We will put together the best team of specialists to meet your communications challenges.
Here are some details of a few of our senior consultants, each of whom brings particular expertise and experience.
Nicol Campbell-Tiech
Nicol is highly experienced at transforming corporate strategy into powerful marketing messages. Her expertise lies in taking high-level concepts and developing effective ways to bring these to market, in a way that will motivate and engage target audiences/stakeholders. Nicol’s particular talent lies in aligning organisations, departments and people behind clear, consistent messaging. She then shapes and directs the thinking, developmental work and processes needed to deliver lucid external and internal communication. For the past twelve years, Nicol has been employed as a consultant by Visa Europe and Visa CEMEA, primarily to direct and implement large-scale conference programmes across the world. This has entailed board-level strategic consultancy and a facility for working with financial and technology experts, to generate and deliver events which remain on brand, on message and on budget. Nicol draws on a broad marketing communications background, which has made her particularly effective at integrating live events within wider communications programmes, ensuring consistent messages are reinforced via multiple channels.
Pieter de Villiers
Pieter is a senior communications professional with more than ten years experience embracing the full spectrum of communications, marketing and media related activities. He has extensive experience of strategy development, communications and project management, targeted internal communications in support of Human Resources activities and programmes and company stakeholder, client communications and media engagement. A results-oriented, passionate, versatile and creative achiever that strives towards excellence in every endeavour, with award-winning writing skills and the proven ability to stay ahead of and use rapidly developing technologies creatively within the communications and marketing mix. An editor by background, he is committed to high quality influential communications delivery concise, clear and transparent messages.
Peter Halliday
Peter writes annual reports, white papers, brochures and websites. He also helps companies to plan for and participate in live events, such as internal briefings, media briefings, analyst briefings, customer events and public conferences. This includes the preparation of ad hoc speeches and presentations, right through to the planning and production of major conferences. In this role, he has provided speech and presentation writing services to a range of board-level executives at some of the world’s largest and best known corporations.
Peter Halliday
He previously spent three years as European head of external communications for Visa International. Here he was responsible for directing Visa’s European media relations function, managing the in house press office team, and co-ordinating the work of ten PR agencies across the region.
Peter began his career with the international PR group Shandwick (now Weber Shandwick), originally with London based Paragon Communications. He was then seconded to South East Asia in 1990, working first in Bangkok and, subsequently, Singapore. He returned to the UK in 1993 to join the London offices of Cohn & Wolfe. As a board director, he was responsible for the development and profitability of the agency’s corporate PR division.