Brendon Craigie is chief executive officer and responsible for the company’s work, offices, sister agencies and affiliates.  Brendon joined Hotwire in 2001 after a career at Shandwick.  Brendon’s client experience includes Microsoft, Research In Motion, THUS, Ciao and Tiscali.  Brendon won an IPRA award for his campaign for THUS.

Telephone: +44 207 608 4624
Email: brendon.craigie@hotwirepr.com
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Alex MacLaverty joined Hotwire in 2004 and is responsible for Hotwire’s UK technology team and clients. She works across the telecoms, IT and services, consumer, media and marketing and clean tech practices providing strategic counsel for clients and leading Hotwire´s media training and crisis management services.

Alex has a wide range of specialist experience within technology PR, having worked with more than 100 clients including MessageLabs, Cisco, Sage, Sierra Wireless, Airwave, Newport Networks, Zeus Technology, Sapient, SecureWorks and ATG, as well as within the financial services sector for clients such as Barclays, Esure, and the FSA.

Alex is a two-times industry award winner including SABRE Pan European Campaign of the Year and PR Week Technology Campaign of the Year, and is also an expert in running international campaigns, having previously been responsible for Hotwire’s offices in Spain and Italy.

 

Alex is currently on maternity leave, for new business enquiries please email our UK management team at hotwirelondon@hotwirepr.com, for all other enquiries please contact our deputy MD Emma Hazan.

Telephone: 0207 608 2500
Email: hotwirelondon@hotwirepr.com
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Telephone: +44 (0) 207 608 4659
Email: emma.hazan@hotwirepr.com
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Matt Cross is a director at Hotwire, specialising in strategic B2B campaigns for a wide variety of technology companies. He joined Hotwire in 2012 from Axicom, where he gained eight years experience in tech PR. Matt’s client experience includes working with vendors such as Nokia, Ericsson, Nortel, Dell and Qualcomm.

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7608 4631
Email: matt.cross@hotwirepr.com
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Sole Chirco is a director at Hotwire, overseeing the agency’s financial services and technology practice, and also holds the position of group marketing director. Sole has a solid background in international PR, marketing and strategic communications, and has worked across various sectors including B2B, tech, FinTech, and B2C. Sole’s past client experience includes Intuit, Temenos, Dell, Sun Microsystems and Oxfam.

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7608 4664
Email: sole.chirco@hotwirepr.com
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Kate Hamilton joined Hotwire in 2007 and is an associate director specialising in the IT and services, and cleantech sectors. Kate has nearly a decade of B2B enterprise software and services technology PR experience for major players including BT, Sage, ATG and SAS. Kate holds a marketing communications post-graduate diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7608 4671
Email: kate.hamilton@hotwirepr.com
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Annette Leach is an associate director at Hotwire and specialises in the telecoms practice. Providing strategic planning and counsel for UK and International campaigns, ensuring delivery against the PR objectives. Experience includes a range of B2B and B2C clients including, Acision, Cable & Wireless Worldwide, mBlox, RIM, InMobi, Cloudmark, Infoblox, Auto Trader and McAfee. MWC veteran.

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7608 4657
Email: annette.leach@hotwirepr.com
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Nicola Koronka is an associate director in Hotwire’s financial services and technology practice, specialising in the sector since joining the agency as a graduate in 2006. Nicola’s experience includes working for clients including VocaLink, RBS, First Data and Octopus Investments.

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7608 4673
Email: nicola.koronka@hotwirepr.com
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Simone Reid is an associate director at Hotwire, where she works in the financial services and technology practice. Prior to joining the agency in 2013, Simone gained over 10 years of experience with broad technology, financial services, and fintech clients. She has worked with commercialisation and investment in early stage technology, investor and external relations at venture capital fund Imperial Innovations plc, and she set up the London office of boutique financial technology and services agency Spotlight Financial Marketing. Simone’s client experience includes Cortexica Vision Systems, Tarmin Systems, Alphakinetic, and at Hotwire, CashFlows, Rule Financial, Octopus Ventures, and InterTrader. Simone has an Executive MBA from the Imperial College London Business School.

Telephone: +44 (0) 207 608 4629
Email: simone.reid@hotwirepr.com
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Telephone: +44 (0) 207 608 2500
Email: hotwirelondon@hotwirepr.com
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Andy West is group chief development officer at Hotwire and is responsible for new business across our offices worldwide, as well as a number of our large international clients. Andy joined Hotwire in 2008 after a stint as an entrepreneur in the dot com world, having co-founded the video debating website, Friction.tv. Prior to this, he had a long career with Text 100 where he left as managing director, EMEA. Andy's past client experience includes: IBM, ARM, Xerox, Avaya, Research In Motion, Cable & Wireless, Novell and Bang&Olufsen.

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7608 8352
Email: andy.west@hotwirepr.com
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Peter Sigrist is the managing director at 33 Digital, one of Europe's leading digital and social media PR agencies helping clients reach audiences in innovative new ways. Prior to joining 33 Digital Peter was an associate director at Fishburn Hedges and is an expert in social media and digital, issues management and crisis PR

Telephone: +44 207 608 4678
Email: peter.sigrist@33-digital.com
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Tony Morreale is chief operating officer at Hotwire. A Chartered Accountant, Tony qualified with BDO and prior to joining Hotwire was based at KPMG. He has experience in the media and PR space having held the position of financial director for the Gorkana group, and was also the first financial director at Thomsons Online Benefits. Tony is based at our London office and is responsible for finance, HR, IT and operations.

Telephone: +44 207 608 4630
Email: tony.morreale@hotwirepr.com
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Loveday Langton is our HR director. Loveday started her career in technology PR in 2000, when she joined Hotwire on the client service side, working for clients including Research In Motion and THUS. She took on the HR role in 2007, and is now responsible for the people strategy across our offices.

Telephone: +44 20 7608 4662
Email: Loveday.langton@hotwirepr.com
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Emily is financial director at Hotwire, and is responsible for group consolidation reporting and financial management of the UK business. Emily joined Hotwire in 2006 and became a fully qualified accountant in 2009.

Telephone: +44 207 608 4676
Email: emily.rule@hotwirepr.com
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