leadership

John Birger

EMEA | Managing Director

John joined Broadstreet in July 2009 from his role as Head of UK Operations at MJM. In tandem with Karen Kadin, John and the MJM UK team established a diverse range of clients for whom they delivered communications consultancy, performance development and face to face communications programmes in most key live event arenas, facing both in and out of client organisations.

His expertise soon established strong credentials in many verticals including, Pharmaceutical, Consulting, Financial Services, Telecommunications and Luxury Goods. Prior to MJM, John spent eight years with Imagination where he was Associate Director of Imagination's Global Investor Communications division. In this time he produced international IPO roadshow programmes for some of the world's largest companies. These included ground breaking deals in China, Korea and the Asia Pacific region and numerous presentations to specialist audiences of analysts, institutional investors, and employees.

Throughout this time he also delivered communications projects around the world for clients as diverse as Vodafone, eBay, MMO2, British Energy, adidas, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting, ING Group, Repsol, Scania, Telekomunikacja Polska, Sinopec, China Mobile, Korea Telecom, Telecom New Zealand, GTS / Ebone and Telstra.

John started his career in the theatre industry and continues to follow it closely. Outside of Broadstreet and the theatre, John's biggest passion is the great outdoors which is mainly realised through his passion for sailing, and climbing mountains.

John Birger