Charlie Rapple
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Internet
- Occupation: Head of Marketing
- Location: Oxford : United Kingdom
About Me
What I do
I've been with Ingenta (via CatchWord, which merged with Ingenta in 2001) for 6 years. My job involves product development (working out/speccing what cool new things we should add to the IngentaConnect service) and marketing (writing about afore-mentioned cool new things). It increasingly involves getting out and about to meet our many and varied customers, which I would like more if all industry events happened to be held in Oxford - it's always enjoyable to shoot the breeze with like-minded people, but I'm not the happiest of travellers (I get homesick!).
Why
I love working in electronic publishing because it's effectively a very young and therefore exciting industry which continues to evolve rapidly. And because I'm lucky enough to work in a fast-paced, market-leading, not-overly-hierarchical organisation.
Lame claim to fame
I have several claims to near-fame, my most cited of which is appearing on UK kids' TV show WAC-a-day when I was 8. And since you're bound to ask: no, I didn't get hit with Mallett's Mallet.
Interests
Favorite Movies
- Fargo
- The Italian Job
- The Godfather
- The Usual Suspects
- Top Gun
- James Bond (excluding Timothy "Wooden" Dalton)
Favorite Music
- Nick Drake
- Bruce Springsteen
- Belle & Sebastian
- Neil Diamond
- Led Zeppelin
- Tom Waits
- Guns n' Roses
- Jeff Buckley
- Veda Park
- The Rolling Stones
- Billy Joel
- Paul Simon
- Dusty Springfield
- Teenage Fanclub
- Blondie
- ABBA
- Four Tet
- Cat Power
- The Boy Least Likely To
- Pietra Montecorvino
