Lisa Hulme joined Blanc & Otus in September 2007, as Senior Consultant to manage the London office. She is also tasked with diversifying the UK business to establish a consumer technology arm. She brings more than 15 years of PR and branding experience to the company, having worked extensively in agency and in-house

Prior to joining Blanc & Otus, Lisa was the co-founder of London PR agency, Big-mouths PR. Here she spent six years heading up Virgin Mobile’s PR campaigns for handsets, technology and online services from the company’s UK launch in November 1999 to October 2005. Her team also supported other initiatives from V Festival to corporate announcements.

Lisa also launched Gossiptel, the UK’s first consumer VOIP service in 2005 and oversaw campaigns for many consumertech products and services, including online dating giant, Match.com; Virgin Radio Online, Ginger Online and Intempo Digital’s range of digital radios and iPod accessories.

Before this, Lisa was the Head of PR, Internet & New Media for the Virgin Group. Her role included overseeing all PR for Virgin’s consumer portal Virgin.net as well as assisting on new media PR campaigns across the group of companies. Before joining Virgin Lisa worked for the Next Fifteen Communications Group – initially at Text 100, then at its sister agency, Bite Communications, where she worked on clients Microsoft, Oracle, Real Networks and Sony.

In 2000 the UK Institute of Public Relations awarded her with a Young Communicator award in recognition of her excellent work at Virgin.net and in her success in setting up her own agency, whilst still below the age of 30.

Lisa has a post-graduate diploma in Media Relations & Journalism from Cardiff University and a degree in Modern European Studies from Nottingham University.

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