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Francesca Ciuffo

Account Manager

Francesca studied Public Relations and Broadcast Journalism at the University of Miami, where she developed a strong foundation in storytelling, media relations and strategic communications. She began her career in the celebrity PR space, supporting personal publicity teams for acclaimed actors and filmmakers. She then transitioned into the product and brand world, leading media outreach and campaign strategy across food, beverage, hospitality and wellness. From securing placements in coveted roundups and holiday gift guides to supporting launches for emerging brands and restaurant groups, she has built a reputation for connecting unique stories with the right audiences.Now focusing on the B2B space at Propeller Group, Francesca is excited to transform complex ideas into compelling narratives, elevate executive voices through thought leadership opportunities and help businesses stand out as true category leaders.

Ning Tan

PR Intern

Ning joined Propeller in 2026, after completing a degree in Advertising, Marketing and Communications from FIT. Coming from a background in B2C PR, she is interested in the B2B field and enjoys working collaboratively in a team-driven environment. She is passionate about communications and fascinated by media and its growing influence as the world becomes increasingly digital. Outside of work, she’s focused on unplugging from screens and spending more time interacting with grass.

Asia Riddle

Account Executive

Asia joined Propeller in June 2025, as an intern, after obtaining her B.A in Advertising from Loyola University New Orleans. A proud New Orleans native, she enjoys live shows, food reviewing, and supporting small artists. As a guru for all things trends and culture, Asia stays ahead of the curve, and is always thinking about her next pitch to clients, on and off the clock. She brings her love for team collaboration, client work, and leads with empathy in all she does.

Jack Oberlander

Account Executive

After obtaining a B.S. in Broadcast and Digital Journalism, Jack joined the team in March 2025. A lifelong New Yorker, Jack enjoys live music, travel, and a nice bike ride around the city. When he’s not at work, Jack also serves as a Marketing Officer for Old Blue RFC.

Team Propeller

Aleda Stam

Senior Account Manager

Aleda Stam is a communications professional that specializes in thought leadership and media relations. She is a trained journalist with a decade’s worth of experience in retail, communications, marketing and advertising trade. Aleda was previously a senior reporter at Ad Age, covering creative and media ad agencies. Before that, she covered public relations agencies and corporate communications as a senior reporter at PRWeek. When not consuming news and media trends, Aleda’s voracious appetite for the written word is quenched with the latest romantasy or science fiction best seller.

Aleda graduated from the Robert E. Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a dual degree in Journalism and Communications.

Naz Al Sayad

Marketing Manager

Naz is an experienced marketer with a passion for content creation and storytelling. At Propeller, he has played a key role in delivering impactful marketing initiatives, with a focus on elevating the agency’s brand presence and showcasing its expertise and culture. He works closely with teams across the business to craft compelling narratives that engage clients, prospects, and partners.

JP Escobar

Senior Account Director

J.P. is a results-driven media and communications expert with over 15 years of experience in the private and public sectors. He has held leadership roles, including Vice President at Mark Allen & Co., overseeing the agency's media, advertising, and marketing clients, and Account Director at DiGennaro Communications, focusing on B2B strategic communications. J.P. also served as lead spokesperson and communications strategist for elected officials and government agencies at VMMI, a top political PR agency in New Jersey, and managed media relations for the U.S. Army All-American Bowl at All-American Games. A U.S. Army veteran, J.P. is committed to fostering productive team environments that deliver results tied to clients' business goals.

Hilary Gray

Associate Director, Group Operations

Hilary has over 15 years of PR experience, alongside her role on clients she heads up everything that touches on Propeller's people and processes - from training to tools. During her time at Propeller she has worked with leading UK and international media brands, ad agencies and tech companies. Hilary likes to get to the heart of a client’s business to understand their business challenges and how they play into wider industry trends. Aside from client work Hilary enjoys bringing a team together, empowering junior members of the team to grow and confidently deliver high quality opportunities for clients. She prides herself on her knowledge of the media and marketing landscape and enjoys sharing and passing on her hard-won industry know-how.

I'm a whizz at a pub quiz, although as a history grad I have a healthy fear of history rounds, when everyone expects me to know the date of the Battle of Trafalgar, a date that I am categorically incapable of remembering.

