Halpern Prince, Jenny
MD & founder, Halpern
Glamourous
lifestyle PR guru
Halpern Prince
heads luxury shop
Halpern while
socialising with
London’s elite.
Address 250A Kings Road,
London SW3 5UE
Telephone 020 7351 2888
Born UK.
Lives London, with husband
Ryan and golden retriever
Snoop (Dog).
Career highlight Building a
team of inspiring individuals
who have risen through the
company or have gone on to run
the PR offices of leading brands.
Worst moment of career
Taking on individuals who look
good on paper and reference
well, but fail to deliver.
Professional inspiration?
Those who come from nothing
and have made something
of themselves.
Media must-haves? Google.
Most respected journalist
Rupert Murdoch.
Most respected politician
Margaret Thatcher.
Business or brand to
watch? Barack Obama.
Best advice? Think positively
and things will work out for
the best.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of?
Anya Hindmarch’s ‘I Am
Not a Plastic Bag’.
Favourite book Pillars of the
Earth by Ken Follett and A Fine
Balance by Rohinton Mistry.
Private members club?
Soho House, George, Annabel’s.
Burning career ambition?
To have made a meaningful
impact on the brands with
which I have worked.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
My personal trainer at Kx Gym.
Hambly, Peter
Director of marketing and
communications, The
Carbon Trust
The Carbon
Trust operates
independently of
government and
was set up to help
organisations cut
their carbon emissions, a task
that will only grow more
important and challenging.
Address 6th Floor, 5 New Street
Square, London EC4A 3BF
Telephone 0800 085 2005
Born South east London, 1965.
Lives East Sussex, with my wife
and three children.
Career highlight Helping
to launch the NSPCC Full Stop
Campaign and Appeal in 1999.
Worst moment of career
A few weeks in 1992 when I
was unemployed; not nice and
don’t want it to happen again.
Professional inspiration?
Small business owners. It’s hard
work and risky, and they don’t
get enough credit for it.
Media must-haves? Mobile
web surfing and blog forums
in areas I am interested in:
business, environment, football.
Most respected politician
Hopefully, President Obama.
Business or brand to watch?
Ones that realise cutting carbon
emissions in a downturn means
increasing profits.
Best advice? Only you can
make things happen.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of?
Comic Relief.
Burning career ambition?
To stop the world burning.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
Fruit.
Hancock, Nicola
Co-founder , Sauce
Communications
As one of the
co-founders of
Sauce, Hancock
has helped bag
some of the most
prestigious food
PR clients around, from top
restaurant The Orrery to celebrity
chef Angela Hartnett.
Address Studio 1B, Woodstock
Studios, 36 Woodstock Grove,
London W12 8LE
Telephone 020 8600 3600
Born London, 1974.
Lives Hertfordshire, with my
husband, Alex, and two sons.
Career highlight Starting
Sauce Communications in
2001 with my business partner,
Jo Barnes.
Professional inspiration?
Nelson Mandela.
Media must-haves?
Waymaker, Act, Google and
Google alerts, national
newspapers, bloomberg.com.
Most respected journalist
Tony Turnbull.
Most respected politician
Margaret Thatcher.
Business or brand to watch?
Moma (Healthy Food Stalls) at
all major London stations.
Best advice? Read and re-read.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of? Dove.
Favourite book Nelson
Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom.
Private members club?
The Ivy, Soho House, Quo Vadis.
Burning career ambition?
To continue building Sauce.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
Holidays and eating
out (hopefully).
Handley, Stuart
Director of communications
EMEA, Dell
The former
H&K corporate
comms MD was
brought in by the
computing giant
last year. At one
point Handley ran his own
consultancy, Purple Rabbit.
Address Dell House,
The Boulevard, Cain Road,
Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1LF
Lives In the country near
Reading, with wife and
two children.
Career highlight Launching a
new charity lottery that hit all
the front pages, and appearing
on Chris Evans’ Radio 1 show.
Worst moment of career
Saying goodbye to colleagues
during the dotcom downturn.
Professional inspiration?
Mark Adams.
Media must-haves?
Google alerts and reader, the
BBC, FT and The Sun.
Most respected journalist
John Simpson.
Most respected politician
Any that put principle before
party or their own career.
Business or brand to
watch? All the major banks.
Rebuilding public confidence in
a recession is going to be tough.
Best advice? Go for it. Focus
on what you gain, not what you
might lose.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of? London
2012, specifically the build-up to
The PRWeek Power Book 2009 57
the vote. Creative. High stakes.
And won against the odds.
Favourite book
Work: The Tipping Point by
Malcolm Gladwell. Home:
Schott’s Original Miscellany.
Burning career ambition?
To teach.
One luxury you will keep
despite the credit crunch
T3 magazine. If you can’t buy the
gadgets you can still dream.
Hardie, Fraser
Senior partner, Blue Rubicon
Despite being a
cautious comms
man who doesn’t
believe in selfpromotion,
Hardie
has developed a
killer formula for a successful
PR agency, winning the last
three PRWeek Consultancy of
the Year awards.
Address 5th Floor, 6 More
London Place, London SE1 2DA
Telephone 020 7260 2700
Born Dundee, 1966.
Lives West Sussex, with two
children: Alfie and Harold.
Career highlight Winning
your first client is pretty special.
I remember the bench I was
sitting on in the City when we
were given the task of
relaunching The Wall Street
Journal Europe.
Worst moment of career
Watching a good friend, the
CEO of a FTSE 100 company, get
ousted with all the attendant
misinformation, then watching
others get paid royally for
delivering his strategy.
Professional inspiration?
Sir Robert Wilson, chairman of
Rio Tinto in my time there.
Media must-haves?
The Times, bbc.co.uk, Newsnight
and Sky Sports.
Most respected journalist
David Wighton, The Times.
Most respected politician
David Miliband.
Business or brand to watch?
The FTSE 100 share index.
Best advice? You get judged
on your output, not your input.
PR campaign you wish
you’d thought of? Barack
Obama’s grass-roots activism.
Favourite book The Catcher in
the Rye by J. D. Salinger.
Burning career ambition?
For now it is to build the
defining agency of this decade.
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