Christopher Clarke, Managing Director, Epoch

Chris is managing director of Epoch, a communications agency that works with clients across the corporate, business-to-business and public sector. His expertise is brand strategy, reputation management, global thought leadership and media relations. Epoch combines both communications and forecasting and to support Epoch’s approach, he created Epoch Hothouse which consists of research, events and an expert panel to explore the big issues shaping society, business and politics. Before founding the agency in 2004, Chris was in-house at Orange, responsible for global issues management and shifting the brand into the business market. Before that he worked at international agency Hill and Knowlton. He started his career working in Parliament as a researcher and advisor.