We work in partnership with clients that are positively driving change or disrupting their sector – whether through new technologies or social impact initiatives – to tell their stories and reach their intended audiences. We develop campaigns that drive impact and change based on in-depth insight, and creative, stand-out delivery tactics. We are committed to:
Supporting innovative, disruptive, purpose-led businesses to amplify their messages through impact-driven media relations.
Acting as a genuine extension to in-house comms and marketing teams, collaborating closely on strategy, plans and execution.
Ensuring clients reach their target audiences through clear, creative and insightful campaigns.
Our Experience
We have deep knowledge and extensive experience across the sectors we work in – including technology, AI, fintech, health-tech and sustainability. By working as an extension to our clients’ in house teams, having a small team of experts on each account, and a strong focus on our core areas, we are able to stay across the latest developments in these sectors, enabling us to offer genuine consultancy to our partners.
Why Seven?
The success of Seven Consultancy is down to our fantastic people. We pride ourselves on the intelligence, enthusiasm and diversity of our team, with each person offering their own wealth of experience and unique skills. We are also a group of people who truly care – not just about our work, but one another. We work collaboratively to innovate and problem-solve as a team, sharing ideas and supporting each other along the way to go the extra mile for our clients. Our values of honesty, compassion, proactivity, equality and creativity underpin our culture and our work.
Emma Harvey
CEO and Founder
Emma Harvey - CEO and Founder
After working in senior in-house communications roles – at Barclays, Morgan Stanley and as the global communications director of HomeServe plc – Emma launched Seven in 2013 to change the outdated ‘in-house/agency’ dynamic and build a team of experts that were a true extension to an in-house team.
Her passion for working for innovative, purpose-led organisations, has meant that her experience has spanned both communications and social impact across scale- ups, charities and purpose led global brands.
Mum of Amelie and Mia and dog Minnie, Emma loves family time, art, travel and mooching around markets (having once run her own market stalls at Camden, Spitalfields and Portobello).
Robyn Margetts
Managing Director
Robyn Margetts - Managing Director
Robyn joined Seven in 2018 following several years running communications functions in house. She has more than ten years’ experience in public relations and communications including press office, corporate comms, and internal comms.
Robyn’s previous roles include leading the PR and communications function at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, and for LV=, as well as leading on financial services and public sector campaigns at consumer group Which?.
Outside of work, you’ll usually find Robyn out running and then refuelling afterwards with one of her bakes and a G&T.
Andrew McKay
Account Director, Social Impact and Sustainability
Andrew McKay - Account Director, Social Impact and Sustainability
Andrew joined Seven in 2019. He specialises in sustainability and social impact communications, particularly around technology and innovations helping to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
In particular, he has led on comms for Challenge Works – part of innovation foundation Nesta – across multiple challenge prizes, including the Longitude Prize for AMR, Longitude Prize for Dementia, the Longitude Explorer Prizes for young people and the Afri-Plastics Challenge.
In 2023, Andrew completed the intensive Business Sustainability Management course at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) – passing with flying colours.
Andrew has a slightly unusual career history, starting out in the Sky press office, before earning an MA in Acting going on to work as a professional actor for seven years, getting to work and travel extensively around Europe.
Ed Rowley
Account Director, Public Affairs Lead
Ed Rowley - Account Director, Public Affairs Lead
Ed joined Seven in 2022, leading policy and public affairs activity, as well as looking after communications for financial services clients. His experience includes press relations, government and stakeholder engagement, political monitoring, strategic planning, and crisis management.
Ed has extensive knowledge of the workings of government and Parliament, having started his career as an assistant to an MP before going on to manage Parliamentary affairs for Ofsted. He ran business tax communications at HM Revenue & Customs and was later seconded to the Downing Street press office.
His most recent role in government was for HM Treasury, where he looked after financial services communications and advised ministers on media engagement. After leaving the civil service, Ed went to work in the world of fintech and banking, managing PR at Monzo and then global communications for Klarna.
Outside of work, Ed enjoys exploring the countryside with Margie, his four-legged companion, volunteers as a local school governor and spends far too much time playing computer games.
Kitty Guillaume
Account Director
Kitty Guillaume - Account Director
Kitty joined the Seven team in 2021 and works predominantly across the financial services side of the business.
