Meet the Team

Mark Dent

Managing Director

Mark joined the CMR Group in 1995 and became Managing Director of Sample Answers in 2001, where he grew that company to a turnover of over £1million. After a period as Business Development Director for the Americas he was appointed Managing Director of CMR in 2016 with the primary responsibility to build the Prime Prospect brand.  After completing his HND in Computer Studies from Kingston University, Mark started his career at Infratest Burke Ltd. where he worked as a data and analytics executive. In 1995 Mark left Infratest to join CMR as the Bureau Services Manager for Eole (UK) ltd until he moved across to Sample Answers. Mark has a keen interest in sport, especially football, golf and cricket. As a manager he always believes it’s good to get someone else to do what’s needed – a recommendation he makes to all our potential clients.

Tony Dent

Chairman

Tony originally formed Computing Marketing and Research (CMR) in 1988 to provide statistical consultancy services to a range of clients including Barclays Bank, IBM, Hewlett Packard and a number of smaller businesses. In 1992 Tony also formed Sample Answers in partnership with Gwyn Redgers, to service the growing demand for sampling advice and services. These businesses were then formed into the CMR Group in 1995 and subsequently the majority of group trading was concentrated through the Sample Answers brand. Recently we have turned our attention to the development of other CMR brands, in particular Prime Prospects with the game changer team.

Christine Senior

Marketing Manager

Karisma Kawol

Design Consultant

Karisma is a recent addition to the team and contributes her creative design skills to provide distinctive images that help businesses to stand out from the competition. She graduated in 2009 with a BSc in Multimedia, Technology and Design from Brunel University and has subsequently used her intuition and experience to enhance every element of the marketing mix including; Social Media, Sales Literature, Websites, Promotional Merchandise, Logos and other important aspects of effective branding. Whatever the need for new and distinctive imagery, we are delighted to be able to let Karisma to add some charisma to our clients’ business development.

Will Martin

Web Developer

Will graduated from Bath University in 2006 with an Honours degree in Mathematics. After spending 2 years working inside the technology department of a financial spread betting firm, he decided to train as a web developer and has been helping high level clients innovate their digital presence ever since.

Will is available for consultation on any project which requires coding modules and is an industry expert in the world’s most popular CMS platform, WordPress.

Dorota Dyk

Website and social media manager

Dora joined Prime Prospects in 2019, after working in Database Management for the last 12 years. Although her previous roles involved analytical thinking, Dora always felt passionate about creative tasks. A great problem solver and uses her imagination effectively. An entrepreneur at heart with a wide knowledge across various business aspects, particularly related to small businesses.

Dora has a Masters Degree in Economics with a speciality in Marketing. Her main responsibilities include website and social media management. Dora is passionate about travel and spends her spare time with family and friends.  Dora also enjoys reading and great outdoors.

Robert Green

Photographer and videographer

Rob specialises in 360 Virtual Reality (VR) Photography and is a Google Trusted Street View photographer, creating VR tours for both Google Street View and clients’ websites. As a video producer, Rob creates a wide range of corporate videos for clients and is a fully CAA Approved, BNUCS Qualified and insured UAV (Drone) pilot.

Most of Rob’s video production work is for corporate clients. He has also produced ‘Front Line Battle Machines’, a series of 8 one hour documentaries for the Discovery channel. For the shoot, he spent 2 months in Helmand Province with the British armed forces, to review the equipment they use.

Corporate video work takes Rob all over the world, as far as Japan and across the UK. With a full range of modern kit, Rob allows us to offer in-house 4K UHD videos including aerial and time-lapse photography with graphics. Adding time-lapse and aerial footage to VR Tours proves popular for many Virtual Reality Tour clients.