HILL+KNOWLTON (SEA) - Key Persons
Alain Berger - Chief Strategy Officer
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- Executive
- Strategy Director
- Executive Strategy Director, Interim General Manager
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- First Global Chief Client Officer
- Global Chief Client Officer
Alison Eyles-Owen is H+K's first Global Chief Client Officer, a highly accomplished and award-winning strategic communications leader who is passionate about identifying and unlocking powerful human insights that shape distinctive and compelling brand narratives; translating campaign ideas into effective business building communications strategies. She is a trusted advisor for many of the agency's largest client relationships, highly adept at creating compelling influencer and advocacy strategies; leading integrated brand building campaigns and developing effective corporate social responsibility programmes. Alison is passionate about helping companies bring to life their corporate purpose, accelerating companies' citizenship commitments as a differentiator that delivers meaningful change to employees, stakeholders and consumers, as well as being a catalyst for driving reputation.
Alison has deep expertise designing and delivering some of the agencies most highly effective and awarded corporate social responsibility campaigns. She is experienced across multiple aspects of citizenship communications including environmental, social and economic. She regularly supports companies and their executives developing compelling narratives and initiatives that build personal equity and profile for the executive while driving the visibility and reputation of the company, particularly at prominent industry events such as World Economic Forum Davos, CES and Cannes where cutting through the clutter is an imperative to be heard.
Alison has 20 year's communications experience; outside her role at H+K, she is an external consultant to the Glyndebourne Executive Board; a member of Women on Boards; a founding member of the WPP Advisory Board for Women (Stella) and provides mentorship to rising female talent to actively address the gender gap in the communications industry.
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- Global Chief Financial Officer
Andy is Global CFO and a member of H+K's global council. He is responsible for the leadership and oversight of worldwide finance and operation functions, as well as H+K's acquisition strategy- working with the senior leadership team in identifying acquisition candidates with emphasis on the faster growing practices and geographic markets.
Andy has been in finance for 30 years and for the past 18 years with WPP companies: Y&R, the Brand Union and Burson-Marsteller. He has worked as a CFO, Director of Planning and Analysis and Worldwide Controller.
Prior to joining WPP, he worked for Coopers & Lybrand (PWC), Philip Morris (Altria) and Bristol-Myers Squibb - all in NYC - in increasing levels of responsibility.
Andy has a BS in Mathematics & Computer Science, an MBA with a concentration in accounting and he is also a CPA.
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- Senior Director, Hong Kong
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- Executive Vice President, New York
- Managing Director, Consumer Packaged Goods
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- Human Resources Executive
Azurée is an accomplished human resources executive with demonstrated expertise in talent acquisition and management, learning and development and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has dedicated her career to creating high-performing, innovative and psychologically safe work environments with equal opportunities for all. She currently serves as Hill+Knowlton's Global Head of Talent Management and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion where she draws on almost two decades of experience in employee experience and engagement, organizational culture, and leadership development.
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- CEO, Middle East, Turkey, India, Africa
- CEO, Middle East, Turkey, India, Africa ( METIA ), Continental Europe and the Nordics
- Chief Executive Officer of Hill
- Chief Executive Officer, MENAT
Bashar is Chief Executive Officer of Hill + Knowlton METIA, overseeing H+K's growing business across the Middle East, Turkey, India and Africa (METIA), Continental Europe and the Nordics, responsible for the company's network of wholly owned offices and affiliate partners across the region.
Bashar has enjoyed a successful 28-year career in public relations and the media business, bringing significant regional experience and international insights to benefit clients. He has lived and worked in the UK, UAE, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain. He serves as senior advisor to c-suite across the region.
Prior to joining H+K, Bashar held several senior communications posts, including director of public affairs at The Coca-Cola Company for the Middle East and Africa. He was a founding member of Intermarkets Public Relations in Dubai in 1992 and served on the Board of IraQna (an Orascom company), the first mobile phone network in Iraq, in 2004/05.
