Our Team

Lynne Miller

Managing Director

Lynne established herself as a leader in society publishing, and strategic marketing at Wiley, and was responsible for directing their Society Engagement team, working with some of the world’s most prestigious societies.

Lynne has over 20 years experience in publishing, and has also worked for the education division of IBM. She has managed strategy planning sessions with key journals and societies, and has been a course tutor for the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) during the last 5 years, as well as a regular presenter on the Oxford Brookes MA in Publishing Course. Her speaking engagements include the British Ecological Society Annual Conference, Society for Applied Microbiology, and London Book Fair, on topics covering both publishing and publicity.

Tracy Gardner

Senior Consultant – Product Development and Community Engagement

Tracy has been consulting since 2004 – working with societies, publishers and intermediaries on a wide range of projects including product development, strategic marketing, and business development. She is a researcher and co-author for the How Readers Discover Content reports which have been published every 3 years since 2005. She has worked in scholarly communications since 1997, when she joined CatchWord as Marketing Manager, and later worked at CABI as head of marketing and product development.

Tracy’s background brings a laser focus on doing what needs to be done now without ever losing sight of the end game. She has a strategic brain, which is combined with the enviable ability to quickly identify what is a distraction and what is relevant, and helps the rest of team do the same. She is an excellent facilitator and an experienced conference speaker and chair.

Kelly Henwood

Senior Manager, Strategy and Communications

Kelly’s experience includes developing brand strategies, brand assets, and improving brand experience and engagement across multiple channels including digital, TV, film, and licensing. Kelly joined TBI Communications from Oxford University Press where she led the Humanities, Social Science and Law Journals Product Marketing team to drive results with diverse marketing strategies. She also managed partner relationships and the marketing program for several leading society journals. In previous experience, Kelly managed international brand and licensing programs for both the commercial arm of the University of Oxford and a TV production company.

Kelly is CIM qualified with a Postgraduate Diploma.

Mithu Lucraft

Senior Consultant

Mithu is a strategic content marketing expert with a passion for business storytelling. She started her marketing career in 2004 at Oxford University Press, before setting up and leading the first PR team at Sage Publishing. At Springer Nature she was responsible for the development and implementation of global marketing strategies for eight years, with a significant focus on open research and open access initiatives including transformative agreements, transformative journals and the implementation of Nature Portfolio’s OA options. She has led, authored or co-written more than 15 white papers and industry research reports, as well as speaking on these topics and delivering workshops at international conferences and academic institutions.

Rowan Banham

Senior Marketing Executive

Rowan recently graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a 1st class honours degree in Business and Marketing Management. She is enjoying building her marketing experience with TBI, including digital marketing, customer insight and analysis, and events organisation for a number of our clients.

Amelia Jones

Digital Marketing Executive

Amelia specialises in digital marketing; with expertise in email, paid and organic advertising, social media, and HubSpot services. Amelia’s previous experience includes project management and marketing of life science events that focused on drug discovery, biologics, genomic sequencing, agriculture and health technology. Amelia holds a 1st class honours degree in Marketing and a Digital Marketing Professional Certificate.

Amber Phipps

Marketing Executive

Amber graduated with a 1st class honours degree in Photography from Falmouth University. She has broad experience across digital marketing including email, organic and paid social, design, and paid search advertising. Previously, she was a key member of the marketing team behind the Cornwall Film Festival.

Henry Turman

Manager of Finance & Administration

Henry joined TBI in 2014 after self-employment as a Certified Professional Accountant in Canada providing accounting and taxation services to individuals and small businesses. With over 20 years of business experience, he has worked in a variety of roles, including controller, treasurer, commodity tax consultant, and auditor.

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