Our results-driven approach and commitment to clients are at the forefront of our success.
With over 20 years’ experience working with international clients and offering a wide range of services, the quality of our work is unrivaled, whether it be branding and messaging, content generation, acquisitions or investor relations.
Messaging, PR and branding make a huge difference to how a company is perceived. A large percentage of our clients have been bought, many by large, listed companies, including Cisco, Arista, The Carlyle Group, Opus, Markit and others. This is in part due to our work to raise our clients’ profiles, clarify and communicate their USPs and create clear differentiation. Our clients value our intelligent approach,the quality of our service and delivery.
John Norris
Co-founder and Director
John’s early career was in banking and broking and involved trading and risk management of equities, FX, derivatives and commodities. Subsequently at Interactive Data Corporation he led the pan-European strategy, specialising in complex portfolio management and capital markets software. John has held senior positions at Citibank, ADP, Datastream, Dun & Bradstreet and Dow Jones with responsibility for European marketing and PR. At Citibank and ADP his responsibilities included global marketing initiatives and public relations strategy and delivery.
Alla Lapidus
Co-founder and Director
Alla began her career developing trading room applications at JP Morgan, before moving to Kleinwort’s where she evaluated and implemented trading room applications. At Dow Jones Telerate she was responsible for marketing and product management of real-time systems. She then joined Financial Times Information where she was tasked with developing the go-to-market strategy for real-time market data and back-office systems.
Alice Jiga
Account Manager
After graduating from the University of East London with a BA in advertising, Alice’s early career started in an arts PR company before she moved to the marketing team at WPP’s government practice. Having joined Moonlight in early 2018, Alice is now a Senior Account Executive and leads the team on a number of our FinTech clients in London, Singapore and Sydney, specialising in commodity markets, regulation and banking.
Emma Dodds
Account Executive
After graduating with a masters in contemporary art history from the University of Edinburgh, Emma began her career working as an account executive at an ad agency in the St. Louis, Missouri. She joined the Moonlight team in February of 2022, and now holds the role of account executive. Emma is the lead on a number of Moonlight accounts and specialises in financial regulations and cryptocurrency.
Caroline McAulay
Office Manager
Caroline joined Moonlight Media in 2009 as an Account Executive with Project Management responsibility. She has since become Office Manager. Caroline was educated in Malvern, Worcestershire before going on to read Modern History. She started her career in the Commercial Attaché’s Office at the British Embassy in Stockholm, before moving to London where she worked for several leading, professional services companies.
Matt McAuliffe
Head of Design
Matt graduated in 2006 with a degree in fine art and became a freelance graphic designer and artworker. For the last ten years he has specialised in web design for a wide range of projects, across all sectors.
Alex Gill
Lead Developer
Alex has come from a marketing background, having been the Creative Technical Director for leading London marketing agencies. His specialities are creating WordPress websites, with a focus on design and functionality, as well as creating systems which clients can easily update and manage.
Whether in the form of our insistence on only working with companies whose values and practices align with our own, leading campaigns focused on sustainable, ethical and environmentally-friendly initiatives or simply running an offshoot Twitter page dedicated to green issues and current events, this fact is reflected at every level of the agency. In addition to this, we also offer organic fruit and coffee for all of our employees, supporting and promoting sustainable farming practices and the health of our office.
At Moonlight we have a great track record of writing award-winning entries for clients, enabling their products and services to be recognised as the best in the industry.
Our success with awards is demonstrated by our having helped 5 of our clients to win 11 awards and get 19 shortlistings in 2019. We put this success down to our ability to grasp the key benefits of our clients’ products and services, and to clearly communicate how they stand out to experts and judges.
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