Meet Our Team
Ambrose Blowfield
Qualified with a B.Sc. Joint Honours degree in International Business with French from Aston University, England, and a Business Administration Certificate from Grenoble Graduate Business School, France. (At the time, Aston University’s International Business with French was ranked joint first nationally as a Business with a Modern Language course in the U.K.)
Ambrose joined Proctor & Gamble U.K., manufacturers of Pantene, Pringles, Oil of Ulay. (At the time, Proctor & Gamble were ranked first worldwide for the “Recruitment, Training & Retention of the best staff” in the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industry by Fortune 500 Magazine). P&G U.K. recruit around fifteen new staff members from over three thousand graduate applicants per year in the U.K. Ambrose's first role was to autonomously manage over GB₤2 million of business, which lead to a dramatic learning curve. He also achieved seven times the national average growth rates in his time as territory manager.
He joined Alectus Personnel (a division of Morgan & Banks, Australasia’s leading recruitment company) as recruitment and business development consultant in Sydney, Australia, helping to establish a new company office in South Sydney. He joined Robert Half International (the world’s leading financial and accounting recruitment company) as recruitment and business development consultant in Sydney, Australia.
When in Singapore on holiday, Ambrose was head-hunted to assist with the launch of a new internet payment card out of Geneva, Switzerland. He moved to New Zealand with his then-pregnant wife, Jo, shortly afterwards and became Business Development Manager for Engineering Taranaki Consortium (New Zealand’s leading engineering consortium) and CApENZ (Centre of Applied Engineering NZ) in New Plymouth NZ. Here, he developed business opportunities for Taranaki’s engineering sector overseas and within New Zealand.
He is a Director of The Marketing Company Ltd., Taranaki’s leading marketing consulting and sales training company, and a Director of High Tech Health Ltd., one of Australasia’s leading manufacturers of health and wellness equipment. He is also a Business Mentors New Zealand mentor and the preferred marketing and business planning expert in the Taranaki region for the Regional Economic Development Agency (similar to a chamber of commerce overseas).
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Mike Clark
Mike was born and raised in Zimbabwe where he worked for the largest, privately owned company in Southern Africa, the Treger Group, for 13 years. He graduated from an intensive four year internal production management program as one of only three people to ever achieve distinction. Being a certified work study practitioner, industrial manager and trainer Mike moved from production to technical management, responsible for client liaison on a local and international level.
Moving to New Zealand in 2004 gave Mike the opportunity to change career and he became operations manager for Pridex kitchens. During this time Mike became a business mentor with BMNZ, completed the Smart Business Acceleration course and started presenting workshops on team building for the local EDA, Vision Manawatu. Mike then joined Vision Manawatu as their Business Advisor, coordinating the Enterprise training program, Business Mentors, the Young Enterprise scheme and handling the Business Information Zone (BIZ). Meeting Ambrose Blowfield and discovering someone with the same vision, drive and enthusiasm for life, combined with a “can-do” attitude focused on getting results, lead to Mike joining The Marketing Company in March 2009 where he heads their Manawatu and Lower North Island operations.
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Jo Blowfield
Jo has worked for many years in the sales and marketing arena - face-to-face, by phone and via the internet - across a wide range of industries, including industry leaders in music, travel, transport, whiteware and professional services in both New Zealand and Australia.
Before starting The Marketing Company, Jo worked for such companies as Flightcentre.com, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Fish Records, Thorn EMI, and TNT Logistics. Her passion for delivering outstanding service to customers had led to Jo winning numerous awards in the professional arena, both in sales and also for her team contribution both nationally and internally.
With her extensive retail and sales experience, Jo has specialized in managing the retail customers for The Marketing Company. She has also spent 80% of her time over the past year in a hands-on role as the sales and marketing manager within High Tech Health NZ and is now in the position of being able to walk away, having fully trained the new manager.
Jo’s strengths include her highly developed people skills, flexibility and broad work experience. Her high work ethic, accuracy and contagious energy allow her to efficiently deliver any challenge she takes on. Jo is also a professional trainer in sales, customer service and communication.
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