Brunswick lures senior duo as it grows Brussels office

Brunswick

Dirk Delmartino is to join the agency, whose Brussels boss is Philippe Blanchard, on 1 September in the role of partner, moving from Microsoft, where he has held several international communications roles over the past seven-and-a-half years, including the position of EU communications director.
John-Paul Dryden, a financial services specialist, is joining Brunswick at the same time as a director. Dryden has most recently been manager for international stakeholder engagement at the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA). While at the FSA he contributed to its analysis of the proposals for EU-level financial services regulation and was deputy head of its delegation to the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), where he took part in its recently completed work to revise the IOSCO Principles of Securities Regulation in the light of the financial crisis.
In 1998, Dryden became first secretary for financial services at the UK’s Permanent Representation to the European Union, a position he held until 2001. There he advised the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU on financial services issues. In 2004, he joined the European Parliament as an adviser to the economic and monetary affairs committee.
Brunswick clients in Brussels include HSBC, brokers Newedge and Nord Stream, a gas pipeline being built to link Russia and the European Union via the Baltic Sea.
In 2006 Delmartino co-founded EACD, the European Association of Communication Directors. Before Microsoft, he was business and economics editor at Belgian daily De Standaard.

30th July 2010 by PAN staff