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 almost 20 years copywriting under his belt, Alan has written everything from yoghurt labels  to annual reports for major multinationals. Clients include BT, Virgin, Marks & Spencer, Willis, Hiscox, Vodafone and BAA.

Recent awards include fourth and fourteenth places (out of well over 1,000 entries) in last year's League of American Communications Professionals Vision Awards for Syngenta and BAA Annual Reports - the latter subsequently also receiving the ProShare award for Best Annual Report.

Highpoints from the last two decades include:

BT's Corporate Brochure

The BBC Governors' website

Alan has a BA Hons in PPE from Oxford University.

Nick Hanson

Nick Hanson is a partner in ampers&. He has been writing for businesses since 1988. Nick's particular expertise is in helping companies communicate who they are, what they do and why they are different, primarily through words.

Over the years Nick has worked with many different clients, including Bevan Ashford, BP, BT, Cadbury Schweppes, Hewlett-Packard, Hiscox, The Law Society, Lewis Silkin, Marsh, Merck, QinetiQ, Regus, Shell, The Royal Bank of Scotland, the National Museum of Science & Industry (NMSI), Vodafone, and 3i. Projects range from tone of voice guidelines to corporate stories, brochures, reports, banner ads, films, websites and intranet sites.

Nick's work has been included in the 1999 and 2001 D&AD Annuals and short-listed for the 2003 DBA Design Effectiveness Awards. Bevan Ashford's website was nominated for Best Legal Knowledge Management/Information Portal in the 2002 LOTIE (Legal Office Technology Innovation) Awards. NMSI's Ingenious website won Best New Launch at the Association of Online Publishing (AOP) Awards 2004.

Three of Nick's favourite projects are:

Ingenious, for NMSI

The place to be, for Cadbury Schweppes

Take a moment…, for Regus

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.

Nick has a BA Hons in Modern History from Oxford University.