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director
Elizabeth is passionate about using public relations to help her clients bring about positive change. She has extensive experience in media relations, sponsorship, event organisation and identity creation in consumer, trade and B2B markets. She has worked across a diverse range of start-up ventures, small business and multi-national firms including, AXA Insurance, Air France, Heineken, and The Annuity Bureau.
A former director at Bell Pottinger Communications, in 2002 Elizabeth founded Holt PR for firms in the financial services and professional markets, executing strategic and highly effective media relations campaigns.
Elizabeth graduated with a BA in English & Linguistics.
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account manager
Shelly has been at the hub of the Holt PR team for five years.
Very much at the centre of all things at Holt PR, Shelly has a strong media relations role which encompasses initiating press meetings, securing article commissions and ensuring the team achieves all client activity on time.
Shelly is a lively networker and has long-standing relationships with consumer and trade journalists within the financial services and business sectors. She loves seeing campaigns through from start to finish and is responsible for the year on year success of Financial Planning Week – a generic campaign geared to make people aware of the importance of planning their finances.
Shelly graduated with a BA in Journalism.
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senior executive
A former business journalist, Fiona is a prolific writer.
Prior to joining Holt PR, Fiona was Commodities Editor at Interactive Investor where she was responsible for providing specialist coverage and industry analysis.
Fiona has had her work published across titles such as Moneywise, Money Observer, Interactive Investor, Campden Publishing, ICIS Business and The Times and has also appeared on Al Jazeera TV.
Fiona enjoys the challenge of making complex issues straightforward and her journalistic approach means she has a keen eye for “what makes a story”.
Fiona graduated with a BA in German with Theology.
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executive assistant
Javier is responsible for marketing and administration.
Prior to joining the team, Javier worked as a paralegal intern at a law firm in San Francisco.
A Spanish native, Javier has travelled the length and breadth of the US but his love of all things English led him to London in summer 2011.
He graduated with a BA in English Literature.
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consultant writer
Rob’s journalistic career spans almost two decades.
Rob has edited several business titles and since 1998 he has focused on financial services. He was founding editor of Mortgage Magazine and Professional Adviser, a weekly trade magazine aimed at the IFA market.
Prior to starting as a writer for Holt PR in 2009, Rob was managing editor within the investment division of a large financial services publisher.
An avid reader, Rob specialises in investment and has a keen appetite for news.
He graduated with a BA in English Literature.
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consultant writer
Pamela is a pensions and investment writer for Holt PR. She has been a financial journalist for 25 years and has worked across personal finance, institutional, trade and offshore publications and websites.
She previously worked as staff writer on Money Management and is a former editor of Pensions Management.
Pamela swapped the office for a life as a freelancer in 1998 and has since used her technical knowledge and deep understanding of the pensions industry to write for a number of national newspapers, including the Sunday Telegraph, trade magazines and investment publications.
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consultant writer
Deborah is the co-founder and managing editor of ExpatMoneyChannel.com, a personal finance website for expatriates.
She is also editor of Insight Out Magazine, a monthly business publication for accountancy firm Mazars and was previously editor of Financial Times magazine Investment Adviser.
As well as writing for a number of financial publications, Deborah has devised several awards and conference programmes, including the Gold Standard Awards and Professional Adviser’s International Fund & Product Awards.
Deborah joined Holt PR as a consultant writer in 2011.
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consultant writer
Hannah is co-founder of ExpatMoneyChannel.com, a personal finance website for expatriates and the current features editor for chartered accountancy Mazars’ online monthly magazine, Insight Out.
Having started her career as a news reporter with the Financial Times, Hannah went on to work across a range of titles including Time Magazine, Weekly Telegraph, Sunday Times and The Banker.
In 1997, Hannah became editor of Expat Investor, where she stayed until 2010.
As well as writing articles for a number of financial publications, Hannah has also published a book, Expat Money - The Definitive Personal Finance Manual for Brits Abroad.
Hannah joined Holt PR as a consultant writer in 2011.
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social networking consultant
Abbie works with us to help our clients define and execute their social media strategies – incorporating LinkedIn, Twitter, and blogging.
Abbie has 13 years’ experience providing marketing, strategy and business development services to firms in financial and other professional services. Originally from Sydney, she has lectured in marketing and eBusiness at the University of Technology, Sydney, while also working with AMP and Henderson Global Investors.
Her passion for all things marketing and social media has led her to present regularly at industry forums on online and offline marketing, social media, segmentation and working with professional partners. Abbie runs her own successful marketing company, A Business Innovation.
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consultant writer
Sarah specialises in consumer writing and for 15 years has edited and written for many top consumer magazines. Since 2008, she has been writing regularly for the likes of Aviva Health, Mothercare, Heinz and Boots Parenting Club, Practical Parenting, Top Sante, Essentials and Zest.
Formerly in financial services PR, Sarah is always thorough and researched.
She graduated in English Literature.
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Using their extensive media connections and knowledge of the financial services market, Holt PR have consistently proven to be creative and enthusiastic partners to our business and supported our market leading growth throughout this period. 
In the three years we have been using Holt PR we have found them to be everything we needed in the beginning and everything we want moving forward. There is a caring, small company feel to the way you have treated us and a big company action plan on getting our message out to market. 
