Artistes of the Month
Also featured: Patrick O'Connell, 
Michelle
Mone
Trish
Lynch
Trish
Lynch is an experienced journalist, presenter and voiceover artist. She
has presented a variety of programmes for Sky Travel and The Travel Channel
as well as a number of travel series for CNN including "Hotels of
the World" and "Great Places to Fish". Viewers may also
recognise her as the face of DRTV in Post Offices through the UK and Northern
Ireland.
Trish is very active in the corporate market, presenting corporate videos and training CDs for Selfridges, Accenture and Nissan amongst others. She was the main presenter for two years on Abbey National's weekly in house programme where she interviewed top management, ensuring key messages were cascaded through out the branches, and fulfilled a similar role for Nissan, test driving new models, reporting from motor shows as well as hosting a variety of live events and conferences.
Away from the camera, Trish enjoys golf, fishing swimming and travel.
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Patrick O'Connell
On
TV, Paddy has knelt at Bill Clinton's feet to steady a microphone, and was
challenged by Bill Gates to debut the X-box. On radio he presents "Broadcasting
House" on Radio 4.
He was the Wall Street anchor for the BBC, and was due for a meeting at the World Trade Centre during the attacks on the USA in 2001. He reported on the attacks and presented the News coverage on the evening of September 11th from New York, and covered the aftermath until leaving New York in 2003.
Witnessing terrorist murder and Wall Street boom, bust and sleaze, he changed direction. He currently presents BBC 2's "Working Lunch", and is the commentator for the semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
He first worked on local radio stations in the UK for five years, was hired for the launch team of BBC Radio 5 Live, and the launch of "The World" from WGBH in Boston and BBC World Service. He has been heard as reporter or presenter on other stations around the world including 50 US stations which broadcast "The World," Radio New Zealand, ABC Australia, Radio Canada, London's LBC 97.3 and Radio Scotland.
Other presenting credits include: "Flashmob: The Opera", "Naked City; Spencer Tunick", "Celebdaq", "Liquid News", "Liquid Assets", "HardTalk Extra", "Seven O'Clock News, BBC 3", "World Business Report", "Oscars Special 2006", "Making your Mind Up". Other contributions include: "Richard and Judy", "HeadJam", "100 Best Cartoons".
He was listed among the top 40 gay men on TV by "Attitude"
magazine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Michelle
Mone
Michelle
Mone is a motivational and inspirational speaker. She is straight talking
and gives a genuine down to earth personal account of how she built up
her company. She speaks passionately about her struggle to succeed against
all odds, shares funny anecdotes and provides practical advice to budding
entrepreneurs.
Michelle Mone DUniv is one of the world's leading woman entrepreneurs and is the founder and co-owner of MJM International Ltd.
Due to an illness in the family, Michelle left school aged 15 with no qualifications. She spent a number of years successfully modelling in Glasgow and then went on to work for Labatts Brewers in her home town. When the Labatts brand moved to Whitbread, Michelle chose to take redundancy.
In November 1996, Michelle started MJM International Ltd with her husband Michael. The business has gone from strength to strength and Michelle has won a number of prestigious awards including:
- In April 2000, at a ceremony in the Epcot Centre, Florida, Michelle won the coveted 'World Young Business Achiever Award' beating off top entrepreneurs from 14 countries.
- In October 2000, Michelle was the winner of 'Business Woman of the Year' at the Corporate Elite Awards.
Her achievements have been further recognised by the following:
- In 2001, Prince Charles asked Michelle to join the Board of Directors for The Princes Scottish Youth Business Trust.
- In November 2002, Michelle was awarded an Honorary Degree, Doctor of the University, by Paisley University.
- In May 2003 Management Today voted Michelle one of the top 30 woman entrepreneurs in the UK. Michelle was listed alongside the likes of Martha Lane Fox and Stella McCartney.
In 2005, Michelle presented BBC's Mind Your Own Business, advising business owners on what they are doing right and where they are going wrong, and offering straightforward suggestions on how to improve their businesses.
Michelle Mone has built a hugely successful career on an incredibly simple concept: giving today's women what they want. What began with the Ultimo bra now extends to a number of very successful lingerie brands including Ultimo, Young Attitude, Michelle for George and Per Amore.
Due to the phenomenal growth of Ultimo lingerie and swimwear, MJM International have signed a deal with Debenhams to open their 10 stand alone Ultimo stores within Debenhams, the first of which opened in Glasgow in October 2007.
In addition to it's jointly owned brands, MJM International currently supply Debenhams, Selfridges, House of Fraser, Next, Grattan, Littlewoods, Figleaves and ASOS along with a number of independent lingerie stores.
Michelle has now launched a new business called TrimSecrets. She had tried every diet on the market for 10 years and had felt miserable, tired and disappointed. She was then recommended to go and see one of the most renowned naturopaths in the world,
Professor Jan de Vries and asked for his help. He told her that he was working on TrimSecrets for the past 5 years but was still missing a vital ingredient. A few months later, he found the missing ingredient and she began to trial TrimSecrets. Michelle lost over 5 stone in a year and her energy levels are at their highest.
She is married and has three children.
International Centre for Business Information - Other speakers at the event included Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev
'One word - Awesome! I found your speech completely engaging and invigorating
- certainly nothing like the 'usual' motivational 'stuff' I have heard
over the years.'
Director of Marketing & Communications - The Prince's Scottish
Youth Business Trust
Click here for Michelle's online video showreel
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file is in Windows Media format. Click on the icon to the left should
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