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Matt O'Neill
Matt O'Neill is a director of specialist new media communications consultancy, Cordovan Digital (formerly Imarco Activ-Media) and a part of Cordovan, a sales and marketing consultancy group.
After gaining a first class honors degree in Media and Communication, his career started in the production of live webcasts for major events. During his six-year tenure as director and senior partner with Cordovan Digital, he has been involved in numerous large-scale communications projects with private, public sector and international organizations. These have included simple CD ROM's to aid corporate change communication, through to fully integrated social media projects to bring about wide-scale culture change.
At Cordovan Digital, Matt's clients have included Novartis, Pharmion, First Data, United Nations, British Council, Volvo, ESAB, National Air Traffic Services and GE and more, working strategically with social media and networks, audio and video podcasting, DVD/online video event capturing and online training. Although using digital media, Matt supports the division’s mantra of keeping communications human.
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