Alan Paterson co-founded ampers& in 1987, following stints as a journalist at Marshall Cavendish and on Amateur Photographer magazine, and as a copywriter at Writers in Business.

With over 20 years copywriting under his belt, Alan has written everything from yoghurt labels to annual reports for major multinationals. Clients include Barclays, Sabic, HSBC, BAA, Hill & Knowlton and OC&C.

Alan has a BA Hons in PPE from Oxford University.

Nick Hanson is a partner in ampers&. He has been writing for businesses since 1988. Nick's particular expertise is in helping companies communicate in clear and compelling ways.

Over the years Nick has worked with many different clients – from Age Concern to Uth fashion, not forgetting BP, BT, Cadbury Schweppes, Close Brothers, Hewlett-Packard, Lewis Silkin, Nabarro, Nationwide, the National Museum of Science & Industry (NMSI), Royal Bank of Scotland, Severn Trent, Shell, Vodafone and 3i. Projects range from brand and tone of voice guidelines to corporate stories, brochures, reports, banner ads, film scripts, websites and intranet sites.

Nick's work has been included in D&AD Annuals and short-listed for the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards.

Three of Nick's favourite projects are:

Ingenious, for NMSI

The place to be, for Cadbury Schweppes

Client talk, for Nabarro

Alongside ampers&, Nick has contributed to The Economist Guide to Britain and taken busman's holidays as a reporter for The Business of Film at the Cannes Film Festival.