The College Group

1st May 2012 - Tim Fallon, former Head of Corporate & International Affairs at Hill & Knowlton, joins College Group’s Executive Board, with immediate effect, as Managing Partner of College Hill’s Corporate practice.

Utilising his international experience and wide-ranging sector expertise, he will focus on further building the Practice that has already doubled in size in the last four years and the firm’s integrated campaigns, spanning business communications areas including risk management and strategic counsel, national and international corporate reputation, and digital communications, and on expanding the College Hill coaching and senior advisory services. 

Meanwhile, long-term former Corporate head, Chris Woodcock, who sold her own consultancy into College Group in 2008, remains a Managing Partner of the business, advising the firm’s wider Business Communications practices, leading on senior coaching and risk management assignments and retaining involvement in key clients.

The multi-talented Fallon’s previous roles include managing director of public affairs at H&K, head of public and community affairs at J Sainsbury and a period in a senior communications role at BAA.

Group Chief Executive Richard Nichols said: “Timing is everything, and we are very excited that Tim joins us at the start of a further period of rapid growth, planned for both the Corporate practice and the wider Group.

Our Corporate offer, spanning reputation management, crisis and risk expertise and coaching, is more than holding its own on any international stage, so our continued success will depend on us playing to our strengths and leveraging the considerable intellectual property we have built up in the team.”

Tim Fallon also commented: “I’m delighted to be joining College Group at such an exciting time in their growth and development. Everything is in place to grow the College Group into a new generation, top tier, international business communications consultancy, and I’m excited to be a member of an Executive Board charged with shaping and leading this agency in the future.”