Brunswick Group Promotes 14 New Partners

LONDON, March 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Brunswick Group, a leading corporate communications partnership, announced yesterday that the firm has promoted 14 Directors to its partnership. Based in six offices across Europe, Asia and the United States, the new partners further strengthen the firm's cross-border capabilities.

"Our new partners have extraordinary expertise in areas that are of increasing importance to our clients," said Group Chief Executive Susan Gilchrist. "These individuals have demonstrated a strong commitment to client service and teamwork, and I am pleased to welcome them to the partnership."

Alastair Morton, Blaise Projects London

Alastair works for Blaise Projects, the part of Brunswick that focuses on the role of business in society. Alastair joined Brunswick from the advertising agency JWT, where he founded the London unit of JWT Ethos, a social change and corporate social responsibility practice. He also launched The Future Quotient report, which he co-authored with John Elkington.

Alastair advises clients across sectors and continents, including a UK energy company, pan-European retailer, an Asian bank and global pharmaceutical and communications businesses.

Brian Buckley, London

Brian is a member of the financial institutions group, advising clients on a range of financial communication and reputational matters, including M&A, capital markets transactions, investor activism, restructuring and international profile-raising. He has advised global companies including BNP Paribas, Intercontinental Exchange and Christie's International.

Brian joined Brunswick  from Morgan Stanley, where he worked in corporate communications, covering the bank's investment banking and capital markets businesses in EMEA.

Charlie Potter, London 

Charlie has advised a broad range of media, professional services, consumer and family business clients on various communications issues in the context of litigation, regulatory disputes, mergers and corporate crises.

Charlie joined Brunswick from his practice as a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, where he specialized in administrative, commercial and regulatory law. Before going to the Bar, Charlie spent four years at the BBC, including as a producer at the flagship television current affairs program 'Newsnight'.

Erik Hotmire, Washington, D.C. 

Erik advises financial institutions and corporations on crisis, litigation, corporate reputation and regulatory matters with a focus on strategic counsel, media handling and public affairs.

Prior to joining Brunswick, Erik served as Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Special Assistant to the President and White House spokesman, Director at public affairs firm Clark & Weinstock, and U.S. Senate Communications Director. He began his career as a radio and television journalist.

Ginny Wilmerding, Hong Kong

Ginny advises Asian and multinational clients on financial and corporate communications, transactions, crisis, strategic positioning and stakeholder engagement. Fluent in Mandarin, Ginny has spent over half of her business career in Hong Kong and China.

Her prior experience includes business development roles for Hutchison Whampoa and AT&T in Hong Kong and Shanghai and heading corporate affairs for U.S. private equity-backed Internet services companies.

Giovanna Falbo, New York 

Giovanna advises clients on a wide variety of high-profile communications matters, with a specialization in litigation, crisis, M&A and restructuring mandates. She has also counseled companies on employee communications campaigns, primarily focused on post-merger integration and labor relations issues.  She has extensive airline experience having worked on M&A, IPO, restructuring, and labor issues in this sector.

Prior to joining Brunswick, Giovanna worked at Sitrick And Company and Hill & Knowlton, where she counseled companies on crisis preparedness skills and bankruptcy.

Jeff Sindone at MerchantCantos, New York

Jeff is Partner for MerchantCantos in New York, Brunswick's creative communications agency. He helps global companies and organizations address complex multi-media communications and business challenges.

Previously, Jeff was President of Forum Media, the multimedia division of Forum Strategies & Communications. Jeff began his career in broadcast news with Fox News and has also worked for Medialink Worldwide.

Justin Dini, New York

Justin advises clients around critical corporate reputation issues and special situations including corporate restructurings, crisis and litigation communications, and transactions. He has a particular focus on the global technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector.

Prior to Brunswick, he worked as a speechwriter for former New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson. Justin spent nearly a decade as a business and financial journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, TheStreet.com, The New York Observer, and Adweek.

Linus Turner, Brussels

Linus advises clients across sectors such as energy, infrastructure, transport and technology on interaction with EU policy makers, the media and other stakeholders in Brussels and across Europe. He has extensive experience in international public affairs and policy, crisis communications, issues management and corporate communications.

Before joining Brunswick, Linus worked at other leading communications firms in London and Brussels, as well as at a UK think tank, and has been active in British political and issues campaigns.

Monika Driscoll, New York

Monika advises clients on a wide variety of critical issues, including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, shareholder activism, as well as other capital markets advisory and corporate reputation work.

Prior to joining Brunswick, she was in equity research and investment banking, including as an Associate Director at Bear Stearns where she covered the retail sector on an Institutional Investor -ranked team in New York.

Patrick Eastwood at MerchantCantos, Hong Kong

Patrick is Partner for MerchantCantos in Hong Kong, Brunswick's creative communications agency.  He advises multi-national and Chinese companies on how to communicate more effectively through visual communications.

Before joining MerchantCantos, Patrick was a board director of Fishburn (part of AMV BBDO) where he led the branding and design part of the business. Prior to this, he was managing director of one of Europe's leading design agencies, Omnicom-owned Pauffley.

Stuart Hudson, London

Stuart draws on his background in politics and government to help companies develop and execute campaigns on business-critical issues. Stuart develops campaigns on issues ranging from mergers and acquisitions to regulatory investigations. His sector experience includes financial services, utilities, industrials and healthcare.

Previously, Stuart served as a Special Adviser at 10 Downing Street and has worked on a wide range of local and national political campaigns. He has also served as Head of Government Affairs at Ofgem. He trained in competition policy at the Office of Fair Trading and worked on several high profile anti-trust investigations in the energy sector.

Tim May at MerchantCantos, London

Tim is Partner - Film for MerchantCantos, Brunswick's creative communications agency. He is responsible for overseeing the Film department's creative output and has more than 20 years' experience in all aspects of video communications consultancy, content creation and delivery. Tim's expertise includes investor, brand and employee communications.

Tim started his career at the BBC, producing and directing documentaries for the arts series Arena before moving on to write, produce and direct award-winning films for corporate clients all over the world.

Will Carnwath, Singapore

Will focuses on corporate reputation, investor relations and crisis.

He is a former senior investment banker, with over 10 years in corporate finance at Piper Jaffray and Nomura, where he focused on healthcare and industrials in the investment banking group. Will spent just under 3 years as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of Brunswick in London, working with him on the largest and highest profile international clients and deals.

About Brunswick Group LLP

Brunswick Group LLP is a corporate relations and communications consultancy. We provide informed advice at a senior level to businesses and other organizations around the world, helping them to address critical communications challenges that may affect their valuation, reputation or ability to achieve their ambitions. We are a private partnership with a growing team of approximately 850 employees, including more than 130 partners around the world. The firm has grown organically over 25 years and now has 23 wholly owned offices in 14 countries. These include Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Dallas, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Singapore, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Vienna and Washington, D.C.

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