Andy Spinoza is MD of award-winning PR agency SKV Communications. 
Following a degree at Manchester University, in 1983 he founded and 
edited the original City Life magazine. In 1993 he was appointed MEN 
Diary Editor, covering the social life of Manchester city centre.

In 1998 he set up PR agency Spin Media. The agency was renamed SKV 
Communications in 2006. SKV clients include Co-operative Bank, Swinton 
Insurance and Selfridges. Andy received the NW Institute of PR 
Outstanding Achievement Award in 2007. 

In 2010, he extended SKV's video production arm into spin-off Video News 
Agency, an innovative online platform for the PR/marcomms sector making 
distribution of digital content to the world's media simple and 
inexpensive.

Andy was the first Chairman of the Alumni Association at the 
newly-unified University of Manchester, from 2005 to 2011.

He blogs, tweets and lives with his family in Heaton Moor.