Founder & CEO
Michael is an accomplished agency professional, entrepreneur and investor. Michael has more than 20-years of operating and leadership experience at large PR firms and mid-sized boutiques. He is an expert on agency growth and business development. Michael is also a Partner at Actual’s parent, Millwright Holdings. Michael is a graduate of the University of London where he earned a BSc. (2:1, Hons) in International Relations.
President
Brian has spent the last 25 years in senior agency, in-house and start-up communications and marketing roles with particular expertise in technology and corporate communications. Brian has long experience working with enterprise IT companies in helping transition and transform market positioning in response to changing media and decision-maker dynamics. He is expert in engaging multiple organizations across the enterprise in integrated communications strategies that align PR, marketing and sales objectives.
Senior Vice President
Kate is an inveterate and consummate public relations professional who excels at collaborating with clients to manage successful media relations, executive visibility and thought leadership outcomes. Kate has worked with Actual principals for nearly ten years. She has managed client engagements including EMC, Neustar, Philips, Pure Storage and MongoDB. At Actual she oversees the Celestica, Intent Media and Hanley Wood relationships.
Vice President
Katie is a multidimensional communications professional who does not rest until client outcomes are successfully achieved. She pilots several of the agency’s larger relationships, supervising and executing cross-channel programs spanning B2B, SMB, consumer technology and fintech. In between agency tenures, Katie was with Samsung driving media relations strategy for several product lines. Her client experience spans gaming (Disney, 2K), consumer electronics (Casio), and B2B (AMG, Clarien, Amdocs, Samsung) and fintech (BMO.)
Director, Content Strategy
Andy’s B2B writing skills are unparalleled and his ability to take a complex B2B value proposition and turn it into a pithy, compelling blog post or byline helps distinguish our client executives as thought leaders with a smart POV. Andy is a triple threat: he also possesses an uncanny ability to craft a trend or market-facing pitch that elevates our client out of the product-only mindset and gets them into meaningful coverage that decision-makers find most valuable. He currently handles writing for Celestica, DrillingInfo, Intent Media and Clarizen.
Senior Media Strategist
There are few media relations professionals who have a sharper nose for the story than Steve. The challenge in B2B is, to borrow a cliche, the ability to see the forest for the trees – to get past product features and functionality and elevate that to an emergent customer pain point, a market trend, or an innovation still-under-reported. Steve cut his teeth on the IBM business and has worked on a wide range of B2B clients including CA Technologies. He now oversees Actual’s B2B media engagement strategies for Celestica, Intertrust and 3D Systems, a breadth of technologies (from electronics manufacturing to digital rights management and governance to 3D printing) that speaks to his range and skill sets.
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