Life at Fight or Flight
In just over three years, the Fight or Flight team has grown from three co-founders to 30 full time staff members in our offices in Soho, London and Times Square, New York City. The biggest driver of our growth has been a team of dedicated, smart, creative and passionate Fight or Flighters – better known as “Foffers” – who come to work every day determined to shake up the world of B2B.
Learn more about our team and our culture here.
Meet the team
Joe Walton
Managing Partner
Joe Walton
Joe has led multi-market programs for blue chips BAE Systems, IBM, LinkedIn, Microsoft, SAP and Symantec as well as high growth scale ups Concur, Tableau and hybris en route to their respective sales. He plays guitar and piano, has two kids and two cats, supports Man Utd and claims he is related to Ronan Keating.
David Woodward
Managing Partner
David Woodward
David is a former business journalist with a decade of experience advising clients across technology, pharma, energy, finance and aerospace. He helps communications teams develop creative campaigns that raise awareness, brand affinity and effectiveness. David also suffers from a chronic addiction to lower-league English football.
Charlie Meredith-Hardy
Managing Partner
Charlie Meredith-Hardy
Charlie has spent his whole career caring perhaps too deeply about media strategy and has led programmes for the likes of the GSMA, Microsoft, IBM, Nokia and Trainline. When he’s not telling people how many times he’s been to Mobile World Congress, he can mostly be found listening to Argentinian reggae, tidying up after his kids or thinking deeply about county cricket.
Tim Fry
US Chair
Tim Fry
Tim (aka Fryman) is a global storytelling and campaign leader. He has worked with some of the most respected global brands, including, Amazon, Expedia, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Samsung.
He and his wife have two teens, two pugs and a passion for everything living in Pacific Northwest offers: biking, hiking, kayaking, skiing, and the occasional misty day.
Emma Hedges
Dan Bird
SVP, Media & Innovation (US)
Dan Bird
It’s the thrill of coverage that gets Dan out of bed. He has led, managed and executed international and local media relations programmes for Ericsson, IBM and Trustly, and has a love of MarTech after driving coverage for Gartner for Marketers, Teads and LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.
Down the pub he’ll tell you he’s had a UK top 40 hit, acted in a BBC drama and scored a winner at Molineux – one is certainly not true.
Gemma Ashley
Director
Gemma Ashley
One of the first members of the Fight or Flight team, Gemma has a decade’s experience running PR programs for major blue chips including Capgemini, Expedia, Gartner, Honeywell, IBM and LinkedIn. She is a skilled knitter, a green-fingered gardener and proud owner of five chickens, two cats and a new baby boy called Alfie.
Kate Sarginson
Head of Creative
Kate Sarginson
Not your typical creative, Kate brings over 15 years of brand communications to FoF, blending client understanding, strategic insight and creative smarts to change up the creative conversation and output in B2B.
When not working, Kate can be found in the kitchen cooking up a storm and drinking all things wine. Or on long walks with her wife and golden retriever, Benny.
Lauren Payne-McLeod
Associate Director, Strategy & Creative
Lauren Payne-McLeod
A TMT & B2B specialist, Lauren is an experienced creative campaign planner and issues handler. She has developed campaigns for some of the world’s biggest brands – including LinkedIn, Facebook, and O2 – and was a finalist in the 2020 PRCA Next Gen Creative Challenge competition.
Things Lauren loves? Star Wars, gaming, and the Oxford Comma.
Stephanie Crisp
Associate Director & Media Strategist
Stephanie Crisp
Steph is a media strategist specialist and has led integrated B2B tech and health-tech PR campaigns for blue chips and scale-ups including McKinsey, LinkedIn, Exscientia and eConsult.
She’s a fitness fanatic but you’ll still find her piling her plate up with spaghetti bolognese and cheese at the end of the day.
Chris Halpin
Associate Director, Digital Marketing
Chris Halpin
Chris leads our digital team, with a background across B2B campaigns in social media, PPC and analytics for the likes of Google Cloud, Microsoft and more. In what he calls his “previous life”, he also managed a host of digital work at the Eurovision Song Contest.
For those wondering, his favourite song is Turkey’s 2003 winner.
Jamie McNicholas
Associate Director, Broadcast
Jamie McNicholas
A people person to his core, Jamie has staggered his way through life chatting to anyone he meets about anything and everything… so it’s no surprise that his career path led him to communications. Jamie loves stories and storytelling, having worked-on and led campaigns for the likes of Co-op and Mercedes-Benz Vans.
When he’s not boring you with his latest anecdote in the pub, you’ll find him playing football for anyone that will take him.
Fran Rodrigues
Operations Manager
Fran Rodrigues
Fran is our operations wiz who brings over 7 years of project and operations management experience to FoF. She is fluent in two languages (three after a few Sangria’s), and her hobbies include; purchasing random items on Amazon, obsessing over dogs, guzzling lots of coffee, and watching Gilmore Girls on repeat.
