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 Director
Mohammed Ali Keraoui
Senior 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.
Group Communications at TWINO
Lisa Meisterjahn
Associate Director
Nicole Schaar
Account Director
Mathilde Pimor
Account Director
Thomas Duporge
Account Director
Gowry Ganesh
Finance Director
François Aubert
Account Director
Lisa King
EA to Chairwoman/HR & Wellbeing Manager
Toby Andrews
Account Director
Caroline De Frias
Account Executive
Sarah Friedl
Senior PR Consultant
Lucy Postlethwaite
Senior Account Manager
Clémence Combettes
Account Executive
Office manager
Fiona Houston
Deputy managing director UK
Amy Padmore
Office manager UK
Christoph Grimsel
Account Manager
Debbie Marsland
Administrative Assistant
Astrid Amegnran
Senior Account Executive
Eva Maciejewski
PR Consultant
Account Manager
Account Executive
Frida Adamska
PR Consultant
Matt Beese
Director of design & brand strategy
Account Manager
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.