Justin Cortes

Senior Account Executive

Justin is a storyteller, a scholar and a cinephile, not to mention a hungry public relations professional when it comes to developing campaigns for both social media and traditional media, as well as influencer marketing. Justin first stumbled upon the field while working for a non-profit during his college years in upstate New York, soon after serving as an intern for Fast Company and Inc. and later gaining B2C and B2B PR experience across various industries, including gaming, tech and CPG.

Engaging audiences is something he is truly passionate about, and he has successfully executed plans across the US, UK, Germany and Singapore, generating organic coverage for his clients and fostering significant social followings at the same time.

Daniel Schloss

Senior Account Director

Daniel Schloss is a media nerd that also happens to be a PR pro. He has served dozens of founders, executives, creative directors, and strategists in the community of creative and branding agencies—everyone from the major holding companies to the challenger indies. Equal parts sentimental and cynical, Daniel thrives off engaging with industry discourse, connecting press with sources, and being the ultimate hype man not just for his clients but for the broader journalism world and for a robust media ecosystem. Daniel holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business with specializations in Marketing, Media, and Entertainment.

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Connor Lynch

Senior Account Manager

Connor joined Propeller in early 2023 as an Account Executive. Passionate about both storytelling and research, his previous experience includes in-house and agency with an emphasis on B2B tech. He enjoys engaging the right audience with the right stories at the right time to make great things happen for clients.

Louise Watson

Vice President, Technology

Louise graduated from CCU with a Marketing and Computing degree, spending a year teaching Business Studies and IT, before moving into the world of PR. She prides herself on her organisation skills, and enjoys reading about the latest trends in the industry.

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I faced my fear of flying by going on a helicopter over London with no doors to photograph the Shard and the Sky Garden (aka the Walkie Talkie)

Kate Chaundy

Associate Director, Creative & Digital Practice

Kate heads the Creative and Digital practice at Propeller, where she collaborates with clients to shape strategy and drive innovative creative thinking. With over 15 years of experience leading accounts, she works closely with her teams, providing training on best practices, cultivating key journalist relationships, and exploring compelling ways to bring client stories to life across various media channels. Kate began her career at a music PR agency, working with major record labels before transitioning into freelance consultancy. Her diverse experience spans multiple industries, including healthcare, lifestyle, charity, and entertainment.

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I was born in Holland where my dad was a presenter on Radio Netherlands on which my birth was announced on-air.

Joss Wright-Medhurst

Associate Director, Group Client Services

During her career Joss has worked across a range of businesses including international tech and FMCG brands, print and online publishers, charities and adtech companies. Joss now applies her experience and knowledge to driving high quality client service across Propeller Group, developing skills and expertise within the team and setting programme direction for a number of client accounts.

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Gill Browne

Associate Director, Strategy

As Associate Director, Strategy at Propeller, Gill helps clients across the advertising, marketing, and media industries craft compelling narratives that cut through with external audiences. With deep experience across tech, media agencies, media owners, and creative businesses, she works closely with C-suite stakeholders to develop and execute effective PR strategies.

A sharp storyteller, Gill excels at distilling complex ideas into media-friendly narratives. She also supports industry change through pro bono work with the Conscious Advertising Network. Outside of work, she’s a sci-fi and fantasy enthusiast, a keen runner, and is often joined in the office by her mini dachshund, Wolfie.

In-house assistant to Propeller's puplicist, Wolfie

Branwell Johnson

Associate Director, Group Director of Content

Branwell is Group Director of Content at Propeller. He is a former journalist with a wide range of trade and consumer experience. He held the role of deputy editor at Marketing Week and spent more than a decade immersed in and writing about the world of marketing, ecommerce and related technologies, explaining complex business and tech trends in easily digestible language and formats. He offers high calibre, editorially-led content solutions.

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I once beatboxed on stage with Keith Lemon.

Ben Titchmarsh

Associate Director, Group Business Development

Ben is Propeller’s Group Business Development Director. A familiar face at industry events, ranging from Cannes Lions and DMEXCO to Mobile World Congress and Advertising Week in London and New York, Ben works across Propeller’s client roster. His love of networking and brainstorming means he is often the first point of contact for prospective clients and his infectious enthusiasm and creativity shine through in pitches. Ben’s background in journalism has equipped him with a strong ‘nose for news’ that he brings to bear in our daily media meeting strategy sessions. He loves formulating killer headlines and tactical hooks to achieve cut-through coverage in high-profile print, online and broadcast media.

