Suited Comms was set up in 2016 by founders Joanna Cooper and James West to provide exclusively senior-level, hands-on PR consultancy to professional services and ‘knowledge rich’ organisations.
During the past decade, Suited Comms has expanded into a stellar team of independent and experienced consultants with the skillset to flex from strategic communications and crisis management through to high quality writing and media relations.
Joanna brings a wealth of expertise to her clients, having worked with top tier law firms, ‘Big 4’ accountants and a host of ‘knowledge-rich’ organisations, such as RICS, Siemens and Keele University.
Blending a ‘sleeves-rolled up’, results-focussed approach with sound strategy, Joanna ensures her clients are in the spotlight at the right time and is adept at handling reputational issues.
Specialisms: Legal, business recovery, personal finance, business energy, membership organisations
Sara is an experienced communications practitioner working for clients across the professional, business and financial services sector.
She has delivered award-winning national and international content-led campaigns for clients including REED, Begbies Traynor, Eversheds Sutherland and npower, and is passionate about telling her clients’ stories through a multi-channel approach spanning media, content, stakeholder, internal communications and social media.
Specialisms: legal, recruitment, engineering, industrial, insolvency
With more than 25 years’ experience in journalism and public relations, Mark has a deep understanding of the media landscape – and, crucially, how to craft stories that shape the news agenda.
In previous roles, he led a team of reporters on the UK’s biggest paid-for weekly local paper and has edited stories for an international news agency.
Specialisms: Insurance, insolvency, financial services, fintech, artificial intelligence, funeral, third sector
As the former editor of two major regional newspapers, Alun has more than two decades of newsroom experience. When he moved into PR, he led the communications operations for an international architecture and design firm.
Today, Alun’s combination of experience means that clients value his excellent media relations skills alongside his genuine understanding of the specific PR challenges facing professional services organisations.
Specialisms: Real estate, financial services, manufacturing
A former journalist and newspaper editor, Mark is a PR and communications practitioner who has worked with high profile clients across the UK.
As a spokesperson for the BBC for almost 20 years, he fronted a number of award-winning proactive campaigns, as well as heading up a wide-ranging reactive comms remit.
Working with numerous professional services organisations, his pragmatic approach achieves results by identifying with clients which audiences would be most useful to reach, what is the best channel to reach them and what needs to be said.
Specialisms: Legal, insolvency, community campaigns, specialist and mainstream education, professional services.
1975 – 2022
Suited Comms’ co-founder James West was a brilliant PR practitioner. Not only did he always find a way to deliver outstanding results for our clients, but he did it with professionalism, integrity, and unfailingly good humour. He understood that the way you do something can be as important as the end result, ensuring that colleagues and clients alike always had a better day after speaking to him.
