Our Staff
All staff working for Mantis are senior; that means no executives or account managers, but does mean bags of PR skills and know-how. It means that all staff are capable of understanding a clients’ business, its aims and objectives, the issues that face its customers and are capable of designing and delivering against measureable PR plans.
Because our staff and company are dedicated to public sector IT, it also means our staff have closer, more frequent contact with the journalists, industry analysts, trade associations and other industry advocates important to our clients' businesses.
All staff have deep B2B IT knowledge – covering a plethora of sub sectors and technologies - earned through years of operating in the PR industry.
Toby Gavin, Managing Director
Toby is jointly responsible for all operations of Mantis – from servicing clients with energy and enthusiasm; to routing out, building and maintaining relationships with media, analysts, trade associations and other industry advocates; to growing the UK business.
In order to effectively support Mantis’ clients, Toby draws on nearly 10-years combined B2B IT Public Relations experience, including 5 years of dedicated public sector IT experience.
Toby has previously held roles with international tech PR agency, Text 100 and European tech PR agency, Euro PR Group. Toby holds a degree in media and communication studies from the University of Loughborough.
Gavin Loader, Managing Director
Working side by side with business partner Toby Gavin, Gavin is jointly responsible for all operations of Mantis.
Gavin draws on nearly 10-years B2B IT Public Relations experience, including 5 years of dedicated public sector IT experience and direct public sector experience.
In the course of supporting clients, Gavin has come into contact with and, completed projects in partnership with hundreds of Central Government agencies, local authorities, PCTs; emergency service organisations; universities, colleges and schools; and power and energy suppliers.
Gavin has previously held roles with international marketing agency, Barrett Howe; international tech PR agency, Text 100; European tech PR agency, Johnson King and UK tech PR agency, NSPR. He holds a Business Administration degree from the University of Southampton and a HND in Marketing from Reading College of Technology.
Eleanor Giles, Senior Client Consultant
Eleanor is a communications strategist with 15 years experience.
Moving from in-house issues and crisis management to technology PR in 1999, Eleanor has managed Global campaigns for big firms like IBM, UK market leaders such as salesforce.com, Barclays, BT, Skype and Seagate, and pitched stories to the media on products and services as diverse as supercomputers and iphone apps.
Despite beginning her PR career before journalists used email, Eleanor now specialises in online reputation and digital PR, as well as strategic account direction and media relations.
