Biographies
John Mattison | Nick Mattison | Paul Arvanitopoulos | Amy Wilson
Matthew Battersby | Toby Crisp | Special Advisers | Associates
John Mattison, B.Sc. (Econ), MIPR
John is a former financial journalist with the Evening Standard and Sunday Times who has worked in corporate and financial public relations for over 20 years, advising clients ranging from start-ups to global corporates. Prior to establishing Mattison Public Relations, he worked as a senior director in London for the world’s three largest public relations consultancies: Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton and Shandwick. The experience gained in these three major consultancies is now available directly to clients without the associated bureaucracy and overheads of a big organisation.
John’s experience in public relations is extensive. He has advised British Gas, Siebe, Vodafone and many other blue chip organisations. In the professional services sector clients have included Accenture, Deloitte & Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Slaughter & May. Financial services clients have included Aviva, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland and the New York Stock Exchange.
John is a graduate in Economics from the London School of Economics and a former elected Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Nick Mattison, B.A. (Hons), MCIPR
Nick joined the consultancy early in 1996 after three years as an equity and derivatives broker in the City, where he specialised in media and technology companies at Durlacher, which is recognised as a leading investment bank in this field.
At Mattison Public Relations he works across most clients but primarily focuses on the professional services sector. He is a graduate in Economic and Social History from the University of Liverpool.
Clients that Nick has worked with include Accenture, AIG, Beachcroft Wansbroughs, Wilkins Kennedy, Donaldsons, Kingston Smith, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Royal & SunAlliance, Trowers & Hamlins, Willis and the London Metal Exchange.
Nick is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and of the International Building Press.
Amy Wilson joined Mattison Public Relations in 2002. She graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2000 with a degree in Classics. Before joining Mattison Public Relations Amy worked for over 2 years as a PR consultant for a major trade association.
At Mattison Public Relations Amy works on a group of accounts including Hotbed, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Trowers & Hamlins, Wedlake Bell and ludlowthompson.com.
Paul Arvanitopoulos, M.A. (Hons)
Paul Arvanitopoulos has worked for Mattison Public Relations since May 2002. He graduated from the University of St Andrews in 1998 with a degree in History. Paul had acquired over 3 years experience working in marketing for a property consultancy and a City shipping firm before deciding to take up a career in public relations.
Paul has worked with clients such as ATSCo, Donaldsons, giant group plc, Trowers & Hamlins, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Royal & SunAlliance and Wilkins Kennedy, ATSCo and giant group plc.
Matthew Battersby, B.Sc. (Hons)
Matthew graduated from the University of Bristol in 2003, with a degree in Philosophy & Economics. He then spent 18 months with the Multinational Corporate Tax Consulting Group in Ernst & Young in London. As well as undertaking tax advisory work Matthew assisted on Ernst & Young’s media campaigns for the Budget and Pre-Budget speeches and in their marketing drive for new clients.
Matthew joined Mattison Public Relations at the start of this year and has brought with him an excellent understanding of the professional and financial services sector. He now works on a number of clients including AngelBourse, Metapraxis, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Sweet & Maxwell and Trowers & Hamlins.
Toby Crisp joined Mattison Public Relations in January 2005 after graduating from the University of Sheffield with a degree in Business Studies.
Toby works on a group of clients including Trowers & Hamlins, Sweet & Maxwell and ludlowthomson.com.
David Brotzen
David Brotzen is a crisis communications specialist with over 15 years’ experience covering many industries, including food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and service industries.
He founded the reputation protection consultancy Brotzen Mayne Limited (www.brotzen-mayne.co.uk) in August 1999 after heading the Crisis Division at international public relations consultancy Hill & Knowlton for six years. Prior to that, he worked in senior positions in the Crisis Management Division at Burson-Marsteller.
David has provided communications counsel and strategic advice on a broad range of crises and other issues. He now draws on this experience to advise high-profile national and international organisations on preventive strategies to protect their corporate reputations before and during a crisis. He specialises in: mapping out the reputational risks; “war-gaming” through contentious issues; reviewing crisis response procedures; auditing companies; and developing crisis training programmes for senior management around the world.
David has delivered over 100 crisis communications training programmes and crisis simulations worldwide and has led knowledge share and skills development workshops for crisis communications experts across Europe, America and the Asia-Pacific region. He has also prepared crisis communications plans and contingency plans for many organisations.
Meziane Lasfer, PhD
Meziane Lasfer is Professor in Finance and Director of PhD Studies at the Cass Business School ( City University ).
He specialises in research on finance-related topics and has undertaken projects specially commissioned by, among others BP, CIMA, ICAEW, NAPF and Trillium. His work has been published internationally in both academic and professional journals and he has spoken frequently at conferences both in the UK and overseas. He also runs executive education for organisations such as Goldman Sachs and Lloyds TSB.
Meziane’s role at Mattison Public Relations is to advise on the feasibility, sourcing and design of commissioned research and to report on and access academic studies which are relevant to our clients’ interests.
