About Us

Launched in 2005, maillot jaune focuses on delivering creative, results driven, PR campaigns for businesses in the B2B technology sector.

MJ consultants are all senior level technology PR specialists. Clients benefit from our collective industry experience, strategic know-how and ability to just ‘get stuff done’ to deadline, and to budget.

We have developed a confident approach to delivering tailored PR programmes that resonate with all your stakeholders. Journalists know they can come to us for interesting and thought-provoking opinions from all our clients, on a range of issues.

The maillot jaune (yellow jersey) represents everything we strive to achieve for clients – making them easily and quickly identifiable in a crowd, demonstrating their leadership and ensuring they have the right support to retain their winning position.

The Team

Clare Shephard

Clare has 20 years of experience in IT PR. She kicked off her career with 5 years on the agency side, looking after brands such as Samsung, Cable & Wireless and Thorn. Switching sides, Clare then moved to in-house roles with 3Com, Corel Corporation and VERITAS (later acquired by Symantec) managing EMEA PR programmes.

On both sides of the function, Clare has been responsible for driving dynamic and creative, business objective-related PR campaigns that require an eye for detail but that also capture the attention of even the busiest journalists.

Melanie Oxford

Mel has over 19 years of experience working in the technology and B2B PR arena. She has represented a number of companies in the software, hardware, networking and data management space, to name just a few areas of her expertise.

During her time in the PR agency world she has worked with some leading technology brands including Toshiba, Sony, Oracle, Ardent, Zenium and Zyme.

Her core strength is her ability to translate even the most complex information into interesting copy that makes sense and gets quickly to the business benefits.