Hill+Knowlton Strategies Appoints Simon Whitehead as New UK CEO
27 Novembre 2018 - 4:15PM
Business Wire
Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) has promoted Simon Whitehead,
currently Managing Director of H+K UK’s Energy + Industrials team
to UK Chief Executive Officer. Effective immediately, he takes over
the role from Richard Millar who has been promoted to Global
President, along with Lars Erik Grønntun.
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Whitehead joined H+K in 2011 and has transformed H+K’s Energy +
Industrials team into the largest of H+K UK’s eight industry
sectors with a 35-person dedicated team and clients including
Shell, Hitachi, ICMM, OGCI and E.ON. He has also served as H+K’s
Global Energy + Industrials Practice Leader
“Simon’s leadership of our Energy + Industrial’s team has proven
undisputedly his abilities: he is held in high regard by clients
and colleagues alike and his ability to motivate and mobilize teams
to deliver exceptional work is outstanding,” said Jack Martin,
Global Chairman and CEO. “I am confident that Simon will lead H+K’s
flagship operation to new heights.”
“I am honored and energized by the opportunity to become CEO of
H+K’s largest single office. Under Richard’s leadership, the London
office has undergone a fundamental transformation and I am looking
forward to building on that success along with my 300 London-based
colleagues,” said Whitehead. “We will build on our culture of
innovation and collaboration by focusing on our clients and
broadening and deepening the expertise we deliver through
integrated communications.”
Whitehead spent the first part of his career working in
international banking at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and in British
politics before gaining his MBA from Cranfield, which focused on
marketing communications. He then worked in public affairs and
strategic communications as director of emerging markets in London
at APCO Worldwide and then in financial public relations as the
energy and natural resources partner at College Hill (now
Instinctif) before joining H+K.
H+K has offices in more than 40 countries worldwide, delivering
award winning campaigns to clients across all sectors and
disciplines and with a focus on continued innovation for the
industry. Recent innovations include Flight School +, a crisis
communications training and simulation tool, Better Impact, a new
approach to brand purpose and CSR, and H+K Smarter, a behavioral
science unit.
About Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Inc. is an international
communications consultancy, providing services to local,
multinational and global clients. The firm is headquartered in New
York, with over 80 offices in more than 40 countries, as well as an
extensive associate network. The agency is part of WPP, one of the
world's largest communications services
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