SEC NEWGATE - Key Persons
Abbey works with a variety of clients to run targeted ads, help with messaging strategies, provide monitoring reports, develop websites, and audit social media channels.
She has gained experience through several internships in politics, as well as digital communications. Prior to joining SEC Newgate, Abbey graduated from Furman University, a school based in the United States, with a degree in Politics and International Affairs.
Job Titles:
- Head of Marketing and Design
Alex is an experienced, award-winning corporate communications professional.
He works with clients in residential property development, construction, and infrastructure, with a particular interest in large scale regeneration.
He is accustomed to developing and leading strategic communications campaigns across a diverse range of clients including national housebuilders, housing providers and PRS operators.
He provides communications advice throughout all stages of the residential development cycle, from planning and community consultation, to construction and sales and marketing, as well as post-sales.
He's also experienced at managing issues relating to cladding and building safety, leaseholder disputes, construction accidents, community issues and building delays.
Alice has deep experience advising clients in corporate and financial communications and currently advises listed FTSE 250 investment companies, IT and Fintech companies.
Prior to joining SEC Newgate, Alice was Communications Associate for Nomura across Asia ex-Japan in Hong Kong, where she handled external communications for various business functions.
She previously worked at an international communications consultancy, where she specialised in managing strategic communications for the world's leading financial institutions, including asset managers, banks and pension funds, advising on reputation management, profile raising, executive positioning, media relations and thought leadership.
Job Titles:
- Content Director, Communications
Alice has spent more than seven years specialising in creating well-written and on-topic thought leadership and digital content for clients across a variety of industries.
As well as creating well-written content, Alice is responsible for managing client social media accounts and websites; she also has design experience and has created brochures, award entries, adverts and other marketing materials for a range of clients. Alice joined SEC Newgate in 2015 and has a background in journalism, publishing and cakes, having been a baker for nearly four years.
Alice has a first-class honours degree in History from the University of Manchester.
Prior to joining SEC Newgate, Alina worked as a financial reporter and a freelance translator for one of the biggest consumer goods companies.
Alina specialises in B2B and B2C communications with a particular focus on real estate, and her clients include residential property developers and regeneration specialists, Pan-European investment managers, property consultancies, and proptech firms.
Alina holds a master's degree in International Political economy from King's College London and a first-class bachelor's degree in International Politics from City University. She did her first internship at an advertising agency in Riga at the age of 14. Alina speaks four languages, including English, French, Russian and Latvian.
Alina is interested in socioeconomics, art, architecture, psychology and fashion, and likes to read, travel and try new restaurants in her free time. She's an avid chocolate eater.
Job Titles:
- Practice Head, Communications
Alistair has over 25 years' experience in corporate positioning and financial communications, advising a wide range of organisations both in the UK and internationally.
Clients have ranged from start-ups, HNWIs, boutiques and family businesses to PE houses, large multinationals, banks and global asset managers, to business advisory firms, industry trade bodies and government departments. Alistair has supported the launch of several businesses, helping to shape and articulate social purpose; he has advised on fundraising strategies, has supported and defended against high profile domestic and cross-border transactions; provided crisis and issues management; advised on rebranding strategies and has led a number of award-winning media and policy campaigns. He is listed in Spears500 as one of the UK's leading reputation managers.
As well has co-leading the Communications Practice, Alistair runs the Pensions Advisory team, which provides strategic consultancy to the Trustee Boards of FTSE100 pension schemes. He started his career in public affairs before moving into corporate and financial communications.
He is a Trustee of the FairLife Foundation, volunteer rugby coach and father of three boys.
Having worked across the built environment for more than 15 years, Alli brings considerable experience to his role in SEC Newgate's property communications team, where he advises clients on how to position, promote and protect their corporate reputation and build compelling brand narratives.
With expertise in sustainability and the broader ESG agenda, Alli has advised a diverse range of clients large and small across property, development, investment, asset management, regeneration, architecture, and cities, helping them define and articulate their place and purpose within the built environment and the wider business and public policy landscape.
He has extensive experience of delivering impactful campaigns for offices, resi and mixed-use development, including large-scale regeneration and placemaking, as well corporate communications, brand repositioning and thought-leadership.
A former award-winning business journalist working across property, architecture, construction and public policy, Alli brings a sharp understanding of how the media works and how to generate compelling content that will cut through, as well as a real passion for placemaking and the positive impact it can have on communities.
Ana is passionate about design, having started at the age of 15 creating illustrations for her brother-in-law's creative agency. Ever since, she has been immersed in all disciplines of design. Working as a freelancer, working for creative agencies, publications and organisations across a huge variety of sectors.
In recent years, Ana has collaborated on projects with organisations including: Bankers for NetZero; BP; EDF Energy; Eurostar; Jaguar Land Rover; MAC Cosmetics; Metropolitan Police; Microsoft, Philips; Royal Mail and Sony Mobile.
Job Titles:
- Head of Green and Good and Corporate Reputation
Andrew heads SEC Newgate UK's Green & Good and Corporate Reputation teams. He specialises in working with organisations to help set strategy and promote and protect corporate and brand reputation in a world driven by purpose as well as profit.
A former journalist, Andrew has spent more than 25 years advising organisations on communications, campaigns, crisis and issues management and building corporate brand.
He has developed a number of award-winning communications programmes for brands across the technology, food, energy and financial services sector and works across multiple other industries. He believes in the power of business to drive positive change in the world, going beyond ESG to look at the impact and change that business can drive as part of a genuinely circular economy.
He founded the Green & Good practice at SEC Newgate and was one of the co-founders of the original Newgate Communications business.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, Communications
After a degree in creative writing and journalism, Beth began working in sports and street fashion PR brands such as Roxy, Quiksilver, le coq sportif, Dunlop, Eastpak and Haviannas and hosted press trips throughout Europe to sporting events such as the Roxy Pro in Biarritz and the Tour de France.
Beth soon got a taste for all lifestyle brands and joined globally renowned accounts such as Charlie Bighams, Chessington World of Adventures, Fox, Universal, Hotels.com and many more.
After a three-month travelling stint, Beth wrote about a number of her trips and hotel stays on TheTelegraph.co.uk and soon embraced travel as an area of expertise and now works across many hotels and destination accounts at SEC Newgate.
Beth has managed shoots and interviews with celebrities and brand ambassadors, worked with cross-agency teams on collaboration projects with Sky and Deliveroo, MyFitnessPal and Heart Research UK and led on many PR stunts (including one with a life-size dinosaur emerging from the Thames!).
Job Titles:
- UK Chief Executive, Deputy Group CEO and Head of Western EMEA