Rich Leigh
Founder and Director
Listed in PR Week’s 29 under 29 list and named one of ‘the brightest young social media communicators’ in the UK, Rich Leigh has a rich and varied PR background, having led award-winning campaigns and accounts at leading agencies. He founded Radioactive PR in 2014, working with brands big and small, as well as a range of personal PR clients. Rich founded and sold the UK’s #1 PR blog PRexamples.com, dedicated to the best in up-to-date PR stunts and campaigns, and wrote ‘Myths of PR’, which became Amazon’s best-selling PR book days after release.
Lydia Bryant
PR senior account manager
Marketing graduate Lydia joined the agency in August 2015, already with two years’ experience working across multiple consumer and B2B accounts. Lydia works across many of Radioactive’s roster of clients. With a keen eye for an angle, she’s often the first person to spot reactive opportunities.
Lydia describes her sense of humour as Dwight Schrute-like, which is no bad thing!
Emily Urban-Smith
Director - North
In charge of the Manchester office (which specialises in food and drink PR and beauty PR), Emily has worked in consumer health PR for more than a decade, leading celebrity engagement, media relations and social media campaigns for high-profile clients including Boots UK, Coca-Cola and GlaxoSmithKline.
Angharad Planells
PR account director
Ex-journalist Angharad found her way into PR after spells at BBC Radio Gloucestershire and Total Star. With close to a decade in public relations, Angharad brings a wealth of experience, working with a huge range of B2C and B2B brands and organisations at a number of agencies. A keen writer, Angharad still makes time to contribute to both lifestyle magazines and PR industry books.
Callum Gable
PR account exec
Callum joined the agency just before the switch from Rich Leigh & Company to Radioactive PR, and after working through his apprenticeship, was brought on as an account exec. He is a confident voice in the room when it comes to creative ideas, and with a strong writing background, Callum has found his feet in PR very quickly.
Donna Clapp
PR account exec
Journalism graduate Donna has worked in B2B PR for 2 years, and joined Radioactive in mid-2017 amidst a period of agency growth with a view to learning new creative and consumer-orientated skills to complement her experience. Her determination translates into coverage with every story she works on, leaving no stone unturned to squeeze as much out of every conversation with the press.
Holly Freeman
PR account exec
Holly joined Radioactive PR as a paid apprentice in mid-2017, deciding against university in a bid to gain experience within PR while still studying for a qualification in digital marketing. After impressing over the year, she was offered a permanent role. She quickly found a talent for working with influencers and has a real tenacity when it comes to coverage.
Jade Beddington
Communications strategist
Jade joined Radioactive PR in January 2018, with almost a decade of communications experience under her belt spent in agencies. She has worked with clients in many consumer and B2B sectors, including travel, food and drink, automotive, sport and not-for-profit, from small companies to global brands. Brands include Asics, Courvoisier, Continental Tyres, Converse, Mini BMW and Under Armour.
Kirsty Hall
Senior account executive
Kirsty has worked in a range of marketing roles both in-house and agency-side, across social media and PR, for businesses including HotelShopUK, Specsavers, BPE and Climb Online. Starting as an apprentice in a social media marketing agency, she brings years of marketing experience and a lot of enthusiasm to the agency… and she often bakes cakes for the team, too!
Toby Aiken
PR account director
Toby joined the team in October 2018 after a stint in-house, having led large consumer, public affairs and corporate PR accounts at previous agencies. Toby spent seven years as a climate change researcher before finding his way into external communications for a not-for-profit multi-government organisation and… loves fast cars, contributing freelance reviews in return for weeks behind the wheels of some of the fanciest cars out there.
Liz Hinds
PR intern
Liz Hinds joined Radioactive PR in January 2019 as PR intern, while she studies a Master’s in PR, Communications and Media, on top of her BSc in Policing and post-graduate course in Adult Education. Liz, who is a keen power lifter in her spare time, loves people and telling stories, and that’s why she feels PR is the right path for her!
Want to keep us company?
As a young and fast-growing agency, we are always on the lookout for talented PR, social media and digital marketing types. From work experience and PR internships to freelancers and permanent roles, great agencies are made up of great people.
Think you’ll fit in?
Check our careers page out and apply for the role that best suits you.
If there’s nothing quite right just now, fear not – send your CV over anyway and say hi, we don’t bite!
