Lansons appoints Rollo Crichton-Stuart
Lansons has hired Rollo Crichton-Stuart as board director to strengthen the consultancy’s financial comms remit. Crichton-Stuart joins from an associate partner role at Bell [...]
Bell Pottinger appoints Ian Shackleton to financial and corporate team
Nomura MD Ian Shackleton has been appointed principal of Bell Pottinger’s corporate and financial team. Shackleton has worked for a number of investment banks including James [...]
Mercieca appoints social media manager
Mercieca has brought in Sameer Ahmed from The Earned Agency to join its growing social media team. Previously, Ahmed was a social media manager at The Earned Agency, which is [...]
Twitter appoints Kristin Binns as senior comms director
Twitter has brought in Kristin Binns, VP for comms at health insurance firm Anthem, as senior comms director. Binns will handle all consumer and corporate PR activity for the [...]
The PR Office makes two hires in community and not-for-profit team
London-based The PR Office has made two new hires to its community and not-for-profit team. Kerrie Josephs joins as account director and Rosie Dean as account manager. Josephs [...]
Redwood announces client wins
Specialist real estate communications consultancy, Redwood Consulting has been appointed byOxfordshire business and science park MEPC Milton Park, Silverstone Technology [...]
Hotwire graduate returns as senior programme director
Atomic’s Amy Ronge has returned to Hotwire as a senior programme director on its consumer team, eight years after starting her PR career on the agency’s graduate scheme. [...]
Ambassador Miriam Sapiro joins Finsbury as partner
Miriam Sapiro, former deputy US trade representative in the Obama administration, has joined Finsbury as partner and head of its Washington DC office. Ambassador Sapiro will [...]
Pennon Group promotes Sarah Heald
Utility company Pennon Group, the owner of Viridor, South West Water and Bournemouth Water, has promoted Sarah Heald, its head of investor relations, to director of corporate [...]
BBC’s Jack Baine joins Good Relations’ broadcast arm
Former BBC journalist Jack Baine has joined Good Relations’ broadcast arm, Good Broadcast, as a consultant. Baine spent more than 20 years at the BBC as a senior journalist [...]
NBCUniversal International names CMO
NBCUniversal International has promoted its EVP for marketing and comms, Lee Raftery, to chief marketing officer. Based in London, Raftery steps up from his prior role as EVP, [...]
Edelman appoints UK general manager, digital
Edelman UK has appointed Toby Gunton, head of innovation at media agency OMD UK, to the newly-created role of general manager, digital. With more than 20 years’ industry [...]
Custard Communications makes two new appointments
Custard Communications, the hospitality industry PR specialist, has appointed two new account directors. Lesley Whyte and Mika Bishop will support Custard MD Petra Clayton in [...]
MHP Communications hires Edelman’s Alex Bigg as CEO
Edelman’s former London GM, Alex Bigg, has been named CEO of MHP Communications. Bigg has spent more than ten years at Edelman, heading up its public affairs and corporate and [...]
Aspectus appoints Iley to head of energy role
Aspectus has promoted PR Week 30 Under 30 member, Laura Iley, to a head of energy role. Aspectus’ energy, oil and gas practice serves more than 20 clients from the agency’s [...]
Hanover re-hires Daniel Gilbert after stint at BIS
Hanover has re-appointed Daniel Gilbert as a senior policy adviser, following his 14-month period as a special adviser in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills [...]
Yellow Jersey appoints Adam Wurf
Yellow Jersey has appointed Adam Wurf as consultant in order to broaden its service offering and drive new business activities. Wurf previously worked as chief marketing [...]
Lord Bell resigns as chairman of Bell Pottinger
Lord Tim Bell has resigned as chairman of Bell Pottinger, 30 years after he founded the agency. He plans to set up a strategic consultancy called Sans Frontières next year. [...]