BEYOND REASON CONSULTING - Key Persons


Diana Khan

Job Titles:
  • Bid Management and Design Director
Diana is a creative who leads conceptual bid production for prominent B2B sales pitches. With over twenty years hands-on bid management experience, she works with like-minded professional executives, predominantly within the construction industry's top 100, utilities and major financial institutions.

Dirk Bornemann - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
The founder of Beyond Reason Consulting, Dirk has led the team providing B2B marketing interim and project services since 2008. He is an experienced marketing professional to Board level in energy, utilities, infrastructure, engineering, construction, property and professional services. A Fellow of the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing and with an MBA from Warwick University Business School, he built his senior management career at Conoco (Jet), Harsco Corporation (SGB), EDF (London Electricity and 24seven) and Arthur Andersen.

Gill Garside - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Communications Director
Senior communications, copywriting and research specialist - Gill has impressive communications and market research experience as a journalist, a C-Suite market researcher and managing director of a PR agency. She is also a qualified personal and business coach using NLP, Time Line Therapy™ and hypnosis. As MD of the independent DSA PR agency for over 15 years, she grew the portfolio of high value clients and staff, managing a team of more than 25. Clients included Procter & Gamble, 20th Century Fox, MGM, ASDA and Tesco.

John Mills

Job Titles:
  • Creative Content Director
John has worked as Creative Development Director in marketing, advertising and sales promotion consultancies across London and the South for over 25 years. His talent for copywriting, conceptual thinking and ability to deliver strategic creative solutions, has enabled him to gain experience across an extensive range of industry sectors.

Paul Godwin

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Director
Paul is an experienced marketing professional who has worked in marketing agencies as a strategic planner and as a marketing insight specialist for thirty years. As well as board positions in marketing agencies, Paul has served as a Board Director and Insights Consultant for the Institute of Promotional Marketing (The IPM). He brings this breadth of experience to marketing, data and communications projects and this means he is able to add value throughout the process as well as influencing key stakeholders from different disciplines, critical skills within the context of delivering big bids and tenders.