Meet the Team
UK Support Team & Kaspersky Lab
Justine Jones - School Programme Coordinator
Based in Scotland, Justine has been involved with the British Schools Exploring Society for many years and in 2007 was the Base Camp Manager for a large scale BSES Expedition in Disko Bay, Greenland. Justine provides support in the organisation of the logistics for the expedition.
You can contact Justine by emailing Justine@commonwealthexpedition.com
Tim Moss – UK Communications Support
Helping coordinate communications back in the UK while the team is on the ice is 27-year-old Tim Moss. Tim gained his Psychology MSc in New Zealand under a Commonwealth Scholarship and now runs adventure website 'The Next Challenge'. He has a background in polar logistics from his time at the British Schools Exploring Society and has been on expeditions to Russia, Bolivia and Kyrgyzstan. He hopes that working with the team will help him prepare for his own South Pole trip to tie in with the London Olympics and also give him something exciting to write about on his website.
You can contact Tim by emailing tim@commonwealthexpedition.com
Rob Hollingworth - Expedition Photographer
For more than 10 years Rob has worked as a freelance photographer across the US, the UK and Australia, with a particular focus on theatre and travel photography. Latterly, Rob has started working with moving images and does an increasing amount of filming with his first broadcast material being screened on BBC1 earlier in March 2009. Most recently he has worked with the Natural History Unit on Life which is being shown on BBC 1.
Rob accompanied the expedition team on their Norway and New Zealand training expeditions and will travel with the team to Antarctica to photograph their departure for the South Pole. All the photographs on this site are his work.
Kate Gedge – Expedition PR
Kate has 20 years of experience in public relations and has been freelance from her home in Wales since 2000. Kate's specialities are promoting festivals, concerts, recitals, CD tours, book launches, art exhibitions ... and now, Polar Expeditions!
You can contact Kate by emailing pr@commonwealthexpedition.com
The expedition would also like to thank Connie Potter and Mark Priest for all their incredible work on our behalf.
From Kaspersky Lab:
Harry Cheung – Managing Director, APAC
Mr Cheung joined Kaspersky Lab China in 2004 as President. In January 2008, he was invited to join the Board of Directors of Kaspersky Lab. Mr Cheung has also served as the Managing Director for Kaspersky Lab Asia-Pacific since January 2008.
In a short 3 years, Harry has grown the Kaspersky branding to be an Information Technology (IT) household name in China. To date, Kaspersky is among the Top 2 Anti-Virus companies in China. With his outstanding achievement for Kaspersky in China, Harry has been named as one of the Top 10 “Annual Economical Figure of China IT Industry in 2007” award. This was followed by another award given to the Top 10 Business Entrepreneurs in China; “Person of the Year in 2008” in February 2008.
The expedition would also like to thank Sukling Gun and Maggie Yu and the entire Kaspersky Lab team who have been involved in the project.
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