ABOUT LIZ

​Liz Curry began her career working in theatre publicity, spending 10 years at the National Theatre in various marketing roles.  She worked briefly with the UN on the first Mozambican General Election and travelled through East Africa before joining Comic Relief, where she was involved in a variety of projects.  She became CRM Manager in 2002, and was later appointed Business Planning and Processes Manager with specific responsibility for GDPR. The programme won the Best GDPR Programme and Grand Prix winner in DataIQ’s Talent Awards (with Mark Hoult-Allen) in 2017.  She now works for herself, and her current clients include Wood Green, The Animals Charity (as Data Protection Officer); The Mercury Theatre, Colchester; Versus Arthritis; and Be the Business.  Other awards include: Marketing Week’s Data Strategy Award for 2013; Data IQ’s Real Mail Marketer of the Year in 2013; and the 2013 IoF Insight in Fundraising Award for Innovation; and the IoF Insight in Fundraising Award for Driving Strategy in 2012; in 2007 she won both Information Age’s Most Effective Use of IT in a Charitable Organisation, and the Grand Prix: Most Effective IT Project. She was also named in the DataIQ Big Data 100 list for three years running. Liz became a member of the IDM/DMA’s Data Council in 2014 and a member of the DMA’s Governance Committee in 2016.