Penny Hartill
Consulting Director

Penny is an award-winning communications professional whose outside-the-box ideas and healthy doses of pragmatism get great results. Her broad-based communications background spans more than 18 years and includes external communications management for government funded health organisations, organising major arts and cultural festivals, publicity management for national arts awards, book publicity, issues management for a public transport company and a copyright protection agency, strategic public relations for large financial institutions and campaign implementation for social service agencies.

Her feature writing has been published in such media as North & South magazine, Sunday Star-Times and New Internationalist magazine.

She has strong, long-standing media contacts and has represented high profile personalities such as Jamie Oliver, Annabel Langbein, Lloyd Jones, Dame Anne Salmond and the late, great Michael King.

Chris Hunter
Digital Strategist

Chris is an experienced, results-focused digital strategist who kicked off his career as an advertising copywriter in London. After moving up through the ranks and winning several international marketing awards for clients such as Vodafone and Genesis Energy, he quit his job as a creative director in Sydney to focus exclusively on the digital world.

He founded and grew one of the world’s biggest motorcycle websites and then sold it 12 years later to an American media company. He’s also edited both volumes of the ‘The Ride’ for the Berlin-based book publisher Gestalten, and wrote the cult New Zealand book ‘Vantastic: A Pictorial History of Kiwi Caravans’.

Now based just outside Auckland, Chris puts his hands-on knowledge of SEO, analytics and content marketing to work for companies wanting to grow their digital footprint—and succeed in the fast-paced, ever-changing digital landscape.

Kathy Hunter
Digital Marketing

Kathy is an experienced communications specialist with a background in content creation, social media, feature writing and web design. In her twenties she worked for top London ad agencies such as DDB Needham, Ogilvy & Mather and Leagas Delaney, and was nominated for a D&AD award for her part in building the first Adidas web site.

Back in Aotearoa she set up LeafSalon, the first blog to focus solely on NZ books and writers. She has also written features for high-circulation magazines, and was the founding editor of Junction magazine in Matakana, where she’s now based.

For the last seven years Kathy has run the digital operations for Creative Matakana, an annual series of arts workshops, while juggling a portfolio of web and social media projects for large corporate and charity clients.

When not in front of her laptop, Kathy can be found guerilla gardening in gumboots on her lifestyle block, watching live music, or in an art gallery.