WSConsult
Communications Consulting
Bill
Stokoe, trading as WSConsult, offers companies
strategic communications advice. He specialises in helping companies
who want to grow, and especially to build their investor base. He is
particularly experienced in helping companies developing beyond their domestic market and
consequently
who
need to establish dynamic dialogue with the international investment community.
He is currently chairman of Circa Circa Ltd, developers of the UK's exciting new board game About Time® See www.playabouttime.com
Bill has spent more than 35 years in financial services and communications consultancy, including senior posts with a major UK banking group and a US depositary bank (ADRs). He moved to a leading US IR consultancy in 1994, and subsequently became International IR Partner with the UK's largest financial PR agency. He was Senior Partner and founder shareholder of an international agency innovating in fusing IR and PR practice and advice. From 2000-05 he acted for Russian companies, most notably Svyazinvest and the regional telecomms companies.
Over
the years he has
advised many companies on international investor relations strategy and
programmes, including IPOs and US listings.
A former director of the UK Investor Relations Society, he sat on the UK’s
Financial Services Authority’s Information Dissemination Advisory Group
reviewing the procedures for formal announcements by UK companies.
Other interest include a longterm involvement since 1983 as a non-executive in the UK's Further Education sector. He is Deputy Chairman of City Lit - www.citylit.ac.uk - London's leading adult education Institute, and a non-executive Director of the Learning & Skills Network - www.lsneducation.org.uk - the national agency with the sector mission to make learning work. He is the former chairman of Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College (1992-2004), and was also a council member of FEnto. In 2005 he served on the Advisory Group for HMG's Review of FE, headed by Sir Andrew Foster.
Married, with two children, Bill lives in Guildford where he has been involved in community organisations over the years. He has chaired Burpham Community Association and Guildford Round Table. He is currently chairman of the trustees of Guildford's historic almshouse, Abbot's Hospital, founded in 1619 - www.abbotshospital.org
Contact Bill Stokoe at: bill@wsconsult.net