My best piece of advice? A famous Vaudeville quote: “Be nice to people on the way up, because you’ll see them on the way down”.

Anthony Leeds

Head of Global Accounts

Anthony is Head of Global Accounts, leading Propeller's global client base to ensure efficiencies and collaboration across different markets. He is also Communications Co-Director and a Board Director at Outvertising, the advertising industry's LGBTQIA+ advocacy organisation. Before Propeller, Anthony worked in various PR roles, having worked in FMCG and medical consultancy communications for large brands and startups.

Alex Humphries-French

Associate Director, MADtech

Alex Humphries-French is MADTech Practice Director at Propeller Group. He helps adtech, martech, retail and digital media brands navigate the evolving marketing landscape, where performance and brand marketing converge to drive revenue and ROI.

With two decades in PR, communications, and marketing, Alex has led strategy for major digital platforms, consumer tech giants, and high-growth adtech firms. Before Propeller, he headed marketing and comms at audience engagement specialists Dizplai (formerly Never.no), shaped media strategies for broadcast and tech brands at Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, and drove B2B/B2C marcomms at Rotolight. He has also specialised in personal branding, publicity and marketing for actors at leading casting and talent agencies at Elstree Studios and Pinewood Studios.

If PR and Marketing wasn't my career then I'd be a carpenter or chef.

Mary Cirincione

Managing Director, U.S.

Mary Cirincione is an experienced communications and public relations consultant based in New York with a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University Medill School and a strong understanding of the ever-evolving media landscape. As she likes to say, the “written word is her world,” and when she’s not strategizing, pitching or ghostwriting on behalf of her creative, ad and tech clients, she occasionally pens pieces around lifestyle and small business. She joined Propeller as its head of U.S. in late 2021, previously leading the North American PR program for Getty Images. She launched her comms career after receiving her bachelor’s from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2008, serving various federal agencies in the Washington, D.C. area through positions at BAE Systems and Booz Allen among others.

Jody Osman

Chief Growth Officer

As Chief Growth Officer at Propeller Group, Jody leads the company’s expansion in the UK and internationally, overseeing its marketing and business development strategy while advising clients on their own growth initiatives.

With over 20 years of experience in business growth, Jody has helped clients secure major wins with brands such as Adidas, BT, Coca-Cola, and Jaguar Land Rover.

Jody founded Upfront Business Development in 2005, which joined Propeller Group in 2018. Following a Management Buyout in 2023, Jody became a co-owner and board director, playing a key role in shaping the company’s future.

I used to be an international DJ—turns out, mixing beats and closing deals have more in common than you’d think!

Rose Bentley

Chief Client Officer

Rose’s career has spanned marcomms, PR, management, business development and coaching across Europe, the US, The Middle East and India. As Global Head of Business Development and Reputation at Wolff Olins, she hired Propeller back in 2017 and liked us so much she joined our board the following year. Rose helps clients get on-point with their comms strategy and messaging, with a deep understanding of what B2B brands need to deliver. Rose is a member of WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership).

I was a Masterchef finalist so long ago that you can't find it on YouTube. But I do still have the cookbooks. I also like to perform at my local community theatre society, and once shared a people carrier with Liam Gallagher for a very long 45 mins.

Kieran Kent

Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of Propeller Group, Kieran has overall responsibility for leading and managing the business globally. He has over 25 years of experience running international PR, Content and Growth Marketing programmes for the likes of Google, Samsung, Nielsen, NEC and Disney. During his time at Propeller the company has seen 300% growth in revenues and profits, expanded into the US market and won industry accolades for being a ‘Best Place to Work’ agency. Prior to Propeller, Kieran was a Board Director at Tech PR agency ITPR which was a winner of PR Week’s Most Rated Agency by Journalists.

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I love running (three marathons and eight half-marathons completed so far), guitars, indie music and Liverpool FC.

Meet the propeller team

We are a committed team with multi-disciplinary experience and a personal approach.

