By Iain MacMillan on November 22, 2007
As you can see from our ‘Who we are’ page, we’ve recently been joined by a new recruit – Ben Bland. Ben joins us from Boomerang Media where he was involved in a number of digital projects over the last year and a bit. He also has impeccable taste in shirts and hats – which we’ve been lacking in the team for a while now.
And we also have a new intern with us for the next three weeks – Rob Baylis. Rob knows more about electronics, online gaming and, apparently, evolutional biology and meme theory than the rest of us put together.
We’ve given them the run of the blog so expect them to introduce themselves over the next few days.
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Iain founded RMM in 2006, with the objective of providing good, strategic advice across all areas of digital and social media. Nowadays, the focus is entirely social and involves the provision of more than just advice – insight, inspiration and expertise in social media. Iain leads the strategy development and training teams on most client projects.
He specialises in leading client strategy projects in a number of sectors, including finance and gambling, where RMM has conducted studies into social behaviour in highly regulated environments. He also leads projects for travel sector clients, a sector in which RMM works in partnership with eCRM sector specialist, Spike Marketing. They work together across a number of clients, most recently including Neilson Holidays, Thomas Cook’s ski and active holidays division.
Prior to RMM, Iain spent five years helping to run the web design business, Tonic, winning and managing accounts such as Vodafone, GE, GAP, MTV and Barclaycard. Before that he worked at Tribal DDB London, working on Volkswagen before heading up the Victor Chandler, Sony Europe and Guardian accounts. And before that he had a colourful career in music promotions, running the annual Soho Jazz Festival in 1997.
Iain spends quite a large amount of time trying and failing to explain to his long-suffering wife why he really loves golf, seventies hard rock and eighties pop. She remains none the wiser.
Ben, Rob – consider this your warm welcome!
Welcome to
hellthe team, folks! Maybe one day I’ll even leave our American Office and come over and say hi properly…