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Highly experienced Communications Director, Head of Communications, PR Director, Head of Media relations and Marketing and Communications Director with extensive experience in senior leadership positions. I have also held wider business advisory roles serving as a non-executive director, charity Trustee and Board advisor and consultant.B2B/corporate PR sectors I have worked in include the tech, telco and mobile industries, distribution and logistics, finance and investment, professional services, and legal services.In the consumer space, I have experience in retail/FMCG and the culinary and hospitality industries. I have also worked within the education sector during my time as a charity Trustee for more than 10 years, working in the areas of Further and Higher education, leading on fundraising and managing relationships with national government and education sector stakeholders as well as major donors and individual supporters. I am currently supporting a charity in the creative sector.Earlier in my career, I trained and worked as a journalist, prior to working in public relations and public affairs. I worked as the lead PR and Communications Director for the BBC Dragons’ Den panellist and entrepreneur, Peter Jones CBE, for 10 years. My PR career has included senior roles at Royal Mail Group and Porter Novelli, an Omnicom Group consultancy.My entertainment sector years included co-founding a television production company that continues to deliver hundreds of hours of programming to ITV. The company completed a management buyout (MBO) before becoming part of a larger group of companies, and I oversaw and managed that transition.Outside of TV, I have produced an award winning theatre production ("Hope", 2013, Liverpool Royal Court) and two full-length feature films, the most recent of which told the story of Ronnie Scott and his world famous jazz Club ("Ronnies", 2020).

Listed skills include Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Business Development, New Business Development, and 18 others.