Artistes of the Month
Also featured: Sally Magnusson, Chris Moon
Alex Fynn
Worked
as a director at Saatchi & Saatchi advertising for nearly 20 years
handling some of the biggest advertisers in the UK including Procter &
Gamble, the Health Education Authority and Cunard together with a number
of clients in sports, such as Tottenham Hotspur and the Football League.
As a result of his sporting experience he worked as a consultant advising clubs and federations on media and marketing, specialising in television rights. In this capacity he advised the Football Association, the Rugby Football Union, the British Athletics Federation and a number of top football clubs including Manchester United and Celtic.
As a result of these activities he is acknowledged as one of the architects of the Premier League [the Sunday Times called him "the spiritual godfather of the Premier League"] and the Champions League and is recognised as one of the leading 'gurus' of football.
He has lectured and broadcast on the politics and the business of sport and is the author of a number of best selling books on the subject.
His specialist subjects for speaking are:
The Secret Life of Saatchi & Saatchi - the rise and rise of an advertising
legend,
Brands and their role in marketing especially related to football
The Selling of Football - how the Premier League has been both a force
for good and evil,
The Television Revolution - how the television spectacular has taken over
from the live event
The European Super League - the future of international competition,
A Place for Everybody - a restructuring of English football
Sally Magnusson
Sally
Magnusson is a journalist, broadcaster and writer, much in demand as an
after-dinner speaker and conference and award ceremony host. She presents
a range of programmes for the BBC, including the BBC 2 political show
Daily Politics on Friday, the popular BBC 1 daytime current affairs strands
Britain's Streets and Missing, the religious series Songs of Praise and
the early evening Scottish news programme Reporting Scotland.
Her hard-hitting series, Britain's Secret Shame won a Royal Television Society award as best daytime series in 2004.
She was born in Glasgow, studied English at Edinburgh University and began her journalistic career on The Scotsman, before joining the BBC's news and current affairs department in London, where she presented Breakfast News for many years. Based now in Glasgow, she is the author of several of books, including Dreaming of Iceland (Hodder), Glorious Things (Continuum) and Family Life (Harpercollins).
As a speaker she specialises in hilarious talks about juggling
her life as a broadcaster and mother of five. She has chaired conferences
on subjects as diverse as banking, energy, transport and science for schools.
Chris
Moon
Born
in Wiltshire in May 1962. He studied Agriculture at Seale Hayne College
Newton Abbot (now Plymouth University faculty of Agriculture). Believing
in Service he worked as a volunteer at a centre for the homeless and then
joined the army. On graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
he was commissioned into the Royal Military Police, he also served with
several infantry units.
In 1993 he went to work for a British charity The HALO Trust specialising in mine clearance. They recruited a wide range of ex-servicemen, most with two years operational experience. After specialist training from a Royal Engineer bomb disposal officer he supervised and trained former Cambodian soldiers in mine clearance. He is one of the few westerners to have survived abduction by the Khmer Rouge, successfully preventing execution and negotiating his release and that of two Cambodian colleagues from a remote jungle base, finally walking 50km overnight through patrolled and mined jungle.
In 1995 he was blown up walking in a cleared area. He lost his lower right arm and leg, but does not consider himself a victim and accepts total responsibility, because he chose to work in mined areas, whereas people who live there have no choice. He survived against all the odds because of his high level of fitness (he was a keen runner) and because of his knowledge of first aid. After leaving hospital he did a Masters Degree in Security Management at the University of Leicester.
In 1996 he was awarded MBE for services to the HALO Trust clearing anti-personnel mines. In 1998 he was awarded the US Centre for Disability and PALM international leadership award. In March 1999 he was awarded the Snowdon Special Award for leadership and help to the disabled by Lord Snowdon. He has been awarded honorary degrees and doctorates by the universities of Plymouth, Leicester and Exeter.
He set up his own company MTB (Making The Best- his philosophy in life) and is a well-known speaker on the subjects of change management, motivation, leadership and the concept of limitation. His autobiography 'One Step Beyond' was published by Macmillan in 1999.
Less than a year after leaving hospital he completed the London Marathon to raise funds for land mine-injured people in Cambodia. In April 1997 he was the first leg amputee to complete the 250km Great Sahara Run described as the toughest footrace on earth. Competitors run for six days in the heat and sand of the Sahara. They carry their own food, equipment and sleeping bag and have to be self sufficient for the week. He ran to raise £100,000 for an International Committee of the Red Cross centre providing false limbs in Vietnam, to push the bounds of prosthetics further and to challenge the concept of limitation.
In July 1997 he ran 200 km in four days with the Australian Army to assist mine victims. He runs to raise funds for charities assisting the disabled and carried the Olympic torch into the stadium in the Nagano Winter Olympics in Japan in February 1998. He ran from Hakone to Tokyo to raise funds for a Japanese charity.
In April of the same year he started and ran the Flora London Marathon (the first person to ever do this), captaining a team of 500 runners raising funds for various charities. In September 1998 he completed the 'Outback Challenge' with John Bryant runner and journalist through some of the toughest arid outback and mountain country in Australia to raise funds to support mine action programmes. May 15- 31 1999 he ran the length of Cambodia (700km) to try to change attitudes towards the disabled, raise funds to help them and to support requests for the Cambodian government to ratify the Ottawa Treaty. He was supported by a team from the Red Cross.
In July 1999 he was the first amputee to complete the Badwater Death Valley Ultra-marathon. 136 miles (5 marathons back to back) in temperatures similar those recommended for slow cooking chicken. In April 2000 he jointly led a party climbing Kilimanjaro on a new north route. In May 2000 he completed the 100km Kumamoto volcano run in Japan and in July 2000 was one of only 12 people in the world to do the Death Valley 300 miles, from the lowest point of the USA continuously on foot to the highest point and back again in just over six days in temperatures over 130 degrees Fahrenheit. He did it again in 2001 to test false legs and is one of only a handful of people in the world to complete this double desert crossing twice.
Chris Moon is a well-known speaker on the subjects of change management, motivation, leadership and the concept of limitation. Chris has produced cd's on his thoughts and practical steps on how to make your dreams come true, entitled "Success and Acheivement in the marathon of life".
He has spoken at various events for businesses and organisations large
and small and is considered to be a world class speaker in his field.
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