We are delighted to announce the appointment of Catherine Walker as senior vice-president for PHA North.
With more than 16 years’ experience advising organisations on corporate reputation, stakeholder engagement and b2b communications, Catherine Walker joins The PHA Group.
Her remit includes expanding PHA’s portfolio of clients headquartered in the North and providing senior counsel to the agency’s national and international corporate accounts. She will report to Becks Wiper, executive vice-president of PHA North.
Before PHA, Walker was a business development manager at legal services provider Bevan Brittan. During her career, she has also worked agency-side at Definition and Finn Partners, as well as in-house at Morrisons and the Yorkshire Building Society.
Her client work has included AB Agri, Centrica, Quorn, Taylors of Harrogate, Essity, DFS, Finsbury Food Group and Froneri, delivering programmes focused on corporate profiling, issues management and stakeholder relations.
Walker said: “This is a really exciting new chapter that I can’t wait to get underway. My time working in-house gave me real insight into how professional services businesses think, what they need from their communications strategies and the pressures they face day to day.
“Now I’m looking forward to bringing that perspective back into agency life, working with a brilliant new team and helping clients tell their story in the most impactful way possible.
“The PHA Group has already built something special in the North, and I’m thrilled to be working with the team to look at what more we can do to support the amazing businesses and people that call this region home.”
Chief Executive, George Coleman, added: “We’re all-in on expanding our operations across the North. We see so much potential, and Catherine’s appointment is another important step in making PHA the go-to PR agency for brands across the region.”