Citigate Dewe Rogerson Appoints Maria Darby-Walker as Senior Director to its Financial Division
Citigate Dewe Rogerson has appointed Maria Darby-Walker as Senior Director to its Financial Team.
Maria has over 25 years’ experience in advising Board and senior executives on strategic and reputational issues. Her consultancy experience has included advising the Boards of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, mining group Rio Tinto, frozen foods company Iglo / Birds Eye and having a key role in the Cadbury defence team against the hostile takeover from Kraft.
Maria also has broad international experience having managed the communications for Outer Mongolia’s biggest mining project, Oyu Tolgoi, and managed communications programmes across Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australia for Cadbury and across Europe for Iglo Group during the horse-meat scandal.
In recent times Maria has been a Non-Executive Director at Aim listed oil and gas firm Gulf Keystone Petroleum while she is a Trustee of the charity Hostage UK.
Patrick Donovan, Managing Director of Citigate Dewe Rogerson commented, “Maria brings both a wealth of in-house and consultancy experience with her as well as a strong understanding of a breadth of sectors including natural resources, oil and gas, FMCG and financial services amongst others. I am looking forward to working with her.”
Maria Darby-Walker added, “I am proud to be joining Citigate Dewe Rogerson with its impressive credentials for privatisations, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions. Its client list is exceptional and I am very much looking forward to working alongside the CDR team.”
Communications, financial pr, IPOs, Mergers and Acquisitions