"I cannot say how much I leaned on Derek while leading product marketing. Derek goes far beyond mere press relations excellence: as a former marketing professional himself, he has a unique ability to make key messages his own, and take on full spokesperson responsibility. I highly recommend Derek to any high tech venture seeking excellent high tech press relations in the UK."

Director of product marketing, a marketing automation software vendor.

"Derek supported our sales and marketing efforts across EMEA and Asia PAC by developing case studies and testimonials on our successful sales and implementations. Once completed these assets were used in numerous new sales cycles as reference and proof points of the value that our organisation and solution could deliver. As we developed a stronger working relationship, Derek worked pro-actively to seek out new customers for asset development as well as pushing the sales team to connect him with newly won clients. The net result was a fantastic base of case studies and testimonials that we used every day in the field to beat out the competition and win deals. I highly recommend Derek and will work with him again for sure."

Dean Forbes, VP International Primavera Inc - Project and portfolio management (Company since acquired by Oracle).

"Real public relations and analyst support is hard to find in the technology industry - too many just think PR stands for press release. But Derek Harris does provide real public and analyst relations. As an analyst I would recommend Derek's services to technology companies who want to be noticed and build good influencer relationships."

Jennifer Kirkby, Consulting Editor, My Customer Community and a former Gartner Group analyst

"Derek is the most impressive PR person I have worked with. Many other PR firms struggled to get to grips with the technical nature of our software and were also out of their depth dealing face to face with our clients. Derek was terrific with our clients and often extracted more than we expected from his client interviews, the resulting case studies were exceptional. I'm sure I'll be working with Derek again soon."

Sarim Khan, CEO Pertmaster (Company since acquired by Primavera)

"Derek has high standards - visible through the consistent high quality of the work he delivers. He uses his initiative and always meets deliverables and deadlines. Derek is extremely professional and works well with our staff globally at all levels of the organisation. He also represents our company with our customers to a very high standard. I would highly recommend Derek to any future clients."

Marketing manager, EMEA - Harte-Hanks Trillium Software (Data quality)

"Derek is a skilled PR consultant with good writing skills and journalistic contacts. He created compelling stories which attracted press and analyst interest leading to great coverage."

Managing Director, GeoWise, an ESRI company. (Geodata visualisation)

"Derek, we are thrilled with the way you have driven everything forwards. You really help make it easy for us. It is as if you are our internal PR person - which is awesome! Thank you."

Managing Director, a Computer-Based Training vendor

"We are fortunate to have a really good PR agent, Derek Harris, working for us."

Marketing Manager, a data management solutions vendor

"Derek, thank you for all your support and hard work over the last year. It has paid off. Our press and public communication has been excellent and resulted in a much greater awareness for the company."

VP Marketing, an enterprise data quality solutions vendor

"Derek, thanks for the great customer stories. We simply pass you the contacts, you pursue them until they're ready - and bring back the goods. Keep it up!"

CEO, a project management software vendor

"At the time of the launch of our identity management, user provisioning and security software package, Derek won us significant coverage in the press and online media. This helped build market awareness and credibility, and supported subsequent sales. Placements in the FT- IT, Computer Weekly and other key business, IT and security press were won by means of news releases, case studies, articles and interviews. As a bonus, Derek is also a pleasure to work with!"

Marketing Manager, an identity management and security solutions vendor

"Thanks Derek, for the good work to date on our case study programme. Well written and the business benefits come through strongly."

Managing Director, an identity management and security solutions vendor

"Excellent and speedy coverage in many key IT press from opinion pieces and interviews. This is definitely good for our UK credibility. Keep it up!"

VP Marketing, a service management solutions vendor

"Derek understands our business, writes compelling press material and has good contacts in IT and business media. He's good to work with and delivers strong results."

Marketing Manager, an enterprise document management vendor

"Derek has supported us with strategic and tactical PR services and marcomms writing since 2000. He is self-motivated and wins strong coverage for us in national, business and IT media; results that make a difference to our brand credibility and our bottom line. He is a creative thinker and writer who understands our company, our solutions and markets and can be trusted to work directly with our customers."

VP Marketing, a data integration solutions vendor