Fluent in Arabic and English, Bashar holds a B.Sc. Honours degree from Queen Mary College, University of London.
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- Japan Business Development & Client Service
Brenna Terry is Global Chair, Healthcare at Hill+Knowlton Strategies and serves on the firm's Global Leadership Council. She is responsible for the vision, strategy, client relationships, and development of H+K's global healthcare business. With more than two decades working in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and broader health and wellness spaces, Brenna has developed a true passion for impactful healthcare communications
Before H+K, Brenna most recently led enterprise engagement and communications for the North America division of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, where she oversaw the planning and implementation of an integrated communications strategy, framework and narrative encompassing organizational, executive, and social/digital communications. Brenna built and developed a diverse, talented team charged with driving understanding, alignment, and engagement with Janssen's core priorities across the company's 5,000+ employees and key external stakeholders throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Prior to Janssen, Brenna served as J&J's Global Leader, Executive Communications & Public Affairs, where she created and executed a strategic communications platform supporting the Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee. She also served as Chief of Staff for J&J's external engagement working group, leading a cross-functional, cross-regional team charged with overseeing the company's enterprise external engagement process for J&J's nearly 700 global corporate affairs colleagues worldwide, as well as developing the company's global COVID-19 external engagement strategy. Earlier in her career, Brenna held various leadership roles on the agency side of the business, counseling senior leaders across the healthcare industry on product, franchise, R&D and corporate communications challenges.
Brenna holds Bachelor's degrees in Advertising & Public Relations and Comparative Literature from the Pennsylvania State University, and a Master of Business Administration, with specializations in Global Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Brian leads the Hill+Knowlton Strategies business serving the dynamic and diverse region of Latin America. His expertise in marketing communications strategy and building businesses internationally has been developed over a 25+ year career living and working throughout the region. With regional headquarter functions based out of Miami, FL and São Paulo, Brazil, H+K Latin America maintains owned operations in the major markets of Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia, with full capabilities across the region in partnership with H+K affiliates. As CEO, Brian partners with a leadership team of local market experts to provide senior counsel to the company's clients, ensuring the delivery of impactful results and return-on-investment.
Brian joined H+K's Global Leadership Council following the 2022 acquisition of JeffreyGroup, the leading independent agency with an exclusive focus on serving large multinationals and global brand across Latin America. He first joined JeffreyGroup in 2000; and as CEO since 2015, led the firm through a period of significant growth with revenues tripling under his leadership. Brian directed the firm's expanded capabilities in data analytics and the development of its Social Impact and Purpose practice area, which provides counsel on ESG issues as part of corporate sustainability, reputation, and brand purpose programs. During his tenure, the agency consistently garnered industry and client recognition for its strategic and creative programs and solidified its reputation as the leading independent agency in the Latin America region.
In addition to his experience at JeffreyGroup, Brian previously held marketing and management positions at a U.S. environmental technology company, a leading insurance provider, and an Ecuadoran division of a U.S. mining company. Brian serves on the Board of the Missouri State University Foundation, holds an MBA and Master's in International Business from the University of Miami, and is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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- Global Services Supervisor
Carl is a seasoned professional with exemplary management and linguistic skills. A team player and strong performer in high-pressure situations where stringent deadlines need to be met.
Previous experience include running his own logistics company in the UK for eighteen years to overseeing two start-up companies in Turkey. The first a logistics operation for a well-known French multi-national and the second opening a distribution company for one of America's largest video conference vendors on behalf of their biggest German distributor. Vast experience in the education sector in Turkey with several senior positions in management in addition to being a qualified English teacher.
In his earlier days Carl completed his degree in General Commerce at Manchester Polytechnic and has been involved in the business sector ever since. Carl obtained his first English teaching certificate in 2007.
A keen sportsman having played semi-professional football in England and also an avid golfer, snowboarder and skier. In addition to his native English Carl speaks reasonable Turkish having lived in Turkey for the last 15 years.
