Alex Grier
Public relations - Frank PR
Alex runs Frank PR, one of the UK’s leading creative PR agencies. Frank by name and frank by nature, the agency is a multi-award winning creative comms business working with some of the world’s biggest brands including Disney, G2 Esports, Guide Dogs, innocent Smoothies, VW Group, Weetabix & Westfield to name a few. Frank coined the term Talkability® in the belief that ideas should be worth talking about. You can talk to Alex about a career in the creative industry, how the Weetabix & Beans campaign trended on social, received blanket national media coverage and was debated in Parliament and what it was like to rewild Trafalgar Sq for innocent.
Theo Normanton
Journalist - Waters Technology
Theo is a reporter for Waters Technology, an online publication which writes about technology and data in capital markets. After graduating in 2021, he moved to Moscow, where he reported for a German newspaper on Russian society and markets. He returned to the UK as a freelance writer when the war started in February 2022.
Jennifer Lawrence
Communications director - BP
Jennifer is a Communications Director who has spent her career in various industries from oil, to automotive, to payroll and financial services. She attended Claremont from 2000-2004 and went onto study a Masters degree in Drama at the University of Kent. From there she spent her early career working for bp in communications and training and then moved to Los Angeles where she worked for Toyota where she ran communications and engagement initiatives for several large IT programmes. On returning to the UK, she worked as an Internal Communications Manager for a payroll company, ADP, for which she received many awards for her work both in supporting the business and for her work with local charities. She now works back at bp as a communications director supporting internal and external communication design and strategy for IT products and programmes.