Client Advisors
Graham Herring
After working for a smaller company stockbroker, Graham has been operating
as a financial PR consultant for the last twelve years' with Ludgate
Communications and latterly Weber Shandwick Square Mile. His focus
has been advising public listed companies and he has extensive M&A, crisis
management and IPO experience. Graham set up Threadneedle Communications, having identified the need for a more proactive and focused approach
to advising small and mid cap listed companies.
Clare Ballantine
Threadneedle has appointed Clare Ballantine to lead the Threadneedle Investor Reach team. Clare is focused solely on providing a premium service in creating private client fund manager relationships. Previously, Clare was instrumental in establishing the retail fund manager team at Redleaf Communications. As one of the early members of the team, she has actively conducted successful private client broker (“PCB”) programmes for a range of listed companies. She has also obtained her Investment Management Certificate, the benchmark for managing investments.
Trevor Bass
Trevor
Bass began his career in the City over 50 years ago as a financial
journalist on The Evening News and gaining experience with a
number of titles before his appointment as City Editor of the Daily
Express in the late 1960's. He entered financial PR in 1970 with
Shareholder Relations and was a founding member of Blue Arrow, then
the world's largest recruitment agency, which he floated on the London
Stock Exchange in the 1980's. In 1987 Trevor started up his eponymous
financial pr company and in the last 20 years has advised a broad range
of clients across all sectors, including a wealth of IPO's and M&A
transactions. Trevor's current clients include support services firm
Mears Group, in-car entertainment company Armour and recruitment
services organisation Servoca.
John Coles
John has over 20 years’ experience of financial communications
working predominantly in leading UK consultancies. He has worked for a range
of companies from FTSE100, including Abbey National, P&O, Standard Chartered
and Friends Provident, to smaller companies including Jazz FM, Mavinwood,
Kier and AutoLogic. His M&A experience includes the defence of Abbey
National and NatWest and crisis management includes the capital restructuring
of Marconi and the strike threat at Imerys. John ran the demutualisations
of Bradford&Bingley
and Friends Provident and he was also responsible for the award winning
campaign on behalf of Institutional Investors against the Government’s
decision to place Railtrack into receivership.
Fiona Conroy
Fiona joined ICIS in 2007 from the University of Edinburgh,
having gained a MA Hons in Geography where she focused on socio-economic and political sciences.
Prior to joining ICIS Fiona also worked at the Football Association of Ireland (FIA). Fiona currently looks after several technology and media clients including ANT, Bango and Redstone.
Caroline Evans-Jones
Caroline has over 10 years experience in technology and media financial PR. She joined ICIS shortly after it was formed as a graduate from Nottingham University in 2000 and was instrumental in growing the agency to the number one provider of financial PR for small cap technology businesses. Caroline has managed corporate and financial PR accounts for both private and public technology companies, with a focus on enterprise software and clean tech. Current clients include Craneware plc, Norkom Group plc and Statpro Group plc.
Terry Garrett
Terry has over 35 years of experience working in the City, including 13 years at the Financial Times, eight of which as UK Company News Editor. Terry joined Threadneedle from Weber Shandwick Financial where he was Co-Head of Capital Markets. Prior to joining WS in June 2000, he was a Director of Ludgate Communications from 1992-2000 where he was primarily responsible for developing its successful City division. Terry’s advisory experience covers a wide variety of companies and sectors in both the domestic and international markets. He has worked on numerous varied projects including hostile bids, both attacking and defending, agreed takeovers, reverse takeovers, demergers, crisis issues, corporate ‘intervention’ and IPO’s.
Beth Harris
Beth
joined Threadneedle in May 2008. Prior to this she worked at Parkgreen
Communications since 2005, where she was central to the Natural Resources
team. In this time she advised on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, financial
calendar planning and crisis management. Beth has advised companies
including Albidon, Anglesey Mining, Cambrian Mining, Coal International, Geiger
Counter, Katanga Mining, Monterrico Metals, River Diamonds, South China Resources
and Vane Minerals.
