Who we are

With combined industry experience of over 14 years in stock photography Liz Pepper and Claudia Stark have unrivalled knowledge of the developments, the people and the workings of the industry worldwide. We have strong commercial backgrounds in international sales, marketing, training and management and speak English, French and German.

LIZ PEPPER

A graduate from Cambridge University with a Masters degree in French and German, Liz Pepper has developed her career in international business, sales and marketing over the last 10 years and she has lived and worked in France, Germany, Austria and Japan. Liz's track record of success in sales management and training has spanned diverse industry sectors including tourism, finance and media. Liz has devised and implemented tailored sales training programmes for staff at several leading blue chip companies including PricewaterhouseCoopers and Publicis. Before moving into stock photography, Liz worked as Sales Manager for a specialist tour operator where she recruited and led a large sales team to increase company turnover and profitability in one of the toughest times in the travel industry. In the last three years, Liz has successfully built and managed the international sales team and global distribution network at Image Source. Liz's knowledge of sales management is widely known and Liz has been a panel speaker at the annual PACA conference on this subject.

CLAUDIA STARK

Claudia Stark brings over 13 years b2b international sales and management experience across a range of international companies in IT, sports and media. Claudia has worked with companies such as Dell, Siemens, adidas, Nike and Emap. Before joining the stock industry in 1998, Claudia developed and managed the flagship trade sports exhibition in Moscow and St. Petersburg working alongside the Russian Ministry of Sports and the Mayor of Moscow. After achieving significant sales growth at Digital Vision, Claudia went on to take up sales directorship positions at image100 and Image Source. Most recently Claudia held a senior management role with zefa visual media. Claudia successfully integrated royalty free into zefa's rights managed environment and generated first year sales growth of several million Euros. She increased zefa's product offering through media partners and launched a new high-end royalty free product line, now rebranded as Corbis RF. This was in addition to the development of the existing imageshop brand which was one of the first Adobe Creative Suite 2 partners. Besides qualifying as a professional translator of English, Claudia graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York as a trained actress and still does professional voiceover work for the BBC, radio and cinema.