Culture & People
Like every agency, we believe it’s our people that make us different. It’s why our clients value the fact that with Temono they will always get a senior team who can provide proper counsel and understand their business and communications needs.
We know that to attract the best and brightest talent we need to offer something special for them too. This is about more than having a fancy office (although we do have a roof terrace and squash court), it’s about offering our people engaging work on exciting clients in an energising environment.
Ed Howson
Founder & Managing Partner
With over 25 years of tech and telecoms experience, Ed is Temono’s founder and our entrepreneurial driving force.
Ed has worked with some of the most disruptive brands in the wireless and telecoms sector, taking them from initial start-up and launch through to successful acquisition and exit. On Ed’s roll of honour are Flarion (acquired by Qualcomm), 3G Labs (acquired by Qualcomm), IPWireless (acquired by General Dynamics) and Ubiquisys (acquired by Cisco).
Ed combines PR and tech expertise with deep business understanding and an empathy for what it takes to succeed and disrupt a market. In addition to founding Temono, Ed is also a co-founder of Masabi, the global transit SaaS ticketing and payments platform. Ed has also acted as mentor at developer hackathons including Garage48.
Richard White
Managing Partner
Richard is a highly experienced tech and telco industry PR and communications leader with 25+ years’ experience of working with tech innovators, disruptors and leaders to drive impactful results.
Richard has worked with some of the biggest and some of the most transformational brands in the industry. He launched Jasper Wireless, in 2007 an unknown M2M start-up, and took it through acquisition by Cisco in 2016, going on to lead the Cisco IoT global media and analyst programme. Richard was the global tech and b2b lead on the launches of the Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 smartphones, and has led global campaigns for clients including Orange, Global mobile Suppliers Association and ZTE.
Prior to joining Temono, Richard was Managing Director at a top 4 UK tech PR agency, where he led business development and the agency’s telecoms practice. With a passion for ‘connecting the dots’ to develop a winning narrative, Richard is a proven team leader and senior counsel.
Richard Howson
Partner
Richard joined Temono in 2015, bringing with him extensive experience in media monitoring, analysis and evaluation.
In his previous role with a leading media monitoring agency, Richard devised and applied metrics to help PR agencies and in-house teams demonstrate their worth in a post-AVE world, and at the genesis of social media monitoring. Richard worked with leading global companies from a diverse range of sectors, including travel, retail, agri-food, consumer goods, and education, and with leading UK and Global PR agencies.
At Temono, Richard drives strategic communications in partnership with clients, and has played a key role in growing the agency’s reputation for delivering high-impact, results-driven campaigns
Stephen Orr
senior consultant
Stephen joined Temono in 2024, having led the digital media tech practice for the past 25 years at AxiCom, WPP’s only specialist tech PR agency.
Experienced at working at working at a senior level with global client teams at Microsoft, IBM, Harmonic Inc., Real Networks, Lexmark, Nagra Kudelski, Experian, and Plume Design.
In his previous role, Stephen established the agency’s Content Studio, managing a team of creatives, designers and digital experts to deliver multiplatform campaigns across content creation and strategy, brand and executive profile management, paid-for and organic compaign development and implementation, asset development and GTM roll-out.