MHP’s Gavin Devine to join Porta as COO
MHP CEO Gavin Devine will join communications group Porta, which owns agency brands Newgate, Publicasity and Redleaf, in a new chief operating officer role. Devine was part of [...]
MAA appoints first chair from PR sector
Exposure founder and joint chief executive Tim Bourne has been named chairman of The Marketing Agencies Association, the first MAA chairman from a PR and comms background. The [...]
CNC hires Tulchan’s Buchanan as joint managing partner
CNC has appointed Tulchan’s Tom Buchanan as joint managing partner. He will work alongside the comms firm’s Richard Campbell and Roland Klein. Based in CNC’s [...]
Burson-Marsteller appoints The Times’ Clark
Burson-Marsteller UK has appointed The Times‘ Andrew Clark as a director in its public affairs team. Clark was most recently deputy business editor at The Times, where [...]
Newgate’s Watt joins FWD as capital markets lead
FWD Group, which last week announced an MBO by two of its directors, has hired Newgate’s Roddy Watt as director in its capital markets division. Watt will launch and [...]
Splendid hires Gavin Taylor to lead digital team
Splendid Communications has appointed iProspect Enterprise’s Gavin Taylor as head of performance, as the agency looks enhance its digital and creative offer. Taylor will head [...]
BMG hires Steve Redmond to handle global comms
BMG, the world’s fourth biggest music publisher, has appointed music industry veteran Steve Redmond to run its worldwide comms activity. Redmond has been a leading voice in [...]
Cohn & Wolfe names Rebecca Grant UK MD
Cohn & Wolfe has promoted its UK consumer marketing MD, Rebecca Grant, to head up the London-based WPP-owned agency as UK MD. Grant, who joined Cohn & Wolfe in 2011, [...]
Good Relations launches broadcast offer
Good Relations has launched a new broadcast consultancy, Good Broadcast, and brought in Sound Creative’s Phil Caplin to lead the new offer. Good Broadcast, which will sit [...]
Tulchan expands partnership with six appointments
Tulchan Communications has named six partners, including Morgan Stanley’s Doug Campbell and Severn Trent’s David Lloyd-Seed, as it makes a number of [...]
Gravity London hires Andrews to lead financial PR unit
B2B agency Gravity London has hired David Andrews, founder of financial services PR boutique David Andrews Media, on a retained basis to build its financial division. [...]
Graham and Green enhances PR team
Interiors company Graham and Green has brought in Cox & Cox’s Kate Vincent as PR and social media manager. Vincent has been briefed to raise the profile of the Graham and [...]
Pagefield recruits Tata Steel’s O’Connell
Pagefield has appointed Kieran O’Connell, formerly of Tata Steel, as an associate partner in its public affairs team. O’Connell was public affairs manager at the [...]
DeVries SLAM enhances leadership team
DeVries Global has enhanced the leadership team at its UK operation, DeVries SLAM, with the promotions of MD Helena Bloomer to regional MD, Europe, and brand strategy lead [...]
Citigroup’s Denis Denisov joins EM
Emerging markets consultancy EM has appointed Denis Denisov, formerly head of communications for global bank Citigroup CIS, as director in the business’ Moscow offices. [...]
Bowel Cancer UK names external affairs director
Bowel cancer research charity Bowel Cancer UK has brought in Gus Baldwin from Leonard Cheshire Disability as director of external affairs. Baldwin will join Bowel Cancer UK [...]
Mulberry’s Tori Campbell joins Dragon Advisory
Tori Campbell, Mulberry’s head of marketing, has joined Dragon Advisory as a partner to lead its luxury brands and lifestyle division. As head of marketing for British fashion [...]
Candriam hires global corporate comms head
Candriam Investors Group, the European asset manager with some €91bn (£71bn) in AUM, has hired Marion Leblanc-Wohrer as global head of corporate comms. Reporting into Candriam [...]