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The Regional Food Communications team (left to right) Jan O'Connell, Fred Harden,
and Mark Kelly. The product is however, the work of many talented people.

Fred Harden.

I started my training and working life as a photographer, turned into a film-maker, an advertising agency producer, then got mixed up as a partner in two TV commercial production companies. I've worked as a special effects producer, a freelance writer,  technical editor for Cinema Papers magazine and produced and edited a multimedia magazine for Murdoch Magazines in Sydney.

With that background I fell neatly into the New Media explosion and in the last five years have started and managed a successful web and interactive company for Grey Worldwide.

I'm now back to writing and recording images of country producers, good food and wine for Regional Food Communications.

My food 'credentials' are spelt out in my food CV here. It opens in new window

Jan and I have a combined family of three daughters who have pretty much grown up and are now all living away from home, two at university, one working. That makes home a little quieter, which suits this lovely old (1880's) farm house. (Quiet is ok, but it's nice when the girls come home as well. Yes, we do dinners.)

We're right in the town of Bungendore on a big block with lots of fruit trees and have a large vegetable garden.

Mark lives in Sydney and we're just a few hours drive away from each other.

Jan O'Connell.

Jan's working life has been in advertising as a copy writer and, over the last fifteen years, as a Creative Director of two top Melbourne advertising agencies, she now works in the same role for a Canberra one. She has created campaigns for major Australian and International companies, written feature magazine articles, film scripts and was awarded a Centenary Medal for her work on the Centenary of Federation advertising that taught you all the name of our first Prime Minister.

While holding down a day job at the agency, Jan provides a critical and creative mind and eye to Regional Food (and corrects my spelling).

Want to read Jan's food CV? Opens in new window

How to contact us:

By Post
PO Box 317, Bungendore NSW 2621
By Phone: 02 6238 0020
By fax: 02 8221 9814

Mark Kelly.

Mark was a director of Murdoch Magazines and Murdoch Media for most of the the past decade. He has pioneered numerous multi-media brands and was the first to successfully unite magazine, TV and web production teams. He effectively leveraged both the brand and advertising, developing, selling and producing in-house Better Homes and Gardens TV, (the five-time Logie winning television show), and the largest multi-media brand in the world (per capita). He launched marie claire and Men’s Health magazines and Murdoch Media, securing the worldwide rights to marie claire television and selling the first marie claire TV documentary.

Mark is the founding chair of Fashion Targets Breast Cancer in Australia and was also instrumental in establishing several breakthrough community service projects such as National Family Day and most recently Pink Ribbon magazine for the National Breast Cancer Foundation and the Schools Peace Initiative for the Sydney Peace Foundation where he has served on the executive committee since 1999.

At the beginning of 2006, Mark has taken the position of Publishing Director at Time Inc. Australia. He has stepped back from the day to day operation of the magazine and guides us gently from the sidelines.  




By email  fred@regionalfood.com.au 
               jan@regionalfood.com.au 
               mark@regionalfood.com.au

 

 

 

   
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