Who we are
Telemark Productions works in a slightly different way to many agencies.
The core Telemark team work on every brief that comes in, generating concepts and corresponding logistical plans and creative. When an event goes live Telemark pulls on further specialist staff from a loyal and specially selected pool. Where projects require high levels of operational management on the ground we call on our team of former and serving Royal Marines. Where we require direct consumer interface our team of Equity actors come to the fore and for specialist industry projects we call on relevant experts, for example Health and Safety experts. For many projects we call on all three.
This unique way of working enables us to always offer our clients the right people for the right job at an honest price that doesn’t include funding huge permanent agency staffing overheads.
The combined experience of the Telemark Productions team potently marries marketing creativity with military precision and common sense.
Brian Adcock is our key logistics man. His instinctive operational detail, sense of perspective and problem solving approach was finely tuned in his past life as a Royal Marine. John Glendinning adds some strategic magic to the mix, providing insights and overviews gained in a career in finance and dotcoms.
Tosh Reilly is our nerve centre, ensuring that the finest details of every plan are closely implemented and moving the correct event teams into place for each project.
Find out a little more about each of us below.
Brian Adcock
- What do you do at Telemark?
- Managing Director and Joint Owner.
- Past life
- Former RM helicopter pilot. Prior to setting up Matrix in 2001 worked for 2 years for major event company Limelight Projects working on the Nike, BT and Sport England account - project directed the largest ever youth games held in this country in 2000.
- Free time
- Golf, tennis, squash, climbing. mountaineering, football.
- Best holiday ever
- Adventurous summer breaks with family (Norway last year) - skiing trip just gone probably best family trip to date although a bit unadventurous. Aspire to taking the family away on expeds to unexplored parts of the world.
- Most listened to artists on your ipod
- Cultural void/ philistine - like Jack Johnson though.
- Best event ever attended
- Berkshire Golden Youth - captured the best of youth and the Queen came to visit (I even met her!!)
- One thing to do before you die
- Sail round the world.
John Glendinning
- What do you do at Telemark?
- Non-executive Director.
- Past Life
- A Finance, Strategy and Marketing Career, with a recent exit from a successful .dotcom MBO.
- Free time
- Tennis, squash, golf, snowboarding.
- Best holiday ever
- Honeymoon in Australia - especially Hayman Island.
- Most listened to artists on your ipod
- Anything by Blink-182, Scorpions, Depeche Mode.
- Best event ever attended
- Acupuncture Shoes Bay City Rollers Trainers launch party.
- One thing to do before you die
- See Watson catch his squirrel.
Tosh Reilly
- What do you do at Telemark?
- Girl Friday.
- Free time
- Drumming.
- Best holiday ever
- AC -2 months in the cook island. BC-road trip round Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
- Most listened to artists on your ipod
- Amy Winehouse, Candi Staton, Gossip, Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire, The White Stripes, Alicia Keys, but its mostly on Random.
- Best event ever attended
- Splashy Fen, Underberg, SA 1993, Amazing place, great people, cool music.
- One thing to do before you die
- To be of sound mind and body to see my children realise contentment in their adulthood, to snog the lead singer of the Stereophonics, or at least to have a chat and to learn how to free dive, sorry that’s three things.
Watson
- What do you do at Telemark?
- Post collection, building security, general dogsbody.
- Free time
- Chasing rabbits
- Best holiday ever
- Weekends at Granny Adcocks
- Most listened to artists on your ipod
- Elvis – Hound Dog
- One thing to do before you die
- Catch a squirrel