The Impress Team

Impress employs a full-time team of both marketing and design professionals who are supported by a proven group of website developers, technical support staff and other suppliers.

The team combine a wealth of both marketing and entrepreneurial experience, sharing a common desire to produce commercially-focussed work that assists our clients' business plans.

A fast-growing and ambitious agency, Impress is always interested in hearing from talented marketing professionals so please send any CV's with example of work where applicable to sam@impress-media.co.uk.

Andrew Pinnell
Managing Director

Forming Impress represents a culmination of over twenty years in marketing for Andrew, who remains sole shareholder and Managing Director. Andrew’s career began when he formed his own company publishing fanzines and books written about The Sisters of Mercy. Andrew owes a great debt of gratitude to the band that provided a platform to promote his work on a global scale which ultimately gained worldwide distribution and recognition.

A period promoting dance music followed and he and Martin Palmer designed some of the most innovative flyers in the sector. It's hard to believe that Andrew promoted the likes of Carl Cox, Grooverider and The Shamen, before the partnership with Martin shifted into the corporate sector.

Perhaps less exotic, the pair’s desire to push the boundaries of design soon led to full-time jobs with Premier Global in Trowbridge. Andrew survived the corporate trip for five years, elevating the company to true brand status on the back of cracking advertising, PR and relationship marketing with professional sports bodies. Inevitably, the trip turned sour and Andrew was delighted to jump ship in 2005 and form Impress with Martin (as ever) at his side.

Impress now embodies Andrew’s vision of a full-service agency that delivers commercial results for a vast array of diverse clients. His interests in music, underground design culture, blogging and digital marketing continue to have a significant influence on the agency.

Outside of the agency, Andrew is dedicated to his two wonderful daughters (Charlotte & Lizzy), captains Babington House Cricket Club and writes creatively about Siegfried Sassoon,  culture and his under alter-ego – Media Boy.

Martin Palmer
Senior Designer

The master of the Mac, Martin has over 12 years’ experience as a graphic designer, having started working for Birdie Golf in 1996. Martin also developed his freelance career working alongside Andrew Pinnell producing work for various record labels and club promoters.

His reprographic skills were developed at Doveton Press in Bristol, after which he hooked up with Andrew again at Premier Global where he was instrumental in giving the company a much-needed makeover.

His ability to design across all printed formats ensures superb reprographic results which remains a crucial (and often under-valued) facet  of the agency’s output. Martin's work paved the way for Impress' initial development and he has an increasingly pivotal role in the growth of the agency.

Beyond Impress, Martin is the proud father of Charlie & Louis, lives with his partner Laura and is a fanatical Manchester United fan.

Sammy Burt
 

Sam is the hub of Impress and performs a variety of roles including finance, administration and office manager. Dynamic by nature, Sam also drives the agencies vital Hosting operation ensuring our clients domains never expire, maintaining email systems, checking Google Analytics and managing our freelance team.

She is currently pursuing her accountancy qualifications at Bath College and is also studying for her Google Certified professional exams.

An 'independent woman' Sammy lives in her apartment in the city centre with her cocker spaniel, Pickle. She enjoys socialising and attending local rugby matches with friends as well as music festivals especially those featuring local, up and coming bands. She hopes to be the next big thing on the entrepreneurial circuit and can’t wait to have 'her empire'!

Lisa Carter

Having graduated from Bournemouth University in 2010 with a degree in Interactive Media Production, Lisa has joined Impress as an Account Manager on our ‘Love Your Site’ initiative.

With particular expertise in the fields of digital marketing, social networking and the blogosphere, Lisa adds a cutting edge twist to the agency.
Her role is to advise and inspire clients to embrace the infinite commercial possibilities of the internet.

Outside of the agency, Lisa is passionate about music, festivals, fashion and alternative cinema.

Freelancers

Impress commission an array of freelancers with particular specialisms appropriate for the diverse range of creative projects we deliver.
This is particularly the case with regards to web developers and we have high-level resources across all coding languages including ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Flash and Ajax.