Kate Clough

Kate joined College Hill in March 2011 after operating as an independent consultant since 2009. She has worked in the communications industry since 1998, primarily for Porter Novelli, following an earlier career in public affairs.

Kate delivers expertise in business-to-business, internal communications and crisis and issues programmes, often with an environmental focus, across a wide range of market sectors.

She has worked extensively with clients in the food and drinks industry including, Kraft Foods, Cadbury Trebor Bassett, General Mills, Diageo, the International Federation of Spirits Producers, and Warburtons.

Kate has also helped a number of clients communicate their environmental and sustainability credentials including Kraft Foods, Lafarge Cement, Royal Haskoning, Toyota and Mobil.

She is a seasoned consultant and takes a strategic overview as well as taking responsibility for day-to-day delivery of projects such as trade media campaigns, and researching and writing communication materials including web-copy, newsletters, briefings and case studies.

During her career Kate has also worked across the pharmaceutical, industrial, public sector, automotive, logistics, and energy/renewable energy sectors delivering a wide range of programmes from crisis and issues, trade media, stakeholder engagement and community relations, to internal communications.

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Carolyn Dealey

Carolyn has more than ten years experience developing integrated PR campaigns for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies in both Europe and the US.

Carolyn’s expertise lies in translating complex subjects into messages that will resonate with target audiences and her clients have spanned a number of sectors from energy and environment to technology, media and telecoms.

She regularly coaches clients on message development and media preparation as well as helping clients handle issues and crises.　 Her experience includes preparedness　 - risk analysis, writing crisis plans and testing through exercises – stakeholder management including running a ‘round the clock’ press office and increasingly the impact of social media on crisis escalation.

Carolyn 　joined College Hill from Burson-Marsteller where she was a Director in the London office leading the UK energy, environment and climate change practice and formerly Burson-Marsteller's San Francisco office where she ran the corporate team.

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Richard Coleman

Richard is a consultant in the corporate and crisis team at College Hill. A former journalist, his PR experience includes account management of clients in the financial, energy, aviation and education sectors. He joined College Hill from a South-East agency where he worked with a broad portfolio of clients that included E.ON, Pfizer, Clydesdale Bank, Horwath Clark Whitehill, the University of Greenwich and a regional airport.

Richard’s communications experience includes extensive media relations work, writing press releases, news articles, features and announcements, as well as being as a member of an outsourced press office. Richard’s background also includes strong public affairs and community relations experience, having worked on a number of projects in the energy and aviation sectors. His clients at College Hill include Environmental Business Products, Assertis and DHL PSP.

Before pursuing a career in PR, Richard spent three years working in regional journalism, first as a news reporter and then as a writer/sub-editor on the sports desk, where he contributed and edited content across nine weekly newspapers.

Richard has an MA in International Relations and Philosophy from the University of St Andrews.

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Jeremy Durrant

Jeremy is a consultant in the corporate team at College Hill. He is a former award-winning journalist and his PR experience includes account management of clients in the financial, insurance, education, energy, food and tourism sectors.

Jeremy has worked on a variety of clients ranging from E.ON, Pfizer, Horwath Clark Whitehill, the University of Greenwich, Belmont International, Clydesdale Bank and the Tour de France.

He has experience in the financial sector working for professional services clients in the accountancy and banking sectors. He has also worked closely with Belmont International, a leading UK independent insurance intermediary and financial services adviser.

Jeremy also has a strong background in public affairs and community relations having worked on a number of on-going projects especially in the energy sector. Jeremy was part of the team, involve with the London Array project to build the world’s largest off-shore windfarm. He was also heavily involved in community relations support for plans by E.ON to redevelop and rebuild their coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth.

His clients at College Hill include General Healthcare Group, Knight, VistaJet, IDOX, Mondo Visione and EBI Food Safety.

Before pursuing a career in PR, Jeremy spent nearly eight years working in regional journalism on both news and sport.

Jeremy holds a BA in Journalism from Southampton Solent University.

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Duncan Mackenzie-Reid

Duncan is a Partner in College Hill’s corporate practice, specialising in corporate reputation, crisis communications and media relations. He has more than twenty years’ experience leading teams on behalf of clients such as Barclays Bank Group, Aviva, Coca Cola, Tesco, GKN, British Midland, Sea Containers and Unilever.

A former Whitehall civil servant and Government trade negotiator, he switched into political lobbying for a short spell before settling into a lengthy career in corporate communications. His recent work has won a number of awards including PR Week’s Best Business Campaign, Best Consumer Campaign and Campaign of the Year.

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Zoe March

Zoё is a Senior Consultant with extensive corporate and B2B agency experience within the private and public sectors, covering media relations, stakeholder and community engagement, issues management, as well as print and web production.

