Super User
Head of PR and Marketing
Anna is a marketing communications and PR professional with a strong track record of promoting small and medium-sized businesses across many sectors.
For nine years, she drove B2B communications for the business lobbying group, London First. As Marketing and Communications Director for its subsidiary, foreign direct investment agency, Think London, she developed promotional campaigns targeting international companies of all sizes through media relations, publications and events. She achieved widespread press coverage, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe and Newsweek.
Previously, at London Weekend and Granada Television’s world-wide programme sales company, she managed all marketing, media relations and advertising and wrote and produced 100 publicity brochures.
Eight years ago, Anna set up a freelance consultancy business. Her clients have included UK Trade & Investment, The People’s Bank of China and Think London. She was assigned by Central London Partnership to manage communications and events for the ‘Legible London’ pedestrian wayfinding initiative, funded by Transport for London.
Anna was responsible for two successful business projects on behalf of Camden Council: raising the profile of jewellery start-ups in Hatton Garden and creating a communications plan to increase engagement with the local business community.
More recently, she was a PR account manager for international workplace provider, Regus. She also worked on a freelance marketing project for a newly-built international academy in Catalonia.
Anna has an honours degree in French and Spanish from London University and also speaks Catalan.
Ben Hunt
BEng (Hons)
Associate
Ben received a BEng (Hons) from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in Mechanical Engineering in 1997. He started working for Max Fordham Consulting Engineers in 1999 and became a partner in 2003, and on leaving Max Fordham worked on a freelance basis, before joining Skelly & Couch in 2009. He has developed a specialism in the delivery of projects on site.
Mark Skelly
BEng (Hons) PhD RAEng VTF
Founding Director
Mark Skelly received a BEng (Hons) from the University of Bath in Building Environmental Engineering in 1996 and a PhD in Architecture and Engineering in 2002. He joined Max Fordham Consulting Engineers in 1996 and became a Partner in 2003, and was eventually responsible for all of the practice’s education projects. Mark and fellow Partner, Tristan Couch, left Max Fordham in 2007 to set up Skelly & Couch and over the past 15 years they have grown the firm to become a thriving business employing 30 people working on a wide range of high-profile, award-winning projects.
Mark Maidment
MChem MCIBSE
Director
Mark Maidment has a first-class Master's Degree from the University of Exeter. After graduating in 1999, he joined Max Fordham LLP, becoming a Partner in 2003. Mark left Max Fordham LLP in 2009 for Building Design Partnership (BDP), where he was responsible for a range of large-scale projects. He joined Skelly & Couch in 2010, becoming a Director in 2014.
Tristan Couch
BEng MEng CEng FCIBSE
Founding Director
Tristan Couch has a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne and an MEng in Civil Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. After working for three years with a structural engineering practice in Australia, he joined Max Fordham LLP in 1997, becoming a Partner in 2001. He and fellow Partner, Mark Skelly, left Max Fordham in 2007 to set up Skelly & Couch and over the past 15 years they have grown the firm to become a thriving business employing 30 people working on a wide range of high-profile, award-winning projects.
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in north London is the only permanent outdoor theatre in the UK. During summer it opens its doors to an audience of 1,240 every evening.
Jerwood Gallery (Hastings Contemporary)
Jerwood Gallery is a museum of contemporary British art located on the Stade in Hastings, East Sussex and operated by the Jerwood Foundation, a privately funded charity. Opened in March 2012, the £4m gallery contains both temporary exhibitions and a permanent collection of work by artists including L.S. Lowry, Augustus John, Stanley Spencer and Maggi Hambling. The new-build gallery is part of a wider masterplan to develop a new public space and community uses on a former coach and lorry park occupying a pivotal seafront site in Hastings Old Town.
Chichester Festival Theatre
The iconic, Grade II* Listed Chichester Festival Theatre was designed by Powell and Moya and opened in 1962. Based on Tyronne Guthrie’s Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, it boasted the first modern ‘thrust’ stage auditorium in the country. Over the past fifty years it has been a hugely successful and influential centre for the performing arts and has been extended on a number of occasions to address changing demands, leading to a dilution of the original design.
Yaa Asantewaa Arts / Carnival Village
The Yaa Centre has provided a new home for the Carnival Village Trust, as well as the Association of British Calypsonians, Ebony Steel Band Trust and Yaa Asantewaa Arts. It includes a flexible exhibition /performance space, education and training workshops, a 60-seat presentation theatre, two dedicated rehearsal spaces for the development of steel pan music, a dance studio, business advisory services and a radio station.
Caryl Churchill Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London
The £2.5 million theatre in north London, named after playwright Caryl Churchill, was built beside Grade II-listed Sutherland House as an extension to the University’s drama department. The theatre seats audience of 175 people on two levels, with a third level for technical operation, and features a welcoming foyer, separate rehearsal and teaching spaces, dressing rooms and workshop areas.
Mansel Court
With a mission to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy, the Low Carbon Workplace partnership chose Mansel Court as one of its first flagship commercial projects, transforming a down-at-heel, 1970s concrete and steel framed block opposite Wimbledon High School into a prestigious, contemporary office building.
