Kevin Murray
Chairman
Bell Pottinger
The Bell Pottinger Group is the Public Relations Division of Chime Communications. Altogether, the Group has 350 people serving 600 clients, and is ranked number one in both the PR Week and Marketing league tables.
Kevin specialises in the fields of strategic communications, reputation management and leadership communications coaching. He has years of experience advising chairmen and CEOs, as well as managing complex and global communications projects and departments.
He works with clients such as McLaren F1, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, MFI, 118118, Adobe, Airbus, Emirates Airlines and Sky. In the past, he has worked with the likes of KPMG and BHP Billiton, in nearly every case at CEO or chairman level.
Previously he was Director of Communications for British Airways and, before that, Director of Corporate Affairs for AEA Technology, the business that was floated off from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. In both these organisations he had experience of major change programmes.
Prior to AEA, Kevin was Group Public Relations Manager for Bayer companies in the UK.
He is also a former national newspaper journalist, magazine publisher and marketing director, having started his career as a journalist on The Star newspaper in Johannesburg. He is an enthusiastic father and husband, a mad keen golfer, a theatre-goer, TV watcher, book reader, food eater and wine drinker.
Kevin is also Co-Chair of the Criticaleye Advisory Board.