'PEOPLE MOVES' - May 2011 edition
China-headquartered telecoms firm Huawei Technologies’ UK business has recruited Philip Candice as public affairs manager. Previously international relations manager at Ofcom, in his new role he reports to director of public policy and comms Daniella Goldman, who joined six months ago (PAN, Dec 10). Huawei, whose UK headquarters are in Basingstoke, last month revealed plans to double its British workforce to 1,000 in three years.
Fishburn Hedges has hired Shirin Homawala as a PA consultant. She was previously an account manager at London Communications Agency and before that worked with Nick Clegg as a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament when the deputy MP was an MEP.
The Civil Engineering Contractors’ Association (CECA) has hired Huston Gilmore in a research and public affairs role. He has recently worked for CentreForum, the Fabian Society and as a lecturer at Liverpool University.
The Communication Group (TCG) is on the hunt for a new managing director of public affairs after the departure of Tanya Joseph less than a year after joining the agency from Grayling (PAN online, 30 Jul 10). She is now running her own agency – Tanya Joseph Consulting – as well as working as an associate for comms agency Hillingdon Cresswell.
Crime Reduction Initiatives has appointed Kevin Perlmutter to the new role of director of comms, with responsibility for areas including public affairs. He was previously head of PR and internal comms (Europe and UK) at Xerox Corporation, which he left last autumn. Perlmutter told PAN that he was recruiting comms staff and “needed to establish the organisation’s comms needs” before considering agency support.
John Punter, who has previously worked for Which? and PPS Group, has launched an agency called Punter Communications.
The Open University has appointed Rajay Naik and Lucian Hudsonas its new head of government relations and director of comms, respectively. Naik has been promoted internally from the role of senior policy adviser, while Hudson is an ex-comms boss at various government departments.
The Whitehouse Consultancy has recruited Katarzyna Wilk, an ex-aide to Polish MEP Boguslaw Sonik, to support its ‘ongoing engagement with Europe on behalf of clients in the health and nutrition sectors’. A specialist in European law, Wilk has previously worked for McDermott Will & Emery LLP (Brussels) and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (London).
Fleishman-Hillard (F-H) associate director Ben Thornton is to join Portland in the same role. He will start in about three weeks’ time, reporting to agency partner Oliver Pauley, who recently also moved to Portland from F-H (PAN, Nov 10).
David Herbert– who recently concluded a 21-year career in investment banking – has joined Washington DC-headquartered post-Soviet states comms consultancy The PBN Company as executive chairman. He will be based in London with regular travel to Moscow, Kiev and Almaty.
Alan Murray, the former Standard Life head of public affairs who was most recently working for the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) (PAN, Aug 10), is working as an adviser to the Corporation of London.
HSBC group communications director Richard Beck is leaving later this month after more than two decades with the banking giant.
Blue Rubicon has recruitedPatrick Loughran as an associate director, starting on 23 May. He is a former top aide to Labour’s former business secretary Lord Mandelson.
Connect Communications has recruited Sophie Wedderkopp as a graduate trainee. She has previously interned at Grayling and in Parliament with Vince Cable MP and Baroness Shirley Williams.
Ex-Edelman board directorJo Gibbons has joined polling firm Populus as business development director. Gibbons worked for Edelman before, from 2004 to 2007, working in Downing Street under Tony Blair as deputy director of government relations and director of events. Populus has also hired Alexia Latham, formerly an associate director at PR firm EuroRSCG Biss Lancaster, as an associate director.
12th May 2011 by PAN staff
