The Assembly Events

One of the founding directors of Media 10 and hugely influential in the launch and acquisition of over 30 successful event titles. Michael was the commercial director across the majority of Media 10 events between 2005 and 2016 (including Grand Designs Live, The Ideal Homes shows, The Cake and Bake shows, UK Construction Week, 100% Optical, HRH Coronation Festival, Duke of Essex Polo).

Mike set up the Media 10 offices in South Africa and China. From 2017 he was the Managing Director of Media 10 China (Design Shanghai, Design China, Xintiandi Design Festival, Best of British, Ideal Home Show China). Until the sale of the Design portfolio to Clarion last year when Michael decided to move back to the UK and set up The Assembly.

With over 20 years’ experience in live events, Nancy has worked with many of the most eminent and distinguished event organisers in the World. Working across multiple sectors and styles of events in both consumer and business to business portfolio’s across Europe and Asia. Nancy is renowned in the industry for her specialism in sponsorship and partnership management having initiated and delivered 100’s of successful commercial partnerships with some of the world’s premier brands (including Sony, Samsung, Jaguar Land Rover, Virgin Media, Miele and Alibaba).

Distinguished in the corporate sector, Sarah is a master of bespoke luxury events and all things party. Sarah has organised occasions in some of the most impressive and often challenging locations worldwide from derelict warehouses to royal courts. Sarah excels in building communities and driving ongoing conversation around and event.

Jane’s broadcast backbone stems over 20 years, producing flag-ship lifestyle, fashion & beauty television such as the iconic BBC’s The Clothes Show and birth of Clothes Show Live event which ran for decades at the NEC; for C4 the TV show and consumer events for How to Look Good Naked and 10 Years Younger as well initiation of the fly on the wall documentary series The Model Agency. Her largest undertaking with Wayne Hemmingway for city take over in Liverpool saw her staging the largest catwalk show in the world to take the Guinness Book of Records top spot for most models on the catwalk to mark Cunard’s 175th anniversary of transatlantic travel.

Having worked as a photographer in the television industy for over 15 years, Dan's celebrity portraits have graced the covers of numerous UK magazines. Part of the Creative Team, he is a successful front end web developer and delivers sharp impactful digital solutions.

With over 18 years experience as a graphic designer, Tanya has been Art Editor on numerous Hearst, IPC and News International titles. Having built a portfolio of clients in the events and hospitality sector, she now specialises in brand identification and regularly designs promotional material for The Assembly's media savie clients.

David is our Brand Manager and works to build communities, to connect with audiences and to generate awareness around our portfolio. As an experienced marketeer with more than a decade in the industry, David has worked on the creative execution of both established and emerging brand activity across a number of sectors including third sector, higher education and commerce. As an avid true crime enthusiast, it’s only natural that David takes the brand lead on our CrimeCon UK and True Crime Awards events.

Tagging behind his mother, who was a jeweller, 1991 Lennox Addo visited his very first fine jewellery trade event and quickly identified the complexities of ineffective B2B trading. Fast forward 32 years and equipped with 20 years of fashion and jewellery experience, Lennox has partnered with the UK’s forward thinking and dynamic exhibition organizer, The Assembly Events in delivering a fine jewellery trade show that is predicated on increasing sales, gaining market share or reducing risk as the 3 main objectives for both suppliers and retailers of the fine jewellery industry.

Our Finance team is headed up by Brendon a fully qualified Accountant with over 23 years' financial consultancy and accountancy experience in a variety of sectors including; Events, Media, Theatre, Property, Construction, Tourism, Energy and Financial Services.