Janine Tijou, Director

Since co-founding Designhive in 1999, Janine has used her 12 years industry experience to lead the consultancy on an incredible array of high profile national and international projects.

With entrepreneurial spirit and commercial flair, Janine drives the team to focus on the needs of our customers. Responsible for driving the business, Janine is passionate about helping clients succeed and utilises her extensive experience in marketing and branding to get to the core of a client brief and work out the most effective way to tell their story.

Janine writes and delivers the successful RIBA-accredited course, 'The Verifiable Planning Process', which explains how verified photomontage views are created for London and Oxford Viewing Corridors. Now in its 6th year and attended by over 100 companies.

Janine welcomes opportunities to speak on the subject of powerful and effective visual communication solutions and will be a guest speaker at the 'Reshaping Urban Places' conference in May and 'Modelling World' in June.

 Prior to setting up Designhive, Janine worked as marketing consultant and project manager for many blue chip clients including British Telecom, Coca-Cola, Guinness, Hewlett Packard and Mansell Construction.

Janine thrives on connecting people with opportunities and problem solving; “My inspiration comes from great leaders and entrepreneurs that set out to make a difference - people like Gandhi, Richard Branson, and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.”