Events
Our reputation for rigorous standards in quality and presentation has established us as the first choice for organisations looking to bring their brand or message to life. We create hundreds of events each year and reach tens of thousands of the right people all over the world.
At Grayling Live we think internationally, recognising that we need different solutions for a different and evolving world. With offices all over the world, we have access to local knowledge, culture and contacts ensuring our clients receive a seamless, integrated events campaign. We remove the inconvenience of having to deal with a number of different consultancies, which can be confusing, time-consuming and costly. With a global perspective, we can deliver a consistent message all over the world.
Whether you are looking to enhance your internal or external communications with a conference, award ceremony, product launch, road show, or brand experience in one city or three continents, Grayling works with hugely talented people to create, manage and deliver joined-up, innovative solutions that deliver optimum results.
There’s much more to an event than finding the right venue and soundtrack, and that’s where Grayling’s expertise shines through. We partner and guide our client from the outset, from crafting a credible concept, to ensuring we remain on-brand and on-message, to targeting the appropriate audience, creating and executing an effective strategy, supporting the event with a strategic communication plan, and finally evaluating the whole campaign.
At Grayling, we’re dynamic, passionate, meticulous and hands-on. We are innovative, flexible, accountable and accessible. We focus on delivering real business benefits and giving the best value for money. We reflect these attributes in every project we undertake. That is why some of the most established companies and organisations in both the private and public sectors trust us to manage all of their event needs.
On Grayling Live Worldwide.
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Designed, produced and staged a multimedia presentation to launch Schlumberger in Las Vegas.
Conceptualised and managed the VIP launch event for the Casino Grand Lisboa in Macau SAR.
Event managed the first Games Association Middle East Show.
We supported the Middle East leg of the 'Collected Visions' art exhibition at DIFC.
Launching the world’s largest skydiving simulator in Singapore.
Scoring pole position for Johnnie Walker at the Singapore GP. Grayling executed ten major events.
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Michael Murphy
CEO
James Acheson-Gray
Managing Director, International
Rebecca Gudgeon
New Business, UK & Republic of Ireland
Jennifer Paavola
Director, Central Practice Team, CEE, SEE & Eurasia
Bruce Shu
Managing Director, Asia Pacific
Erik Knettel
New Business, New York
Anne McBride
Chairman, Investor Relations, New York
Marcey Brightwell
New Busines, USA - West Coast/Sacramento
Murphy Michael
CEO
Telephone: +44 20 7932 1841
michael.murphy@grayling.com
Michael Murphy is CEO of Grayling. Prior to this role Michael was CEO of Trimedia International which merged with Mmd and Grayling to create the Grayling of today. Under his leadership, Trimedia was named Best European Agency at the European Excellence Awards 2008 and Best Multicountry Agency to Work For 2008 by the Holmes World Report.
With a career spanning over 30 years, Michael has considerable experience in handling global communications programmes in most parts of the world.
In 1993, Michael Murphy was appointed Head of Shandwick’s Hong Kong Office and, the following year, took over as Chief Executive of Shandwick’s Asian operations. He was later appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Shandwick Europe and then Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Shandwick International, with responsibility for Europe and Asia Pacific.
Michael was working for The Hatch Group, a small €6M UK PR company, when it was acquired by Huntsworth plc in 2003. The following year he led Huntsworth’s acquisition of Trimedia, kick-starting the fastest ever growth story in European PR.
Michael also chaired a joint study between the UK Government and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) into the future of the UK PR sector.
Acheson-Gray James
Managing Director, International
Telephone: +44 7904 649 125
james.achesongray@grayling.com
James is Managing Director - International. He joined Grayling in London 15 years ago. He then moved to Asia to establish Grayling’s Asian businesses. James returned to London in 2008 as Managing Director of the UK PR business before taking on the new role as Managing Director – International.
A consumer, corporate and issues management Public Relations specialist, James has handled a wide range of remits and pan-regional activity on behalf of many of the group’s largest clients including TNT, British Airways, Johnnie Walker and Rolls-Royce.
James has an honours degree from Durham University. He is married with four children and enjoys playing tennis and golf.
Gudgeon Rebecca
New Business, UK & Republic of Ireland
Telephone: +44 20 7025 7500
Rebecca.gudgeon@grayling.com
Paavola Jennifer
Director, Central Practice Team, CEE, SEE & Eurasia
Telephone: + 36 70 371 3896
jennifer.paavola@grayling.com
Jennifer is considered an expert in all areas of brand communications and has helped some of the world’s biggest companies solve their biggest communications challenges. At Grayling she heads the central practice team for the CEE, SEE and Eurasia region, which works with the consultancy’s regional clients and also provides top-level strategic and creative consulting.
Jennifer’s experience includes the full array of global communications work as a consultant for some of the world's top brands. Her industry experience includes healthcare, energy, technology, professional services, finance and FMCG.
Before joining Grayling, Jennifer was the CEO of Pleon London (now Ketchum Pleon) and sat on the European Board of Directors. Her remit was to lead the diversification process in London when Pleon was created from Brodeur UK. Her work resulted in a services portfolio comprising PR, strategic communications and issues management and creative services/digital. Prior to her CEO role, Jennifer was a Director and lead on the Shell account for over 4 years. She was also Interim Vice President of External Affairs for Shell Renewables, Hydrogen and CO2.
When Jennifer first moved to the UK she helped establish a partnership-based services company that worked with the country’s leading legal and corporate finance houses in supplying the full-range of integrated expertise for early-stage technology companies and the venture capitalists behind them. Capabilities include strategic business planning and corporate finance. In the US Jennifer was the Director of Marketing and Corporate Communication for iGATE (NASDAQ: IGTE) a global IT services and outsourcing company. This included overseeing the communications teams for the holding company, venture capital arm and 12 subsidiaries located in the US, India and Europe. Jennifer started her career at Ketchum.
McBride Anne
Chairman, Investor Relations, New York
Telephone: +1 646 284 9431
anne.mcbride@grayling.com
Anne McBride brings more than 30 years of experience in the capital markets to Grayling. She has responsibility for all Investor Relations activities undertaken in the US on behalf of both domestic and international clients.
Anne began her career as a Security Analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley, focusing on special situations and undervalued stocks. She also brings more than eight years of in-house Investor Relations experience, having served in senior roles for UK-listed companies Saatchi and Saatchi Plc and Beazer Plc. Anne was the key driver behind both companies’ listings on the NYSE.
Some of Anne's clients have worked with her and the team for over 15 years and these span the worldwide globe. Clients like the leading utility in Brazil, Cemig, Russia's largest independent oil and gas producer, Lukoil, the leading technology and research candidate in alzheimer's, Prana Biotechnology and the US leading investment bank and pipe financial provider Rodman & Renshaw are examples of the her diverse experience and skills.
She has also worked for Sify Technologies, who she helped become the first Indian company to list on Nasdaq, and world-class Chinese companies such as Nepstar Chain Drugstore, Origin Agritech and China Yuchai International.
In addition to being on the board of The New York Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association and a Member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of Exclusive Resorts, she consults regularly to international associations involved in Investor Relations, writes regular features and columns and recently spoke at the NYSE during Mexico Day on the Best Practices of Investor Relations.
Brightwell Marcey
New Busines, USA - West Coast/Sacramento
Telephone: +01 916 441.1034
Marcey.brightwell@rosekindel.com
