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Five join growing Sheffield social marketing agency

Social marketing agency diva creative has appointed five new members of staff.

The behaviour change expert, based at the Workstation in Sheffield city centre, has strengthened its team with account executives Wala Salameh and Ryan Spence, developer Ben Wager, designer Adam Humphries, and junior graphic designer Vicky Tennant.

Wala joins diva having worked as a researcher at the Centre for Islam and Medicine, and before that as a marketing assistant at Advocacy Support. The 23 year old has an MA in Advertising and Marketing from her hometown Leeds University.

25-year-old public relations specialist Ryan, from Cleethorpes, was Sheffield Hallam University’s CIPR Student of the Year 2013 and previously spent seven months as an intern at Breast Cancer Care Sheffield.

Ben, 27, brings his skills in web and game development to diva after a year at Lets Design in Leeds. The Londoner also has six years under his belt working with clients such as MTV, Nickelodeon and Yahoo! Games.

28-year-old Adam was head graphic designer at a company in Doncaster, where he worked for six years. Adam is also experienced in web development and photography.

Barnsley-born Vicky, 22, recently completed an eight-month spell at Script Media and specialises in generating and developing creative design concepts for clients.

Amanda Pearce, director at diva creative, said: “Wala, Ryan, Ben, Adam and Vicky come to us with a wide range of experiences and expertise. Their appointments build on our existing strengths in marketing, communications, web development and graphic design.

“As a company, we have enjoyed a successful period of growth over the last 12 months, with a number of new commissions and award wins making us a leading UK social marketing agency.”

diva creative works on public health, sustainable travel and education campaigns with clients across the country. It has recently been shortlisted for 10 UK Public Sector Communications Awards.

For more information about diva creative, visit www.divacreative.com or call 0114 221 0378.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Mike Laskey .