Jon Brown

Name: Jon Brown

Position: Account Director

Contact: brown@paversmith.co.uk

Jon is a former Deputy Editor and Acting Editor of the Liverpool Echo and, in a 15-year career in journalism, worked at a senior level on daily newspapers across the UK. After two years as newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror North West's Head of Multimedia, helping to shape the group's digital publishing strategy, he made the leap into public relations in 2006, setting up Factory Communications and quickly acquiring a diverse range of clients in the public and private sectors. Paver Smith acquired Factory in May 2008.

Interests: Two years wandering round Africa in the 1980s inculcated a (largely frustrated) love of travel. The Hindu Kush mountains in Pakistan, Mekong River in Vietnam and Namib Desert are his all-time favourite destinations since, though he is more normally found drifting into middle age by doing his gardening at the family home in Lancashire where life revolves around more children than he cares to count. Jon is uniquely both a Blue (Carlisle United) and a Red (Liverpool FC & St Helens RLFC) and is a former Great Britain Students rugby league player who still thinks he'd be able to hack it. Obviously, not.