Chris Gent
Chris Gent

Chris Gent

Best career moment: Getting my hands on a prelaunch Nokia 7110 for review (in the 90’s) 

My Top 3 worst words to use in B2B writing: Integrated, Turnkey, Solution

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Christy Downing
Christy Downing

Christy Downing

Best career moment: The first time all the figures successfully added up!

My Top 3 tattooed ladies: Kat Von D, Alicia Moore, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

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Dan Purvis
Dan Purvis

Dan Purvis

Best career moment: Meeting Viv Richards and Richie Richardson at the West Indies cricket team's victory party (having beaten England, of course)

My Top 3 drinks: Champagne, dark rum & coke, Boddingtons

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Dan Walsh
Dan Walsh

Dan Walsh

Best career moment: Getting my first role in PR at Octopus after graduating

My Top 3 celebrity beards: Brian Blessed, Ricky Tomlinson, Joaquin Phoenix

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Emilie Thompson
Emilie Thompson

Emilie Thompson

Best career moment: Taking a group of journalists up a wind turbine!

My Top 3 French things: Jardins de Luxembourg in Paris, Sébastien Chabal, cheese!

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Emily Wearmouth
Emily Wearmouth

Emily Wearmouth

Best career moment: Orchestrating a 14 country company launch, including a big party (of course!)

My Top 3 games: Trivial Pursuit, Poker, Cluedo

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Erin Hunter
Erin Hunter

Erin Hunter

Best career moment: Volunteering at the World Rowing Championships and getting served cocktails by ex-olympians

My Top 3 Gigs of 2009: Muse, @The O2, Blur@ Glastonbury, Them Crooked Vultures, @Hammersmith Apollo

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Harvy Virdee
Harvy Virdee

Harvy Virdee

Best career moment: Setting up the Virgin Group Employee Discount Scheme for over 25,000 people in 2 weeks

My Top 3: KFC, Jack Daniels, Sky Plus

Find me here: Windsor KFC Restaurant

Helen Ablett
Helen Ablett

Helen Ablett

Best career moment: Getting a kiss from John Craven at a charity do in Parliament

My Top 3 places to be: Paris, New York, Rome

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Helen Toft
Helen Toft

Helen Toft

Best career moment: Realising a graduate I had recruited and trained was going to be incredibly successful

My top three nostalgic TV moments: the first time I saw Tremors, Janet Ellis almost being turned into a blue chicken in Doctor Who, Bouncer’s dream

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Ingrid Semanikova
Ingrid Semanikova

Ingrid Semanikova

Best career moment: getting coverage in all tier 1 regional newspapers from my first ever sell-in

My Top 3 film directors: Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino

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James Warnette
James Warnette

James Warnette

Best career moment: It constantly changes...

My Top 3 Motorsport Circuits: Spa Francorchamps, Le Mans, Brands Hatch

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Jon Lonsdale
Jon Lonsdale

Jon Lonsdale

Best moment: Revealing a pair of trunks to the PR Week Awards judging panel

3 best people to get drunk with: Ruud Gullit, Bill Clinton, Michael Caine

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Katie Potts
Katie Potts

Katie Potts

Best career moment: Telling someone they were barred

My top 3 Disney characters: Mrs Potts from Beauty and The Beast, Aboo from Aladdin, Flounder from The Little Mermaid

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Lakshmi Rajendran
Lakshmi Rajendran

Lakshmi Rajendran

Best Career Moment: Talking to someone who had wandered into a client’s event, then discovering they were a member of Take That.

My Top 3 Beatles: George, Paul, Ringo

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Louie St Claire
Louie St Claire

Louie St Claire

Best career moment: Meeting Andrew Marr at the front of Live8 whist Snoop Dogg was on stage

My Top 3 Brian’s: Brian McBride, Brian Clough, Brian from Family Guy

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Phil Corfan
Phil Corfan

Phil Corfan

Best career moment: Being the subject of a journo’s ‘Props to the PR’ blogpost

My Top 3 Addictive TV Shows: The West Wing, Peep Show, The Sopranos

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Mark Hill
Mark Hill

Mark Hill

Best career moment: Getting myself arrested by the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Police.

My Top 3 newspapers: The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Ottawa Citizen.

Find me here: My Travel Blog

Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown

Ruth Brown

Best career moment: Flying into Monte Carlo by helicopter for a client event, at sunrise

My Top 3 wines: Villa Maria Riesling; Climbing Merlot; Cantina Santa Maria La Palma’s Aragosta

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Michael Darren
Michael Darren

Michael Darren

Best career moment: First ever piece of National coverage. The flame was damped when my confused mum asked, “So why doesn’t it mention your name then?”

My top 3 celebs: I’d like to have read me a bedtime story: Alicia Keys, Fern Britton, Isaac Hayes

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Sandy Purewal
Sandy Purewal

Sandy Purewal

Best career moment: Being told by a global brand 'you blew our socks off' given what happened two hours earlier...

My Top 3 things from the 80s: Donkey Kong, snakebite & black, 'Come on Eileen' on 7" vinyl

Find me here: The Windsor Grill

Sarah Martinez
Sarah Martinez

Sarah Martinez

Best career moment: Working at Creation Records and meeting Noel Gallagher

My Top 3 Blondes: Debbie Harry, Goldie Hawn, Dolly Parton

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Sarah McArthur
Sarah McArthur

Sarah McArthur

Best career moment: The results from my first PR campaign the ‘Eco Drive Challenge’ for the new Honda Insight.

My top three: Win the lottery, buy a chalet in the Alps, write an interesting and successful book

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Sean Fleming
Sean Fleming

Sean Fleming

Best career moment: Launching my own newspaper in Manchester in the mid 1990s

Top 3 celebrities I share my birthday with: Oprah Winfrey, Tommy Ramone, Germaine Greer

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Shaun Wynne-Jones
Shaun Wynne-Jones

Shaun Wynne-Jones

Best career moment: Minutes after hosting a media tour, seeing a national journo announce he’d just bought my client’s products via Twitter

My top 3 cocktails: Mojito, Car: VW Scirocco Video game: Call of Duty

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Susie Loughnane
Susie Loughnane

Susie Loughnane

Best career moment: Hosting a photo shoot with Theo Paphitis dressed in a boiler suit, holding a hard hat and posing in front of a white van

My Top 3 dad bands: Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits

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Tom Flisher
Tom Flisher

Tom Flisher

Best career moment: Organising a successful speed-dating event for OAPs at a Burger King in Hastings

My Top 3 Shakespearean insults: Thou crusty botch of nature, Me think'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee, Thou art a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours

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Anatomy of an Octopede

The success of Octopus is all down to our happy gang of 'Octopedes'. We are a spirited and talented bunch of people wanting to muck in, think big, and achieve great results. We're in it for our company, our own development, and some hearty laughs along the way. We use our values as a sanity check on everything we do.

Coming to work here

We like to think that a career here is an inspiring and rewarding journey from day one. Octopus is honest, down to earth, and open plan. Our culture is important to us and our experience is shared readily. Most crucially of all we take care of our people and help them to grow.

Octopus needs you!

If you fancy joining us we're always on the look out for great people who can add something different to our growing team. If there's an aspiring future Octopede out there we want to know about it. Drop us a line to tell us more.

We're always looking for enthusiastic, talented and tenacious individuals to join us. Click here for current opportunities.