Name: Karen Cooper

Position: Associate Director and Senior PR Consultant

First PR job: 1995, The Braben Company

Some of the companies Karen has worked with: BT, Bauer, Coral Eurobet, Egg, Lever Faberge, Nestle Purina, Scottish & Newcastle, Schweppes, Spar, StenaLine ferries, VocaLink, VTech

Best PR success: getting Terry Venables to place the first ever bet by WAP phone from the London Eye which the Telegraph cited as ‘making history’

Hobbies: Traveling, aspiring to be Nigella in the kitchen, following football (especially Arsenal) and other major sporting events and spending time with her husband and two children .