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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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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Jon Lonsdale
Jon Lonsdale

Jon Lonsdale

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

3 people I'd like to go to the pub 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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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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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

Susie Metnaoui
Susie Metnaoui

Susie Metnaoui

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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Carly Baughen
Carly Baughen

Carly Baughen

Best career moment: Being the youngest person in the Thames Valley to qualify at ACA level

My Top 3 places I'd like to visit: Australia/New Zealand, Thailand, Tour of North America: coast to coast

 

Helen Carroll
Helen Carroll

Helen Carroll

Best career moment: Winning the Google pitch and launching Apps across 14 countries 

My Top 3 things I love: David Beckham, Mulberry bags, Ben and Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream

Jodie Bagguley
Jodie Bagguley

Jodie Bagguley

Best career moment: Securing the support of one of Britain’s top retailers while working on a ‘pro-bonio’ campaign to help save the lives of dogs

My Top 3 weather conditions: Snow, thunder storms, scorchio!

Julian Moore
Julian Moore

Julian Moore

Best career moment: Meeting Harold from “Neighbours” in Cardiff on Cup Final Day

My Top 3 TV characters that scared me as a kid: Evil Edna from Willo The Wisp, Triffids – all of them, Pipes from Ghostwatch

 

Juliet Cameron
Juliet Cameron

Juliet Cameron

Best career moment: Photo shoot at the top of Nelson’s Column with John Noakes and Peter Purves as well as the tonnes of resulting coverage

My Top 3 chocolate bars: Wispa, Terry’s Chocolate Orange, Lion Bar

Kavita Bhuller
Kavita Bhuller

Kavita Bhuller

Best career moment: The day Octopus became my employer rather than my client

My top 3 chick flicks: Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, Breakfast at Tiffanys

Kelly Ramsay
Kelly Ramsay

Kelly Ramsay

Best career moment: Being hired by Octopus as a complete rookie!

Top three 21st Century Comedians: Russell Howard, Michael McIntyre, Lee Evans

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Kelly Smith
Kelly Smith

Kelly Smith

Best career moment: Keeping paparazzi away from The Queen

Top 3 favourite cheeses: Camembert (baked); wensleydale with cranberries; edam

Kirstin Beveridge
Kirstin Beveridge

Kirstin Beveridge

Best career moment: Declining a proposition from East 17 while on a flight to a client shoot in Edinburgh

My Top 3 forms of potato: Mashed, roast, hash brown

 

Laura Slade
Laura Slade

Laura Slade

Best career moment: Working with F1 star David Coulthard at the launch of the Vendée Globe Round the World Yacht Race

My Top 3 Roald Dahl stories: The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Lindsey Hemming
Lindsey Hemming

Lindsey Hemming

Best career moment: Asking Vernon Kay whether he ordered the duck salad and him responding simply by ducking under the table

My Top 3 Fictional places I would like to visit: 1) Pandora (Avatar film), 2) Hogwarts (Harry Potter), 3) Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory

Lisa Hamill
Lisa Hamill

Lisa Hamill

Best career moment: Being paid to go to Melbourne and train bartenders

My Top 3 short jokes: 1. Why did the lion get lost? Because jungle is massive. 2. My husband went to the doctors last week and was told he has diabetes. This week he found out he has hayfever. So I did the usual, flowers, chocolates. 3. What is brown and sticky? A stick

Naomi Barry
Naomi Barry

Naomi Barry

Best career moment: Walking into the newsagent and seeing my client’s news story on the front page of the Daily Telegraph

My Top 3 'must follow’ Twitter accounts: @fieldproducer @MarkBorkowski @suttonnick

Nicola Busby
Nicola Busby

Nicola Busby

Best career moment: Being the first UK citizen to sit in the cockpit of the ‘F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Bomber’ whilst representing British Airways at the Fairford Air Show.

Top 3 designers: McQueen, Westwood, Galliano

Olie Mitchell
Olie Mitchell

Olie Mitchell

Best career moment: Posing as Pudsey the bear for a BT’s (Children in Need) ‘chat for children’ photo shoot outside 10 Downing St with Lisa Faulkner

My Top 3 ‘likes’: Rock n’ Roll, Indian cuisine, The City of Bath

Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca Taylor

Rebecca Taylor

Best career moment: Dressing a Gary Lineker waxwork up as a farmer, ahead of a very successful launch event at Madame Tussauds

My Top 3 Bruce Springsteen Songs: Ain’t Good Enough For You, Cadillac Ranch, Fire

Siobhan McNeill
Siobhan McNeill

Siobhan McNeill

Best career moment: Having a drink at Barbara Windsor’s house after a photo shoot

My Top 3 cheeses: Comté, Applewood, Blacksticks Blue

Steve Spencer
Steve Spencer

Steve Spencer

Best career moment: Getting my break in the PR industry with Octopus

My Top 3 sporting moments: 1. Jonny’s winning drop goal in the 2003 World Cup. 2. England thrashing the Aussies in The Ashes down under. 3. John Terry’s penalty miss as Man Utd won the 2008 Champions League

Tom Holland
Tom Holland

Tom Holland

Best career moment: Meeting the Chief Forecaster at the Met Office who decides what the weather is going to be.

Top 3 boyhood heroes: Kerry Dixon, Michael Atherton, Henry from Neighbours

Zuzana Bielikova
Zuzana Bielikova

Zuzana Bielikova

Best career moment: Filming a CNBC interview with a C-level executive from the US.

Top 3 designers: Marc Jacobs, Dolce & Gabbana, Dior.

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Emma Tapsell
Emma Tapsell

Emma Tapsell

Best career moment: Completing all my AAT exams with just a skills test to complete leaving me very close to further my accounting studies

My Top 3: Vampires, dogs & music

Eleanor Fry
Eleanor Fry

Eleanor Fry

Best career moment: Getting a job with Octopus!

My Top 3 places to be: Venice, Paris, London

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.