"Roy Sheppard did an excellent job. His professionalism and sense of humour contributed significantly to the success of the meeting, despite the fact that he is not part of the computer industry. I would recommend him highly for similar events". Alex Sozonoff , General Manager, Sales and Distribution, Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, California

"We have just concluded our Hewlett-Packard Computer Products Europe KICK-OFF event for approximately 700 sales and marketing staff in Berlin. The feedback from the participants has been extraordinarily positive and is due to a large extent to Roy Sheppard who was very visible throughout the three day event as News Presenter, Interviewer, Master of Ceremonies and Raconteur. Many of the delegates were amazed at his ability as an outsider to grasp the HP culture quickly as well as understand our products/reseller/end user focus in a very short period of time. This was well illustrated when one of our attendees asked Roy "if he was an HP employee or a professional" - there is no doubt whatsoever that he is the consummate professional! I can unreservedly recommend Roy Sheppard for any event (large or small) which requires that the above and other skills be utilised in a live or video tape manner to thoroughly motivate an audience". David McDonald, Event Co-ordinator, Hewlett-Packard SA Geneva

"Thank you very much for the excellent job you did at our Kick Off meeting in January.
We have now analysed all the feedback and I’m delighted to say that the interview approach was very well received by our staff. On the day, your enthusiasm and wit contributed enormously to the overall success of the conference and kept things flowing in a lively and interesting way. In particular, I should like to thank you for the thought and energy that you put into the interviews leading up to the event and for the help and confidence you gave our ‘interviewees’. As you know, most were completely new to this approach and, therefore, understandably nervous and sceptical. You will, I’m sure, be pleased, but not surprised to hear that after the event, all said they would prefer to use this approach again. I hope that we will have an opportunity to work together again in the future.
In the meantime, please feel free to quote any of my comments or to put anyone interested in following up references, in touch with me, and I will confirm how happy we were with your work for us." Jane Berry, Marketing Communications Manager Europe, ICL Retail

"I can't quite thank you enough for what you did on our behalf at Networks '94. To launch a Live T.V. channel at an event incorporating interviews, news, roving cameras, corporate focuses et al takes an immense amount of preparation from a content and technical perspective. Even then it has to be delivered. We had two options - either an infamous T.V. personality or a lesser known professional. Thank God we chose you! It is rare to find someone prepared to spend days learning about Computer Networking (not a simple subject) in order to raise the professional standard of interaction required with industry figureheads. In pure delivery you were, as I had heard, outstanding - in front of over 40,000 professionals, and the compliments that we have received I pass to you. Keep all available dates free!" James Latham, Managing Director, Independent Network Marketing Ltd

"Thanks for the excellent work you did for us throughout the recent Mercury Conferences. From the very beginning, I was very impressed by your commitment to absorbing as much information as possible about Mercury and the issues that you would be discussing through the course of the conferences. All your hard work, as well as our confidence in you, was well rewarded at the conferences themselves. You managed to take the ‘internal debate’ further than it has been taken in the past and, you achieved that by being well informed, credible and extremely professional. Importantly, you consistently demonstrated your ability to work as an integrated member of the team, something much appreciated by all of us at Spectrum and indeed, by our client. I am sure we will work together again in the future." David Zolkwer, Creative Director, Spectrum Communications

"... Thanks for all of the work that you have done to make the event yesterday a success. It is very encouraging to work with someone who can bring the best out of everyone involved in the delivery of such a key event. I am pleased to say that the small amount of feedback that I received so far has been very encouraging both at an event level and also the delivery and execution of the messages. A large amount of this praise must be attributable to the creativity that you brought to the event, when ensuring that the customer in the audience has received the information that he/she was looking for and also the presenter has delivered their message appropriately." Kevin Bailey, Marketing Director, StorageTek

"The event feedback has been fantastic. Everyone thought the whole show very worthwhile and you managed to strike the right balance between Facilitator and Honest Joe. Everyone was impressed how much you had grasped about the DNA of our company as well as our business in such a short time. Once again, many thanks for a great job." Alistair Lamb, Marketing Director, Rebus IS

"I would like to express my thanks to you for your outstanding contribution to what was a highly successful sales conference. Your personal expertise in interviewing techniques and understanding of our business challenges both before and during the conference managed to dispel any concerns I may have had about the proposed format. Your professionalism, that of the overall team produced a highly polished conference which provided us with outstanding business results. Thank you very much for all your energy and creative contribution before and after the conference. I hope that we will have the opportunity to work together in the future." Sam Sassoon, Logica UK Managing Director

