About Melville PR
Mark Perry is an award-winning communications practitioner.
Mark established Melville PR after gaining more than 25 years’ experience working on regional, national and international campaigns.
Background
During his career Mark has worked for some of the most respected consultancies in the region including Bell Pottinger North and Staniforth and gained valuable experience with specialist property and financial services consultancies. For 10 years Mark worked in the professional services sector covering property, legal and financial services where he was responsible for the launch of regeneration schemes, high profile administrations and merger and acquisitions.
This experience has meant he has represented leading blue-chip names such as:
Tata Chemicals Europe;
Royal Dutch Shell;
E.On Energy from Waste;
EMIS;
RSM Robson Rhodes;
Hertel;
GVA Grimley;
Nat West; and
Association of Town Centre Management.
He has also brought this experience to help start-up and small businesses to gain a media profile. For one small company a strategic campaign helped it achieve a multi-million pound trade sale.
Mark is particularly proud of winning two CIPR Pride awards for managing the crisis communications around the administration of Bury Football Club and the ‘Manchester City – End of an Era auction’ when the club left Maine Road.
He was also shortlisted for an international campaign for the world’s largest commercial auction in Brunei and for work surrounding an application for an energy plant which included strategic advice, community relations, stakeholder relations and support for a public inquiry.
Mark’s campaign for the Association of Town Centre Management on meeting the challenge faced by the High Street has been used as a case study of best practice in the PR text book Public Relations: International Perspectives which is used on PR degree courses.
Mark gets a grip of a job quickly and professionally and has an impressive background knowledge of our company and the issues. He's reliable and personable and I'd have no hesitation on calling him in again to help on a job.
Mark has an incredible talent for diving into even the most complex subject, grasping an understanding of it, and communicating it in an understandable, relevant and interesting manner.
He has got to know our company better than many of our own people. Importantly, because of his understanding of our business and industry, he has the trust and respect of our people.
I've always found Mark to be a joy to work with: creative; well connected; intuitive and results-driven. His approach to work is exactly what is needed: he finds out what you want to achieve; clearly maps out how he's going to do it and then gets on and delivers
I have known Mark for a number of years. Mark has always been very helpful and has offered a great insight on the projects we have worked on jointly in the UK and internationally. He has always been quick to provide ideas and is able to identify issues that would pass most others by.
I would have no hesitation in recommending Mark as I know he is able to deliver and often exceeds expectations.