Her experience spans sectors including property and construction, regeneration, energy, packaging, recycling, waste management, local government and central government agencies, technology and professional services.

Having graduated with a 2:1 in History and Criminology from the University of Essex, Zoë began her career at award-winning PR consultancy, Mosaic Publicity. Since then she has worked for a number of clients, including Spicerhaart, Persimmon Homes, RWE npower, Corus, Nampak Plastics, WRAP, WRG and Peterborough City Council.

As well as being a key member of the communications team that launched the world’s first recycled content HDPE milk bottle, Zoё also developed communications strategies to re-position steel as a modern and sustainable packaging material and worked closely with WRAP, local authorities and their stakeholders to increase plastic bottle collection and recycling rates in the UK.

Zoe holds a Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ Advanced Certificate, in which she achieved a Distinction.

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Kate Hessian

Kate joined Razor in 2006 and, as an account executive, is responsible for numerous activities including: preparing coverage reports, evaluation documents and methodology; running media monitoring services; producing intelligence reports; identifying feature, speaker and networking opportunities; researching case studies; managing photo shoots; and attending exhibitions and presentations.

She has delivered media relations and/or crisis communications work for Westminster Abbey, engineering consultancy MWH UK Ltd, J A Magson, BITA, Radical, red24, Rachel’s Organic, Cargill, Sainsbury’s, Isotrak, XL Insurance and Volac.

She has managed Razor’s own PR programme for the last four years and has a proven track record in securing excellent media opportunities for Razor. She is well networked within food and drink industry media.

In addition, Kate assists with the delivery of Razor’s media training and crisis and risk training services.

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Lorna Campbell

Lorna joined Razor as a specialist copywriting and media consultant, following twelve years as an independent.

Her experience includes working with IBM to plan and run media campaigns, briefing and training spokespeople and handling issues management as required.

Lorna has handled media projects and corporate communications for a range of clients including Cargill, MWH, Fiserv, Visa EU, the National Physical Laboratory and Diamond Light Source. She also has experience of working for the media, not for profit, and professional services sectors.

She is also a highly experienced media trainer - trainees have included Standard Life, IBM, NPL, HP:ICM, Mesmo and Morgan Leith (MLP) executives.

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Julie O’Hare

Julie has over 15 years’ experience of managing integrated communications programmes for clients in the health, education, arts and voluntary sectors.

She has a successful track record in delivering national and regional media relations campaigns. She has acted as media spokesperson for a number of high-profile charities on a range of issues including healthy eating, obesity, exercise and smoking.

Whilst at the British Heart Foundation she worked on a number of food awareness projects as part of the charity's campaign to combat childhood obesity. She also researched and produced a Healthy Lifestyle guide for Sure Start parents (Child's Play) on behalf of North Birmingham Primary Care Trust, with the aim of encouraging parents to act on the 'Five-a-Day' message.

She has a strong background in internal communications, stakeholder relations and has been responsible for corporate identity and publications programmes for her clients. In her work for voluntary sector clients, she has played a key role in co-ordinating high-profile visits by MPs, celebrities and Royalty, including the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Julie is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and a former Chairman of the Institute’s Midlands Group. She was recently awarded Accredited Practitioner Status by the CIPR.

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Floyd Jebson

Floyd worked for 12 years in local newspapers in production and journalism, before studying full-time for a degree in Communication, Culture and Media as a mature student. During his time at university he developed broadcasting skills working for BBC local radio and studied for six months at the University of Liege in Belgium as part of an EU exchange programme.

After his degree he became a university Press Officer, dealing with regional and national media, before joining Royal Mail Group as a Media Relations Manager, then moving on to Alliance & Leicester as Communications Manager with responsibility for current accounts, credit cards and ATMs.

As well as working in house Floyd also has agency experience. He joins Razor from a Birmingham-based agency where, amongst other clients, he undertook general media relations, including a programme of MP visits, for a FTSE100 pub company.

Floyd is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, a member of CAMRA and a keen supporter of Coventry City.

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Nikki Barber

Nikki is a Associate Partner with both agency and in-house communications experience within the private, public and voluntary sectors, covering media relations, crisis and issues management, internal communications, as well as web and publication production.

Nikki began her career working for leading communications consultancy Porter Novelli, specialising in trade and consumer media relations programmes for food clients such as Kraft Foods, Heinz and Danish Bacon which also incorporated a crisis and issues programme. Other clients included WorldCom, Toyota, Bodum and GlaxoSmithKline.

Nikki then moved in-house to the Food Standards Agency as a Senior Press Officer on the Consumer Health and Nutrition Team working on the salt campaign, healthy eating projects, food in schools initiatives and memorably coping with the national broadcast media during the Sudan 1 recall.

Before joining Razor Nikki became PR Manager for Helen & Douglas House, a pioneering charity providing hospice care for children and young adults in Oxford, driving forward all external and internal communications for the organisation.

