Catherine Colloms

Catherine was corporate affairs director at Paddy Power from 2013–2016, and helped found the Senet Group, the first industry self-regulatory body. She was previously a director at Brunswick Group where she worked on various campaigns for clients including PepsiCo, Reckitt Benckiser, IKEA, Lehman Brothers, McKinsey, NBC Universal and Thomson Reuters. She also spent six months in 2011 working on the BP Deepwater Horizon crisis.

Catherine started her career at the Foreign Office where she worked on a range of crisis situations, including the Government’s humanitarian response to 9/11. She also led the development of the UK’s policy on Kosovo and was personal political adviser to Lord Ashdown, the high representative for Bosnia, in Sarajevo.