Brevia Consulting

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Brevia Consulting is a lobbying consultancy, previously known as 'Politics Direct' until December 2011.

Rebranding

Brevia is derived from the Latin verb 'to abbreviate' - apparently reflecting the agency's ethos of being straight-talking, quick and precise. Brevia MD David Beamer said: 'I expected to be presented with a shortlist of London streets or squares, but Figtree felt a descriptive name was the right choice.'

People

PoliticsDirect employs a number of influential political figures including the former Conservative MP Steven Norris and Peter Kellner, chairman of YouGov. It was co-founded by John Arnold and David Beamer who had backgrounds in the Labour and Conservative Parties respectively. Arnold is a former Chair of Scottish Labour Students, a former Adviser to the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. Co-founder David Beamer was a senior political adviser to the Conservative Party and worked with eight Secretaries of State on a range of policy briefs including Trade & Industry, Energy, Transport, Culture, Media & Sport, Deregulation and Health. Associate George Hall was also EU issue manager on eCommerce in the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue.

The firm also groups together a number of consultants who were formerly journalists and have other business interests including in public relations. Francis Halewood, former editor of the BBC's World at One and a previous acting Director of Communications for the Conservative Party is an Associate, as is John Stonborough who specialises in media relations and was until 2004 Media Adviser to the Speaker and House of Commons Commission in the UK Parliament). David Seymour former Political Editor of the Mirror Group is another Associate.

Stuart Higgins ex-editor of The Sun is a former associate.

Management 2013

• David Beamer - Founder and Managing Director
• Andrew Maugham - Associate Director
• Tim Trotter - Senior Adviser. Chairman of Glenfern, non-executive Chairman of Seven Publishing, Nigel Wright Group, Smithfield Group and The SR Group
• Vilhelm Oberg - Director of Energy and Sustainability
• Ben Wood - Senior Account Executive
• Sophie Thompson - Senior Account Executive. A former chief of staff to Laura Sandys, MP
• Will Smith is an Account Executive. Previously a researcher to Margot James MP, where he assisted as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Green (then Minister for Trade and Investment)

Associates 2013

David Rigg | Steven Norris | David Seymour | Francis Halewood | Jonathan Horsman | George Hall | David Cracknell (former political editor Sunday Times | John Stonborough |

Consultants 2009

John Arnold | David Beamer | Graham Bambrough | Alex Dziedzan | Anna Sellers

Associates 2009

Mick Noble | David Rigg | Steven Norris | Peter Kellner | David Seymour | Stuart Higgins | Francis Halewood | Jonathan Horsman | George Hall | Heidi Mallace | Victoria Sabin | John Stonborough | Rob Worthington:

APPC UK

June 2014-August 2014

Myles Bailey | David Beamer | Andrew Maugham | Vilhelm Oberg | David Porter OBE | Sophie Shepherd | Will Smith | Dominic Wyard

Clients

June 2014-August 2014

All-Party Assembly Group on Funerals and Bereavement | All-Party Parliamentary Furniture Industry Group | All-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals and Bereavement | Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association | Association for Project Management | Babcock & Wilcox | British Furniture Confederation | Cross Party Group for Funerals and Bereavement | Cross Party Group for Funerals and Bereavement (Scottish Parliament) | esure Group | First Utility | GDF Suez Energy International | Independent Suppliers Group (Co-operative Energy, First Utility, Utilita, and Utility Warehouse) Kronos | MHI Vestas Offshore Wind | Microsoft Mobile Oy | National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) | RiverOak Investment Corp | Royal Life Saving Society | Storengy

2013

GDF Suez, British Energy, EDF Energy | First:Utility, Nokia, T-Mobile, IoD, esure, Abbott Laboratories, and MSD.

2009

British Energy | Railfreight Interchange Investment Group | Aventis | Bradford City Council | Cordoba Financial Group | Nokia | T Mobile | Alliance and Leicester | aat | Dade Behring | London Luton Luton Airport | DX | Abbot Laboratories | National Association of Funeral Directors | RIIG | iSoft | Local Government Association | Royal Academy of Engineering | Merck Sharp and Dohme | Greenway | British Furniture Confederation | Read Group | Guiness Trust Group | Allied Domecq | Association of Colleges | Tiscali | Wiggins | Mondus | Lilly | Haemophilia Society | East Dunbartonshire Council | AIESEC | Global Internet Billing | Plus | Society of Black Lawyers | Earthport | Network Lettings | Genient | Intermodality | Esure:

According to PR Week in 2005, The Royal Academy of Engineering commissioned its services to provide "parliamentary support and ensure the profession is well represented on the policy agenda".

Affiliations

PoliticsDirect provides external support to the following All Party Groups:

Associate Parliamentary Engineering Group | All-Party Parliamentary Furniture Industry Group | All-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals and Bereavement

Affiliates

Politics Direct claims that it 'has developed an affiliate network of like-minded companies who work in partnership with PoliticsDirect' These include Strategem | Project Associates | Model Reasoning | Peyser Associates, Inc. | Windsor Jennings | Cohn & Wolfe

Contact

Address5 Salamanca Place, London, SE1 7HP, England.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7091 1650

Fax: +44 (0)20 7820 9227

EMAIL: info@NOSPAMpoliticsdirect.com (please delete NOSPAM when you email)

Registered in England: 3806412 VAT Number: 743761912

Website: http://www.politicsdirect.com/

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