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- Director - Corporate & Brand
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- Employee
- First Global Chief Technology Officer
- Global Chief Technology Officer
As the firm's first Global Chief Technology Officer, Grant will advance Hill+Knowlton's end-to-end technology and intelligence strategy. He is charged with working across H+K and WPP to build the firm's ecosystem of technology-based offerings and improve the use of data science and analytics to drive client success and employee growth and experience. He will act as a key support for large clients, in new business development and in the disciplined execution of our strategic and transformation initiatives.
Grant joins H+K from ICF Next, where he played a principal role in conceptualizing and launching the agency and integrating nearly a dozen independent businesses under one global brand. He went on to lead large portions of the business, including the Technology, Stakeholder Experience, Customer Loyalty and Strategy & Transformation business units. He also served in key functional roles leading growth and business development, marketing, and analyst relations for the agency.
Prior to ICF Next, Grant led PulsePoint Group as its managing partner and president. Grant joined the firm as its first employee and subsequently built the Organizational Optimization and Transformation practice, before taking responsibility for the boutique strategy firm's overall operations.
Grant has worked with leading clients at Anthem, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chevron, Corteva, CVSHealth, Fannie Mae, General Electric, Hilton, HPE, Hyatt, Johnson & Johnson, Lexus, Kaiser Permanente, Novartis, Pfizer, Toyota, UnitedHealth Group, The Walt Disney Company and Wells Fargo, among others.
A 2021 PR Week Dashboard 25 honoree, Grant is regarded as one of the most influential executives in CommTech. He is also a founding member of the Arthur W. Page Society's PageUp organization, where he currently serves on its operating committee.
Grant is a native of Thibodaux, LA and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
With more than 17 years' experience in communications, 10 of which have been with Hill+Knowlton Strategies Turkey as Deputy General Manager, Hamit possesses a deep-rooted knowledge of the industry both in Turkey and globally. To date, he has provided communication consultancy services to many national and international brands. One of Hamit's areas of special expertise is ‘crisis management' and he has taken the lead position in many crisis situations over the years. A true PR guru Hamit has worked across most sectors including energy, technology, automotive, aerospace & defence, health, real estate, pharma, FMCG, tourism and finance.
Hamit graduated from the Public Relations and Publicity Department of the Faculty of Communication of Istanbul University. He practices English at a high level in addition to his mother tongue of Turkish. Keen on numismatics Hamit has a superb collection of old coins and also enjoys travelling.
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- Corporate Communications Specialist at Hill Knowlton Strategies Uganda & Rwanda
Hassan is a Corporate Communications Specialist at Hill+Knowlton Strategies Uganda & Rwanda. His role is to develop messaging for internal and external communication as well as execute strategy for clients across the two East African markets.
An accountant by qualification, Hassan is passionate about Financial Communications and Fintech. He has conceptualized and implemented strategies for Telecommunications and Financial clients such as Airtel Uganda, VISA and Uganda Insurers Association, with tasks including planning and implementation, sector monitoring and reporting and stakeholder engagement.
One of his most significant assignments was communicating the launch of a savings solution in Eastern Uganda for Airtel Uganda in partnership with Grameen Foundation and Plan Uganda to enable savings groups to store their cash as mobile money.
Hassan has had an opportunity to work for different companies in both the government and private sector. Before working at Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Hassan worked as a Community Liason Officer in Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) and was involved in different resettlement projects for the Project Affected Persons.
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- CEO Gambit
- CEO Gambit H K Norway CEO, the Nordics
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- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President, US
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- Managing Director, H K Argentina
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- Executive
- Chief Communications Officer at United Technologies
- Global Chair, Corporate Affairs and Advisory
Kelli Parsons advises executive teams and boards of directors to manage risk, create reputational capital, and grow business and societal value. She leads global corporate advisory, integrating corporate and financial communication, ESG counsel, crisis management, public affairs, and business transformation.
