Carrot

Richard Houghton

Richard has a 19 year track record in public relations consultancy. His career has spanned senior management positions in leading international consultancies, including Shandwick, Fleishman-Hillard and Ketchum and campaigns for BT, Dell, Nokia, Overture and Siemens Mobile.

He founded Carrot Communications to accelerate the reputations of companies in, and associated with, the information technology and internet sectors.

Prior to starting Carrot, Richard was joint managing director at Ketchum with specific responsibility for b2b and technology clients, including lastminute.com and Nokia.

Before joining Ketchum, he was chief executive, Corporate, Broadcast and Travel & Leisure at Shandwick International. An international PR specialist, Richard directed campaigns for Siemens Mobile, TNT (42 countries), Coutts and Dupont while at Shandwick.

Richard is Vice Chairman of the Public Relation Consultancy Association.