Pesel & Carr

I highly recommend Barbara and her Pesel & Carr team as one of the best and most effective communications firms in the country.

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`I have been working continuously with Pesel & Carr for close to ten years and have found our association to be both rewarding and profitable. Barbara and her team have worked miracles using their close media relations to generate large amounts of coverage. Her entrepreneurial approach and experience has allowed us to use her as a resource well beyond traditional media relations. I highly recommend Barbara and her Pesel & Carr team as one of the best and most effective communications firms in the country.`

Malcolm Owens, Chief Executive Officer, Sampford IXL Pty. Ltd.

Strategic advice, stakeholder engagement

Philosophy

At Pesel & Carr, we understand our clients needs and the markets they operate in. Our comprehensive knowledge, established systems and extensive contacts enable us to hit the ground running, saving clients money and giving them back their time.

Our team of professionals understand how the media works and how to work the media. We keep good company, nurture our contacts, continually gather intelligence and employ this to our clients advantage.

Sound strategic advice underpins all that we do and is a pre-requisite to helping clients achieve their communication objectives.  Our advice is based on a thorough, in-depth and objective knowledge of clients total business needs.   We understand the strategic implications of business decisions in communication, and we work in partnership alongside CEOs and other key executives to align their businesses with best practice in communication.

Pesel & Carr is a member of a Registered Consultancies Group (RCG) with the Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA). Clients can be assured that all consultants working for Pesel & Carr adhere to the prescribed standards set by the PRIA and RCG.

staff

• Barbara Pesel
  Managing Director
  MPRIA

  Barbara is recognised as one of Australia's most effective and original communication consultants in her targeted markets. She has become a respected partner to the executives of fast growing organisations engaged in floats, mergers and acquisitions.

  Barbara draws on 20 years experience in communication, spanning industry sectors that include local government, manufacturing, legal & accounting, IT & telecoms, tourism, retail and entertainment. This wide market knowledge supports her critical strengths in balancing broad business issues with the right communications program to produce substantial and measurable results.

  Barbara increasingly works with the executive to plan risk management strategies and to address issues that include key stakeholder management, internal culture development, leadership communications and alignment to support new business models.

• Glenister Lamont
  Investor Relations
  BEng (Hons), MBA (IMD Switzerland), ASIA, FAICD

  Glenister's investor relations experience has covered a wide range of activities in different sectors. His understanding of what companies need to do to attract investors comes from extensive insights gained as an executive director at UBS, covering both equity research and investment banking.

  Glenister has worked both within companies as an investor relations manager and as an external advisor. The roles in companies have also encompassed considerable work on governance and its impact on investor perceptions and expertise extends to his board positions with listed companies.

  Highlights of his career include:

  Investor relations manager for Woodside, covering investor relations activities surrounding Australia's largest ever export contract - the A$25 billion China LNG deal, Woodside's 2002 interim results and other activities. 
   
  Using feedback from investors to convince the board of Ashton Mining to introduce a capital management plan, and then managed the evaluation of alternatives by financial advisers and the implementation of the $15 million plan. Ashton was one of the first resource companies outside Rio Tinto to instigate a share buy back.

  For a top 200 healthcare company, leading all investor relation's activities including managing and preparing Directors Reports and results presentations, road shows, AGMs and annual reports, assisting with ASX and ASIC compliance and liaising with banks. It also involved establishing an investor relations infrastructure including upgraded website, mailing lists and regular board reporting. 
   
  Provided leadership during the defence of Ashton Mining from a hostile take over by managing both internal and external groups, including financial, public relations and other advisers thereby, achieving $200 million additional value for shareholders. 
   
  Developing with several boards a consistent framework for governance issues, including establishing charters for the board and its committees and initiating policies in important areas such as disclosure, share trading and risk management. 
   
  As an analyst at UBS, through providing superior research analysis, support and targeted marketing to the firm's key clients, he was rated by BRW and FPRG surveys consistently among the top five analysts across a range of sectors.
   
  

• Glen Rohan
  Director

  Glen Rohan has more than 35 years experience in media and publishing. He was at the start of a number of community newspapers including the inner-city's award-winning paper, The Melbourne Times, which he presided over as editor for 25 years. He has extensive contacts with journalists, many of whom he worked with over his long career.
   
  Glen this year completed a six-year stint with Melbourne's Fairfax Community Network where he managed the team of reporters, photographers, artists and editors across 33 community newspapers and magazines - including the Fairfax paper covering the Altona area.
   
  Throughout his media career Glen has worked closely with state and local governments and played a vital supporting role to countless community events, programs and campaigns through the newspapers. As a result, he has developed considerable contacts within all tiers of government.
   
  He is also a director of a print company and two media companies and his valued opinion and advice has been regularly sought by Pesel & Carr over past years. Glen was appointed as a director of Pesel & Carr in 2008.

• Sam Watson
  Consultant

  After training as a journalist at Leeds University in the UK, Sam applied his knowledge of the media to a career in Public Relations with international European consultancy, Trimedia Harrison Cowley. Working between offices in Leeds and London, Sam was involved with a wide range of high profile clients, including British Telecom, McDonald's, RSPCA and the National Blood Service.

  During his time with TrimediaHC, Sam was involved in some high profile and award winning campaigns, developing his communication skills and managing to secure quality coverage with some of the world's most prestigious media, including The Times and the BBC. 

• Cairin Conway
  Consultant
  

  Cairin holds a joint honours degree in Business Studies and Economics from Trinity College, Dublin. After a spending a period of time working in the financial services Industry, she went on to gain a Masters in Public Relations at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

  Cairin then worked as part of the communications team at Heinz Australia where she was involved in a wide variety of communications projects. Here, she gained significant experience in writing for print and the web, marketing promotions and co-ordination of internal Corporate Social Responsibility activities.

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