Gregory Clark
Ealing,United Kingdom
Summary
- A fluent French-speaking Communications, Business Development and Marketing professional with seven years of established experience of high-level stakeholder management across the Professional Services and Legal industries
- Founder, Host and Content Producer of Not The 92 Podcast
- Co-commentator and editorial content provider for National League club Sutton United
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Assistant Marketing and Business Development Manager
BDO UK
London
10.2024 - 01.2026
- National lead for BDO Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and International Institutions and Donor Assurance (IIDA) streams for marketing and business development strategy, as part of Deal Advisory.
- Managed 185 stakeholders across the national UK M&A stream, including 21 partners and 15 Directors across diverse sector and service lines: Leisure & Hospitality; Retail; TMT; Life Sciences & Healthcare; Financial Services; Industrials & Engineering; Building Products; Debt Advisory; Growth Advisory; and Scotland.
- Managed 200 stakeholders in IIDA, including 11 partners and 22 Directors, across sectors and service lines such as: Foundations; International Sports Governing Bodies; Forensics; European Commission, United Nations and International Projects Group.
- Creating, project managing and executing national marketing and BD campaigns designed to aid lead generation, including: The Circular Economy Trends Report 2025; 2024 Deals Market Review; Public to Private Transaction Insights; MediaTalk H1 2025; and PCPI Q4.
- Introduced, devised and implemented team-specific LinkedIn workshops designed to upskill all stakeholders on confidence-building, adoption and utilisation as a key go-to-market, work-winning tool.
- Introduced a partner-wide LinkedIn campaign, M&A 2024 Wrapped, throughout December 2024 as a year-summarising client message. Involved achieving partner buy-in, drafting all content (incl work wins, completed deals, people stories, charity work) and approving design work. Data summary: 2,167 likes; 66 total reposts; and 58 total comments, leading to six client meetings in the New Year.
- Monthly presentations to the M&A and IIDA partner meetings on performance and strategy update.
- Liaising with Markets, Sales & Clients (MSC) and Communications to ensure smooth delivery of campaigns, including: internal design (incl our external agency, Hamilton Brown); cross-stream partnerships between fee-earning teams; internal comms; external comms to maximise PR opportunities; and CMS to optimise data processes.
- Managing annual budgets and spend according to business needs, advising where necessary given the unique sector and stream client diversity across M&A.
Communications Manager
Taylor Wessing
London
02.2024 - 10.2024
- Global lead on Taylor Wessing's Awards and Third-Party Endorsement strategy: Co-ordinating and managing submissions for all target awards and league tables.
- Acting as an internal and external communications advisor to senior stakeholders, using strong and experienced communication skills, and developing and executing marketing and communications strategies, using market research and data for a broad range of strategic priorities and developments.
- Collaborating confidently and clearly with key internal stakeholders (Fee-earning, Business groups, Business Services, Finance, HR) to ensure high-quality delivery of agreed objectives and to build internal communications strategy across our channel mix.
- Using statistical market data from Signal AI and Oneplace (CRM database) to inform the building of client outreach target lists for all communications and media-centric activities for campaigns, devising a strategy for execution and tracking performance against the benchmarks.
- Monitoring our client targeting programmes, BD activity and other core activities to capture strategic success stories producing content in a variety of compelling formats to promote these stories across external channels and feed into the internal desk.
- Devising proposals and engaging senior stakeholders to ensure high-quality content and timely submission including producing first drafts of all key submissions and liaising with subject matter experts to finalize the content.
- Global internal comms lead for the Private Wealth sector: meeting with partners, senior associates, and knowledge lawyers daily to shape and deliver the BD and PR strategy.
- Project management: lead contact for internal and external-facing marketing and PR projects designed to raise awareness of Private Wealth's offering across its audiences.
- Achievements include being a finalist in two categories for Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Europe Awards 2024 in September and being shortlisted for upcoming Legal Business awards in the Life Sciences Team of the Year category.
Senior Global Communications Executive
Clyde & Co
London
06.2022 - 02.2024
- Head of Social Media (LinkedIn and Twitter) for the firm globally: responsible for proposing, editing, reviewing and publishing all content for the firm's practice groups on our global LinkedIn channel for a followership of c150k.
- Managed the internal communications channel mix, spanning: weekly media coverage report; intranet and key, relevant stream-driven internal communications periodicals.
- Responsible for devising and rolling out internal and external communications training sessions for media training and social media best practice.
- Using analytical data (Google, LinkedIn, X) to advise best practice for campaign strategy discussions with Partners and relevant senior stakeholders.
- Responsible for creating visually-arresting, brand-compliant content for all of the firm's key internal practice groups, including: aviation; construction; disputes; ESG; insurance; and Oil & Gas, covering 60 offices and 5000 staff worldwide.
- Project managed global campaigns, including: Looking Glass report; Growth report; and Corporate Risk Radar 2023.
- Preparing, editing and finalising press releases regarding important firm news, thought leadership, legal updates - as well as identifying the most relevant journalist groups to liaise with for maximum impact.
- Reputation management and external stakeholder management: managing media relations with legal, insurance, national and global media outlets in alignment with the firm's brand narrative and overall strategy.
- Internal stakeholder management: liaising and strategizing closely with partners, legal directors, senior associates, associates and trainee solicitors to build and implement short and long-term communication projects.
Marketing Executive
RSM UK
London
06.2019 - 06.2022
- Responsible for proposing, drafting and publishing marketing collateral for national Transaction Services, focussing on Restructuring Advisory (RA), Corporate Finance (CF) and Creditor Services (CS) in order to strengthen all service line brands.
- Senior stakeholder management: strategizing daily with all fee-earning team leads, using analytical data to inform campaign discussions and ideas.
- Drafting content for communications to be sent out both internally and externally.
- Writing articles and content on behalf of fee-earners (Partners, Directors, Senior Administrators etc) to then be disseminated to targeted audiences internally and externally.
- Intranet author status: responsible for writing articles and encouraging fellow marketing and BD teams to engage with the content.
- Assisted with budgeting for Partners' internal and external fee-earning marketing activities.
- Liaising with Digital, Design, Brand and PR teams to help Partners launch their campaigns and content on their social channels.
- Collating data to identify and accelerate lead generation from a variety of sources (LinkedIn, Companies House etc) and storing this all on our CRM database, Dynamics.
- BD collateral creation which includes drafting content for brochures, booklets, flyers as well as updating all content on the RA/CF areas of the website according to our Editorial House Style.
Education
Master of Science - Corporate Communications & Public Affairs
Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen, Aberdeen City 09.2015 - 09.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Politics with French
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow 09.2010 - 06.2015
Scottish Qualifications Certificate -
St Ninian's High School
Glasgow, Glasgow City 08.2004 - 06.2010
Skills
Complex project management
Brand-driven creativity
Leadership
Senior stakeholder management
Data-driven decision making
Calm and clear communication
Languages
English
Native
French
Fluent
Timeline
Assistant Marketing and Business Development Manager
BDO UK
10.2024 - 01.2026
Communications Manager
Taylor Wessing
02.2024 - 10.2024
Senior Global Communications Executive
Clyde & Co
06.2022 - 02.2024
Marketing Executive
RSM UK
06.2019 - 06.2022
Master of Science - Corporate Communications & Public Affairs
Robert Gordon University
09.2015 - 09.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Politics with French
University of Strathclyde
09.2010 - 06.2015
Scottish Qualifications Certificate -
St Ninian's High School
08.2004 - 06.2010