Supported by 70+ specialist global freelancers, meet our in-house team

Lou Peck
CEO and Founder
Lou brings 25 years of incredible marketing expertise to the table. She has worked in-house for organizations like the British Standards Institution (BSI), the Royal Society of Chemistry and ProQuest, and for the last six years she has been building our business supporting societies, academic publishers, intermediaries and institutions.
Lou specializes in strategy, research, being a sounding board for senior management, and delivering our training programme.
Lou is also Chair of CILIP Cymru Wales Committee, Co-chair of the ALPSP EDI Working Group, and Chair of the ALPSP Membership and Marketing Committee, as well as an ALPSP Mentor.
Lou lives on the Gower peninsular in Wales, with her family, and small 'zoo'.

Megan Taylor
Director of Content and Research
Megan has a fabulous wealth of experience in content creation, delivery and communications, and research. She brings over 14 years of experience in academic publishing, research communications and marketing to The International Bunch.
Previous experience in editorial, research, marketing and university press management has equipped Megan with an exceptional skill set for supporting publishers, libraries, researchers and presses.
With a keen interest in inclusive and supportive management practices, Megan heads up the team at The International Bunch and is an active ALPSP Mentor.
Megan lives in the North of England with her family and grumpy cat.

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Marketing Assistant
Nuree is a talented graphic designer with a natural passion for marketing practices. Nuree thrives at data-driven marketing and loves to present even the most complicated metrics aesthetically. Nuree has a broad range of marketing experience, including measuring campaign metrics and using them to make better decisions in future marketing.
Nuree works part-time as our Marketing Assistant.
Nuree lives in South Wales, and loves long walks on the beach and spending time with her family and her gorgeous cat, Bella.
Marketing Executive
Pamela is experienced in marketing practices and campaign management, working in IT training, the environment and the research ecosystem. Pamela’s diverse experience includes content creation, developing marketing plans, and using various marketing tools and platforms. Pamela is an agile worker with excellent customer service skills. Pamela’s role often sees her working inside some of our client’s teams as integral support, whilst also running our own social media channels.
Pamela is one of our Marketing Executives.
Pamela lives in North-West England with her family and takes trips when she can to see family in Poland.
Marketing Executive
Emma has diverse marketing and sales experiences across several sectors, including construction, mental health, SaaS and more. She is equipped with valuable experience in analyzing and adapting written work to resonate best with audiences.
Emma is a bit of a wordsmith! Her specialities lie in content creation and copywriting following years of experience in writing for Search Engine Optimization. With the ability to write a comprehensive range of content for various topics, Emma helps us and our clients with a spectrum of content requirements.
Emma is one of our Marketing Executives.
Emma lives in South Wales with her family. She enjoys nothing more than reading, especially gothic literature.

Sharnie
Dunstall
Inclusion and Operations Specialist
Adaptable and conscientious, Sharnie brings valuable support to the team. She has experience across numerous sectors, including pharma, construction, engineering and care.
Sharnie is our Inclusion and Operations Specialist and keeps us all in line and supported internally.
Sharnie lives in South Wales with her family, dogs and cats. She loves the outdoors and can often be found at a beauty spot in the countryside.

Rowan
Pierce
Copyeditor and Sensitivity Specialist
Rowan works part-time as our Copyeditor and Sensitivity Specialist. They are a methodical and conscientious copyeditor and sensitivity consultant with a keen eye for detail. They have experience working in a range of industries including academia, marketing, and independent fiction. Their role includes copyediting documents as part of our quality control process, as well as ensuring anything we publish is as accessible and inclusive as possible.
Rowan lives in Northeast England with one of their partners. They enjoy telling stories – both through their writing and through playing tabletop roleplaying games – and spending time with their community.
Run by marketers, for marketing
What good is an idea if it can't be shared? The International Bunch was founded to foster collaboration and share ideas. The more you share your ideas, the more impact they have on the world around you. We are on a mission to make marketing better.
Run by marketers for marketers, we're a strategic marketing consultancy supporting research institutions, funders, publishers, libraries, and intermediaries with three distinct services - advisory, marketing and progressive thinking.
We're not a marketing agency, but a consultancy.
We're a 'partner for life', not just for a piece of content.
Our history stems back to 2016 when our CEO, Lou Peck, initially founded Lou Peck Consulting and then rebranded the consultancy as The International Bunch in 2018 to support the rapid growth of the business and became a limited business in 2019.
We have a deep understanding of the scholarly ecosystem, with practical experience in a wide range of areas.
We have an excellent track record of delivering projects on time and to budget as well as keeping our clients happy.
"Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people" - Steve Jobs