Meet the Contently Managed team

Creative Digital Guy

Craig McGill heads up Contently Managed, having set it up after nearly two decades of media and communications experience.

During his time as a journalist he worked for a number of titles including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Sun, The Scotsman, Metro, The Daily Express, Daily Record, SFX, TIME, The Sunday Mail, The Sunday Mirror and Daily Mirror covering news, technology and features as well as acting as a columnist.

Since moving in to public relations and communications he has worked with some of the country's biggest communications companies and has advised the likes of Brewdog, Kwik-Fit Insurance, Lloyds TSB Scotland, BBC Dragon's Den star Shaf Rasul, Tesco Scotland, Microsoft, The Scottish Parliament, Dawn Construction, MVA Consultancy, VisionWare PLC, The Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland, RoadTrafficLaw.com, The Living Room, BoConcept, Domino Pizza, The National Trust for Scotland and Pinky Vodka.

He was responsible for the UK's first charity fundraiser via Twitter, generating funds for The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. He also set up The Whyte & Mackay Twitter Hunt which saw hunts take place in Glasgow and London for rare bottles of whisky with clues posted via Twitter and Google Latitude.

He also has a keen grasp of event PR having been head of PR for music festival Retrofest and involved in Miss Scotland, Enjoy the Taste of Scotland food festival, The Microsoft Government Leaders Forum and Versus Cancer Music Festival.

Craig is also an accomplished author, having written three acclaimed non-fiction books, Football Inc, Do No Harm: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy and Human Traffic: Sex, Slaves and Immigration, which have been translated into foreign languages.

His personal site can be found here and he can be found on Twitter as here. You can also find him on LinkedIn.

Photographer

Bill MacDonald is just one of the team of photographers used by Contently Managed. His work has appeared in numerous papers, magazines and websites, including The Daily Express, The Times, Daily Record and Edinburgh Evening News.