Guest Lecturers
Visiting lecturers and guest practitioners provide specialist and up to date education and training on all our courses.
Eddie Bensilum
Eddie joined Regester Larkin in September 2006 following more than 20 years at McDonald’s, where she was Head of Corporate Affairs for the UK before becoming Director of Communications for McDonald’s Europe in 2002.
During this period, Eddie played a pivotal role in the management of some of the most high-profile reputational threats to the organisation including BSE, Avian Influenza and a range of campaigns by local and international NGOs.
Her responsibilities ranged from the development of pan-European response procedures and the implementation of internal communication programmes to external stakeholder engagement and providing strategic counsel to the European board.
At Regester Larkin, Eddie leads across a range of client projects and specialises in providing reputation management advice to the food, retail and consumer goods sector.
Eddie is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
Kate Cartwright
Kate has 7 years experience in public relations and has held both agency and in-house roles during this time. At present Kate is an Account Director at Brands2Life where she looks after a number of consumer and technology clients.
Prior to this Kate was Communications Manager at Nikon where she looked after Nikon's consumer PR programme and oversaw the web and sponsorship strategies.
Kate holds a degree in business studies and marketing and holds the CIPR Diploma in public relations. At present she is involved in teaching the CIPR Foundation Award.
Maud Davis, PR consultant
Maud is a PR consultant and CIPD qualified trainer. She has been delivering PR training courses for more than seven years and is one of the CIPR’s approved trainers. Maud has more than 15 years experience running PR campaigns in the fast moving consumer goods, charity and publishing sectors. Her experience includes British Meat (post BSE), Sharwoods, PDSA, Kellogg’s, Loire Valley wines and Slimming World magazine. Today, she works as an independent PR consultant in the food and health sectors implementing high profile media relations campaigns for the Royal College of Midwives, Fine Cheeses from France, Home Grown Cereals Authority and the British Potato Council, amongst others.
She delivers lectures for the CIPR Advanced Certificate in London and serves on the Marcomms group committee of the CIPR.
Hamish Haynes
Hamish Haynes has spent over 25 years in the IT, manufacturing and TV media industries, much of which was involved with communications. As Group Head of Internal Communications for British Sky Broadcasting, he established the first Sky Forum, an elected group of staff representatives from all areas of the business. Sky's Vision magazine won the CiB's best internal publication in 2003, and digitalk won a CiB gold award in 2005 for best newsletter. He established over 20 channels to communicate across the 13,000 staff operating in over 900 shift patterns during the five years he was with the company.
As Marketing Director for Compaq Computer Ltd he was responsible for guiding staff through the largest merger in IT history along with establishing numerous staff communications channels. These included sponsoring the BT global challenge, and linking the key steps of their hazardous journey around the world with key targets for the company and it's people.
Francesco Furnari
Francesco is CEO and Co-founder of Clarity International, an "Innovation Marketing" and communication management consultancy firm, headquartered in Milan, with offices in the United Kingdom and USA.
Francesco has more than ten years of international experience in marketing, sales, business development and product marketing skills. Since 2004 he has specialised in Virtual Worlds and Web 3D.
Before his time with Clarity International, Francesco was part of the senior management team at Venation, a spin-off of British Telecom and Microsoft offering security and content delivery solutions to the finance, government and retail industries.
Francesco was previously in a number of brand, marketing and communications roles with the networking giant British Telecom plc where activities included marketing creative design management, branding and PR. Earlier in his career Francesco worked as consultant with Cisco Systems, EDS and Hewlett-Packard.
Kate Lee
Kate has more than eight years experience working in Marketing, PR and Media. She delivers lectures for the CIPR Foundation Award and is a full member of the CIPR.
Today, she works for Ofcom as a Communications Manager and is responsible for developing Ofcom’s external reputation by managing communications with a variety of audiences. In particular, she has acted as an official spokesperson for Ofcom on a wide range of issues from the Big Brother racism row to the TV phone-in scandal in 2007.
Kate holds a BA Hons in Marketing from University of Central Lancashire and the CIPR Diploma.
Jude Meadows
Jude Meadows has spent over 22 years in IT, manufacturing and sales training. As a Vice President of Hewlett Packard responsible for the Personal Computer Products Division in the UK, Jude was involved in all aspects of sales and marketing of the award winning i-Paq range of hand-helds. Prior to that, Jude was the Director of Consumer products for Compaq Computer Ltd.
Tim Morris MCIPR
Tim has almost 20 years of experience in the field of public relations. He has an honours degree in politics from UEA, a post-graduate diploma in public relations from the CIPR and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Tim is currently Head of Communications for the Parole Board for England & Wales, responsible for advising the Chief Executive and Chairman on all internal, external and stakeholder communications issues. He recently led the team that won the website of the year for 2008 in the CIPR Excellence Awards.
He has previously worked for Surrey Police, the Home Office, the Metropolitan Police Service and the Inland Revenue in a variety of public relations roles. His areas of expertise include handling media relations, managing publicity campaigns, producing corporate publications, stakeholder communications, crisis communications and media training.
Paul Noble, independent PR trainer
Paul Noble is an independent public relations trainer, consultant, academic, mentor and speaker/facilitator. He a CIPR-approved trainer and e-learning specialist, provides management support to growing PR consultancies, and is chief examiner of the CIPR’s Advanced Certificate. He has 30 year’s experience in senior consultancy, in-house and academic environments. He has set up his own PR consultancy, managed a large corporate communications department, and ran the PR degree at Bournemouth University. He is a Fellow of the CIPR and with Dr Tom Watson is the author of Evaluating Public Relations (2nd edition published in 2007).
Rachel Royall MA, MCIPR
Rachel Royall is a tutor for PR Academy. She is an experienced facilitator and strategic communicator.
She started her career working in PR in local government and the NHS before moving to central government, where she has worked for the Department of Health and the Cabinet Office.
She specialises in strategic communication, communication planning, campaigns and professional development for communicators.
Rachel holds a Masters in Public Communication from Leeds University, the CIPR diploma, the CIPR advanced certificate and a BA Hons from Kings College London.
Chris Tucker
After obtaining her BA Hons Chris Tucker began her career in the marketing sector. She has, however, spent the past 20 plus years in Public Relations working in the voluntary, public and private sectors.
Most recently she has been working in-house for Barclays Bank. Chris joined Barclays first as Head of PR for Barclaycard. She went on to hold a number of PR positions across the bank looking after areas as diverse as business-to-business, international, CSR and IT before finally taking up the position of PR Director for the whole group in 2000.
She left Barclays in 2006 and is now working on a number of free-lance projects including lecturing and mentoring for the PR Academy.