Karine Luckraft
Threadneedle’s
advisory capacity has been significantly bolstered by the arrival of Karine
Luckraft, ex-head of small cap sales and research at Panmure Gordon having previously worked at Granville, Schroders and Phillips and Drew. Karine’s
involvement is to primarily assist listed companies communicate more effectively
with the City - an important role for new companies seeking to list on AIM
or the full market. In addition, Karine’s added experience as a previous
Director of an AIM listed company is of great benefit to Threadneedle’s
clients.
Robyn McConnachie
Robyn joins the Company from the publicity department of international aluminium group Alumicor Pty. After studying at Crawford College, Robyn graduated from the University of South Africa where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and Communications. She is also a qualified photographer, having attained a diploma from the Vega Art School.
Hilary Millar
A Canadian national, Hilary joined the Company in 2008 while completing her MSc at the London School of Economics in Environment and Development studies. She has previously studied in Spain, Dominican Republic and Australia, and most recently worked in the UK as a Project Officer at the Carbon Disclosure Project. Hilary currently looks after several public and private clients in the technology, clean tech and media space.
Tom Moriarty
Formerly Chief Executive and
founder of ICIS, Tom has a wealth of experience in advising senior management in both the
public and private sectors on all aspects of their corporate development such as IPOs,
fund raising and M&A activity. He founded ICIS as a specialist, focused purely on providing
a dedicated, high level of service to companies in the Technology, Media and Telecoms sectors.
Prior to the merger of Threadneedle Communications in June 2010, ICIS was the established market
leader in this space.
Rebecca Nottage
Rebecca joined in March 2004 having spent the previous six years working within the financial PR industry in the City of London. Rebecca is extremely familiar with the requirement of our clients and provides administrative support as well as dealing with day to day accounting matters.
Laurence Read
Laurence
began his career as a journalist in the social and current affairs departments
of Meridian Television. In 1999 he joined the financial PR consultancy Ludgate
Communications advising clients in sectors such as Resources, Constructions,
TMT and Financial Services. Laurence left Weber Shandwick Square Mile in
2002 and was a founder member of Conduit PR. In recent years he has advised
on over 30 successful AIM and full list IPO’s, significant resource
results, hostile take-overs and crisis management. Clients advised include
London Mining, Consolidated Minerals, Tanzanite One, Sylvania Resources,
OMV, Zambezi Resources, Dwyka Diamonds, Firestone Diamonds, ZincOx, Rheochem,
Alfred McAlpine, Anite Group, NDS, Keller Group and KPMG.
Josh Royston
Josh has been working in financial PR for twelve years, initially
at Ludgate Communications and Luther Pendragon before joining Weber
Shandwick Square Mile. He has worked for a broad range of companies across
all disciplines. His IPO experience includes Matalan’s hugely successful
listing, in crisis management he advised Jarvis in the wake of the Potters
Bar train crash and his M&A experience includes Blacks Leisure’s
sale of its Sport & Fashion division to JD Sports and GPG’s hostile
bid for De Vere. Josh also has considerable international experience having
advised Capio (Sweden) on its acquisition of Community Hospitals and Coca
Cola Icecek during its attempted flotation on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
Josh is fluent in French and Spanish.
Alex White
Alex spent 25 years as a journalist. He has written for, edited and
published a series of magazines and newspapers, both consumer and
trade and technical. He has been in PR for over twenty years, working
for agencies both large and small – from Fleet Financial Services Ltd to Weber
Shandwick. He spent four years with Communications Systems in Brussels
working on a number of blue chip accounts including ICI, Jaguar and Philips.
In recent years he has tended to specialise in the growth company area.
Is this you?
"Based overseas we are looking for a UK PR adviser to work with us. What we are worried about is being forgotten about and we also need that bit extra to help familiarise ourselves with the UK."
"We have very good products and require exposure within our industry publications to help drive revenues."