As Chief Communications Officer at United Technologies, Kelli led the multi-stakeholder communication strategy for the company's transformation, including its integration of Rockwell Collins, spins of Carrier and Otis, and $74 billion merger with Raytheon.
Previously at Fannie Mae, Kelli rebuilt trust and reputation during the historic turnaround of the $3 trillion housing finance company. As CCO, she authored the strategy and message to foster purpose among employees and communicate the company's progress to policy makers and regulators, investors, and consumers. For these achievements, PRWeek recognized Kelli as a most powerful leader and Fannie Mae as in-house communications team of the year.
Earlier, Kelli led H+K's corporate practice, the firm's largest global client relationship, and its New York and Washington, DC markets.
Kelli began her career as an award-winning television journalist. She earned a master's degree from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. She serves on the Page Society and IPR boards of trustees.
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- Managing Director, Hong Kong
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- Managing Director
- Executive Vice President, California
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- Director of Communications
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- Managing Director, Bahrain Kuwait Qatar
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- Managing Director
- Executive Vice President, Chicago
Maggie Lu - Managing Director
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- Managing Director
- Executive Vice President, Texas
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- CEO, Brussels
- CEO, Brussels Co - Continental Europe Lead
- CEO, Continental Europe
- Senior Communications Consultant in Brussels
Melanie is the senior communications consultant in Brussels and leads the firm's EMEA professional communities through its Client Advisory Board which she leads as CEO. Her consulting focus is corporate communications around change, transactions and issues management in sectors including food, finance, energy, industrial and government.
She works extensively with industry associations and corporates internationally, helping them to manage complex supply chain relationships and run change, information and advocacy campaigns. She is a specialist in complex restructuring and downsizing projects, providing consulting advice to corporate boards and local management.
Melanie is an accomplished conference moderator trainer and coach and regularly facilitates leadership team development programs.
Melanie worked in the Middle East for nine years, latterly as regional director in Dubai, having held GM roles in UAE, Bahrain and Qatar. She was previously Associate Director in a London consultancy.
Melanie is a British national, brought up in Holland. She speaks Dutch and some French and holds a joint honors degree in marketing and design from Lancaster University. She sits on the board of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU and was previously on the board of the British Chamber of Commerce and the Institute of Directors. She is a member of the Institute of Directors, the UK Institute of Public Relations and Middle East PR Association.
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- Interim General Manager, Ottawa Senior Vice - President, National Health Wellness Sector Lead
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- Managing Director, Singapore and Malaysia
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- Internal Communications Manager
Pelin brings 17 years experience to her role leading the Hill+Knowlton Strategies Turkey office as general manager. She joined the team in 2013 and since then, has leveraged her deep industry knowledge and relationships to enhance the office's reputation as one of the foremost agencies in the country. Before joining H+K, Pelin worked in both the private and public sectors including the Prime Ministry Investment Agency of Turkey, leading international corporations in various sectors such as telecommunications, technology and hospitality. During her time with the Investment Agency, her mandate was to assist and support foreign investors before, during and after their investment in Turkey. She was also the head of Marketing & PR strategies at the Agency. Following her time at the Prime Ministry Investment Agency, Pelin designed and executed high-profile strategic partnerships at one of the top telecommunication companies in Turkey for four years. She also led the G20 Turkey's Presidency's promotional PR campaign in 2015.
After completing her university degree in Turkey, Pelin earned a Diploma in Marketing from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her master's degree in European Studies at the department of political science at Bosphorus University, Istanbul and thereafter started her PhD at Neuch tel University in Switzerland. With an international outlook and a passion for foreign shores Pelin has spent several years working in both the U.S. and Dubai and visiting 70+ countries is testament to her adventurous nature. A conservationist and nature lover. Pelin speaks native English in addition to her mother tongue.
