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The BENCH PR Team
BENCH PR's team brings together more than 50 years of public relations experience. Each member of our team is highly-experienced in the IT and Business to Business sectors and have worked for some of the best agencies in Australia, USA and the UK.
Jocelyn Hunter - Managing Director
Jocelyn Hunter is a public relations specialist and the managing director and owner of BENCH PR. Jocelyn has over 14 years PR experience having worked for some of the most awarded agencies in the UK and Australia and led a number of multi-national campaigns.
Client experience includes developing and implementing PR campaigns for AXA, Palm, 3Com, Samsung, PeopleSoft, Civica, Northgate plc, ESRI, Bull Information Systems, Cognos, SpinVox, Telstra and Cisco Systems.
Jocelyn established BENCH PR in August 2008 and is a member of the PRIA Council of Victoria.
Jessica Sealby - Senior Consultant
Jessica joined BENCH PR in 2011 and has eight years of international PR experience, both in the corporate and ICT sectors. She spent four years at award winning agency Firefly in the UK and also spent a couple of years working for Howorth Communications in Sydney.
Client experience includes Steria, NHS SBS (public sector BPO joint venture), Harvey Nash (executive recruitment), ITI Scotland, ITI Techmedia and ITI Energy (Scottish Government R&D), PolyServe TradeDoubler (digital marketing) and Mazars (financial services and accountancy).
Jessica brings enthusiasm and a 'can-do attitude' to the team.
Michelle Bong - Senior Consultant
Michelle has over fifteen years of international PR experience. Originally from Singapore, Michelle came to Melbourne in 1993 to study journalism at RMIT. She has many years of experience working for PR agencies such as Burson Marstellar, Porter Novelli, Brodeur and Fleishmann-Hillard.
Client experience includes Hyperion Solutions, Infineon Technologies, Pronto Software, NEC, LSI Logic, Netfish Technologies and Novell.
Michelle provides a strategic focus, ensuring we're supporting our client's business objectives at all times.
Lisa Banks - Senior Consultant
Lisa Banks joined BENCH PR in January 2012. She is an experienced journalist and public relations professional. Lisa was a journalist at IDG Communications until December 2011, writing for CIO, ComputerWorld and TechWorld.
Prior to IDG, Lisa spent 18 months in communication roles at Creative Territory in the Northern Territory and The City of Tea Tree Gully in South Australia. She brings a wealth of IT industry knowledge with her.
Rebecca English - Senior Consultant
Rebecca English has over fifteen years experience in public relations in Australia and the UK. Before joining BENCH PR in October 2011, she was Director at London PR agency Wax Lyrical, specialising in PR for B2B and technology clients.
Rebecca’s experience includes senior PR and communications roles at Oracle and the Carbon Trust. Her agency experience includes work for BT, 3Com, Palm, Pioneer and COLT.
Rebecca brings valuable international experience to the BENCH PR team.
Zoe Palmer - Senior Consultant
Zoe joined BENCH PR in 2011 and has over fifteen years of international PR and marketing experience for both consumer and business-to-business clients. Before joining BENCH PR as a Senior Consultant, she was Director of PR at Merchant Marketing Group. In the UK, Zoe spent four years as an Account Director for leading PR agency Kaizo.
Client experience includes Nestle, Mattel, PENTAX Life Care, the Environment Agency and Tourism Malaysia.
Zoe brings a wealth of experience across PR, marketing and advertising to BENCH PR.