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Selby, North Yorkshire, Gb

Overseeing the global Government Affairs, Policy, Media, Digital and Community teams

I sat on the airport's Executive Committee, reporting into the Chief Executive, and had responsibility for the brand, reputation and culture for the UK's fastest growing major airport. I oversaw the press office, public affairs, internal communications, social media, community relations and customer relations teams.

Manchester, Gb

I was responsible for increasing MAG’s profile and managing its reputation with regional and national stakeholders through communications activity.MAG owns and operates Manchester, London Stansted and East Midland airports and currently sees over 55 million passengers flying through its airports every year, which together employ over 40,000 people on site. I headed the Group External Communications function which was responsible for engaging with the media to communicate the Group's position on a diverse range of issues to a varied array of stakeholders, including investors, shareholders, airlines, passengers, Government, regulators and local communities.

London, Gb

I was the Managing Director of the Corporate team at Red, overseeing a team delivering strategic communications campaigns for world-leading brands, as well as public sector organisations. As an active Board member of Red I also played a key role in the ongoing development of the 130+ strong agency.The team was focussed on delivering corporate communications that provided a blend of intelligent thinking and creativity – a combination afforded to us through sitting within a traditionally consumer PR focussed environment.We delivered issues-led proactive campaigns, supported financial calendar work, provided ‘fast air cover’ for regulatory activity, crisis communications, executive profiling and carved out positions of thought-leadership for our clients.Clients included Samsung, Molson Coors, John Lewis, GSK, Adobe, Avis Budget, CenterParcs, Bettys and Taylors and TotalJobs.

London, England, Gb

My role oversaw Corporate Communications, Internal Communications and Events at a global level for the business. Since the floatation of the business in 2010, I was at the forefront of working with senior management as they attempted to make sense of the rapidly evolving business and subsequent engagement with media, investors, customers, governments and employees alike. The role included:• Creation of communications strategy – working closely with the Chief Executive to identify and subsequently deliver the external and internal business narrative• Provide senior counsel on messaging and communications to support the business’ financial calendar obligations• Created and implemented media strategy to support European public affairs activity • Production of an internal and external strategy to cover the ‘first 100 days’ of new CEO tenure• Oversaw the implementation of innovative and engaging media and staff communications strategies• Provided bespoke guidance to the Executive Committee and Regional Management on internal communications• Acted as a central global resource for the management of regional issues affecting reputation. Betfair’s geographic footprint spans 30 locations, incorporates a number of different structures from wholly-owned subsidiaries to joint ventures• Global spokesman for the Group• Reputational issues – identifying and dealing with any issue that may have an impact on the firms reputation in the wider world.

Woking, Surrey, Gb

As the functional head of business media relations, my role was to manage the development and evolution of a compelling strategy for engaging the business media with the purpose of creating awareness of SABMiller, building and enhancing the SABMiller reputation and to mitigate business risk. Specific tasks included:• Creating and implementing strategies that maximise investor relations activities – business annual, prelim and quarterly trading results, investor conferences and mergers and acquisitions to drive market perceptions and influence decisions• Advise M&A teams on media strategy and tactics around announcements• Leadership of international/global media contact programmes for senior management• Provided thought leadership to the global media relations network and the corporate affairs teams on trends in the business media, providing recommendations and expertise so that the company reputation is protected• Acted as a spokesperson for SABMiller plc with the international and national financial and business press for print, electronic and broadcast media on the results, M&A, restructuring and senior appointments.• Leveraging of the UK international stringer network to profile local market MDs e.g. Czech Republic, Tanzania and China• Development and execution, in consultation with the regional management, of strategies and programmes that raised the profile of SABMiller Africa and Asia in both the international media and in their home markets

London, England, Gb

At Luther and I developed a strong background in both media and governmental communications, working on a host of issues affecting a wide variety of industries including aerospace, transport, energy and oil, PFI, diamonds, volunteering and the capital markets. The management of several account teams on media relations, public affairs and crisis communications campaigns at both international and regional levels incorporated many rich and fulfilling experiences. Media experience sat predominantly across the business and financial pages but has also incorporated consumer and trade relations.

Norrmalm, Stockholm County, Se

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology

Gcse/ A Levels