Claire specializes in helping companies to build differentiated communications strategies which drive commercial success or deal with a period of change. Having spent two decades in financial communications and corporate reputation, Claire has extensive global reputation management expertise, ranging from ECM and M&A, to issues and crisis, to expansion and change.  She has provided communications and media relations counsel to Governments, leading financial institutions and global corporations, in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and South East Asia.

Much of her work in the last decade has centred on highly regulated industries, in particular with financial institutions.  Here, she has worked to deliver impactful change programmes, to manage issues, to advise on M&A, to communicate new strategies and to power commercial expansion. 

Claire has held both in-house and consultancy positions. Her background is in investor communications and prior to joining CNC, Claire was an investor relations manager at UPC NV and a member of the European investor relations consulting team at Thomson Financial. She started her career in the wealth management industry and is qualified as an IFA.