director profiles
Lynda Heath
Managing director
Lynda is a highly experienced public relations professional with over 15 years’ communications and PR experience.
She has directed and implemented global, pan-European and UK-wide communications programmes for several business to business and consumer organisations, including Huntsman Polyurethanes, Mazda Style Light, G E Thorn, Stoddard Carpets, Formica Laminates, 3M Scotch Retail Products, Pepe garden furniture, Mayfair Wallcoverings, Nimbus bedlinen, Unipart Automotive, HR3d animation, jones knowles, ritchie, John Dickinson Stationery, Acco Rexel, Crone Corkill and FSS and Prebon Yamane.
Career highlights include:
- Launching ‘Easy Change’ duvet cover through a duvet diving’ promotion on national TV, using chamber maids from top London hotels
- Organising the film premiere and post-premiere party and auction, selling advertising space and securing sponsorshp for Mike Leigh’s Career Girls in aid of the London International Film School’s Millennium project
- Managing the closure of a key stationery factory site
- Setting up photocalls for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual exhibition and the ceremony of dedication of the new Siege of Malta Memorial by the President of Malta and the Duke of Edinburgh to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
- Securing broadcast slots for jones knowles ritchie on BBC2’s ‘Wrappers’ series and on Radio 4’s Today programme
- Securing funding for client organisations through investor and media relations
Positions held:
- Member of the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) and the Institute of Directors (IOD)
- Council member of the Publicity Club of London
- Publicity Club of London annual summer ball committee member
- PUPS (Press & United Publicity Services) committee member – an automotive charity in aid of Chailey heritage school for children with cerebral palsy.
- Elite steward at the London Marathon