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- Global Chair, Public Affairs
Philippe joined H+K from McLarty Associates, a leading global strategic business advisory firm where he served in leadership positions in the firm's Brussels and DC offices. At McLarty he advised clients on major transatlantic trade matters; international market entry; government approvals of global mergers; government affairs challenges posed by sanctions regimes; and he implemented strategies in each area. Previously Philippe served as Executive Director in the Washington office of APCO Worldwide, where he led APCO's global government relations practice. Earlier in his tenure at APCO, he served as managing director of the Brussels office; oversaw operations in India, the Middle East and Africa; and ran the Paris office.
Prior to joining APCO, Philippe worked for the spirits division of the French luxury group LVMH in France and Germany; for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva; and at the delegation of the European Commission in Washington, DC.
A dual French and American citizen, Philippe holds a master of science in foreign service from Georgetown University and a master of arts in law (Cantab) from Cambridge University. During the course of his studies, he spent one year at the University of Bonn in Germany as a Konrad Adenauer fellow. He is fluent in French, English, and German.
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- Practice Head - BFSI & Consumer Technology
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- CEO, China
- CEO, Greater China
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- Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
- Hill Knowlton 's Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
As Hill+Knowlton's Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Randa is responsible for the firm's global corporate brand, marketing, and internal and external communications across the entire H+K network.
An innovative marketing leader with deep expertise in brand positioning and integrated communications strategy, Randa has served in a variety of in-house and agency client service roles across advertising and PR agencies, digital start-ups and media companies. She is passionate about helping businesses build intentional differentiation through the intersection of communications, creativity, and craft.
Prior to H+K, Randa was most recently Head of Global Marketing & Brand for Weber Shandwick, where she reimagined the positioning and go-to-market strategy for the firm's global network. In 2021, she led the launch of The Weber Shandwick Collective, formalizing the firm's distinctive ecosystem of specialist agencies. She previously led the agency's integrated digital group in New York, managing engagements for several top clients across the consumer and healthcare practices.
Earlier in her career, Randa was an executive director at The Wall Street Journal, where she led the launch of WSJ Custom Studios, the publisher's first-ever integrated content marketing practice, providing clients with best-in-class content solutions across a variety of platforms, including print, digital, social, mobile, video, and live events. Before WSJ, she held leadership positions in marketing and operations for Federated Media, where she developed influencer and digital media campaigns. Earlier in her career, she worked in the advertising sector, holding account positions at both Ogilvy & Mather and Saatchi & Saatchi.
Randa has a B.A. in Psychology from Georgetown University and a Masters in Design Management from Pratt Institute. She has guest lectured at New York University and Pratt Institute on the state of digital media and social media marketing.
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- Executive Vice President
- Managing Director
- Executive Vice President, Washington
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- Global CEO of H K Subsidiary Ideal
- Global CEO, Ideal
Ricardo Cesar is Global CEO of H+K subsidiary Ideal and a member of the Global Leadership Council at Hill + Knowlton Strategies. He is a founding partner and CEO at Grupo Ideal, a Brazilian holding company that manages communications agencies in the country in association with WPP. Cesar is a senior adviser who has played a pivotal role in defining and implementing communications strategies for multinational corporations such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Softbank, Nike, Nestlé, AbInbev, Volkswagen, Uber, Airbnb, Spotify, GE, to name a few. He has taken a special interest in reputation management amid the digital evolution that is transforming the way the public consumes and shares information.
In 2017 Cesar was featured at the PRWeek Global Power Book, a list of the most influential PR professionals around the world. In 2019 he sat at the jury of the SABRE Awards in Latin America, the most important PR award in the region.
He started his career in the 90's, supporting Microsoft's Corporate Communications team. He then went on to work as an editor and correspondent in London for IDG, one of the largest American IT and telecommunications publishing companies at the time. He was one of the first Brazilian journalists to follow the development of social media in the US and Europe. Having also worked at Valor Econômico, Brazil's largest business and finance daily newspaper, and at EXAME, the country's most prestigious business magazine. After leaving EXAME in September 2007, Ricardo went on to become one of the founding partners at Agência Ideal, which later became Ideal H+K Strategies and consolidated its position as the third biggest PR and corporate communications agency in Brazil.
