A Corporate and Financial PR consultancy based in London

Bridging the gap

Our people

Caroline Cecil
Caroline Cecil

Founder and communications consultant

Caroline Cecil has 25 years’ experience of communications consultancy both on the client and agency side. Before setting up Caroline Cecil Associates, she was a board director at Valin Pollen responsible for some of the agency’s largest accounts including Eagle Star, NatWest and Visa International. She is chairman of the CIPR Corporate and Financial Group and vice-chairman and secretary of the Reform Club Media Group which includes leading business journalists.

Mike Tate
Mike Tate

Strategy and communications consultant

Mike Tate was, until 2005, director of communications at a leading support services company, with responsibility for the group’s communications. Prior to that, he spent four years as a director of a financial PR consultancy. This followed 25 years in financial journalism, including as city editor at The Times and in senior roles with the Observer and Daily Telegraph. He covered a wide range of issues from major City takeovers and flotations to company collapses and frauds.

Richard Heller
Richard Heller

Strategy and editorial consultant

Richard Heller has extensive experience of both British and American politics and media. He was on the staff, and a columnist, on The Mail on Sunday for 15 years, and chief analyst of opinion research. He has also written for many other titles. He is the author of High Impact Speeches and has worked as a speechwriter and media adviser in politics and business. An Oxford PPE graduate, he has twice been a finalist on the BBC’s Mastermind.

Juliet Jordan
Patricia Knox

Strategy and editorial consultant

Patricia Knox became a communications consultant 14 years ago following a long career in the media in Canada and the UK. She was assistant city editor of the London Evening Standard and then chief press officer of the London Stock Exchange before moving to consultancy. She provides strategic planning advice and copywriting skills to a wide range of corporate, financial, professional services and institutional clients.

Peter Shearlock
Peter Shearlock

Media and presentation training
Media relations advice

Peter Shearlock has 35 years’ experience in financial journalism, publishing and consultancy. Among other positions, he worked at the Sunday Times (as city editor) and the Sunday Telegraph. He launched and sold his own financial newsletter group and later set up Equity International. He has worked with Caroline Cecil Associates for many years, advising on media relations and providing media training. He writes speeches and corporate material for clients and also writes about his own share portfolio in The Sunday Times.