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Strategic, sophisticated, no-nonsense communications
Diagonal Comms delivers strategic, sophisticated, communications based on expertise and a passionate commitment to deliver against, our clients’ objectives.
Strategic, sophisticated, no-nonsense communications
Diagonal Comms delivers strategic, sophisticated, communications based on expertise and a passionate commitment to deliver against, our clients’ objectives.
Let our peerless expertise assist you with strategic, sophisticated, no-nonsense communications.
We pride ourselves on our passionate commitment to understand, and deliver against, our clients’ challenges and objectives.
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matt.bishop@diagonalcomms.com
joe.downes@diagonalcomms.com
During his 10-year career to-date, Joe has held senior positions in both the sports journalism and communications industries. After graduating with an MA in Multimedia Journalism, he quickly rose through the ranks at the Daily Mail, helping transform the title’s digital offering and reporting on a range of major sporting events around the world. He made the switch to communications when he joined W Series at the start of 2020, helping the fledgling motor racing series negotiate the COVID-19 pandemic.
Armed with a keen eye for a story, an enviable contacts book, the ability to spot the latest trends, and expertise in media relations and women’s sport, Joe was then recruited by global sports and entertainment agency CSM to work across multiple accounts.
Ann Bradshaw has worked full-time in motorsport since 1971 after giving up her career in journalism to take on a race-organising job in the sport that she and her entire family loved. Over the years she has gone back to her journalism roots, writing for Autosport magazine as well as working in many different areas of the sport. Her Formula One career encompasses many years as a Senior Press Officer within the Williams Formula One team in its world championship-winning heyday in the 1980s and 1990s, working closely with racing legends such as Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, and she has also worked for the Lotus, Arrows and BMW-Sauber teams, as well as Formula One itself.
For 16 years she worked on a freelance basis for BMW across its various worldwide motorsport programmes including touring cars, sports cars, rallying, single-seater racing with Formula BMW, as well as Formula One. Her skills running event press offices were honed when she was Head of Press and Public Relations for the RAC MSA (now Motorsport UK, the British motorsport national sporting authority) and ran the press office for the British Grand Prix and the RAC Rally. Since then she has been invited by Grand Prix organisers in South Africa, Australia, Malaysia, Mexico, Abu Dhabi and the USA (Indianapolis and Austin) to run their event press offices. She is passionate about diversity in the sport and was proud to work as a Press Officer for W Series.
After working in motorsport as a journalist, Gerren got his first taste of a communications role in rugby, and he has gained vast experience in the 18 months since he graduated in Sports Journalism (BA Hons).
Gerren spent much of 2023 in the TOCA paddock covering every round of both the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) and British F4 Championship for multiple websites as a reporter and editor. He discovered a love and natural flair for communications in his next role as Media and Communications Intern at Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club, providing content and comms for the RFU Championship’s leading club.
Combining the skills and experience he has acquired from the professional roles he has held to-date, various multimedia projects undertaken during his degree, and combining those with his passion for sport and automotive, Gerren is now ready to take the next step in his sports communications career at Diagonal Comms.
George joins Diagonal Comms having worked in various motorsport-focused media roles over the past four years.
He picked up his first content creation and management role at the end of 2020 in the sim-racing Esports space before starting as a journalist in junior category racing in 2022. His work, which included producing news stories, race summaries, and podcasts, and conducting interviews with racing drivers, required him report to on multiple esteemed series across the single-seater ladder, spanning FIA Formula 2, the final step before Formula 1, to grassroots Formula 4 competition and multiple series in between, making him extremely well versed in junior competition.
At the start of 2024, he expanded his skillset to include motorsport videography and photography. He produced high-quality social media content at circuits across Europe, focusing on raising the profiles of clients competing in the GB3 and GB4 Championships.
Having gained a wealth of knowledge across a plethora of motor racing paddocks, George starts his first full-time role in PR, communications, and content creation with Diagonal Comms.