Ricardo Cesar holds a bachelor's degree in Communications (Journalism) from the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo (ECA - USP) and a post-graduation diploma in Market Communications Management from FGV-EAESP, one of the most prestigious business schools in Brazil. He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
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- Global President and CEO of the Americas
Richard is Global President of Hill+Knowlton Strategies and CEO of the Americas, with responsibility for driving innovation and business transformation across geographies, sectors and services.
Prior to his current role, Richard was CEO of H+K's flagship London operation from 2008 to 2018. During that time, he reorganized the agency around a client-centric ‘depth and breadth' agenda, diversifying the agency's capabilities and launching new products and services. This transformation agenda resulted in seven consecutive years of record growth, an embedded creative culture, and the agency recognized as UK Agency of the Year. Under his direction, this program is now being adapted and implemented globally.
Richard leads a number of the firm's global client relationships. Among these is adidas, with whom he has a relationship stretching back to the agency's appointment in 1993. He cites his client's restless desire for ideas and innovation, for cultural relevance, as context for his ambitions for H+K.
In a seven-year period between his two terms at the agency, Richard held a number of marketing and trading positions with a European retailer serving latterly as Marketing Director, Europe.
Richard is graduate of the University of Manchester, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Trustee of Generation Success - an organization that champions social mobility and diversity across the professional services industries.
Roz Thomas is CEO: Africa of Hill+Knowlton Strategies responsible for driving growth, strategic communications and client engagement across the continent. Prior to that, she was MD of H+K South Africa and before that, was a partner at Corporate Communications Consultants which was acquired by Hill+Knowlton Strategies in August 2013.
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- Global Chief Business Development Officer
Splitting her time between the US and the UK, Sam is responsible for our new business strategy and conversion and the integration of new client partnerships.
Her role is to ensure the right focus and resource is deployed for every new client assignment. She also leads certain client assignments, including overall leadership of our work for Cotton Council International as their global sustainability agency of record.
Sam's responsibilities include the strategic planning and implementation of H+K's marketing, external communications and internal communications globally.
Prior to taking on the responsibilities for Business Development in 2006, Sam set up the Consumer Tech team, which she grew to $2m and included a mix of global and local clients. Specifically, she was H+K's global lead for TomTom, Verisign, Jamster, Shopping.com and AOL and the UK lead for Intel, Play.com and DatingDirect.com, among others. She also ran the global integrated BT Global Challenge account back in 1999-2001. Sam is a graduate in international business and modern languages (BSc 2:1) from Aston University and MSc equivalent for the Ecole de Management (l'IECS) de Strasbourg. She speaks good French and rusty German.
Sara brings over 20 years of experience working on international and domestic communications campaigns for companies in the technology and telecoms space and for those companies using technology to drive innovative business models and solutions and to connect consumers with the latest innovations.
Her work has covered B2B, enterprise and consumer/lifestyle audiences and all aspects of communications discipline from internal communications to PA and advocacy outreach. She leads global campaigns for Tata Communications, Huawei, Mercer Consulting, Microsoft and Wipro Technologies and also advises on multi-national strategy and planning for Intel, LG Electronics and others. In addition, Sara is one of H+K's crisis leads, having handled crises of all kinds for telcos, financial institutions, health organizations and travel industry leaders.
Prior to taking the global role, Sara led the APAC technology practice working with clients including Microsoft, Nexus Guard, Wipro Technologies and others.
Now based in the UK, Sara has lived in six countries over the past 12 years and worked with teams and clients in over 40 markets worldwide.
