Management Profiles

James Gardiner James brings to PRNC a thorough grounding in modern IT. After studying Marketing and Computer Science in South Africa, he was European Product Manager for WordStar International. During three years as Head of Corporate Communications at Demon Internet, James developed the highly successful communications strategy that built the company's identity as it grew from a small business of 30 staff to become the largest independent ISP in Europe with 560 staff and over 200,000 subscribers. The Internet and business press came to see Demon Internet as the authoritative company for the industry and this high profile contributed to the sale of the company for £67 million. As Redbus' Group Communications Director James built the Group's overall strategic communications programmes enabling the group to promote the Redbus brand across Europe with over 30 start-up innovative businesses.

Claudia Luque Having gain a business degree at Bogotá, in her native Colombia, Claudia worked in the financial markets for Citibank as a stockbroker. In 1996, she moved to London in order to gain a MBA in Marketing and then joined Demon Internet as the Project Marketing Manager. As Redbus Interhouse's European Marketing Manager, Claudia built and implemented the European marketing campaign to introduce a new Internet-related service, "colocation", around Europe, helping the company to launch its European subsidiaries and to generate sales leads and revenues.