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Andrew Vincent

Andrew is a specialist media practitioner with 18 years' experience in consumer and trade press, PR, marketing communications and online content.

After 10 years as a magazine journalist in consumer technology, Andrew moved into high-tech PR, managing programmes for clients including Philips, Samsung, B&W Loudspeakers, Global Interactive Gaming and Argogroup. During this time he evangelised the introduction of many new technology products including recordable DVD, Bluetooth short-range wireless connectivity, interactive betting and Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) middleware.

Between 2002 and 2006 Andrew operated his own freelance communications consultancy, delivering tactical marcoms, online content and media relations. He was the launch editor of a global web-based health awareness platform sponsored by Eli Lilly & Co., participated in the 2005 redevelopment of Robbie Williams's online presence, and provided media relations support to the European Imaging & Sound Association (EISA). His work in the charitable sector included annual reports for The Attlee Foundation and similar organisations.

Andrew specialises in the transformation of sophisticated client attributes and product benefits into comprehensible media messages tailored precisely for all audiences. Additional sector experience encompasses IT, sports goods, online retail, education, recruitment and financial services.

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Victoria Cross

With more than ten years' communications experience, Victoria is a Partner at College Hill and Razor, working from our London and Oxford offices. As well as a wide variety of UK and international client work, she has developed business for an award-winning crisis service and becoming a trained facilitator of creative thinking.

Starting her career as a trainee at international agency Porter Novelli, in 2005 she joined specialist environment, food chain and rural affairs consultancy. She was promoted to the board in 2006. Her extensive experience of media relations and communications consultancy has operated across sectors including agriculture, animal health, food and drink, financial services, education, environment, government, marketing services, property and professional services. She has worked with businesses as diverse as ABN Amro, British Potato Council, CPM, David Wilson Homes, Dun & Bradstreet, General Mills, GlaxoSmithKline, Mobil, Novartis Animal Health, Paragon Healthcare Group, Pegasus Retirement Homes and PwC.

Other client experience includes the, then, Countryside Agency and Department of Trade & Industry Innovation Group, the Confederation of British Industry, the Home Office, the Defra-funded resource efficiency programme, Envirowise and Oxford Brookes University.

In addition to highly successful media relations programme in the national media and crisis training across Europe, Victoria is a trained and experienced focus group and strategy workshop facilitator.

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Andy Cuerel

Andy joined Razor as a business continuity & risk manager having worked previously in the utility and retail food sectors and prior to this in civil engineering. He has had considerable experience in all areas of operational risk management specialising in incident management protocols and desk-top simulation exercises.

He has written a number of business continuity plans in response to terrorism threats, plant failure and avian flu and has managed numerous IT disaster recovery testing programmes.

He has also been actively involved in several serious business interruption incidents most notably the 2005 London bombings.

Andy possesses a Diploma in Business Continuity Management and is a member of the Business Continuity Institute. He has lectured in incident management at Coventry University’s School of Disaster Management and written a number of continuity articles for the specialist press.

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Julia Johnson

Julia has worked on a broad range of corporate, consumer and trade communications campaigns during her two decades in PR.

With a particular passion for food PR, she has run programmes for many leading companies and brands in the sector including Kraft Foods, Danish Bacon & Meat Council, Carlsberg UK, Cow & Gate Nutricia, Heinz/Farleys and Ribena ToothKind.

Julia’s experience also spans other sectors, with clients including Solutia (laminated glass), Lumonics (laser equipment), Tinsley Robor (print and packaging), Braun, G R Lane Health Products (herbal medicines), National Breastfeeding Week, Aylesbury Vale Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Northamptonshire Training & Enterprise Council.

Julia is also a seasoned crisis and risk manager. She has developed a communications programme to combat a potential Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry, prepared crisis plans for a pan-European food manufacturer, delivered crisis training on an international level and managed many live crises.

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Chris Woodcock

Former press journalist, Chris, has over 20 years’ experience in the communications industry, both in the media and as a consultant. She has worked with dozens of large international and smaller food and manufacturing businesses since the mid- 1980's, ranging from ingredients and flavours producers to fmcg brands in food and beverage.

Strategic and corporate and internal communications briefs have been common, alongside media training, complex issues management linked to safety and regulatory risks and media relations in many forms.

Chris is also a renowned crisis, risk and issues expert in Europe, having invented and run one of the world's foremost crisis communications and media training services when she was a Group director at her previous consultancy. The service won the profession’s first award for Innovation in Consultancy Practice.

Product recalls, company restructures, mergers and acquisitions, product related and regulatory issues and corporate controversy have all been tackled by Chris and her teams. Clients in this area have ranged from McDonald's UK, Kraft, Cow & Gate and Pillsbury Europe to ICI, Hasbro, Gillette and Hanson.

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