We're all about the personal approach

We’re thoughtful, measured, and self assured. We don’t rush into quick wins. We build sustainable, long-term success. Our reputation in the industry is a testament to our reliability and strategic excellence.

Our People

Our team includes former journalists, media and brand comms professionals, experienced PR & Content practitioners and Growth Marketing experts. We’re always tuning into the news agenda, attending industry events and tapping into our networks to bring you the latest insights, connections and opportunities.

Kieran Kent

Chief Executive Officer

Rose Bentley

Chief Client Officer

Jody Osman

Chief Growth Officer

Mary Cirincione

Managing Director, U.S.

Hilary Gray

Associate Director, Group Operations

Ben Titchmarsh

Associate Director, Group Business Development

Branwell Johnson

Associate Director, Group Director of Content

Louise Watson

Vice President, Technology

Kate Chaundy

Associate Director, Creative & Digital Practice

Joss Wright-Medhurst

Associate Director, Group Client Services

Gill Browne

Associate Director, Strategy

JP Escobar

Senior Account Director

Alex Humphries-French

Associate Director, MADtech

Anthony Leeds

Head of Global Accounts

Daniel Schloss

Senior Account Director

Naz Al Sayad

Marketing Manager

Aleda Stam

Senior Account Manager

Connor Lynch

Senior Account Manager

Francesca Ciuffo

Account Manager

Justin Cortes

Senior Account Executive

Jack Oberlander

Account Executive

Asia Riddle

Account Executive

Ning Tan

PR Intern

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Benefits at Propeller

We know our people are our greatest asset, so we work hard to develop and retain talent through a progressive and generous set of rewards and benefits.

  • Flexible Working

    With our ‘8 days a month in the office’ policy, you choose the days that work best for you, spending the rest of your time working from home or anywhere else you prefer. Plus, enjoy 1pm finishes every Friday during the summer months and one Friday each month throughout the rest of the year, with 4pm finishes on all other Fridays.

  • Generous Annual Leave & Work From Anywhere

    Staff receive up to 30 days of annual leave, with new starters receiving 25 days. In addition, all employees are gifted 3 extra days off over the festive period. To support work-life balance, we also offer a ‘Work from Anywhere for a Month’ policy each year, as well as a ‘Work from Home for August’ policy to help with childcare responsibilities during the school holidays.

  • Sabbaticals

    After every four years of employment, take a fully paid 1-month sabbatical in addition to your holiday allowance. It’s a perk that many of our team members love—14 have taken one in the last three years!

  • Rewards & Bonuses

    Our bonus scheme rewards staff for driving business success, including new business wins, client upselling, and client retention.

  • Health & Wellbeing

    Enjoy a comprehensive Vitality health insurance plan, including free travel insurance and discounted gym memberships. We also provide a monthly wellbeing allowance and enhanced parental leave ensures you and your family are supported.

  • Fun & Furry Friends

    At Propeller, we pride ourselves on being a friendly, supportive team that knows how to have fun. Enjoy monthly social activities to connect with colleagues, and bring your furry friends along to our welcoming, dog-friendly office!

    • Collaborative team with patience and understanding of our complex business. Has the ability to jump on every kind of opportunity and are all generally just lovely people to work with!

    Billi Hatfield
    Associate Director of Communications, VML

    “Propeller has helped us move beyond awareness and build real credibility in the market. Their joined-up approach across PR, social and growth marketing made everything feel purposeful and connected to outcomes, not just activity."

    Milly Putley
    Associate Director of Marketing

    “Propeller really understood the significance of what we were trying to achieve with Strongbow/Heineken. Not just a campaign, but a long-term shift towards true inclusion in mainstream marketing. Their strategic approach and consistent PR momentum has helped position us as leaders in inclusive brand transformation and activation."

    Dom Hyams
    Global Client Director

    Working with Propeller has been a wonderful experience. The team has brought incredible opportunities to our executives, they are on top of the news and trends, and they are simply a delight to work with.

    Jen Seley
    Senior Vice President, Head of Communications at MediaLink

    I think we're getting better each year of the partnership.

    Managing Director, Croud

    It's been a joy to work with the Propeller team. They are all passionate about what they do, and seem genuinely interested in our success.

    Senior Director, The Social Element

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