Leadership

Alex Walker

Co-founder

Alex has extensive experience advising and managing communications campaigns. He spent eight years in Westminster working with MPs and advising Ministers in the Cabinet Office. In 2020, he spent four months in Kyiv advising Mayor and former world heavyweight boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko on his reelection campaign. Alex also acted as International Press Secretary to the Romanian Prime Minister and helped the country push for record infrastructure funding from the European Union to aid the country’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Most recently, Alex served as Interim Director of Communications to the West Midlands Combined Authority and the Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street. There he led a team of 30 people and, among many highlights, managed the announcement of a £1.5 billion devolution deal for the region and oversaw the storytelling of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games legacy project.

Louis Rynsard

Co-founder

Louis Rynsard is a strategic communications and government relations professional. He began his career in British politics serving in Labour’s Shadow Treasury and Shadow Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs teams. He also contributed to campaign planning and policy development for a general election and ran the successful campaign to elect a Select Committee Chair in Parliament.

Since leaving politics, Louis has worked in a variety of consultancy roles including for an agency established by a former Director of Communications at Number 10 Downing Street and a national newspaper editor. He ran a successful campaign to change UK Government policy and create a global call to action to save remittances during COVID-19 and has managed some of the world’s most high-profile communications crises. He has also advised clients on the communications around complex and multi-jurisdictional litigation, supported national election campaigns, and helped clients achieve results through engaging with the media, political figures, businesses, think tanks, NGOs, and other stakeholders around the world.