Bell Pottinger Private, is pleased to announce the promotion of Phoebe Vela to Group Director of Communications and the appointment of Daniel Thöle as Director of the Mining Team of Pelham Bell Pottinger.
Daniel Thöle joins Pelham Bell Pottinger from Brunswick where he worked as a Director in the Energy and Resources practice, focusing on mining clients. His experience as a senior communications advisor included working with FTSE100 and leading South African companies across all sectors in disciplines including stakeholder engagement, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, crisis communications and media handling. Prior to this, Daniel was Companies Editor of Business Day, South Africa’s largest financial daily, and worked as a journalist at Mineweb in Johannesburg.
He will work in Pelham’s mining team, alongside Founding Director Charles Vivian and Associate Director Lorna Spears.
James Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are delighted that Daniel has joined our team, his specialist knowledge of Africa and global mining will be instrumental in the Group’s on-going growth in resources, where we will continue to build on our market leading position.
I am delighted that Phoebe has been promoted to manage the centralized communications and new business function of Bell Pottinger Private, this recognises the contribution she has made since she joined Pelham Bell Pottinger in February from The Spectator. She will play a key role in communicating the vision and strategy of the new private public relations business.”
Daniel Thöle said: “I am delighted to be joining at Pelham Bell Pottinger in an exciting period of its development. We have a talented, specialist mining team able to address the communications needs of companies in this challenging and important sector and a growing client base of leading companies in the sector. ”
