Experience

SUTTON

• United Kingdom
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President and Managing Director

  • Sep 2019 - Present

• Vice President and Managing Director

  • Oct 2014 - Present

• Director

  • Mar 2011 - Oct 2014

  Led a large team of communications executives and managers, including reviewing and managing all aspects of their individual performance and progressEstablished new client contacts, wrote proposals, pitched and secured new business for the company Led ambitious international media campaigns, and developed a particular expertise in redevelopment projects, news announcements and museum sector clients Part of the Directors’ group, responsible for making business decisions for the company and reporting directly to shareholders Key client specialisms:Lead Sutton London Director for major redevelopment campaigns, such as the relaunch of The Photographers’ Gallery, Heathrow Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal, The Royal Academy of Arts Keeper’s House and the £15million transformation of the Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester)Responsible for maintaining and developing strong client relationships in the museum sector, directing year-round strategic advice and successful exhibition campaigns for clients such as Manchester Art Gallery, Nottingham Contemporary, Leighton House Museum and the Whitechapel GalleryExtensive experience advising on brand positioning and developing strategies for leading corporate sponsors of the artsDelivery of a wide-range of communications campaigns, for leading arts festivals, biennales and art fairs, including directing the European media relations for Art Basel Lead Sutton London Director for all performing arts clients and crossover cultural projects, such as Manchester International Festival and the Choir of Kings College, Cambridge Several months on secondment at the Sutton PR Asia office in Hong Kong, directing both corporate and public sector projects that coincided with the inaugural Art Basel in Hong Kong (2013)



Bolton & Quinn

• Associate

  • Mar 2009 - Mar 2011

  • Successfully delivered major media campaigns for many of the world’s leading arts and cultural organisations, from leading client meetings and providing strategic advice, to writing press materials, organising and delivering major press briefings, trips and private views securing widespread media coverage and reporting to clients. Key clients: • Somerset House: year round strategic advice, individual exhibition campaigns for both visual art exhibitions and for the wider public programme such as the Summer Series, Film4 Summer Screen, Glyndebourne screenings and the annual Ice Rink. •Ashmolean Museum: exhibition campaigns such as ‘The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy’ • Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London: communications for the major cultural programmes of the Mayor of London, such as The Fourth Plinth and The Big Dance • Olivier Awards: major media campaign and delivery of high level media events.• British Council, Tate, Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Sadler’s Wells and Royal Academy of Arts: Regularly assisted in-house teams to successfully deliver major press previews, news photocalls, performances and top level VIP events.



Museum of the Home

• United Kingdom
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Projects' Assistant

  • Apr 2008 - Mar 2009

  • Coordinator for the Geffrye Museum’s redevelopment project; researched and liaised with architects, prepared practice profiles and attended project meetings.• Organised private views; compiled guestlists, invited, secured and welcomed guests. • Coordinator for all London Museum’s Hub Learning Programme Management Group meetings, acted as minute taker, circulated papers, researched and wrote summaries of relevant government initiatives. • Contact for the ‘Friends’ of the Geffrye, distributed newsletters and organised lectures. • Clerk to the trustees, liaised with the DCMS on new appointments to the board, attended all board meetings, compiled reports of media coverage.• Records Management Officer, established new file inventories and archives. • Composed lectures for the Deputy Director on the History of Art and Design.