Hannah is a Director at Stoke-on-Trent-based ceramics firm Valentine Clays, which provides raw materials to the pottery industry. She has a wealth of experience in business development and planning, product development, strategic marketing and public relations, project and event management, and growth planning for SMEs. She also has a high level of knowledge in the ceramics industry.
She has two degrees one in Marketing Communications and another in Product Development. Her experience has been predominately in the ceramics industry in PR and Marketing roles and includes having worked for top international companies such as Prada, the Arcadia Group, American Eagle Outfitters and Emma Bridgewater.
Since joining the family business in January 2015 Hannah has managed and developed a £4 million expansion project for Valentine Clays including a production & warehouse facility, LoveClay Ceramics Centre and the take-over of internationally renowned ceramics show Art in Clay.
Her main ethos is to increase awareness of both Staffordshire and the ceramics industry, to support other local SME’s and to help to put Staffordshire firmly on the map. With this in mind she feels privileged to sit as a Director on both the Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce and the Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership Boards (SSLEP). As well as the Management Committee for the British Ceramics Confederation.
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