The profiles of Britain’s Top Employers are written by our team of business writers who specialise in HR. They are:
Claire Coe Smith is a freelance journalist with more than 10 years’ experience writing about the legal and financial services industries in the UK and globally. She was editor of Top Legal Employers UK 2009, and is currently contributing editor to Legal Business, and a regular writer for The Times, The Financial Times, Financial News, Private Equity News and CityAM. She is also a tutor with the College of Law in London, and runs her own research consultancy focusing on the legal profession.
Frank Booty has been a freelance editor and writer for over two decades, contributing to many market-leading titles, books and websites in the fields of business, facilities management, IT and networking, and manufacturing. Frank is also the editor of Top IT Employers United Kingdom, and has contributed to other books in CRF's portfolio. An award-winning journalist, he has also devised and chaired many conferences in the facilities management market, and is the editor of the highly-acclaimed Facilities Management Handbook (now in its 4th edition), published by Butterworth-Heinemann, an imprint of Elsevier.
Jon Lamb is a writer on business and organizational issues. He has contributed to national newspapers including The Times and the Guardian and worked on online projects for the DTI and HMRC. Jon has an MSc in Business Psychology.
Paul Bray read Modern History at Oxford, and spent five years in the computer industry before entering journalism in 1988. He was deputy editor of Which Computer? for two years and went freelance in 1991. Since then he has written for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, The Times and The Sunday Times, many magazines including Computing, Director and Nasdaq International, as well as more exotic publications such as the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia and Almanac.
Paul Donkersley is a professional writer and communications consultant, specialising in employment, marketing, media, transport and sports. He has had freelance journalist work published in UK and European newspapers and magazines, and has won British Association of Industrial Editors awards for producing the best company newspapers. He also wrote the UK’s first book on fantasy football. Paul has his own consultancy, Terrier, producing original web, internal and external communications for business clients small and large.
Rachelle Thackray is a freelance writer and editor, and author of 20/20 Hindsight, published by Virgin Business Guides. She works for a range of clients from different sectors.
Robert Blincoe started his journalism career as a crime reporter in Manchester’s Moss Side in 1991. He has been news editor of Europe’s largest technology news website, promoted the UK’s biotech and green fuel industries for The British Council, and was a senior member of Getty Images’ award-winning customer magazine Edit. Robert writes about business, science, crime and gambling and has contributed to many magazines as well as the Financial Times, the Guardian, The Independent and The Sun. He has an MSc in Business and IT and is married to Alana Juman Blincoe.