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- Chief Executive Officer of Hill Knowlton Strategies Italy
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- President and CEO of Hill Knowlton Strategies Canada
- President and CEO, Canada
Sheila Wisniewski is the President and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies Canada. She has over 25 years' experience in public relations and is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of corporate communications, consumer marketing, and influencer engagement.
Sheila joined Hill+Knowlton in 2003. She became general manager of H+K's largest Canadian office and headquarters in Toronto in 2015 and was appointed president and CEO in 2018. With sectoral expertise in technology, consumer goods, health care, and retail, she has led integrated national accounts for such diverse clients as Whirlpool, Coca-Cola, HP, and IKEA.
Sheila holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in English and political science from Trent University and graduated with honors from Humber College's public relations certificate program. She is passionate about social issues and is a driver of H+K Canada's national DEI program. Sheila currently serves as Vice Chair of the Sinai Health Foundation's Brand Strategy Council.
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- Head of Talent Management
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- Global Chief Creative Strategy Innovation Officer
Simon is Global Chief Creative Strategy + Innovation Officer of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, leading the creative + innovation agenda globally, both with clients and across the agency's sectors and specialisms.
Simon joined H+K as Chief Creative Officer in 2014 to lead the transformation of the London agency working alongside the CEO. Through a program of cultural and business change, a new agency positioning was introduced along with the development of new processes, specialisms and skills. In 2017, after three years of top and bottom line growth, London was awarded the Holmes Report UK Agency of the Year and in 2018, Pan-EMEA won Consultancy of the Year.
A part of the transformation Simon has also led the creation of the ‘H+K Shanghai Addition', a bridge for Chinese clients to the rest of the H+K network. Simon currently spend around 1 week in 6 in China working with Chinese clients including Huawei, Wanda, Envision, Sunning and Honor.
Prior to joining H+K, Simon has held multiple creative leadership positions. He is a well-renowned and respected industry authority, speaking and serving as judge at the Cannes Lions and as President on D&AD jury. In 2019 Simon was ranked one of the top 10 creative leaders by PR Week.
Simon is an awarded architect with architectural degrees from the University of Edinburgh and University College of London.
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- CEO, United Kingdom
- CEO, United Kingdom Global Head of Energy Industrials
Simon is the UK CEO of H+K.
Simon is a specialist in corporate communications, international public affairs, financial PR and litigation communications. In addition to his role as CEO of H+K London, Simon oversees H+K's global energy and industrials business, working across oil and gas, traditional and new energy, mining, transport, infrastructure and logistics. In 2018, his team was awarded Energy Consultancy of the Year at the Petroleum Economist Awards. Key clients have included Shell, Dong Energy, IOGP, Statoil, E.ON, GE Oil&Gas/Baker Hughes, Anglo American, DHL, ICMM, Ford, DP World and Hitachi.
Previously, Simon was a partner at College Hill, leading the energy and natural resources team and co-leading the emerging markets business across Russia/CIS, Africa and India. At College Hill, Simon managed the financial PR for many oil, gas and natural resources companies; he won a SABRE award for his work with the Royal Bafokeng Nation and a PRCA award for best financial communicator for his work with Landkom. Before that, he was European director of emerging markets for APCO Worldwide, working with clients such as Yukos Oil, the Alfa Group and President Yushchenko of Ukraine.
Simon has an MA (Hons) from Cambridge University, an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and a Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Simon has lived and worked in the U.S. Japan, Germany and Russia.
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- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Kenya Tanzania
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- Managing Director of Hill Knowlton Strategies Nigeria
- Managing Director, Ghana Nigeria
- Managing Director, Nigeria
As Managing Director of Hill+Knowlton Strategies Nigeria, Tokunboh draws upon over 25 years of experience in public relations and corporate communications to guide the office in providing strategic insight and counsel to clients. She is well versed in the business operating landscape in Nigeria. Her areas of specialization include Public Relations, Community Relations, Advertising, Branding and Marketing in the Telecoms, Information Technology, Finance, Education, Energy, Oil & Gas Sector. She is experienced in Governance and Compliance, CSR Strategy and innovation Development.
