Karen is based in Bristol and has worked in marketing for over 13 years. During this time she has held a number senior marketing roles both marketing agency-side and in-house, including a top Omnicom marketing agency and BBC Worldwide. Before founding Freelance Marketing Services, Karen was head of marketing for cutting-edge magazine and online social media publishing company, Wildfire Communications, based in the South West. Karen was bought into Wildfire to set up the marketing function, she grew the team and was responsible for launching many new B2B and B2C magazines, websites and directories. Her work has been recognised via several award nominations, most recently the Data Publishers Association (DPA) Marketing Campaign of the Year Award 2007 and the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) Independent Publishing Company of the Year 2008. Prior to this Karen spent several years working in senior marketing roles for magazine publishing companies Origin and BBC Worldwide, developing and implementing the subscriptions marketing strategy for a range of special interest consumer titles. Karen also spent a number of years working for top international Omnicom marketing agency Bordeur Worldwide, where she scooped the Institute of Public Relations (IPR), Young Communicator of the Year Award 2002. Karen is a business graduate and has several further marketing qualifications including the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Postgraduate Diploma and the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) Certificate in Direct Marketing.