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"Working with personalities can be a nightmare -
lack of understanding of the client's corporate culture, lack of preparation for
the job in hand, inflexibility and the tendency to charge extra for the tiniest
item which is not specified in the contract. In my experience Roy Sheppard is
guilty of none of these annoying traits. He is thorough in his preparation,
sympathetic with client needs and culture, superb with people, a creative
contributor to achieving the desired objectives - and a totally credible
presenter. You couldn't ask for more". Phillip Gibbs, Managing Director, IMS
Communications Ltd
"Just a note to say how delighted we were with the Exhibition Forum which you
presented so professionally. We were particularly impressed with the 'homework'
that you had obviously done on the Exhibition Industry - and this preparation
showed through. Many thanks and we look forward to having another opportunity to
work with you in the future".
Keith Reading, Commercial Director, Show International Ltd.
"You have been a major player in ensuring we
have exceeded our client's expectations. The two more major projects that stand
out where you made a major contribution were the Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice
and the UK Unipart Roadshow. In the both cases the client could not believe
their success in achieving both sales and motivating objectives."
Mike Black, Creative Director, Complete Communications (a division of UGC).
"I have worked with Roy for four years now and
have never known him to be anything other than totally professional. He is a
competent interviewer particularly on business subjects and has the ability to
set any interviewee at their ease and get the best from them. Amongst our crews
he is legendary as a one-take wonder! I would recommend him to anyone looking
for a versatile all-round presenter/interviewer." Corinne Richman, Producer,
Complete Communications.
"I would like to thank you personally for your
tremendous contribution to the overall success of the event. As you know this
event was no small task, with 700 Sales and Marketing people, over 40 separate
speakers, actors, a voting system, a live satellite link with the CEO of Intel,
Andy Grove ..the list of technicalities seemed endless. I know I speak not just
for myself ..without you it would have been near to impossible to accomplish
what we did in the time that was available to us. Your professionalism;
understanding of people and flexibility throughout our time in Berlin made, not
only my life much easier, but the end result outstanding. It goes without saying
that when we have a need for presenters on any of our conferences, Roy, I will
undoubtedly take great pleasure in working with you again. Many many thanks for
a superb job". Christine Daniels, Managing Director, Face to Face Productions
Ltd.
"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
"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.
"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
"Thank you on behalf of our
client, Mars Confectionery, for the great job you did as facilitator on their
recent National Sales Conference. Not only did you provide great links during
the show, but the presenters felt you added real value in assisting them during
rehearsals. I look forward to working with you again soon". Trevor D
Hamilton, Managing Director, Unique Entertainment Production and Design Ltd.
"Due to circumstances beyond
our control, our client (namely the Tibbett & Britten Group plc) seems to be
delighted with their annual management conference at Sopwell House the other
week. A large part of this success must be due to your ability to extract
information from a reticent collection of managing directors and chairmen in
such a way that the audience could not only follow it, but be interested in it!
We have received some very nice letters from John Harvey, Mike Stalbow and Kevin
Mellor, so lots of Brownie Points all round! We look forward to working with you
again soon!"
Robin Smurthwaite, Partner, Synapse Ltd.
"A very big thank you for everything you did
during the Lloyd's TSB event. Audience feedback has been incredibly positive,
with a certain Mr R. Sheppard emerging as a highlight for many of the delegates.
I was incredibly impressed with your performance on the day. Lloyds TSB were
very pleased with the day and good news seems to have travelled... They now see
what can be achieved by using a professional facilitator. Much of the success of
the day was down to you and I'd like to thank you for helping me deliver a
response which genuinely started to answer their individual needs."
Ian Liddiard, Page and Moy Marketing Limited.
"At last, we have finally been able to work
together - and what a treat it was. Thank you so much for all your input, your
calming influence on the client and your resolve to get to the thorniest issues.
Andy, I know, was very pleased, as were all his colleagues, who felt it was a
highly successful event. You'll be pleased to hear they are already talking
about next year's! Many thanks again and I think I can safely say it won't be
too long before we work together again."
Tim Horrox, Managing Director, Harmonics Ltd. in respect of a conference for
Friends Provident
"Now the dust has (quite literally) settled on
Connect, I thought I'd take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for all
your hard work last week. The event really wouldn't have been the same without
you (or your jackets!) Despite the fairly punishing event schedule, at no point
did you offer me anything other than 100% professionalism and genuine
creativity. More importantly, you were great fun to have as part of the crew.
The feedback I've had from the client has been almost embarrassing - I think
they want to adopt the entire production team! Once again, a huge thank-you for
last week, you took a lot of the pressure off me and the client, and for that
I'm eternally grateful". Iain Liddiard, Presentations Director, Page & Moy
Marketing (Client AT&T Capital)
"I just wanted to thank you personally for all
your valuable input to the Liberty Life conference recently. The feedback from
the client has been very positive and reinforces my feeling that our efforts
helped them in no small way to achieve their event objectives handsomely. It was
obvious during the event and confirmed by the many comments afterwards that the
audience was impressed by your in-depth knowledge of their business and firm
grasp of the key issues. Both I and the speakers appreciate not only your skill
in this, but also the amount of sheer hard work you put into achieving it. I was
particularly impressed by the way you were able to put the presenters at their
ease and gain their confidence so early in the pre-production process. Even the
sceptics became early ‘converts’ when they realised that they could trust you
and that you really were going to make their task a lot easier. From a
production company perspective this is especially important. In short you more
than lived up to your promises and in doing so enabled us to deliver ours in
turn to the client. It was a real pleasure to work with you on this project and
I certainly hope that we get the opportunity to do it again in the near future.
Many thanks once again, Roy."
Ian Johnson, Conference Director, Motivational Meetings Ltd. |