Louise Burgess - Operations Director

Experience:

An Honours science graduate who started her direct marketing career 20 years ago at EHS Brann, working on financial services and government Clients, she then moved agencies to work on charity Clients such as the Samaritans, Mind and VSO.  Louise later moved client side to The Blue Cross, to set up their supporter recruitment and donor development programmes from scratch and manage their supporter contact team.  She founded Equi=Media with Andrew Burgess in 2000.  With 9 years experience of working with the team to grow Equi=Media and ensure the agency always provides an excellent service to all our Clients. Louise is now responsible for working with all departments to nurture the skills of staff, develop the agency's service levels and expertise and foster a positive and progressive working environment for all.  

What do I do at Equi=Media?

"I am in the enviable position of being able to work with the whole Equi=Media team to develop our systems and ethos to make sure our clients get to work with unbeatable teams of people committed to providing brilliant and insightful customer communication plans and media planning and buying. Working with such a committed team of people is enormously rewarding and as each month brings new media "firsts" and clearer Insights for our Clients, digital and direct media at Equi=Media is always creative and never dull!"

Favourite Book, Film, Music and Team:

Paul O'Gradys autobiography, and Private Peaceful (Michael Morpurgo), Mamma Mia, Kate Bush or The Clash and Gloucester Rugby Club.