With a 20-year track record of planning and running PR campaigns and projects for some of the best brands in the business, I founded Boardwalk Communications to help more businesses properly harness their communications and bring them closer to their goals.

In this role, I held ultimate responsibility for all aspects of the organisation's external communications, leading a core team of four posts plus a network of external agencies spanning digital communications, media & PR, brand & publications, content & editorial and programme communications.

In this role, I held responsibility for Marie Stopes International's external communications work, leading a lean, results-focused team that covers media and public relations, strategic communications, social and digital media, content generation and issues management.

In this role, I was strategic lead for every aspect of Terrence Higgins Trust's media and public relations work. My highlights included:- Leading a department of two staff posts to proactively generate more than 2,200 items of press coverage during one financial year (approximately 70% of all coverage that mentioned the charity worldwide).- Setting up and managing broadcast interviews with every major UK news network, including high-profile spots for charity spokespeople and case studies on BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, and The Today Programme.- Securing the highest ever coverage total for the charity's activities around World AIDS Day, including a 130% increase in national print and broadcast coverage.- Successfully managing crisis communications during the most serious challenge to Terrence Higgins Trust's reputation in more than 15 years.- Creating and implementing the charity's first ever dedicated social media campaign Ask Me About HIV, which saw six basic facts about HIV reach more than six million people worldwide via social networks.

At this central London PR agency, my clients included ABSOLUT VODKA, Plymouth Gin, Look magazine, and TV Times magazine.

At this arts and consumer PR agency, my clients included Banksy, Trevor Sorbie and Fatboy Slim.