Hugh Ross - Marketing Strategy Advisor

Hugh Ross is an international marketer, who has lived and worked throughout Europe, and successfully practised the application of marketing theory in large multinationals. He has been Managing Director of Market Planning International, a specialist marketing agency, since April 1991.

Prior to founding Market Planning International in 1991, his career in business included four years in Market Research with BMRB International conducting multi-country surveys. Six years in Brand and Marketing Management with the American multinational Schering- Plough and four years of Strategic Marketing with ICI Fibres as International Marketing Manager.

Hugh recently completed 6 years as non-Executive Director of Traidcraft plc, the UK's pioneering Fair Trade organisation. He is on the training faculty of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and was amongst the first Chartered Marketers in the UK. He is also a full member of the Market Research Society.