We're two communications and public-affairs professionals who've known and worked alongside each other for twenty years. These days we each take on the projects we most enjoy — and when a brief suits us both, we do it together, so you get two experienced advisers rather than one.
Between us we've spent decades on the stories, launches and crises that decide how organisations and their leaders are seen.
Building and protecting the public standing of organisations and the people who lead them.
Steady, senior counsel when scrutiny is highest and the stakes are real — from people who've done it at the top.
Turning founders and principals into recognised, quoted authorities in their field.
Framing new products, ideas and ventures so they land clearly and are not forgotten.
More than twenty years advising at the most senior levels of government across South and Southeast Asia — presidents, prime ministers and cabinet ministers. Communications adviser to the President of the Maldives, where he led the international campaign around the President's climate leadership, including the celebrated 2009 “underwater cabinet meeting.” During the MH370 disaster, one of a small team brought in to take over the Malaysian government's international communications after a widely criticised early response — and, months later, part of the team that ran its MH17 response from the outset.
LinkedInThree decades in strategic communications and public affairs. A former Financial Times correspondent and BBC reporter who went on to work closely with Prime Minister Tony Blair, and built and later sold a London consultancy. He has since held Managing Director roles at two of the sector's leading international firms — in Hong Kong and in Dubai — the latter advising the Saudi government on its Vision 2030 reforms.
LinkedInWe're not an agency, and we don't pretend to be. We're two independent, senior operators who've come to know and trust each other's judgement over twenty years. Much of the time we each work on our own — but when a brief calls for both of us, we join forces, and you get two experienced advisers working in concert, with none of the juniors, hand-offs or overheads of a large firm. We take on the work we know we'll enjoy and do well; that tends to suit our clients rather nicely too.