Our Kind

Our deep industry knowledge and creativity combine with years of in-house, agency and journalism experience. Decades of advising digital and technology companies helps us get to the heart of your communications challenges and solve them in a human way.

Adrian Ma

Adrian Ma

Founding Partner

Adrian is a specialist in digitally-integrated PR. He has worked with digital brands ranging from giants such as Yahoo! to Tesco.com, to fast-growth disruptors like Photobox, Wowcher and HealthHero. He’s helped set up three digital PR practices for London-based agencies and co-founded the digitally-integrated agency Komodo PR (now part of Chameleon PR / MikeWorldWide Group). Adrian went on to found Fanclub PR in 2011, where he also serves as its managing director. Adrian is also part of the advisory board for BME PR Pros.

Tessa Curtis

Tessa Curtis

Consulting Partner

Tessa is a highly experienced corporate storyteller with over 25 years’ experience in corporate and financial communications, reputation management and integrated marketing for both UK and international organisations. She has wide experience gained in-house, with international agencies and her own consultancy, leading PR strategies and programmes to build corporate brand awareness, support business strategies and address reputational challenges and issues – often in contentious, regulated sectors including food and drink, betting and financial services.

Paul Lucas

Paul Lucas

Founding Partner

Paul has worked with consumer tech, ecommerce and digital businesses for over 20-years. From the outset of digital banking with First Direct and BT’s first step as an internet service provider, through to the birth of Sony mobile, Paul has advised a wealth of companies from launch to ongoing brand building campaigns.

Hannah Kalyan

Hannah Kalyan

Senior Consultant

Hannah is an experienced corporate and business-to-business comms consultant, with extensive experience in working with clients in complex and highly regulated comms environments across sustainability, technology and consumer goods.

Andrew Sanders

Andrew Sanders

Director of Audience, Channel and Content Strategy

Andrew has spent over twenty years in content marketing and marketing strategy. He has worked media owner side for brands as diverse as trusted reviews, NME, living etc. & Chat (as well as B2B side). He also worked both agency and client side in strategic and hands on production roles. Andrew has also led market research and product development projects in a variety of contexts. He has worked with a wide range of clients consumer and B2B. These include Sony, O2, Unilever, The Chemistry Group, Oury Clark and Newton Europe. In addition Andrew guest lectures in Content Marketing at Birmingham University Business School.

Franchesca di Donato

Franchesca di Donato

Senior Analyst

With a background in international relations and politics, Franchesca is a highly-skilled analayst. She's also experienced in media relations and copywriting. She has a masters degree in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and previously worked at the Consulate of Equador.

Jason Nisse

Jason Nisse

Consulting Partner

Jason spent 20 years on national newspapers, including six years as a business editor, and was director of media relations for Barclays plc before moving into consultancy. As well as advising organisations at board level, he has expertise in special situations and crisis communications disciplines and also provides media and message training. Among the clients he has supported are Just Eat Takeaway, Index Ventures, SME Alliance, BT, AXA, Sportradar and the PR Week award winning campaign for 10,000 Black Interns. He has also lectured on crisis communications at Harvard University and King's College, University of London.

Davnet Doran

Davnet Doran

Consulting Partner

As consulting partner, Davnet provides strategic oversight to the business. She brings over 20-years of experience. 

Both in-house, as Head of ESG Communications at Britvic, leading stakeholder engagement and sustainability campaigns, as well as agency-side, where she was formerly managing director of consumer agencies Unity PR and M&C Saatchi PR.