team
Catherine, who is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, started her career in Brighton following her degree in music and media studies from the University of Sussex. Back in East Yorkshire in 1996, Catherine set up the publications and PR partnership of Mapa with her father, Mike. Her innovative and enthusiastic approach has put clients’ names up in lights ever since. Away from work, Catherine has a young family and is a musician  who has played with orchestras in Sussex and now with the Hull Philharmonic, of which she is an executive committee member.
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Julian Woodford
account director
A magazine and newspaper journalist and editor with 20 years’ experience in the UK and Canada, Julian has written for the business, trade and consumer magazine press, and local and national newspapers. As well as having worked as a fiction editor and lecturer, he is a playwright and poet. Originally from Buckinghamshire, but now living in east Hull, Julian has two teenage children, and is closely involved in local arts and sports, including Artlink, where he is a board member, and Hornsea Cricket Club.
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Mike Ackroyd
partner
Mike moved into PR in the mid-1970s editing publications for clients in industry and the public sector. He has worked with well-known companies, such as Northern Foods, Reckitt’s and Rowntree’s, and since the formation of Mapa, for Express Dairies, Arla Foods UK, Smith & Nephew, Kingston Communications and Hull City Council. Recognition of his experience came with the award of Master in Business Communications. At the outset of his newspaper career, Mike was given a notebook and sent to interview the veteran entertainer Georgie Wood, who wrote to congratulate him on the ‘best article styling and reporting I can recall about myself or anybody else’. Mike has always kept in touch with the mainstream press, having contributed football and rugby reports to most national papers.
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Philip Thurston
designer
Philip was an employee of Reed Business Publishing in London, working as a graphic designer on Estates Gazette and What Car magazine. He also worked for another London-based agency designing for the Welsh National Opera and Virgin. He moved to Hull 10 years ago and now trades as Identikit Ltd. We work very closely with Philip on design-based projects and he shares premises with us. He has designed all of Mapa’s award-winning magazines.
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