Meet our senior team
James Wright - General Manager
PRCA Consultant of the Year 2008
PR News International CSR Leader 2008
Prior to joining Red Agency as General Manager, James Wright was a Board Director at Grayling UK. With broad ranging experience across consumer and corporate communications, James has particular specialisms in CSR and sustainability communications and crisis and issues management.
He has works on some of Europe’s most influential and challenging campaigns for major blue chips, governments and charities. James’s teams were responsible for numerous international and national PR awards – 22 in the past 5 years.
In 2007 James conceived the CIPR’s Environmental Sustainability Guidelines and chaired a select steering committee that developed them. This guide for PR practitioners was launched in March 2008 and is believed to be the first of its kind in the world, they are devised to help those undertaking green communication.
James advised boxing sensation Amir Khan – currently the WBA World super lightweight champion – following his success at the Athens Olympics in 2004, including chairing his first ever press conference in front of the world’s media. He was named PRCA’s Consultant of the Year 2008 and the same year was named International CSR Leader at the PR News (USA) annual All Stars Award ceremony at the Washington DC press club.
James’s client experience includes BT, Coca-Cola, Costa Coffee, Diageo, HSBC, Indesit Company, McDonalds, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Parkinsons UK, Jaguar Land Rover, Reebok, Santander, Sony, Whitbread, World Vision and the UN Foundation. He has advised several UK government agencies and departments, including Wrap, Defra and the Technology Strategy Board, and has also worked with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) on the UK response to global disaster relief.
Grant Titmus – Principal
Grant is a highly experienced and award-winning PR executive. He has more than a decade’s experience in PR across a wide cross-section of industry sectors. He has won 14 public relations awards across event management, comprehensive communications, and issues and crisis management.
Grant has the ability to work across both the corporate and consumer sectors. He has also has considerable experience working at all three tiers of government and for clients in the IT sector. His work is mainly the thinking power behind communications strategies, issues management, writing and editing, as well as developing community consultation programs and stakeholder management strategies. His journalism background is invaluable in ensuring the angle is right and that written material leaving Red Agency is of the highest quality.
Grant’s career began in journalism where he worked in newspapers in Tasmania (Launceston Examiner), London (TNT International), Hong Kong (the South China Morning Post) and The Age in Melbourne where he was the chief sub-editor for nearly five years.