People

The Walbrook team is drawn from many academic disciplines and career backgrounds but all have one thing in common: the talent, experience and enthusiasm to deliver a first class service to our clients. If you are interested in joining the team, please contact Paul McManus.

Click below for more information on our team:

London & Bristol Office

Paul McManus
Managing Director

Tom Cooper
Director

Lianne Applegarth
Director

Nick Rome
Director

Anna Dunphy
Director

Alice Woodings
Director

Rachel Broad
Trainee Associate

Marcus Ulker
Trainee Associate

Vince Nicholls
Chairman

Paul Vann
Consultant

Owen Williams
Consultant

Paul McManus
Managing Director

Paul has over 20 years of experience working in Financial PR for growing Small Cap and AIM companies and founded Walbrook in April 2009. Paul has an MA in Theology from Oxford University and before starting in the City was an English voice presenter for Radio Vaticana in Rome.

Email: paul.mcmanus@walbrookpr.com

Tel: 020 7933 8787

Tom Cooper
Director

Graduating with a BA Hons in Financial Services, Tom started his career in Banking. He bought 50% of Winningtons Financial PR in 2006 and led the merger with Walbrook in 2015. He has extensive experience of supporting growth companies at IPO and across acquisitions, disposals, secondary fundraisings and shareholder restructurings. Tom lived in Sydney for three years and maintains a strong link with his Australian network.

Email: tom.cooper@walbrookpr.com

Tel: +44(0)20 7933 8780

Lianne Applegarth
Director

Lianne has over 10 years' experience working in the financial PR and IR industry and works on a variety of small cap AIM listed companies with a particular focus on life sciences. Lianne has extensive experience in building roadshows, providing ongoing PR plans for clients, arranging site visits for analysts and investors and dealing with daily private shareholder enquiries. Lianne has strong contacts within the media, in particular in the lifesciences sector and small cap arena, and amongst the equity analyst community and has experience working across IPOs, M&A and fundraisings. Lianne graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in Economics.

Email: lianne.applegarth@walbrookpr.com

Tel: 020 7933 8788

Nick Rome
Director

Nick has over 10 years of experience advising growth stocks on AIM and has worked on a number of IPOs, dual listings and acquisitions. Prior to working in financial PR Nick was a financial journalist working for a variety of publications, most notably spending five years as a small cap specialist writer at the Investors Chronicle.

Email: nick.rome@walbrookpr.com

Tel: 020 7933 8783

Anna Dunphy
Director

Anna has over 15 years' experience in financial PR, strategic media relations and public affairs. She has previously worked at Bell Pottinger and from there, spun out De Facto Financial to concentrate on life science companies in the small cap market where her focus remains, although she has worked on a number of resources and technology clients in the past. Anna graduated with a degree in chemistry from University College Cork, Ireland.

Email: anna.dunphy@walbrookpr.com

Tel: 020 7933 8786

Alice Woodings
Director

Alice joined Walbrook having worked previously in sales and account management within travel and corporate hospitality. Alice works on a variety of companies and has significant experience in Annual Report project management, organising investor meetings, dealing with investor engagement and Capital Markets Days, as well as strong City connections. Alice graduated from the University of Bristol with a degree in Ancient History.

Email: alice.woodings@walbrookpr.com

Tel: 020 7933 8785

Rachel Broad
Trainee Associate

Rachel joined Walbrook from London-based investment bank Peterhouse Capital. Rachel is an accomplished writer with a BA in English Literature from the University of Bristol.

Email: rachel.broad@walbrookpr.com

Tel: 020 7933 8780

Marcus Ulker
Trainee Associate

Marcus joined Walbrook having previously worked in hospitality in the City of London. Marcus has a BA in Ancient History from the University of Bristol.

Email: marcus.ulker@walbrookpr.com

Tel: 020 7933 8780

Vince Nicholls
Chairman

Vince is a Chartered Accountant, having spent some 20 years running his own accountancy practice looking after the accounting, taxation and business affairs of small traders through to AIM listed multinational companies. In recent years, Vince has been active in corporate finance arranging the listings and IPOs of companies onto AIM and ISDX, as well as being director of a number of enterprises. Vince is Chairman of Walbrook and continues to be actively involved in AIM and PLUS listings, mergers and acquisitions.

Email: vince.nicholls@walbrookpr.com

Tel: 020 7933 8780

Paul Vann
Consultant

Paul has over 25 years' experience in Financial PR, primarily advising small and mid-cap growth companies. He previously spent several years in corporate finance stockbroking advising on IPOs, secondary fund-raisings and M&A transactions. Paul began his City career in 1979 in Stockbroking, latterly in Corporate Finance, before moving into Financial PR in the late 80s. Paul worked for several years at Bell Pottinger before moving to Binns and Co PR, where he was a Director alongside Walbrook founder Paul McManus.

Email: paul.vann@walbrookpr.com

Tel: +44(0)20 7933 8780

Owen Williams
Consultant

Owen Williams is Managing Director of Siml, a digital strategy and governance consultancy. With over 20 years' experience in digital transformation, content governance and audience engagement, Owen has led major digital initiatives at the BBC, including as Head of Editorial Strategy at BBC Content Social and leading Social Media at BBC One and BBC Wales. Beyond media, Owen advises organisations on AI adoption, crisis communications, and digital engagement strategies, working with AIM listed companies through his role at Walbrook PR. He is also a board member of the Royal Television Society Wales, Chair of School Governors, and a trustee of Ymddiried: Media Grants Cymru.

Tel: 020 7933 8780

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