Our Background

VASGAMA’s founder and chief executive, Alan Lane, has more than 20 years’ experience in reputation management consulting with international corporations and government.

Prior to creating VASGAMA, he was Public Affairs Adviser (Far East, Australasia and South America) for Shell International Petroleum Company in London – part of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group with operations in more than 140 countries and net income in 2001 of US$10.8 billion.

VASGAMA have developed, directed and implemented corporate programmes for a range of clients in Europe, the Middle and Far East, Australasia, South & North America, and Africa.

We also operate in line with the internationally–accepted codes of conduct of organisations including:

International Association of Business Communicators
International Public Relations Association
International Visual Communication Association
Institute of Directors.

Where we believe other services are required – or, by joining forces with others, we can better meet our clients' needs – we work with select partner consultancies.

One such consultancy is headed by Tim Westman, who has 25 years experience in communications and reputation management. Tim headed Corporate Communications for the international engineering and construction groups Alfred McAlpine and Costain Group.

More recently, at Shell, he introduced a range of initiatives for the development of the Group's 600-strong international External Affairs team. In the wake of the September 11 terrorist incidents, he played a front-line role in implementing Shell's Group Crisis Plan and subsequently developed the plan to meet the future needs of the Group.