About Simon

I’m a Kent-based qualified marketing and public relations professional with a wide range of marketing, strategy and digital communications experience. I am currently Head of Marketing and Communications at Medway Council.

From November 2007 to November 2009 I was Head of Marketing at Medway Council in Kent, having joined the council as Marketing and PR Manager in September 2004. I led the centralisation of all council marketing and communications. The creation of a new team is delivering significant improvements in marketing for the council. The breadth of the council’s marketing is large, spanning public information campaigns on issues such as recycling and carbon emissions through to database marketing programmes for gym and leisure centre memberships and commercial theatre marketing.

As well as this I used to work as a part-time communications and marketing consultant and for a number of years also acted as marketing and public relations consultant to Whitstable-based Tinderhouse – a small web design and marketing agency I helped launch in 2003..

I started my career as a marketing graduate trainee with Boots plc. I soon developed a passion for the internet and using new technology for marketing and public relations. Since then I have worked with some of the UK’s leading digital companies, including the world’s first transactional interactive television service, Open… (now Sky Active) and the world’s largest internet bank Egg.

I enjoy understanding and using new technology as part of the marketing and public relations mix. I passionately believe that the internet and, most recently, social media are fundamentally changing the way organisations need to act online.

I am a full member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and since July 2004 I have been a CIM Chartered Marketer. I am also a full member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

More information about my career experience is available using the menu above, and copies of my CV are available to download using the links below:

Simon Wakeman – CV – MS Word version (48KB)

Simon Wakeman – CV – PDF version (29KB)

I also have a full public profile available on LinkedIn.