Katherine Howbrook
Partner
Katherine joins the MD Communications team as an experienced, skilled and enthusiastic PR and media professional with over 19 years’ experience promoting and protecting some of the world’s biggest brands. Katherine spent a decade at PwC leading PR for industries and issues including audit, Brexit, financial services and FinTech, legal, business recovery, third sector, public sector and economics. She also led PwC’s regional PR team for a number of years.
Following PwC, Katherine was Head of Media at Business in the Community – The Prince’s Responsible Business Network and a charity specialising in responsible business issues such as the impact of business on the environment, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing in the workplace and employment for excluded groups.
Most recently, Katherine ran her own successful PR business working with clients in industries spanning from professional services and insurance, to financial crime and sustainable fashion. Clients included Top 10 professional services firm Azets, RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, insurance platform provider EIS Group and Turtle Doves, an ethical fashion brand.
Katherine works closely with clients on PR and media strategy planning and implementation, message and narrative development, media relations and press office management, raising issue expert profile, thought leadership and research development, ESG communications and messaging and crisis communications.
Katherine is one of the most talented PR professionals I’ve worked with and she’s been my go-to PR advisor for almost a decade. As a self-proclaimed ‘dream-team’ we worked across public sector and financial services to grow our accounting and consulting practices at PwC. Katherine secured coverage that built our brand in new markets and created new business opportunities. She’s positive, creative and above all really knows what will land in the media. This woman knows her stuff and will be an asset to any client!