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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.
Matt Bishop
Managing Director
Joe Downes
Business Director
Ann Bradshaw
Tim Holmes
Diagonal Communications, a new communications/content/PR/strategy agency, has been launched by Matt Bishop (Managing Director)
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.
Clever, targeted, impactful, global media coverage to support clients’ commercial, marketing and comms objectives.
Sophisticated, intelligent, agile planning to support clients’ short-, medium- and long-term commercial, marketing and comms ambitions.
Influencing and monitoring stakeholder, media and public perceptions on behalf of clients.
Developing and shaping clients’ brands via diligent curation and sophisticated comms and media management.
Videos, blogs, vlogs, vodcasts, podcasts, photography and copy devised, created and delivered in line with clients’ commercial, marketing and comms objectives.
Pre-emptive and reactive work across mainstream and social media platforms to control and reduce reputational damage caused to clients.
Practical programmes to position clients in mainstream and social media as innovative leaders in their fields in line with their commercial, marketing and comms objectives.
Creating compelling, readable, accurate copy to showcase and communicate clients’ brands in a bespoke and positive light in line with their commercial, marketing and comms objectives.
Keeping track of clients’ media coverage to benchmark clients’ brands against competitors and adapt media coverage generation accordingly
Sophisticated and creative comms and media planning in support of clients’ sponsorship and partnership marketing objectives.
Building skills and confidence for clients’ outward-facing spokespersons, working with real journalists in practical settings.
Devising and delivering best-in-class advice and content to optimise clients’ internal and external DEI programmes.
With a rich and varied 30-year career in top-tier motorsport, including extensive journalism experience working for Autosport, Motorsport and F1 Racing among others, followed by senior leadership communications roles within McLaren’s and Aston Martin’s Formula One operations, working with world champions Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel, Matt Bishop has carved out a reputation as an immensely capable strategist and communications expert, with considerable hands-on experience of crisis communications management.
He is also a passionate advocate and ambassador for diversity, equity and inclusion, since he was one of the founders of W Series, the women-only single-seater racing championship, and is a founder ambassador of Racing Pride, which was established in association with Stonewall and seeks to support and further the rights and interests of LGBTQ+ people in motorsport generally.
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.
Tim Holmes is a career communicator in the automotive sector, with extensive experience in motorsport and a specialism in product, corporate and business areas. A former news journalist and specialist automotive writer, Tim has a 30-year history in automotive communications both at senior management and board level, in national and international roles, and for a variety of global brands including Alfa Romeo, Nissan and Ford Motor Company. He is also a former Communications Chairman of the UK’s national trade body for the automotive sector, the SMMT.