KPMG hires Paul Middleton as corporate comms senior manager
Professional services firm KPMG has appointed Ketchum’s Paul Middleton as corporate communications senior manager, with special responsibility for the firm’s Brexit comms. The [...]
Hume Brophy hires Metro Bank PR director to lead corporate affairs team
Hume Brophy has appointed former director of communications at Metro Bank Pete Murray to lead on corporate affairs. Murray supported Metro Bank during its £400m capital raise, [...]
Remarkable hires north region director
Communications and public affairs consultancy Remarkable Group has hired Kevin Whitmore as north region director. He will oversee the group’s work across the north of England [...]
Forster Communications makes leadership changes
Forster Communications has appointed John Grounds as its new chair, replacing founder Jilly Forster, who launched the agency 20 years ago. Forster will take on a new role to [...]
Instinctif Partners Asia makes senior hire
Instinctif Partners has appointed Crystal Chan as partner, general manager in its Hong Kong office. The hire is part of its international growth plan and comes on the back of [...]
M&C Saatchi hires PLMR’s Ros Trinick
Creative agency M&C Saatchi has hired PLMR director Ros Trinick. She is reportedly leading on its Home Office counter-extremism brief. Trinick joined political lobbying [...]
Havas PR names creative director
Havas PR has enhanced its senior team with the promotions of Paul Hadfield to creative director and Claire Quansah to operations director. Hadfield joined Havas PR, which is [...]
GoFundMe hires John Coventry to lead UK comms
GoFundMe, the world’s largest social fundraising platform, has hired Change.org’s John Coventry to lead its UK comms activity as the company sets its sights on European [...]
Chris Parr joins Madano
Chris Parr, former private secretary to Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, has joined strategic comms consultancy Madano to lead its built environment and professional [...]
Gutenberg appoints new UK head
Neil Ashurst has joined Gutenberg as director and country head for the UK. The appointment follows the agency’s recent rebrand, which positioned it as an integrated [...]
Cicero Group appoints former journalist Irene Kyme
Cicero Group has appointed former Sky News and BBC journalist Irene Kyme as an account director in its PR team. Kyme will lead Cicero’s work with a number of financial [...]
Sustrans appoints new PR team
UK charity Sustrans has appointed Anna Galandzij as senior press officer, and Amy Jones as press officer. Sustrans is a cycling and walking charity known for its flagship [...]
Bell Pottinger appoints MD of financial and corporate practice
Victoria Geoghegan has been appointed managing director of Bell Pottinger’s financial and corporate practice, with effect 1 January 2017. Geoghegan has been with Bell [...]
Edelman appoints former chief advisor to Boris Johnson
Edelman has appointed Boris Johnson’s former chief advisor Will Walden as managing director, public affairs, and has promoted Gupreet Brar to general manager, Brussels. [...]
Cisco hires Oliver Roll as CCO
Oliver Roll is joining US-based technology conglomerate Cisco as SVP and chief communications officer. In his new position, Roll will lead analyst and public relations, [...]
The Star’s digital content editor joins HR Media
Simon Waller, former digital content editor at Sheffield newspaper The Star, has joined HR Media to enhance the South Yorkshire PR agency’s digital offer. Waller is [...]
Gong Communications hires senior account managers
Gong Communications has hired two corporate communications specialists, Libby Wyman and James Deacon, as senior account managers. Wyman joins form Forster Communications, she [...]
W promotes Sophie Raine to deputy MD
Sophie Raine has been promoted to deputy managing director, a new role at W Communications. Raine, who joined W in early 2014, previously served as a director at the agency, [...]