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Rosemary brings you more than 20 years’ writing and business management experience.

Proof Communications was established by Rosemary in 2000. Rosemary began her copywriting, editing and proofreading career at the BBC in London, before moving to a large global Swiss-based business. It was here that Rosemary discovered her eye for detail that marks out her skills as a superior copywriter, copy editor and proofreader.

On moving to Australia, Rosemary’s copywriting career continued to flourish. She became a tender writer for global consultancy KPMG and later for top tier law firm Allens Linklaters, before launching Proof Communications.

Since 2000, Rosemary has led Proof Communications’ success for hundreds of companies. Rosemary has worked on thousands of documents for government, private companies and listed companies.

Rosemary has a Bachelor of History from the University of Leeds, UK, and a Communications, Advertising and Marketing diploma from CAM, London.

Chrissy has enjoyed a long and successful career making a demonstrable difference to a variety of businesses. Working in both profit and not for profit sectors, she has extensive experience in the corporate, retail, hospitality, tourism and real estate industries; and the community sector.

During her 20 years working for the iconic The Body Shop, Chrissy was chosen to set up and run the NSW Bizness Babes Program. This exciting move saw her adapt her proven retail business growth strategies to the world of small business, teaching scores of disadvantaged women to set up and run their own successful business – a truly life-changing initiative. Next stop saw Chrissy seize the opportunity to take her business development skills to the social enterprise sector, leading Social Enterprises Sydney as an inspirational Program Manager.

Chrissy credits her very considerable success to her innate ability to transform a business from the inside out. From team culture and satisfaction; to efficient, supportive systems; and the delivery of exceptional customer service, she’s able to bring about lasting change by ‘living the business’ herself, quickly discovering where golden opportunities lie to take enterprises forward.

Her passion for sharing the keys to business success also led Chrissy to establishing her own small business, running highly focused monthly mentoring meetings as well coaching a clutch of private clients.

When not at work, Chrissy is also an unashamed, self-confessed helluo liborum. A day without reading simply doesn’t exist in Chrissy’s world.

Today, Chrissy is excited to be working not only to grow the success of Proof Communications, but also the many companies we service.

After a long career in customer service management, Glynis altered course to begin work with Proof Communications in 2013.

She is one of those people for whom typos, grammar mistakes and style inconsistencies simply leap off the page. This skill, combined with her meticulous attention to detail, is what makes Glynis an exceptionally thorough copywriter, copy editor and proofreader.

Glynis’ first step in the world of work was selling life insurance by cold calling. From this unlikely beginning, Glynis spent many years working for AMP; her last role as the presenter of Financial Services for Women seminars.

A move to the UK gave Glynis the chance to establish her own training consultancy. After a number of years running her own business, she headed home to Australia. For the next eight years Glynis served as the National Customer Service Manager for a privately owned promotional apparel company in Brisbane. Throughout this time, Glynis applied her eye for detail to her employer’s corporate communications.

With her enthusiasm, care and commitment, Glynis brings our clients her ability to greatly improve the quality and readability of their documents, making them the best they can be.

Kelly is a creative and results-driven copywriter with more than 20 years’ experience working with leading Australian brands, SMEs and start-ups.

She has a track record for producing sharp, original and persuasive content that enables businesses to achieve tender success.

Kelly’s passion for writing developed during her time at Fairfax Media, where she was responsible for producing communications for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun Herald to an exceptionally high standard.

Kelly has a Bachelor of Economics, Majoring in Marketing, from Macquarie University.

Jasmine is an experienced and versatile writer with a background in journalism. During her career she has written content for organisations in many industries, including property, construction, finance, manufacturing, hospitality and travel.

Jasmine joined Proof Communications as a writer and editor in mid-2020. She is an excellent member of our team, supporting our clients in the legal, mortgage broking, financial services, facilities management and IT services sectors.

Jasmine brings you her demonstrated versatility as a writer, able to produce content on a wide range of topics; creativity, writing engaging and useful content which weaves in key messages; experience in sympathetically drawing out information during interviews; and reliability in meeting briefs and deadlines.

Jasmine has a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) from Western Sydney University.

Tim’s passion is helping our clients to develop and write compelling, compliant and successful bids, tenders and proposals. Tim is very skilled at delivering the expertise and support required for each tender opportunity and he thrives on helping clients to maintain and win new business.

He leverages skills and experience built-up over his long career in corporate and government sales environments.

Tim’s corporate career included senior roles at Telstra as a bid lead responsible for the development of multi-domain solutions (Telstra & 3rd Parties) and formal bid responses for complex corporate and government tenders and sales proposals. This experience provided Tim with a deep insight in the dos and don’ts of successful bid writing which he applies to his support to Proof Communications’ clients.

Alex is an experienced proofreader, copywriter and copy editor.

Since joining Proof Communications in mid-2021, Alex has proofread annual reports for ASX200 companies, and has crafted winning business award entries for clients ranging from a digital payments platform to recruitment companies. He has also written successful tenders for clients bidding for government contracts.

Alex has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney and a Master of Arts from Vanderbilt University.