Ah, the illustrious Tony Quinn, Business Development Director at ii. Full of beans and full of the ideas that sell.
Never at risk of being provincial, Mr Quinn’s CV reads like a marketeer’s dream. From Gucci to Alfred Dunhill, Eternal Silver and Raymond Weil, Diageo, Fosters, Lyons Coffee, John Smith’s and Ferrero…
Having set up his own advertising agency in Central London, you’d think Tony was all about the big city.
Not so. For now our Tony’s been shortlisted as a potential ‘Village Champion’ in an exciting £3m initiative from the Big Lottery Fund and the BBC.
Village what?
Earlier this year the BLF and the Beeb launched ‘Village SOS’, a challenge for villages all over the UK to come up with an outstanding business idea with the potential to bring new life to their community.
Watch the Village SOS video ad here.
What’s great is that the villages with the best ideas are set to receive funding up to £400,000 – but only six can win. And their stories will be followed in a major primetime series for BBC One in Winter 2010.
Six to watch, as it were.
A match made in marketing heaven
With only 18 villages still in the running, the search is now on for six Village Champions to work with the final six, helping them turn their big idea a successful business reality.
Over the next few weeks, Tony and the rest of the shortlist will take part in a matchmaking event where they will meet with each of the potential finalist villages, and find their ideal match.
The competition may tough, but no-one’s tougher than our Quinn.
Go Quinny, go,
May have many big ideas this weekend.
Laura, Inspiration Inc