Gould Goes Abroad with UK Advisor

Sally Tilleray

New York-headquartered PR mergers and acquisitions consultancy Gould+Partners has established a presence across the pond with the appointment of a London-based partner who will focus on driving the firm's business in the UK markets.

Sally Tilleray, a Cognito Media non-executive chairman, has been named Gould senior advisor, London/UK. Tilleray, who joined Cognito’s board this year, was previously finance director and group chief operating officer at international PR giant Huntsworth. Prior to that she was Europe CFO at IT and services company Predictive Systems. Last year she founded her own consultancy, Sally Tilleray Consulting.

As senior advisor, Tilleray will be responsible for helping the M&A management consulting firm identify buyers and sellers in the UK marketplace, as well as facilitating transactions and establishing a UK presence for the firm.

Gould+Partners managing partner Rick Gould told O'Dwyer's that London maintains a growing PR market where many U.S. firms have recently opened offices.

“Many other firms have shared with us that they hope to open an office there or acquire small UK firms and build organically off the infrastructure of those firms,” Gould said.

He added that Tilleray knows the M&A landscape and has many contacts throughout the UK PR marketplace via her tenure at Huntsworth.

“She’s also a very savvy financial person, who will work closely with me structuring buy-sell transactions,” he said.