Neville Hobson is an accredited communication practitioner with 25 years hands-on and leadership experience in public and media relations, marketing communication, employee, compensation and benefits communication as well as investor and financial relations. He helps companies use effective communication to achieve their business goals.

Currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Neville has worked internationally on both internal and external communication programmes in a variety of roles with small and large companies. He works well at all levels in an organization as both a leader and team player, as well as a hands-on achiever.

For the past five years, he has been Vice President Corporate Communication at Scala Business Solutions, an enterprise software vendor. Following the acquisition of Scala in June 2004 by Epicor Software Corporation, Neville left the company in October 2004.

He is now looking for a new challenge where he can contribute to team and company performance, satisfy his twin professional passions - business communication and technology - and help everyone, including himself, have a lot of fun doing it. He is willing to relocate for the right opportunity.

Neville offers his next employer:

• A track record in senior communication leadership and management, working effectively at all levels in an organization as both a leader and team player, and a hands-on achiever.
• Proven ability to work effectively with executive management as counsellor, adviser, sounding board and devil's advocate, especially during times of rapid organization and marketplace change.
• Actually getting things done with a practical sleeves-rolled-up approach to tackling the communication needs of organizations.
• Knowledge and practice of best practice organizational communication validated by professional accreditation qualification from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
• Natural ability to work well with people of different social backgrounds, nationalities and cultures.
• Depth understanding of the technology industry and a keen observer and commentator on what's going on.
• Strong and passionate advocacy for how new and emerging technology tools and channels can be highly-effective agents of change in better aligning organizational needs with the marketplace and the needs of customers.
• Experience in leadership roles with not-for-profit professional association (IABC), including serving as Regional Director and member of the Executive Board and Executive Committee.
• Language fluency in English (mother tongue) and Spanish.

Neville writes NevOn(approve sites), a weblog with opinion and commentary on business communication and technology.

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For more information, please see Neville Hobson Resume