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elias devries
director of events & location filming/co-founder
over 10 years working with some of the uk's most respected property developers, and has exclusively represented and marketed some of the country's most high-profile commercial properties. Through his extensive contacts, he has brought these buildings hundreds of projects spanning feature films, TV, high-end photographic shoots, not to mention some of the most unique bespoke events imaginable.
 
tarek gjonnes
director of operations/co-founder
tarek brings over 10 years' experience of working across all fields of the events industry. he has had the pleasure of working with some of the top suppliers in the industry and premium events both in the uk and abroad such as formula 1 and the cannes film festival. he gained a wealth of knowledge of all the elements vital to deliver a flawless, fantastic event.

laura bayford

managing director
laura has extensive senior contacts across the private sector and government. she has worked in marketing, change management and operational roles including marketing and insight director for the identity and passport service and developing stakeholder strategy and management tools at the home office. laura has 20 years' business and marketing experience, including heading marketing communications for royal mail, working on major sponsorships and partnerships, including that of the british olympic and paralympics teams. she is a business leader at the marketing society.
 

brendan owen
operations manager
brendan's career has seen him manage the operations for events as diverse as the henley royal regatta and lord mayor's show to a private dinner for nelson mandela. with over 20 years' experience gained from working in some of the capital's most exclusive restaurants, bars and private members clubs, as well as the 5-star dorchester hotel, brendan's operational knowledge ensures smooth running events. most recently brendan was event and catering operations manager at mansion house, the residence of the lord mayor of the city of london.

jess leyton
event manager
as an event manager, jess brings with her years of experience freelancing in the events industry for many of the capital's top experiential, media and production agencies. she has successfully managed several uk roadshows for leading software giants, produced shows for london fashion week and more recently moved into live music events working on the uk's top music festivals.
 

paolo bastiani
sales & events manager
paolo joins industri from the natural history museum where he amassed 12 years' worth of knowledge in event management, branding and advertising as event manager. he worked on some of the biggest events at the museum including the cartier new flagship shop party and launch of the honda f1 car. he looked after operations and project management for london fashion week and also looked after commercial events for london 2012. for 5 years he worked in conference and banqueting management at the prestigious 5-star grosvenor house hotel, london, looking after heads of state and the royal family. in his spare time he enjoys jumping out of a plane at 15,000ft as a qualified skydiver.

simon ewins
marketing consultant
a versatile marketeer of 20 years' experience at the guardian, the daily telegraph and harrods. following a six-year stint at harrods where he rose to head the marketing department, simon took a five-year sabbatical travelling all over the world. a competent sky diver and master scuba diver, simon likes to relax with double entry book keeping, listening to radio 4.
 

david johnson
head of special projects
dj came to industri in 2011 as head of special projects. his first project was to manage our christmas packages. dj was formerly head of sales at fisher productions and prior to that, director of sales and marketing for home house where he forged some wonderful relationships.

rob falconer
(freelance) photographer & design consultant, 2011 website designer
a producer, director and editor spanning film, radio and video, rob's work has been released in the UK and USA and screened on the festival circuit in six countries. as a feature film and TV subtitler, he worked regularly for most of the hollywood studios. as a photographer, his work has been commissioned for consumer magazines. he has photographed over 600 hotels worldwide and many residential marketing portfolios.
 


















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