Game Changer is a one-stop campaign consultancy for public relations, media training, public affairs and digital engagement.
We specialise in devising and implementing targeted and integrated campaigns that raise awareness and initiate change through the power of social networks.
Our team of dedicated consultants and new media experts put Web 2.0 at the very heart of all our campaigns, not as an add-on.
DAVID PRESCOTT
David Prescott is MD and co-founder of Game Changer.
He was previously Head of Media at the UK’s No1 public sector PR consultancy Geronimo Communications, devising and implementing campaigns for the Diploma, City Academies, London Challenge and ConstructionSkills. He has also worked for the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Home Office and the Committee for Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM.)
Before public relations, David was a journalist for more than 15 years on national newspapers, radio and television. He was a senior producer/reporter at GMTV, Deputy Editor at BBC Look North and Home Duty Editor on the BBC Network News Desk; co-ordinating news coverage across BBC TV, radio and the BBC News Channel at Television Centre (TVC.)
He is also campaigns director for Go Fourth, devised the Give Up the Bonus campaign against RBS bankers bonuses and created Wage Concern to protect the National Minimum Wage.
His campaigns have been longlisted for PR Week awards for the last two years.
David is also Chair of Governors of a secondary school in South East London, blogs about being a first-time dad and was once in the Von Trapps, who had their single played on John Peel’s show.
You can contact David at david@game-changer.co.uk
ALEX HILTON
Alex is our Director of Digital Engagement and co-founder of Game Changer.
One of the founding fathers of the UK political blogosphere, Alex launched the blogs Recess Monkey and Labourhome.
He also set up the innovative online advertising company Message Space, which sells ad space on the most influential political blogs.
Before launching Game Changer, Alex ran his own political consultancy Hilton and Hilton whose clients included the Campaign for Crossrail, UNISON, Disney and TSO.
In 2007, he was recruited by Hillary Benn’s Labour Deputy Leadership campaign as its Web Strategy Manager.
He is also an established media commentator, with his own column in PR Week and a regular talking head on the Westminster Hour, Question Time Extra, More 4 News, Sky News and the BBC News Channel.
Alex is an accomplished pianist, a so-so singer and denies being a distant cousin of heiress Paris Hilton.
As does Paris.
You can contact Alex at alex@game-changer.co.uk
VICTORIA ROBERTS
Victoria is a senior consultant at Game Changer.
A lawyer and former aide to Commons Speaker, John Bercow MP, Victoria is an experienced campaigner, particularly on human rights and family issues. She is Deputy Chair of the Tory Reform Group, a Trustee of the Family Planning Association and a member of the Burma Justice Committee of the Bar.
Working with Bercow, Victoria was involved in numerous campaigns on issues as diverse as asylum policy, equality, prison reform and special needs education. She has coordinated several All Party Parliamentary Groups and has published works with the Foreign Policy Centre, Reformer and House Magazine.
Victoria is a Member of Inner Temple and has an MA in International Relations from the University of Essex and a BA in History from University College London, which included a year at the University of Texas at Austin.
Victoria is an advocate of parental leave rights for dog owners and is afraid of milk.
JANN ARELL
Jann is Game Changer’s talented web designer. She was responsible for branding the Wage Concern and Give up the Bonus campaigns.
She has also done design work for the European Parliamentary Labour Party, Go Fourth and the Sohodolls.
In her spare time, Jann is a huge music fan, somewhat camera shy and not that good at taking phone calls.
But as she’s so damn good at her job, we let that one go.
Dr GEORGINA AITKEN
Dr Georgina Aitken leads on Technocracy – a campaign to promote the benefits to society of ethically-applied science and technology.
She started her scientific education as a student at Sussex University and obtained her degree in Chemistry with a minor in North American Studies in 2002.
Georgina then went on to do a Chemistry doctorate at Sussex University. Since March 2008, she has worked as a postdoctoral research scientist with Professor Jenny Green at the ICL in Oxford University.
Her interests outside of the scientific world include voiceover work for local and national radio, DJing at organised parties and music events management. She also likes to do cartwheels in the office.
TOM MILLER
Tom Miller is a campaign consultant at Game Changer, an avid blogger and helped found the grassroots e-network LabourList site as an Editorial Assistant.
A former local organiser and student campaigner, he has edited a toolkit for campus living wage campaigns, and is responsible for Compass Youth’s website and graphic design.
He has supported the CWU in its campaign against Post Office part privatisation, volunteered on Jon Cruddas’ Labour Deputy Leadership campaign and ran the Facebook group for Ken Livingstone during the mayoral election. Tom also spent two years in regional and membership capacities on the National Executive of the Young Fabians.
Tom’s outside interests are edgy music, messing about with guitars, and voluntary subjection to the exploits of Sunderland AFC.
