With 20 years of global in-house and agency experience at the highest levels, Catriona is a highly experienced corporate affairs leader with strong business, commercial and financial acumen, as well as a track record of delivering successful and cohesive communication, reputation and crisis management programmes.
Before helping Tom to set up Paternoster Communications, Catriona led Group Corporate Affairs, including Corporate Reputation, Communications and Sustainability, at Kingfisher - a leading home improvement company (FTSE100) with 1,100 stores and 77,000 employees in 10 European countries.
Catriona joined Kingfisher from Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) where she led global WBA Executive Communications and Internal Communications, in addition to being Director of Communications of Global Brands and serving on the Executive team of the beauty brand division of WBA. WBA is a NASDAQ listed (market cap $95bn), Fortune 500 company with 370,000 employees in 25 countries.
Prior to moving client-side, Catriona was at Brunswick, London, where she advised the C-Suite and focused on global consumer facing companies. Her career began in banking at CIBC and RBC in Canada.
She has an international background having travelled extensively and lived in Jamaica, Hong Kong, France, Canada and the UK.
Catriona loves cars, is a trained chef and is a rum (and gin) aficionado. She speaks French and has loved living in London for almost 20 years.