Who We Are

We are an experienced, focused and committed team of professionals mainly working from our London office in W1. We love what we do and we pride ourselves on our expertise. We constantly brainstorm and come up with the best campaign for you. How do we differ from the others…we deliver.

The Management Team

Phil Hall, Chairman

Founder and Chairman Phil Hall is an award winning journalist. He was editor of the News of the World for five years, Britain ’s biggest selling newspaper. From here he moved to take up the reins at Hello! magazine where he was editor in chief.

He later became the Editorial Director of Development for Trinity Mirror, Europe ’s largest newspaper publishing group and in his time there was responsible for the launch of several new magazines.

Phil has won eight major awards as editor of the News of the World and Hello! including International Magazine of the year.

He has held influential positions on the Press Complaints Commission, first as a senior representative of the newspaper industry and then for an unprecedented second time as a representative of the magazine world. Recently he has also been a judge in the highly prestigious UK Press Awards.

Phil makes regular television and radio broadcasts and is a media expert to the BBC, ITN, Sky News, Radio 5 Live, LBC to name but a few as well as writing media articles for the likes of the Independent and the Guardian.

He has worked with many celebrities and high profile people over the years including Pierce Brosnan, Celine Dion, Bob Geldof, the President of Ecuador and Heather Mills McCartney.

He mixes at all levels and in all sectors of the media. Phil has trained and set on their career paths more journalists than most PRs would ever hope to meet.

Phil has won his place as a guru in crisis management of the media and has advised on high profile crisis situations in the last three years, working closely with expert media lawyers as well as the newspaper editors and the press complaints commission. He is in hot demand as a conference speaker on this topic and hosts a regular session of PHA Media breakfast seminars.

Mark Gregory, Managing Director

Mark joined Phil Hall Associates (now known as PHA Media) in 2006 as a Partner and brings an impressive record of commercial achievements.

In addition to his formidable background in marketing and as managing director to a global data services company, Mark established himself as an entrepreneur when in 1997 he founded his own sales and customer services company which after seven highly profitable years was the subject of an acquisition in 2004.

Marina Hall, Finance and Legal Director

Cambridge University graduate and former European Patent Attorney, Marina moved to Phil Hall Associates (now known as PHA Media) in 2005 from her legal background and looks after all accounts, legal and staff matters.

The Management Team is assisted by, Lisa Cowlan our PA and Office Manager, the “real” boss of the office! Lisa came to PHA after successfully completing her A-levels and brings with her a fresh approach, enthusiasm and brilliant organisational skills. If there is anything you need to know about the office, Lisa’s your girl!

The Teams

Stuart Skinner, Senior Account Manager

After leaving Oxford University with a First Class degree in Classics, Stuart moved to London determined to break into the media. He gained experience writing sports reports and undertaking celebrity interviews with amongst others The Daily Telegraph and The Observer newspapers, before joining PHA. His communication skills and initiative give him a firm footing in PR.

Stuart has a particular interest in sports and is fiercely competitive on the cricket pitch or squash court in his spare time – that will explain the racket he is always making!

Stuart heads up one of our PR Teams dealing mainly with Sports clients as well as our Media clients in the world of TV. Working for Stuart are:

PR Senior Account Executives Katie Matthews and Ciaran McCale, and PR Executives Nick Braund and  Tom Mitchell

Shelley Frosdick, Account Manager

After graduating from Reading University Shelley began her career in PR working in the national press office of the Environmental Agency, handling all aspects of their press office activity. Since joining PHA Media she has developed a wealth of experience and contacts working across a wide range of clients including high street retail chains, online merchandisers through to celebrity surgeons and health and beauty clients.

Shelley’s strong knowledge of the media ensures she is always in the know’ especially when it comes to the latest “It” shoe or bag!

Shelley heads up the PHA media consumer and lifestyle department and is assisted by a team of vibrant PR Professionals:

Account Execs  Natalie Burrows, Christina Moore and Hollie Welch, Daniela Boskovic and Nicholas Forster

David Brookes, Account Manager

With a strong background in television, print and multimedia journalism David is our media all rounder. David has previously worked for the BBC, ITN, numerous TV production companies, the Evening Standard and Hello! magazine to name just a few. David has particular expertise in online PR.

As well as building an impressive portfolio in PR, David has found time to write a major new book for one of our high profile clients, The Dore Centres,and has put his television skills to good use, having produced several short films for PHA.

David also has good contacts in Asia, having lived and worked in Japan for two years.

David is ably assisted by PR Executives Cameron Hall and Charlie Howard