Adrian leads College Hill’s Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) team and also looks after a number of clients in the life sciences sector. He has some 23 years’ experience in media and investor relations, having joined College Hill from the corporate communications team at Reuters Group, where he was involved in all aspects of the Group’s international corporate communications.
Andrew is a Senior Consultant in the Corporate team. He is a specialist media adviser with 20 years' experience in marketing communications and online content. A former magazine journalist in consumer technology, Andrew moved into high-tech PR, managing programmes for leading brand clients in audio and home entertainment systems as well as in gaming. Market expertise includes logistics, food ingredients and technnology, and is an experienced crisis management trainer.
Anne is the Managing Partner of College Hill Asia. Her Hong Kong-based team provides clients with a wide range of IR and financial services. Prior to this, Anne worked at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney as an investment banker in the infrastructure advisory team in London. She is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English.
Carolyn is a Senior Consultant and has more than 10 years' experience developing integrated PR campaigns for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies in both Europe and the US. Her key areas of expertise are positioning and messaging, stakeholder outreach and crisis and issues management. She joined College Hill from an international agency where she was a Director in the London office leading the UK energy, environment and climate change practice and formerly the agency's San Francisco office where she ran the corporate team.
Carsten is a Managing Partner with Stockheim Media, College Hill's German partner. He has worked at practically every level of the investment and finance industry including various jobs in private banking, PR and financial controlling at Deutsche Bank. Carsten has also worked at DWS Investments in Frankfurt, developing product and marketing strategies as well as being the company’s spokesman and acting public relations director.
Chris is a Partner of College Hill Life Sciences and provides creative direction. He has 10 years’ commercial branding experience in science communication across a wide range of design disciplines, including the creation and application of corporate brands, the design of corporate literature and websites and devising creative advertising and direct mail campaigns. Chris has a BA (Hons) in Design.
Chris is a Managing Partner at College Hill, heading up its Corporate practice. Her specialist expertise is in issues and risk management (corporate governance) and media relations. She has advised boardrooms, and CEOs on a wide variety of strategic business milestones and challenges. Chris has also designed and run diverse coaching and training services.
Derrick leads All about the Idea. He has more than 30 years’ experience of brand communication, as a client in the 70s when he helped build the BMW brand, and then as a creative consultant co-founding a leading international brand-focused communications company
A senior consultant based in Melbourne, Douglas has 15 years’ experience in life sciences communications providing corporate, financial, healthcare and marketing communications support for quoted and private company clients. He was General Manager of the Munich office where he serviced clients from Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and prior to that was based in London and New York. He has a PhD in Neuropsychopharmacology from the University of Cambridge and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Edinburgh University.
A 14-year career spanning research, communications, and business management which means Christelle combines strong communications skills gained in the Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals and Cleantech sectors, with hands-on entrepreneurial management skills and a deeply rooted science understanding. She manages significant client projects, and supports the Life Sciences team in operational management and marketing. M.Sc. in Immunology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and PhD in Ophthalmic Immunology from Imperial College. Born in France, she has lived in the UK for more than 14 years and is fluent in both French and English.
Duncan is a Partner in College Hill’s Corporate practice, specialising in corporate reputation, business-to-business communications and market positioning. He has more than 20 years’ experience and has won numerous industry awards in recent years including PR Week’s Campaign of the Year, Best Business Campaign and Best Consumer Campaign.
Eileen is Projects Director for College Hill Life Sciences’ Manchester office. A co-founder of our Munich office, she has extensive experience in managing and directing design projects as part of our clients’ corporate, financial and marketing communications. With a PhD in Molecular Biology, Eileen has 15 years of scientific research experience and has served as a Scientific Consultant to Pfizer.
Frederic is a Partner in College Hill’s South Africa office with some nine years experience in the media relations and financial communications fields. Previously with Arcay Communications, the then affiliate company of GCI and APCO worldwide in South Africa, Frederic has particular knowledge and experience of the ICT, infrastructure and mining sectors.
