Adrian Mahoney, MCIPR – adrian@theprstore.net

Adrian Mahoney - the PR Store's managing consultant - is an experienced journalist, manager and public relations professional.

He worked for 10 years (six as chief reporter) on The Falkirk Herald - the biggest-selling local weekly newspaper in Scotland. He's also written for a wide variety of titles, from the Scotsman to the Daily Record - and worked in radio. In June 1997, Adrian joined Scottish Homes, the Government-funded national housing agency, as a communications officer. Two years later he joined a public relations consultancy as an account manager. He launched The PR Store at the end of 1999.

His clients past and present include a Fortune 500 company, Sun Microsystems; Scotland's biggest public body, Scottish Enterprise; Railtrack Scotland; Forth Valley Health Board (now NHS Forth Valley); West Lothian Council and West Lothian Chamber of Commerce.

Adrian is a former vice-chairman of the Institute of Public Relations in Scotland, now the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).

As well as working on his own, Adrian also works in partnership with the following consultants.

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Moi Ali, BA (Hons.), MCIPR – moi@theprstore.net

Moi Ali is a successful freelance PR consultant, trading under the name The Pink Anglia Public Relations Company. Specialising in public relations, communications and marketing services for voluntary organisations, charities, healthcare organisations and the public sector, she has over 16 years' experience in the business.

Among other publications, Moi is the author of two books in Dorling Kindersley’s best-selling Essential Manager series of books: Marketing Effectively and Effective PR, as well as a number of other books such as Copywriting (Butterworth-Heinemann), Practical Marketing and PR for the Small Business (Kogan Page), The New DIY Guide to Marketing and The DIY Guide to Public Relations. Before becoming a freelance Moi held a number of in-house communications roles with a High Street bank, a third world charity and a government agency, where she was involved with media relations, internal communications, campaigning and public affairs.

In her spare time Moi sits on the Board of Postwatch, the Department of Trade and Industry’s postal services consumer watchdog. She is also a non-executive member of NMC, the regulatory body for nurses, midwives and health visitors.

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Lynne Crossan, MCIPR – lynne@theprstore.net

Lynne Crossan has a wealth of experience in the communications industry. For the past nine years she has operated her own marketing and communications company.

Prior to running her own business, Lynne was an Account Director with PR Consultants Scotland (now Weber Shandwick) where she handled a wide range of corporate and consumer public relations programmes.  Clients included Wm Low & Co plc, Bacardi Rum, Whitbread, The Scottish Office, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Dairy Council and Country Club Hotels.  Her background includes a number of years working with Radio Clyde.  Initially researching and writing for Radio and also becoming involved with sponsorship and event management.

Lynne left Shandwick to become a Director of Chestnut Publishing Ltd and after three years left to set up her own company, Crossan Communications, in December 1994.

Lynne is well known within Scotland’s marketing community and is an active member of the CIPR, BACB and Lothian Quality Forum.  She also regularly attends Marketing Society and SCDI events.
Lynne is also personal manager and publicist for actress Elaine C Smith and has been looking after Elaine’s appearances and interviews for over eight years. 

Lynne was educated at Vale of Leven Academy and graduated from Glasgow College of Technology (now Caledonian University) with a HND in Communication Studies. Married, with two children, Lynne now lives in Edinburgh.

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