Chair. Steve’s vision is to help create value for Greater London members of The Chartered Institute of Marketing. Steve is Director of Strategic Marketing at RBS Invoice Finance. He worked at Yorkshire Bank, before going on to University to complete his business degree. After a placement year with Hewlett Packard he joined their graduate scheme and completed The Chartered Institute of Marketing Post-Graduate Diploma in 1999. Moving to London, Steve joined Barclays and worked in various business-to-business marketing roles, before joining RBS in 2002. Steve completed his first marathon in 2006, raising over £3000 for the British Heart Foundation by completing the Flora London Marathon.

John Sweeney (Central London team leader)

John has spent several years providing marketing services for a range of IT clients in New York. Since his return John became active in the CIM team to organise networking and speaker events. "CIM provides an opportunity to meet marketing professionals, exchange ideas and learn from each other". He obtained his Marketing diploma from Hammersmith and West London College in 1995 when he worked in Marketing for Volvo Cars. He is now Sales and Marketing Director of Navigator Customer Management, a relationship marketing agency.

Joanna Orphanou, (North London team leader)
Joanna has 13 years experience in the telecoms industry and now works for Orange. She has taken a very active role  as team leader  within the North London team spearheading the development of the Chartered Institute of Marketing Careers Fair, Charter Your Way To Career Success in Marketing , which the takes place in London twice a year. This event is an ideal forum to meet recruiters and discuss career opportunities. “Getting involved with my regional CIM team was a natural step after gaining my CIM qualifications: for me it was part of finally putting all that theory into practice! Though I work in marketing, there’s only so much experience any single job role can offer. I want to stretch my professional skills as far as possible and being a CIM  team leader volunteer and board member complements my career efforts perfectly and helps me develop my skills in a different environment”.

Jon Twomey, Studying Members

Jon is concerned with championing support for studying members. He comments: "Our studying members have to juggle their studies around hectic working lives, so the services we organise in this region must reflect their specific needs." Jon is co-founder of Student Support Group, providing revision support services to marketing professionals. His time is divided between the provision of commercial training and academic courses.