GPlus Europe

GPlus Europe, part of the Omnicom empire, is a public relations company with offices in London and Brussels that specialises in advising clients on winning support from decision makers in the European Union. "GPlus Europe produces made-to-measure political and communications strategies for our clients. We think through an organisation’s whole approach to the EU in order to position it, brand it and build its reputation with policy-makers, stake-holders and the media," it states on its website. GPLus Europe Website Home page] Last Accessed 31st May 2007
== Working for Russia==
In 2006 the Russian government signed a multi-million dollar deal with the Washington office of the PR company Ketchum and GPlus Europe. The Financial Times reported that the contract is "to improve the presentation of Russia's presidency of the Group of Eight leading nations." In late April 2006 U.S. Republican Senator from Arizona, John McCain, criticized the decision in January by the Russian government controlled company, Gazprom, to cut off gas supplies to the Ukraine. The deputy press attaché to Mr Putin, Dmitry Peskov, told the Financial Times that Russia's 12-month presidency stint of the G8 "didn't get off to a good start on the communications front." "Perhaps if we had already been working then with some kind of communications company things would have been different," he said Neil Buckley, "Kremlin hires PR group to improve G8 image", Financial Times, 30 April 2006. 
GPlus founder and partner Peter Guilford told PR Week that the agency was tasked with covering "Russia's G8 priorities - energy security, education and infectious diseases. In reality, the broader view of that brief was everything to do with Russia's integration into the broader world economy." He went on to say "Russia is not perfect. It doesn't have a perfect democracy, it doesn't have perfect human rights, but it has come a hell of a long way in the past 15 years, now there is a commitment to liberal economics, human rights and democracy. They're not always perfect, they're not always kept to, but the direction is right," EU asks US to help pressure Russia on energy", International Herald Tribune, 30 April 2007. (This is a Reuters story); Hannah Marriott, " Brussels' Inside Man - Peter Guilford", PR Week, 16 March 2007.
===War in the Caucasus===
On 7 August 2008, Georgia invaded South Ossetia but was quickly driven back by Russian soldiers. Immediately Georgia set about to "prove" that it had been invaded by Russia, the aggressor. The PR company running the Georgian show was Aspect Consulting. The Russians belatedly responded to the effective Georgian propaganda by employing GPlus.Peter Wilby, Georgia has won the PR war, Guardian, 18 August 2008.
==Principals and Personnel==
Principals
Nigel Gardner -- Chairman
Nicholas Taylor -- CEO
Peter Guilford -- Senior Partner
Gregor Kreuzhuber -- Partner
Hans Kribbe -- Partner
Rory Macrae -- Partner
Tim Price -- Partner
Michael Tscherny -- Partner
John Wyles -- Partner
Account Managers and Junior Personnel
Roderick Abbott -- Associate
Ewa Abramiuk -- Researcher‡
Laura Bacci -- Senior Account Manager
Jerome Bacquias -- Account Executive‡
Céline Bernaerts -- Account Executive‡
David Bowe -- Associate
Anne-Sophie de Brancion -- Account Director
Susana Braz -- Account Director
Daniel Brinkwerth -- Account Manager‡
Lucía Caudet -- Account Director
Dorothée D'Herde -- Account Director
Joly Dixon -- Associate
Agnès Domergue -- Senior Account Executive
Jeanne Dromard -- Account Executive‡
Beatrice Flammini -- Account Director
Daniel Friedlaender -- Senior Account Executive
Adrian Georgiev -- Account Executive
Natasha Hurley -- Account Manager
Christian Kaufholz -- Account Director
Sabine Kayser -- Account Executive‡
Philippe Lemaître -- Associate
Loren Lesko -- Senior Account Manager
Andrea Maibaum -- Senior Account Manager
Joanna Meade -- Senior Account Executive
Stéphanie Meillier -- Senior Account Executive
Christina Meinshausen -- Account Executive
Oya Memisoglu -- Account Executive‡
Anna Michalowicz -- Senior Account Manager
Milina Monceková -- Senior Account Executive
Sameera Naraghi -- Financial Controller
Zuzana Púciková -- Senior Account Executive
Alessandra Pertot -- Senior Account Executive
Stéphanie Pochon -- Account Director
Sandra Riggi -- Administrative Assistant
Daphné Roose -- Office Assistant
Angus Roxburgh -- Associate *
Charles Stewart-Smith -- chaired Brussels-based consultancy†
Laura Teirlynck -- Head of Finance & Systems
Cecile Vernant -- Senior Account Executive
Simonas Vileikis -- Senior Account Executive
Antony Vinall -- Associate
Bernard Volker -- Associate‡
Julius Von Freytag-Loringhoven -- Account Executive‡
Former employees
Tom Brookes -- †
Julia Staunig -- †
Julian von Fumetti -- †
Source: About us (Accessed 21 September 2008)
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*‡ Employee since 2007
*† former employee (listed prior to 2007)
** Left in 2009
*Associate: these tend to be senior journalists or government employees.
==Contact, References and Resources==
===Contact===
:GPlus Europe 
:239 Old Marylebone Road
:London NW1 5QT
:United Kingdom
	
:GPlus Europe
:Rue Breydel 42
:1040 Brussels
:Belgium
Web: www.gpluseurope.com
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