Our team

Ballou has 50 technology PR specialists who work with high-growth and high-value tech companies in corporate, B2B, B2C and venture capital PR as well as valuation-raising and crisis programmes

Colette Ballou

Chairwoman

Cedric Voigt

CEO

Léonora Sama-Itoua

Managing Director France

Jörn Dunker

Managing Director Germany

Phil Dwyer

Managing Director UK

Loukianos Zaganiaris

Senior Account Manager

Mickaël Barreteau

Senior Account Manager

Marguerite Missiaen

Account Manager

Mohammed Ali Keraoui

Account Executive

Alice McKeown

Senior Account Director

I enjoyed every minute of working with such a professional, passionate and dedicated team. In just over a year of working together, Ballou put TWINO on the world media map.

Laura Krastina

Group Communications at TWINO

Lisa Meisterjahn

Associate Director

Nicole Schaar

Account Director

Rhena Bunwaree

Senior Account Manager

Mathilde Pimor

Account Director

Thomas Duporge

Account Director

Gowry Ganesh

Financial Controller

François Aubert

Account Director

Lisa King

EA to Chairwoman/HR & Wellbeing Manager

Barbara Hentz

Junior PR Consultant

Toby Andrews

Account Director

Emily Bloch

Account Manager

Caroline De Frias

Account Executive

Sarah Friedl

Senior PR Consultant

Paul Southall

Senior Account director

Lucy Postlethwaite

Account manager

Clémence Combettes

Account Executive

Bettina Schwarzwaelder

Office manager

Fiona Houston

Deputy managing director UK

Laurence Decaux

Account Director

Amy Padmore

Office manager UK

Christoph Grimsel

Senior PR Consultant

Debbie Marsland

Administrative Assistant

Astrid Amegnran

Senior Account Executive

Eva Maciejewski

PR Consultant

Tabitha Cranford

Account Executive

Rupa Suchak

Senior Account Executive

Niklas Wysk

Account Manager

Flo Davison

Junior Account Executive

Frida Adamska

PR Consultant

Matt Beese

Director of design & brand strategy

Our purpose

Ballou is where the brightest and most talented people come together to help clients grow and succeed. Our colleagues join us because of our supportive culture that values individuality, inclusiveness and speaking truth to power, and because of our commitment to helping team members continually improve and learn.

We are bright and talented strategic counsellors to our clients and are trusted by journalists, influencers, analysts and event organisers to provide truthful, compelling news and content. We are aware of the wider social context of our work and how it influences public opinion, and we are ethical and responsible in all that we do.

Our mission

Our mission is to help our clients build their brands and grow and guard their reputations with creative and intelligent content and communication. To support our people as they seek to do this by nurturing a dynamic, supportive and inspiring workplace where innovative and challenging thinking is encouraged, and where the boundary between hard work and free time is always respected.

Our vision is to become the marketing communications company renowned for delivering measurable performance gains for our clients.

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