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Rosie Reay Rosie Reay is a well-traveled author as you may have guessed already. She has lived in Africa, England and Spain, apart from her travels in North America. Her first book was inspired by a road trip a few years ago from California, USA to British Columbia, Canada and it has in fact triggered the whole Chimona Chronicle series.
In addition, Rosie helps Spanish students perfect their English and writes blogs (www.EbroVoice.com), articles and marketing materials for the English community in that part of the country. Rosie has a regular column "Tales from the Ebro Valley" in the Expats paper "Catalunya Chronicles". Likewise, she is a popular monthly book reviewer for the paper. Read all the back issues at http://issuu.com/ChronicCat.
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Athol Foden Athol Foden came to the San Francisco Bay area many years ago as a field support engineer while attempting to work his way around the world. After his next onward job fell through, he eventually migrated down the peninsula to Silicon Valley where he found many kindred spirit propeller heads, even as his own career evolved more into a technical sales and marketing role. He was a very successful product manager because he always understood the technology (mostly because he was still hacking on it when no one was watching), had a bias towards the customers because of his sales experience, and was blessed with a natural gift for communicating messages clearly and succinctly. An entertaining public speaker, and for many years a popular marketing lecturer for U.C. Extension in Silicon Valley, Athol gets plenty of first hand feedback and practice in advising propeller heads who are trying to grasp marketing quickly. Always seeking new creative endeavors, Athol has become fascinated with the science and psychology of marketing and dealing with influencers in all developer and sales roles. His own career has thus evolved into branding and marketing consulting and development, and he has made his hobby (a long fascination with names) into a business. In 1992 he co-founded NameTrade. When it was merged into Cintara he became their V.P. Branding before leaving to pursue some consumer marketing for a change. In 2002 he started Brighter Naming, perhaps the only naming agency in the world headed by someone with two computer science degrees. This agency has grown to encompass a lot more than high-tech startups and their products, including biotech, travel, retail, consumer, fashion, services, telecom, properties, pharmaceuticals and many other fields. It now serves an international client base that includes Europe, Latin America, Canada and India. Athol M. Foden is the author of numerous naming, branding, marketing and trademark articles. Please see www.BrighterNaming.com - where he is also the chief name critic. Follow his naming blog: www.nameawards.com where he rants and raves, or cheers and jeers, about all current naming issues.
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Ben Foden Ben Foden is a recent college graduate with an International Business degree (and Japanese minor). Even while at college he was a web consultant and part time product manager for some software companies. Even more so than others his age, Ben is a prolific social networking practitioner and has successfully used blogging and online competitions to do complete worldwide product launches. He now splits his time between being a naming consultant for Brighter Naming and doing freelance consulting, blogging and writing on modern business and technology trends at Ben.Foden.com. |
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