Rachael Bolton
Account Director
Rachael Bolton
Rachael specialises in energy and sustainability communications, with experience leading integrated projects across media, public affairs and social. Previous clients include RES, Smart Energy GB, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, SPIC Brasil, and Hitachi.
Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, charity shops and walks that end with a pub.
Francesca Cahill
Account Director
Francesca Cahill
Before joining Fight or Flight, Francesca spent six years at Tech Nation, a government-backed organisation working with the UK tech sector, providing communications and government relations support to scaling tech businesses.
Outside of work, Francesca can often be found in South London and her favourite drink is “nice wine”.
Hatty Webster
Account Director
Hatty Webster
Hatty brings 8 years’ of PR experience promoting brands with tech at their core – whether it’s a new way for consumers to use their data for good, or an Enterprise Solution powering big business, she loves finding a universal way to talk about the technical.
A keen cook, terrible baker and new mum, Hatty loves nothing more than pottering around her hometown of Sheffield and planning fantastical renovations for her new (ish) Victorian semi.
Libby Barnes
Senior Account Manager
Libby Barnes
Libby is an experienced driver of press office activity for tech giants including Sage, LinkedIn, Lycamobile and TomTom. She loves old school media relations, growing her network of contacts and meeting journos. You’ll find her in Soho’s karaoke bars, with a glass of red in one hand and a microphone in the other – singing Elton John, obviously!
Dan Tookey
Senior Account Manager
Dan Tookey
Dan has managed the UK and hub press office for companies, including Dell Technologies, and Qualcomm. He is obsessed with the media and continues to be amazed that people will pay him to read the papers.
When not at work, Dan can be found identifying the best new restaurants in London and walking his standard poodle.
Carolina Mejia Erazo
Account Manager (US)
Carolina Mejia Erazo
Carolina combines her deep knowledge of the tech industry with her love of storytelling to craft impactful brand narratives. Data-driven in her storytelling approach, she distills complex information into engaging content that communicates bigger stories.
She prides herself on becoming a true extension of her clients’ teams, and is a trusted partner always at the ready to come up with creative solutions.
Sarah Mir
Account Manager
Sarah Mir
Sarah has a wealth of experience working with leading TMT brands including Nokia, LinkedIn, and Lyca Mobile and has been the driving force behind building a successful media relations programme for her clients. She joined us with a fear of dogs that she’s overcome by befriending the small dogs that regularly visit the office.
Anniesa Hussain
Senior Account Executive
Anniesa Hussain
Anniesa joined FoF in October 2021, after working as a research fellow and advocate for women and minority rights in the Global South through multiple, grassroots organisations. She has a serious case of wanderlust and one of her bucket list dreams is to visit every country in Asia.
Haider Chaudhry
Senior Account Executive
Haider Chaudhry
Haider has previously worked on a range of B2B campaigns for Fintech unicorns. As a new addition to FoF, he aims to expand his palette and work on revolutionary projects for market leading companies. Whilst not at his desk, Haider is busy stressing about Arsenal, fragrance consulting, and playing every sport under the sun.
Eliza Thompson
Senior Account Executive
Eliza Thompson
Eliza joins Fight or Flight with a range of previous tech PR experience and a degree in Business and Politics and International Relations. She loves getting stuck into creative and innovative campaigns, especially in the data industry. When not at work, she loves making pasta (yet to master spaghetti) and surfing! But not at the same time… yet.
Emma Silva
Senior Account Executive (US)
Emma Silva
Emma joins the FoF team from Boston, specializing in B2B startup clients from developer tools to smart cooking software. She is passionate about media relations and loves the thrill of the chase.
Outside of work, Emma is an avid skiier, traveler and pickleball player.
Molly Scotton
Operations Assistant
Molly Scotton
Molly loves organising (yes really….) and has a genuine passion for planning, methodizing and seeing the team thrive within FoF. Molly supports Fran with all things Ops. Every day at work is different – tech support, event planning, HR, office management – you name it, she’ll tackle it. Molly loves to finish off the day with a kitchen disco with her daughter and crafting into the evening.
Isabel Paret
Account Executive
Isabel Paret
Isabel is new to both the FoF team and to PR. She has a journalism background and comes from a B2B marketing position, and is excited to have found the world of B2B PR. Outside of work you can find her reading a good book or watching bad reality TV and, like any good American, she takes bagel analysis very seriously.
Polly Selkirk
Assistant Account Executive
Polly Selkirk
Polly has been making waves since joining FoF with press office activity, creative thinking and pushing campaigns forward for leading brands such as Nokia and Lyca Mobile.
Polly spends her spare time adjusting to the southern heat, pickling onions, and volunteering for the Women’s Equality Party.
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