Gill Taylor is a freelance copywriter and marketing contractor specialising in the IT and telecoms sector. She has 20 years of experience in both agency and client side marketing roles and was head of Channel Marketing UK&I for Lucent Technologies/Avaya for four years. She has been running her own freelance business since 2002 and also acts as Marketing Director on a contract basis for a number of London-based technology companies, as well as for a private equity firm based in the city. In her spare time she is an avid amateur landscape photographer and also loves travelling and playing poker.