JFL promotes Carolyn Kirkwood to deputy MD
Comms recruitment consultancy JFL Search & Selection has promoted Carolyn Kirkwood, who first joined the business in 2006, to deputy MD. Kirkwood left JFL in February [...]
Brian MacLaurin and Anna Hodgekiss join Iredale Communications
Iredale Communications has named industry veteran Brian MacLaurin as chairman and appointed Anna Hodgekiss, MailOnline’s former health editor, as a consultant. MacLaurin, a [...]
LEWIS appoints digital leader for new Hamburg office
Britta Heer, former Achtung MD and chief digital officer, will lead LEWIS’ new office in Hamburg. Heer’s experience also includes a head of digital role at Edelman in [...]
Pagefield makes two new hires
David Leslie and Sam Barnett have joined Pagefield as consultants. Leslie joins from international corporate, financial and political comms consultancy New Century Media, [...]
Ready10 bolsters senior team
Ready10, the Islington-based agency launched earlier this year by David Fraser, former deputy MD of Frank PR and publicist for Lord Sugar, has enhanced its senior team with [...]
firstlight grows healthcare team
Grant Fisher has joined firstlight as associate director, and Kristen Barrett has joined as account director. Fisher joins from Ruder Finn, where he was associate director, [...]
Michael Ann Thomas joins APCO Worldwide
Michael Ann Thomas has joined APCO Worldwide to head up its technology practice in North America. A former Edelman executive, Thomas has joined APCO Worldwide as technology [...]
Political comms strategist John McTernan joins Penn Schoen Berland
Penn Schoen Berland (PSB), a global research-based consultancy, has announced that John McTernan, the political adviser, commentator and strategist, will join the firm as [...]
Redleaf promotes Vanessa Chance to associate director
Redleaf has promoted Vanessa Chance to associate director in its professional and financial services team. Chance has more than 10 years of experience in financial services [...]
Muniya Barua made director of corporate affairs at Newington
Public and corporate affairs agency, Newington, has made former CBI (Confederation of British Industry) corporate communications director, Muniya Barua, director of corporate [...]
Ascot Racecourse enhances comms team
Ascot Racecourse has promoted Ashley Morton-Hunte to corporate and racing comms manager. Previously, Morton-Hunte was press officer at the business, having first joined the [...]
Clarity PR appoints Liban Nooh
Tech start-up specialist Clarity PR has appointed Liban Nooh as director of marketing. Nooh is currently the director of global marketing and business development at Racepoint [...]
The Sun’s ex-royal editor joins Zest
The Sun’s former royal editor, Duncan Larcombe, has joined Kent-based PR agency Zest as director. Larcombe left the paper earlier this year to write a biography on Prince [...]
Maitland appoints Sundeep Tucker as partner
Maitland has made Sundeep Tucker a partner. He joins from a head of corporate communications role at Nomura. Tucker was head of corporate comms for Nomura’s Europe, Middle [...]
Zing Zing appoints PR director after raising £1.6m on Crowdfund
Chinese takeaway Zing Zing, which raised £1.6 million in the biggest “over-fund ever” on platform Crowdfund earlier this year, has appointed Alfred’s Stacey Jaffe [...]
Manifest hires branding and design director
Manifest has named IlK’s Martin Farrar-Smith as branding and design director, as the agency further bolsters its executive committee for growth and international expansion [...]
Ian Middleton joins Celicourt Communications
Ian Middleton has today joined Celicourt as a partner and co-investor in the company. Middleton joins Celicourt from Powerscourt, where he was head of industrials, energy and [...]
Virgin Media PR joins Rooster
Virgin Media’s former consumer PR lead Joe Thomas has joined Rooster as the PR and digital comms agency’s first creative director. Thomas, who led consumer PR at Virgin Media [...]