Joanne Somerville

Having completed an honours degree in English & History, Joanne embarked on a successful 12 year career in the IT industry during which time she also successfully gained her CIM Diploma in Marketing and became a graduate member of the CIM.  At global software giant, Symantec she worked in both the Northern European Events and Channel Marketing divisions.  Then poached by Allied Telesyn, a worldwide networking manufacturer, she became their European Marketing Communications Manager where she was tasked with setting up a centralised marketing function to service the European territories.

During her 6 year tenure she successfully built a team of 12 marketing specialists, including the global web team, and was also promoted to European Marketing Director.

Having had her first child in 2000, Joanne initially worked as a freelance marketing consultant but in 2001 she fulfilled a long held ambition and set up Design Eclectic, in partnership with Duncan Kerr, an experienced graphic designer who had recently left a successful London graphic design agency.

Joanne had frequently been frustrated by the standard of work and poor levels of service she had received from some graphic design and marketing agencies both big and small.  She believed that there was a need for an agency that could provide a consistently approachable, flexible and cost-effective service. With the contacts that she and Duncan had made, she quickly gathered the successful team that still forms the core of Design Eclectic today.

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