Geoff is a Senior Consultant. He was Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications and Global Community Partnerships for GlaxoSmithKline. He led the global corporate communications function for 23 years, advising successive chairmen and chief executives on the company's reputation in a period of rapid growth and encompassing two major mergers. In addition to his role at College Hill, Geoff is a member of the Council of the University of Leeds and a Board Trustee of Opera North.
Henry is a Partner for College Hill in Asia. Prior to joining College Hill, he was the Director of Investor Relations at Citigate Dewe Rogerson. He has 15 years’ experience in the financial sector and is a CFA charter holder and member of the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Ian has 25+ years’ sales and sales management experience in STM publishing and conferences in The USA and Europe. He lead the US Display advertising team for Nature from their office in New York City and established the US office for Select Biosciences, a Life Sciences conference organizer, producing events on cutting edge topics attracting global audiences. He has extensive experience in helping US companies in the fields of analytical chemistry, life science research and clinical diagnostics globalize their marketing activities.
Jacques is a Partner in College Hill’s South Africa. He has more than 17 years’ experience in the industry and has held positions including Marketing Director for Standard & Poor's structured finance credit ratings in Europe. Jacques completed an MBA focused on Investor Relations and has substantial expertise in web-based quantitative and qualitative research, advertising and PR evaluation.
James has unrivalled experience in advising the media sector and is a Partner of College Hill, where he leads the international media practice. He began his career as a broadcaster and is a member of BAFTA and the RTS.
Jeremy is a Senior Consultant in the Corporate team. He is a former award-winning journalist and his PR experience includes strategic advice and delivery to clients in the healthcare, financial, insurance, education, energy, food and tourism sectors. He is also an experienced media coach, working across Europe. Jeremy has a strong background in public affairs and community relations, with particular emphasis on the energy sector.
Jon is a highly-experienced marketing communications professional, having spent more than 20 years working with IT, professional services, biotechnology and other technology-based organisations. He has extensive PR experience on both in consultancy and in-house. Prior to joining College Hill, Jon was Head of Communications & Investor Relations for Xenova Group PLC, a UK-based biotechnology company.
Julia is a Senior Consultant in the Corporate team. She is an experienced programme manager and media relations practitioner, spanning consumer and B2B briefs. She is also a proficient media trainer and has devised and run reputation training and presentation coaching for a variety of organisations. In crisis and issues management, she has helped numerous food and drink companies to pre-empt, train for and manage live risks and crises. Her work in this area includes devising and leading crisis and product recall simulation exercises.
Justine is Partner and co-leader of College Hill’s Leisure team and has built a reputation as adviser of choice with many management teams in the sector. Justine is known for her insight into her clients’ businesses, and for her messaging capability. Justine has advised many leisure companies on their relationships with the media and the market whilst at the same time serving her clients with energy and integrity.
Kay is a senior member of College Hill's TMT team. A former journalist, she has 18 years' experience in financial communications. Kay worked for more than 10 years as a financial journalist at Nikkei in Tokyo, and subsequently in the London bureau of Dow Jones Newswires as media reporter before becoming TMT European news editor. A committee member of the CIPR’s Corporate and Financial Group, she has also worked for Powerscourt and Penrose Financial.
Leonid has many years of experience in financial communications working for a variety of Russian and CIS clients. Prior to this, he had a successful career in business journalism, spending over 15 years at the BBC, where he worked for the BBC World Service (Russian Service), as the Business Editor, and commented on the Russia and CIS business affairs for the World Business Report. Leonid has a Master of Arts in Journalism from the Moscow State University.
Lynne is a Partner at College Hill Life Sciences. She has 10 years’ experience in life sciences marketing and communications. Previously, Lynne was Novartis' NIBR and Pharma Development Communications Manager in the UK. She has held various senior marketing roles at ID Business Solutions, Tripos Discovery Research and Sirius Analytical Instruments. Lynne has a DPhil in Chemistry.
Mark is a Partner at College Hill where he leads the Industrials team. He manages a diverse portfolio of clients spanning industrial transportation, construction and support services. Over the past 25 years, he has advised clients across a range of sectors and geographies and gained extensive experience of advising companies on hostile bid and defence work, corporate transactions and fund raisings. Mark joined the business from a management consultancy background.