Before joining H+K, Tokunboh spent over 14 years at integrated energy group Oando Plc. in Lagos where she was a part of the Group Leadership Council, heading up the Corporate Services, Corporate communications/CSR divisions along the way. Most recently she was Director of the Oando Foundation, establishing the foundation in Nigeria, US and UK and developing its framework and partnerships. Whilst at Oando Plc., she led the communications team for local and international fund raising and the listing on the Johannesburg stock exchange.
Before returning to work in Nigeria in 2001 Tokunboh was a Senior Account Manager in London with one of the UK's leading technology and consumer public relations agencies, handling the media campaigns for B2B clients in telecommunications.
Tokunboh holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, USA.
She is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and Institute of Directors (IOD). She is also a fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative-West Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is also the Acting Chairman of the Oando Foundation as well as a Board Member of Legacy Office and CSR-in-Action Advocacy.
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- Global Chief Operations Strategy Officer
In his role Tomasz is responsible for operational excellence of H+K's global operations, partnering with regional leaders to drive high performance and support H+K's growth agenda. Tomasz is also leading H+K's strategy creation and execution effort, including M&A activity.
Prior to joining H+K, Tomasz worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, completing 40 projects across industries (financial sector, PE, consumer goods, energy & others), functions (strategy, corporate finance, sales & marketing, transformation programs & strategy implementation) and geographies (Europe and both Americas). His strategic experience includes developing a digital banking strategy for a top US bank, turnaround strategy for a major global insurance company and a game-theory assessment of responses to a takeover of a strategic asset by a key competitor in the energy sector. In the corporate finance space Tomasz led multiple due diligence projects for Private Equity investors and coordinated M&A preparation and execution process in two transnational acquisitions. His sales and marketing experience encompasses developing customer segmentation and go-to-market strategy for a major beer manufacturer, and a new product launch for a US pharmaceutical company. Tomasz also coordinated a division-level transformation program at a major financial institution (delivering $100M EBITDA impact) and worked on branch network reorganization for a European bank with 1,000+ locations.
Tomasz completed his MBA at Wharton, where he received Palmer Scholar honors (graduating among top 5% of the class). He holds BA degrees in Economics and Business Administration from University of Gdansk from his native Poland.
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- General Manager
- Senior Director
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- Practice Head - Enterprise Technology
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- Global Head of Content Publishing
Vikki leads a global team of Content + Publishing experts around the world, focusing on who we create content with, what format that takes and where it lives. This means leading strategically-important client projects, taking learnings from across our international client base and sharing best practice, empowering teams to bring this to life locally.
Now based in New York, she was previously at H+K London for four years as part of its Global Center of Creative Strategy. Here she defined our approach to the C+P discipline, started its Data + Analytics team and delivered work for Campari, Huawei, Intel & more.
She has spent more than 13 years building and leading digital content teams, from strategy to production, social media management, influencer outreach, brand partnerships and UGC. Before H+K she held dual roles at Creston Unlimited group; Head of Agency for Things Unlimited and Head of Social for TMW Unlimited. In this time she worked with over 35 major brands within Unilever, Activision, McCain Foods, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, Virgin Trains, Infiniti, Canon & more.
Vikki is a former journalist. She's written for Contagious, The Guardian, Marketing, Marketing Week, new media age, Econsultancy and was a G20Voice blogger for Oxfam at the G20 Summits in London & Pittsburgh. She also worked in-house as Content Editor for the Jaguar Future project - created by Jaguar to tell the stories behind the C-X16 concept car.
She was placed on PRWeek's Power Book for 2018 & 2017, The Drum's Social Buzz Top 50 and Homes Report's Innovator lists, speaks regularly at industry events, and curates great examples of brand content at ContentWins.co.uk.
Job Titles:
- Acting CEO, Sweden and Account Director