Rachel Irvine
Managing Director , Irvine Bartlett
Born
in Cape Town
South Africa
Rachel is Managing Director of Irvine Bartlett, South Africa's premier strategic communications consultancy. She has more than 15 years experience working as a communications professional across television, print, radio and online mediums. She set up and ran both editorially and commercially the broadcast division at Reed Business Information, the world’s largest B2B media organisation and a FTSE100 company based in London.
Recruited by the world’s largest privately held real estate services firm, Cushman & Wakefield, to be a Director in its Moscow office tasked with building a marketing and PR division to service a 300 strong office.
Rachel later set up her own PR consultancy in Moscow focused on the commercial real estate and financial services sectors. Her clients included the largest commercial developer in Moscow as well as overseeing a project under the patronage of the office of the Russian Presidency.
Now back in South Africa and running Irvine Bartlett, Rachel brings considerable international experience while still enjoying a broad network of local media and business contacts maintained throughout her time abroad.
Rachel offers clients a rare mix of business and media insight which ensures that she is able to offer strategy that resonates both with a client’s business objectives and media agendas.
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