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Welcome to our August newsletter

July was a hectic month, and the rain mercifully held off long enough for the delightful Kate Adie to attend a garden party in Cambridge for Ordnance Survey, and officially open their annual global conference. Read more about Kate on our website.

Profiled below, property expert and businessman Gary McCausland returns to our screens this week (Thursdays, 8pm on Five) with a brand new series of How to be a Property Developer. Gary McCausland is also the presenter of Five’s Property Developing Abroad, is currently writing a book, How to Make a Million from Property, and appears regularly on Sky News and BBC News 24 as an expert commentator. Read more about Gary below or view his full profile and showreel by clicking here.

We have also profiled five other fantastic performers and speakers below.

Wishing you all the very best,

Neil Martin
Director

ALAN CARR COMEDIAN Manchester-based stand up Alan Carr is heralded as one of Britain's fastest rising comic talents, he has been leaving audiences breathless the length and breadth of the country for the last couple of years. He can now be seen regularly on Channel 4 in 2006 as he takes over as host of the Friday Night Project in January that returns for an 8 week run. Winner of both the BBC New Comedy Award and CityLife Best Newcomer of the Year in 2001. In 2005 Alan's Edinburgh show was one of the hit's of the festival playing to sell out crowds every night and gaining a plethora of 5 star reviews across the board. VIEW FULL PROFILE		KATHERINE JENKINS CLASSICAL SOLO ARTIST Katherine Jenkins' story began, quite unusually for a classical singer, when she was offered a recording contract immediately after leaving college - a six-album deal with Universal Classics. Her debut album 'Premiere' went straight to number one in the classical charts in April 2004 and stayed there for eight weeks, outselling operatic greats like Kiri te Kanawa, Lesley Garrett and Angela Gheorghiu. Katherine Jenkins become the first artist to score two number ones in the classical chart in the same year and became the biggest selling classical artist in the UK (2004). VIEW FULL PROFILE
DR MAX BLUMBERG KEYNOTE SPEAKER Business psychologist Dr. Max Blumberg specialises in workforce, salesforce and leadership motivation. With a background encompassing Big 5 management consultancy, psychology and academic discipline (he is an active researcher at the University of London), Max Blumberg is well able to show companies how to combine practical solutions with leading-edge business research to address corporate problems. Max offers a number of seminars of interest to those managing general workforces including the art and science of Positive Psychology for creating extraordinary workforces; work/life balance, measuring the return on human capital investment, and leadership in a rapidly changing environment. VIEW FULL PROFILE		DIANE LOUISE JORDAN MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER Diane Louise Jordan is one of the most popular presenters of BBC1's Songs of Praise, a job she enjoys because she is a Christian. Once described as a 'presenter across boundaries', Diane has worked on programmes as diverse as Dream Ticket, Bright Sparks and All That Matters. For over six years, she was a presenter on the long-running BBC ONE children's programme Blue Peter. Diane is a motivational speaker who is enthusiastically received on the corporate market and has just finished writing a book entitled "How To Succeed As a Single Parent", due to be published later this year. She also owns her own property business and devotes many tireless hours to her charities, all of which reflect issues close to her heart. VIEW FULL PROFILE
CHRIS BARRIE AFTER DINNER SPEAKER Chris Barrie is now best known as the hologram Rimmer in the hit series Red Dwarf, as Gordon Brittas in The Brittas Empire (BBC 1) and as one of the principal male voice artists on Spitting Image. In recent years however, Chris has concentrated on corporate work such as hosting award ceremonies, linking conferences and after dinner speaking. He has also completed two Tomb Raider films and appeared in John Mortimer's Ceremony in Three Flats on Radio 4. At the beginning of 2004 Chris completed his first full series as a presenter on Discovery Channel's Massive Engines. VIEW FULL PROFILE		GARY McCAUSLAND PRESENTERS/HOSTS The no-nonsense Presenter of Five's flagship How to be a Property Developer and Property Developing Abroad, Gary McCausland is himself a successful property developer. Since 2002, his company, Richland Group, has taken control of the purchasing, designing, building and selling of hundreds of residential and commercial properties. New developments are ongoing and his company’s profile and success continues to grow, achieving a gross development value of over £65 million. Gary is available for awards hosting, presenting and conference speaking. VIEW FULL PROFILE

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