Barry Gardner Email & Phone Number

Winner of the CIPR Excellence award for my global external communications strategy and programme in support of the successful demerger of Clydesdale Bank from National Australia Bank and CYBG IPO. I have extensive Director and Board level experience in all aspects of global corporate communications. I am a former journalist with 30 years of broad-based international corporate communications experience and have been very fortunate to have worked with leading listed companies, from FTSE to ASX and NYSE, going through momentous change.I founded Barry Gardner Communications to provide dedicated strategic advice and support to help businesses and organisations through first-class communications. I provide interim, contract and consultancy support to major global blue-chip B2B and B2C businesses.Prior to this, I was with Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks for almost a decade culminating in driving the global external communications for the 2016 Demerger and IPO, leading media engagement programmes from the UK to Australia, and ultimately has returned the bank to independence for the first time since 1920. I was the lead spokesperson for CYBG PLC in the UK and globally with responsibility for the reputation of the banking group and its brands Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank. I headed the external corporate reputation and media management in the UK and was responsible for leading and developing the strategy to meet the needs of the UK business and wider Group.Specialties: All aspects of Corporate Communications / Corporate Affairs including global media relations, government relations, CSR and internal communications; Demerger, IPO, M&A and change management communications; Financial Reporting, Investor Relations and corporate Media relations. I have also served two full terms as a non-executive director and Board Trustee with a leading Scottish charity.

Listed skills include Corporate Communications, Media Relations, Internal Communications, Public Relations, and 46 others.