London-based PR firm launches 10-person end-to-end agency

A new London-based PR and communications agency has launched to focus exclusively on proactively building the profiles of company leaders and leadership teams.

Launching today, the new agency, Profile, has recruited a dedicated team of 10 people over recent months, with competencies covering media engagement, social media management, multimedia production, and copywriting. It will work exclusively on briefs that involve executive profiling and executive thought leadership.

The agency was founded by the team behind Transmission Private, a communications agency known for advising high-net-worth individuals and family offices on their public relations. It is now being spun-out as a standalone business to capitalise on increasing demand for positive profile-building programmes amongst executive leadership teams.

The new agency will be co-led by Sam Patchett and Jordan Greenaway. Sam Patchett previously spent 2 years at Grayling before joining Transmission Private at the start of 2022. He previously held roles at Aegon and New Zealand-based PR agency SweeneyVesty.

Patchett will move full-time to the Profile business from Transmission Private, where he will be responsible for overseeing client projects. Jordan Greenaway originally founded Transmission Private, the award-winning reputation management firm, in 2014. He will focus on agency partnerships, marketing, business development, and client acquisition.

The research, carried out by polling firm OnePoll for Profile, showed that nearly three in four people (74 per cent) said that they would prefer to work for a company with a visible leadership team. Similarly, 60 per cent of people said that they would prefer to buy products and services from companies that were led by visible leadership teams. The poll was based on a survey of 2,000 British adults.

Profile intends to grow rapidly into the executing profiling space by targeting both corporate, mid-market, and start-up clients seeking to run focused campaigns to raise the profiles of their leadership team.

Alongside traditional media engagement, in advance of launch, Profile has focussed on building its in-house content creation capability, recruiting team members with a dedicated focus on video and podcast creation as well as paid and organic social media management.“

Jordan Greenaway, commercial director at Profile, said: “We believe that there will be increasing demand for executive profiling over the coming 5 years, and we have invested heavily to take advantage of this trend. We want to establish ourselves as the go-to leader in this fast-growing niche, which we think is currently underserviced by the industry.”

Sam Patchett, client director at Profile, said: “We are seeking to establish ourselves as the end-to-end agency for executive profiling projects. We’ve built a team that can operate across traditional media engagement and coverage generation, as well as setting up strong in-house capabilities so we can produce creative multimedia content.

“We took the view that clients would benefit from having access to video, photography, audio, writing, social media, and digital media services all under one roof. Even in the early days of the launch, we have seen high levels of demand. Our success will be built on the strength of our team, which is why we are continuing to invest in new hires as we take our offering to market.”

By Mark Adair – Correspondent, Bdaily

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