Our senior team is drawn from a wide range of backgrounds including stockbroking, fund management, accountancy, law, corporate finance and journalism. Their judgement is founded on ability and experience - between them, they have more than 150 years experience in corporate and financial communications.
Your contact at Tavistock is your access point to all of the experience and expertise within our business. The team we put together to work with you is carefully selected to include individuals with the ideal mix of experience, knowledge and contacts in order to meet the communication needs of your business.
As a Director of Tavistock, Lulu has over 18 years experience within financial and corporate communications and in addition to an unrivalled knowledge of the telecoms sector has extensive experience advising both smaller companies and businesses in the retail and leisure industries. Her transaction experience includes all of Vodafone’s acquisitions and disposals and her involvement in Vodafone’s bid for Mannesmann, the largest contested takeover bid in history, led to her being named as the leading European M&A PR adviser of 2000 by MergerMarkets. Lulu started her career as a trainee accountant with Binder Hamlyn, subsequently joining WI Carr as a smaller companies analyst. Lulu graduated from Exeter University with an honours degree in Economic and Social Statistics.
Jeremy has thirty years experience in the communications industry during which time he has been closely involved with both the financial and property sectors. In 1981 he was a founding director and subsequently chief executive of City & Commercial Communications, where he worked with a wide variety of organisations advising them through mergers, acquisitions, flotations and privatisations. In 1991, in collaboration with a number of colleagues he formed Tavistock Communications. As Chairman of Tavistock, Jeremy advises clients involved in commercial and residential construction, development and investment, agency and consulting, public sector and trade bodies, private equity, funds and fund management.
Clemmie advises clients involved in the private equity and development capital arena through fundraisings, investments, disposals and exits. She has advised both well-established, recognised names within the industry as well
as assisting in raising the profile of new ventures. In addition, Clemmie has extensive experience within the technology and healthcare sectors in which she has advised a number of publicly quoted companies. Clemmie graduated from Oriel College, Oxford with a first class degree in History.
Paul specialises in professional services, property and business-to-business. A former journalist covering news, business and local government affairs, he has advised clients ranging from accountants, lawyers and management consultants to property investment and development companies, and corporate turnaround specialists. He has implemented crisis management programmes and co-ordinated national and international media campaigns. He has written and produced newsletters and corporate brochures and undertaken client media training programmes. Paul is a founder of Tavistock and a member of the Professional Services Marketing Group. He has a BA (Open University) and a Diploma in European Studies.
Simon entered the communications industry following a career in investment markets, initially as an analyst and fund manager and then as an institutional equity salesman in both London and Hong Kong. After co-founding Hudson Sandler Limited in 1986, Simon spent seven years as Head of Corporate communications at FTSE250 companies. In 1999, he joined the investor relations consultancy City Insights, which was acquired by Tavistock in 2003. Simon has experience across a very broad range of sectors and specialises in advising companies within the Financial Services, Real Estate and Natural Resources sectors. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and a member of the Investor Relations Society.
Duncan advises AIM listed companies across a very broad range of industries. He specialises in the media and leisure sectors where he has advised a number of well known publicly quoted companies. He has extensive experience of working with marketing and communications, gaming, travel and food producers. Since entering the communications industry Duncan has advised both fully listed and AIM quoted companies through their IPO’s and secondary fundraisings. He has excellent relationships both within the media and analyst community.
Baron focuses on the real estate sector covering financial, corporate and project public relations for a wide range of clients. Having been a property and financial journalist at both Estates Times and The Times (where he was Property Correspondent), his real estate experience stretches back over 30 years. Over the past two decades he has advised a large number of well known and established property companies both on day-to-day corporate/financial PR activities and mergers and acquisitions. In addition to traditional real estate he has been increasingly involved in the leisure and hotel sectors as well as fund management.
Matt began his career in financial public relations at a specialist, US owned Financial PR agency and has since worked with quoted companies of all sizes from the FTSE100 to AIM. He has also advised privately owned businesses through tradesale and IPO, having been involved in more than 20 stock market listings. Matt works principally within the Financial Services, Telecoms and Media industries and has worked with multinational assets managers, global network operators and UK broadcasters. He has extensive relationships within the media and investment community and significant experience advising both domestic and international companies.
Axel began his career at Arthur Andersen in tax and oil consultancy roles. In 1993, he joined Robert Fleming (now part of JP Morgan) where he spent five years in broking and corporate finance. He subsequently moved in-house to British-Borneo Oil & Gas where he had a business development and planning role before joining the board of City Insights in 2000. Axel specialises in the Natural Resources and Technology sectors and is a graduate of Imperial College London.
John has twelve years of industry experience across a broad range of sectors. He has considerable financial services experience, having advised a number of quoted and unquoted businesses including private equity, retail, institutional and hedge funds. He has worked on many IPOs, M&A transactions and fundraisings for small and large companies alike. John has a wide range of media, analyst and buy-side contacts both in the Financial Services and growing companies’ arena. John has a MA in Modern and Medieval Languages from Magdalene College Cambridge, is a qualified FSA registered representative and a fluent German speaker. John was appointed Chief Executive of Tavistock Communications in 2007.