Newcastle PR agency O Communications has appointed a new senior PR account executive, continuing the company’s rapid growth. Abby Randall has joined the creative team at the O Communication offices direct from Newcastle Airport, where more recently she managed the international media during the ashcloud crisis.
Since graduating from Newcastle University, Abby also worked in Northumberland County Council’s communications department.
Abby has had a very varied and distinctive career so far. From delivering large scale airline events to crisis management of issues which have affected not only the region but the world, Abby has a proven track record when dealing with the media.
After two years working at the region’s largest airport, where she was responsible for many aspects of its daily press office activities, Abby has joined O Communications, ready for her PR career to really take off.
She said, “I am thrilled to be working for O Communications, it has a reputation most PR companies have spent decades to build, but it has taken O Communications only five years.
“It is a great opportunity to work on an ever-growing list of clients, and build on its award-winning reputation. These are exciting times for the company, and I am very excited to be part of it.”
Chief executive, Kari Owers, said: “Abby’s experience of crisis communications really is a coup for the company. In the past four months she has dealt with the huge media attention received from the airport’s runway closure due to snow, the implications of the British Airways strike, and the disruption to flights due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland.
“Abby has worked in a high pressure environment of an international company, and brings to O Communications a new knowledge base. I am sure she will prove herself to be an asset to O Communications’ future.”
Abby is the second recent appointment to the growing media relations and PR agency that recorded a 30% growth in turnover in 2009, and has grown to a team of 10 across PR, design and social media disciplines.
O Communications is based in Ouseburn Valley in Newcastle and is the CIPR Outstanding Consultancy of the Year 2010. It is known for its wide ranging clients in the entrepreneurial and enterprise sector, as well as handling the communications for many North East headquartered organisations in sectors such as property, law, education & skills, technology and telecoms.
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