HUDDERSFIELD woman Lauren Titley has been appointed marketing executive at a Barnsley IT and audio company.

Ms Titley (pictured), who lives at Milnsbridge, has joined Osborne Technologies Ltd, based at Dodworth. She has been recruited to help sell the firm’s new product, a self-contained, multi-sensory room for people with special needs called the SensoryPod. She will be promoting the innovation to schools, colleges and visitor attractions.

Ms Titley, 25, was born in Liversedge and attended Heckmondwike Grammar School and Huddersfield New College before graduating from Central Lancashire University with a degree in advertising and marketing.

Her studies took her to the University of Connecticut, USA, for a year and her five years’ experience in sales and marketing have also included a year working in the States, promoting a quantity surveying firm in California.