B&B APPOINTS NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR

Band & Brown Group has made two major appointments to fuel the continued growth of its successful PR brands.
Graz Belli, is announced as the new Managing Director of Band & Brown Communications, with a focused mandate to build on the agency’s reputation for excellence and lead its future development into new markets. Belli already sits on the Group board and has been instrumental in growing the agency’s talent and client list as a key divisional director.
Gill Brown, co-founder of the Band & Brown Group with Nick Band, becomes Chief Executive Officer with a group-wide responsibility for both the organisation’s PR brands – consumer and experiential specialist Brando and Band & Brown Communications. Chairman Nick Band will step up his role leading service innovation across the two agencies and ensure the effective integration of the Group’s businesses into the Cossette UK network which comprises, MCBD, Elvis, Dare and Identica - and the Cossette International network which includes North American PR firms Paine PR and Optimum. .
Gill Brown said:
“We now have two thriving PR organisations in the Group and we need a management structure which recognises that. Both companies are trading buoyantly and we have reached a stage where they now need and deserve their own dedicated leaders to maximise opportunities. In the last three years Graz Belli has demonstrated her outstanding leadership skills, building up Band & Brown's consumer and public sector division into the Group's largest trading unit.
Graz Belli said:
“Band & Brown Communications is an agency of rare quality which holds to a strong set of values and works in genuine partnership with its clients. I am delighted to be its Managing Director. We have on-board a remarkable group of talented people whom I am looking forward to working with as we move into an exciting stage in our development.
Belli’s appointment to MD of Band & Brown Communications reflects the existing structure in Brando where Paul Lucas and Mandy Sharp are already joint Managing Directors. The group launched Brando in 2005 to meet the demand for experiential PR. The agency now has a staff of more than 30 and handles the group's largest account Sony Ericsson.
For more information contact Simon Francis at Band & Brown Communications on 020 7419 7340, simon.francis@bbpr.com