About
Ben joined Powerscourt as head of capital markets communications in September 2023.
At Powerscourt, Ben leads the firm’s capital markets communications activities – overseeing its M&A, Activism, IPO and Financial Calendar offers.
After early roles in advertising and investment banking, Ben joined Dewe Rogerson where he advised on a number of the UK privatizations. He then spent 11 years at Financial Dynamics as a Partner and Consumer Industries Sector Lead and was part of the MBO that led to the sale to FTI.
He co-founded Pendomer Communications in 2011 and subsequently sold the business to Teneo in 2016, following which he spent seven years as a Senior Managing Director in their London office.
Ben is a seasoned communications adviser who has operated at the vanguard of strategic and integrated communications for over twenty-five years. He specializes in providing financial and corporate communications advice in the UK and internationally. He has extensive experience in both the listed and private equity arenas across a broad range of industry sectors.
Ben’s expertise includes strategic communications, reputation management, high-profile media relations, corporate repositionings, M&A, IPOs shareholder activism, operational and financial restructurings, crises, IR and internal communications.
Ben holds a BA Hons from the University of Bristol.