Fast facts

1+ decade Founded in 2002 by Colette Ballou

50 years Combined experience of office heads

20 team members in 3 offices London | Paris | Berlin

4 languages spoken English, French, German, Spanish

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Strategic We design PR campaigns around business goals.

Creative We provide originality to bring your campaigns to life.

Transparent We report continually on our performance.

What we are

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Who we are

Colette Ballou, Founder & CEO

Colette founded Ballou PR in 2002. With nearly 20 years’ experience, she advises venture capital, media and technology companies. Colette is an active part of the European high-growth community, regularly speaking at events. She’s also a mentor and judge for start-up organisations such as Seedcamp and Techstars. She has twice been named one of the 100 most influential people in tech by WIRED UK magazine.

Cordy Griffiths, Managing Director UK

Cordy has worked in PR for more than 10 years across both corporate and consumer clients. Her experience ranges from venture capital and fintech firms to B2B to

consumer technology companies such as Seatwave and Waze. Cordy has also devised social strategies for clients such as Ebay and Brightroll. Cordy’s experience prior to

Ballou includes Expedia, Google and working as a journalist for the Press Association.

Sandrine has 15 years’ experience in technology PR. She has run more than 100 campaigns for B2B and B2C brands. Her client experience includes Salesforce, Panasonic, Flipboard, Pinterest and Ebay. Prior to heading up the French team for Ballou, Sandrine ran LEWIS PR in France. She began her career in the communications team for France 3 TV station.

Sandrine Esposito, Managing Director France

Communications and strategy for high-growth

companies via:

Media relations Analyst relations

Developer relations Corporate communications

Crisis management Media training

Content creation/copywriting Conferences and events programmes

Awards programmes Digital and social media support

What we do

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Our B2B experience

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Our enterprise experience

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Our consumer experience

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Our financial services experience

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Our events expertise

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• We are very well connected on the European tech scene and can not only advise on which events are worth attending, we can also help secure sought-after speaking spots.

• We can also advise on hosting your own events and help invite key influencers along to ensure they generate buzz.

• We have done the PR for key tech events in Europe including TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin and the Noah Conference.

Ballou are enthusiastic, knowledgeable and hardworking. Our UK launch resulted in over 80 pieces of coverage and

1000 tweets from key influencers.

Alistair Goodman, CEO, Placecast

Knowledgeable, extremely personable and well-connected. Ballou PR understands what it means to be a company that’s growing rapidly.

Shayan Sanyal, CMO, Bluwan

Ballou PR are extremely proactive. They worked closely with us to help build our brand and identify media

opportunities.

Russ Carroll, UK MD, Shopping.com

More than just a simple PR agency, Ballou is a valuable tool for strategic action for

DailyMotion.

Fred Destin, Board Member, DailyMotion

Ballou PR is the ideal agency for communications strategy in the online design market.

Emilie Gobin, CEO, L’Usine à Design

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London, EC1R 0DE +44 20 3092 9754

France 5 rue du Helder

75009 Paris +33 1 42 22 24 10

Germany Linienstrasse 75

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