Mark has a 20 year track record in corporate and financial PR, investor relations, marketing and advertising. He also has significant international expertise having worked in Europe, the Middle East, China and Japan. Recently he worked in-house at Dubai International Capital and previously as a PR consultant at Kreab Gavin Anderson advising financial services institutions. He began his career at JWT.
Matthew is a College Hill Partner and co-leader of the Leisure team. He has nearly 25 years’ capital markets experience, firstly as a market maker, followed by 20 years with us during which time he has developed an exceptional ability to support his clients’ investment cases through working with the business media and market analysts. Matthew has worked on many major transactions within the sector over the past two decades.
Matthew has more than 25 years’ experience and has worked on numerous transactions of all sizes, including IPOs, M&A and secondary fund raisings. He has given strategic advice to a diversity of companies in the sector and has knowledge of a broad range of commodities, particularly precious and base metals. He is also a member and former Deputy Chairman of the Association of Mining Analysts. Prior to joining the financial communications industry Matthew worked in corporate broking and specialist equity sales for a number of leading investment banks and was ranked the No. 1 Mining specialist salesperson in the London EXTEL survey for a number of years.
Matthias is Managing Partner with Stockheim Media, College Hill’s German partner. A graduate industrial engineer and banker, he is a recognised expert in the media and communications industry. For 14 years he worked for the publishing company Gruner + Jahr in Hamburg, Paris and Cologne and was also formerly publishing director of Capital and Impulse, where he was a member of the board of management.
Melanie works for College Hill Life Sciences and has more than 10 years’ experience in financial and corporate communications. Prior to joining College Hill, she built and established the life sciences practice at the Hogarth Partnership and was a partner in Financial Dynamics’ Life Sciences team. Previously, she worked at Price Waterhouse and is a qualified chartered accountant. Melanie has a BA in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.
Michael is co-founder of Great Circle, specialising in communications in the environmental and sustainability in industry sectors as diverse as financial, mobile technology, entertainment, mapping, food and drink, and energy. He worked as an environmental policy specialist with Aspinwall before establishing the Indonesian environment and forestry division of SGS, the world's biggest independent inspection company. Michael is a geographer with a PhD in remote sensing and GIS.
Mike is a Partner in College Hill’s Industrials team. After qualifying as an accountant with Arthur Andersen, he joined James Capel where he advised on 3i Group’s IPO before joining 3i to head up investor relations. Mike subsequently led corporate communications and investor relations at The Rank Group and Fox Kids Europe, as well as heading investor relations at Invensys. Most recently, he was a senior Director at Bell Pottinger.
Morne Reinders is an Account Director in the South African office with thirteen year's experience in investor and public relations on both the consulting and corporate side, most of which in the financial services field. He has gathered excellent knowledge across the entire corporate affairs spectrum including IPOs, dual listings, crisis communications and work for pan-African nationals.
Nicholas is Partner and head of College Hill’s South Africa office, prior to which he was with Barclays Bank. With more than 12 years’ financial and business communications, he has advised companies across a range of sectors in Africa and Europe on many high profile transactions including IPOs, M&As and fundraisings.
Nick is a Partner in College Hill’s Natural Resources team and has worked on numerous cross border IPOs and M&A campaigns. He spent two years running the Johannesburg office and for the last five years has focused solely on natural resources advising a number of clients including Dana Petroleum, Sondex and Aurelian Oil and Gas.
Nicole is an Associate Partner in Life Sciences, an area in which she has worked for more than ten years. Her experience spans journalism, marketing communications and PR roles. She was Head of Marketing for BTG plc, and has held editorial positions with several industry publications including Scrip World Pharmaceutical News and BioPartnering magazine. Nicole has a Medical Sciences degree and is completing an MBA at Warwick Business School.
Nikki is an Associate Partner in the College Hill Corporate team. She has over 12 years’ agency and in-house communications experience within the private, public and voluntary sectors. Her extensive food industry experience includes a range of issues management and B2B programmes for some major brands – underpinned by her time at the Food Standards Agency on the Consumer Health and Nutrition team. Other market expertise includes engineering, packaging, water and property. She is an accomplished media and presentation coach and facilitator of workshops.