"A huge thank you for all of your help making the Logica UK sales conference such a success. I hope you had as much fun as we all did, I'm still bathing in the glory." Liz Brown, UK Sales & Marketing Manager, Logica UK

"...thank you for your invaluable input to our kick off event this year. It was without question, the most successful event of its type that we have produced to date. The overall feedback was phenomenal on all counts. We exceeded all expectations in terms of communicating our messages, motivating our team and setting the agenda for the year ahead.

It was more than evident that your work leading up to and indeed during the event, with some of our senior speakers had a dramatic impact on the way they presented both themselves and their messages. The feedback demonstrates that your skills in terms of interviewing and linking not only entertained a potentially difficult audience, but added a level of professionalism very rarely seen at events of this nature. We are now discussing the follow up event.... I am sure we will be contacting you soon to see how you can help make this event a similar success." Owen Ashby, Marketing Communications Manager, Unisys Computer Systems

"Thank you for facilitating at ASP ' 99 [Application Service Providers] last week, your presence was key to making this such a successful event. We had over 250 delegates attending the event, and the response to date has been excellent; the event questionnaire is attached for your reference along with the analysis from these - I am sure you will be pleased with the outcome!" Tim Pickard, Vice President Marketing, Netstore Group Ltd

"We, the team at Status would like to thank you for your professionalism and co-operation in making this event the success Netstore were expecting. This event would not have run so smoothly without the use of your skills, teamwork and on-site assistance. The feedback we have received from the client has been very complimentary. It was so good to work with an assertive, hands-on, friendly team member and we look forward to working with you again."
Amy Knights-Whittome, Katherine Gilbert and Vicki Welham, Status Meetings Ltd.

"We were very pleased with the outcome of TMA and it was evident that the presentation theatre approach was a great success. In purely statistical terms we generated over double the normal number of leads...we gathered some quality leads and contacts. Perhaps more specifically to yourself, we were very pleased with your performance and it was clear to all the benefit from using a professional presenter to deliver the message. It was important for our business to have a presenter that understood sufficient of the marketplace and technology to appear as credible to the audience. I felt that you were highly credible in this role and I would have no hesitation in using you for future events. It was also very pleasing that you had the flexibility to help us adapt the delivery for the session to best suit the audience and their attention span. Should you wish to use my comments as a testimonial for any of your future projects, you have my blessing to do so".
Andy Bray, Marketing Manager, General Datacom

"I am writing to express my thanks and appreciation for your hard work and input into the recent staff communication days which Apex produced for Philips Semiconductors. Philips were anxious to put across their communication messages in an interactive and open forum and your position as an independent anchorman was invaluable in gaining the delegates trust. I personally found you creative, enthusiastic and easy to work with, becoming part of the Apex team to ensure the success of the whole event. I will be recommending your services to our other clients and I hope we will have another chance to work together again soon". Paul Ashford, Managing Director, Apex marketing & Creative Communications Ltd.

"I first worked with Roy Sheppard at a British Telecom AGM he was our roving reporter with a remote ENG unit. Roy's self assuredness in dealing both with the public and with the technical requirements of the job allowed me to concentrate without concern on the studio end of the show. That confidence was born out of working with a man who is part writer, part reporter. and who has the rare ability to self produce His relaxed style of presentation contributed to unflustered, uninhibited. natural interviews, and disguised the technical challenge of the production. I look forward to working with him again". Peter Piddock, Glancehurst Television

"All I can say is a huge thank you.  I think we delivered exactly what we set out to, and talking to some of the guests in the evening, who had been involved in the build up, they certainly felt that they had seen what we promised. Thank you, also for helping with the speaker training aspect, I know some of the presenters were very nervous; it is after all a fairly daunting stage!  Your reassurance and tips on delivery really paid off, and when it counted I thought they all spoke very well.  Pete wanted me to say thank you from a sound engineer point of view you controlled the interview sessions brilliantly, I don't think he missed a thing! I hope that we will be able to work with you again in the future, and especially a return to Watford next year, to see if they have actually done their bit and delivered on the issues they need to!" Jackie Chambers, Stagecraft Limited