OP is Director of Strategy based at College Hill in Mumbai. He has twenty five years experience in corporate communications in a number of market segments. He is a commerce graduate with a post graduate diploma in mass communication and journalism. OP’s previous career was as a finance journalist with Economic Times, Business Standard, Times of India, Dow Jones Telerate, Knight Ridder Financial News and latterly with Financial Express as Deputy Editor, Finance & Banking.
Philip works in the College Hill Natural Resources team and has worked in communications for 30 years. He has wide experience in the energy industry; he was corporate affairs director of BNFL Group and held a senior role with Gazprom, where he advised the company on its entry into energy markets in the UK, US and France. During this period, Gazprom leveraged its strong physical asset base to build a global energy trading capability and LNG business.
Rebecca manages Stockheim Media's New York office and has been with the company since 2005. The business and modern language graduate started her career as a lecturer in English linguistics. She has specialised in international PR and has many years' experience in the area of CEO positioning and traditional corporate communications.
Rebecca is a Senior Consultant for the Life Sciences team and heads their US offering, based in Boston. She was with Buchanan Communications for nine years as a Director, prior to which she worked in Australia at UBS Warburg. Rebecca has advised on many successful IPO’s and secondary market fundraisings in addition to devising and implementing successful IR and FPR programmes for public and private life sciences and healthcare companies. Rebecca holds a Bachelor degree in commercial law.
Robert is General Manager of the Munich office. During his five years with College Hill, he has supported public and private biotech, medtech, diagnostic, VC and pharmaceutical clients and has a great understanding of the German language media landscape and of international and English language publications. He has experience across financial, corporate, marketing and design programmes. He has a PhD in Human Genetics and valuable experience in journalism. A German native, Robert is fluent in written and spoken English, with a good knowledge of Italian at a conversational level.
Sue is Managing Partner of College Hill Life Sciences following the acquisition of Northbank Communications which she co-founded. She has more than 20 years’ communications experience, across financial, corporate, science and marketing communications and has managed many notable campaigns including Dolly the Sheep. Sue has spent time as CEO of a biotech spin-out and has had a number of non-executive positions. She has a first class degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and an MBA.
Tim Fallon is a Managing Partner and member of College Group’s Executive Management Team. He has day to day responsibility for the company’s Corporate Practice and in the past has held senior international, corporate and public affairs roles for Hill & Knowlton, Sainsburys, Bell Pottinger and BAA plc.
Tony is a Partner and leads College Hill’s Financial Services team, where he gives strategic advice and support to a range of UK and international banks, insurance companies and fund management organisations. He has more than 25 years’ experience advising clients around the world and has worked on numerous major M&A, fund raising and listing projects. Tony previously worked in investment banking and corporate broking.
Ulrich is founder and Managing Partner of Stockheim Media, College Hill's German office. He is a trained journalist and economist who worked as Editor of the publication Wertpapier, where he developed the first German newsletter on investment funds. Ulrich later became Managing Director of its publishing house. He has also worked for Capital, specialising in funds and international investment and became its first Wall Street correspondent. Ulrich also appeared regularly on WDR television as Mr Daks and has written two books.
Victoria is a Partner in College Hill’s Corporate team. She has almost 15 years’ communications experience working with clients across a wide range of sectors throughout Europe. An experienced coach, Victoria has run influencing and presentation skills, assertiveness and media training courses for senior executives. Her risk and crisis management experience is extensive and she is also a specialist in sustainability communications. She has lectured on various aspects of communications at both the University of Oxford and the University of Kingston-Upon-Thames.
Zoë is a Senior Consultant in the Corporate team with extensive corporate and B2B agency experience within the private and public sectors, covering media relations, stakholder and community engagment, issues management, as well as print and web production. Her expertise spans sectors including food, packaging, property and construction, regeneration, energy generation, sustainability, recycling, waste management, local government and central government agencies, technology and professional services.