Her background is in enterprise technology and fintech comms, and she’s worked with high-profile telecoms and financial organisations on both internal and external communications, as well as Silicon Valley start-ups, supporting them on the journey from launch to becoming a profitable business.
Kitty also has experience working with government-funded, multi-stakeholder projects, managing multiple teams working across fast-moving streams of activity, including owned, earned, and paid. She is passionate about working with organisations with purpose, particularly within the consumer finance space.
Outside work Kitty enjoys reading, running, and exploring London’s many pubs.
Sean Cope
Account Director
Sean Cope - Account Director
After starting his PR career in a boutique financial and professional services agency back in 2014, Sean has enjoyed a varied career spanning both agency and in-house roles.
As well as working in the corporate teams of two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, Sean’s agency roles include working alongside fintechs (including a wide range of innovative solutions from payments to pensions), banks, alternative finance providers, top 20 accountancy and law firms, recruiters, airlines, online retailers and even a fish finger supplier. Areas of expertise include fintech, personal finance, press office management, copywriting and crisis communications.
Sean can otherwise be found reading, cooking, walking the dog or planning the next trip.
Alice Jaffe
Account Director
Alice Jaffe - Account Director
Alice joined Seven with a focus on innovation with social purpose, particularly in the health and education spaces.
Prior to her joining Seven, Alice was Assistant Editor for the Good Health section of the Daily Mail. Before that, Alice’s PR career has spanned charity and small business clients, before moving to media support and strategic communications planning across a number of health and education-based charity clients.
Outside the office, Alice can be found questioning whether she really needs to add another book to her to-read pile, eating cheese, and going for long walks around London.
Dan Lynes
Account Director, Digital
Dan Lynes - Account Director, Digital
He began his career in pharmaceutical marketing, leading both global and market-specific campaigns – from broad public disease awareness to highly targeted strategies aimed at industry professionals. He works across the full campaign cycle, from gathering online insights to inform a bespoke strategy, to developing content that drives engagement and results.
Dan is experienced in building integrated campaigns that blend data with storytelling. Whether launching a new campaign or refining an existing one, he focuses on delivering work that resonates with online audiences.
Outside of work, Dan enjoys hiking, socialising and exploring new places with his camera.
Sophia Houston
Account Manager
Sophia Houston - Account Manager
Outside of the office, Sophia can be found socialising with friends, eating the same food portions as Eddie Hall but not quite matching the same weights as him during her visits to the gym.
Bella Weetch
Senior Account Executive
Bella Weetch - Senior Account Executive
Bella recently joined the Seven team, after completing her Master’s degree in Culture and Society at LSE. Before that, she worked for a publishing house for three years, working her way up to Deputy Editor of a B2B technical magazine focused on hydrogen energy solutions.
Having grown up in the Middle East and worked in France for a year during her undergraduate degree, Bella is always on the look out for building new connections far and wide, and is passionate about inclusive, impactful and thought-provoking campaigns.
Milly Gouldstone
Account Executive
Milly Gouldstone - Account Executive
Milly joined Seven in 2024. Milly’s background is in financial and professional services PR across a range of sectors including private equity, accountancy, insurance and law.
In her spare time Milly can be found playing squash, walking her dog or watching back to back Eastenders.
Rachel Mason
Consultant
Rachel Mason - Consultant
Rachel is a public relations professional specialising in financial services and has almost 20 years’ experience in the industry, through agency and in-house roles. As head of PR at SunLife she launched the PR strategy for the business and led several large standalone campaigns, including the Cost of Dying report and Big 50, the largest ever study into the finances of over 50s. Rachel has also held senior PR roles at ethical bank Triodos and Fair Investment Company.
Agency side, Rachel has consulted for a number of leading agencies, working with a wide range of clients including Carwow and the RAC, Saltus, LifeSearch, L&G and Ceta Insurance. Before moving into public relations, Rachel was a journalist within the Daily Mail Group.
James Tall
Fintech Consultant
James Tall - Fintech Consultant
James is a freelance writer and PR consultant, with over 10 years’ experience in financial services and fintech.
He worked across Asia and Europe in a number of in-house communications and agency roles before setting up as a freelancer in 2018. James worked at P2P platform RateSetter as fintech was taking off in the UK and retains a strong interest in innovative finance models. James used to live in Hong Kong, where he spent the weekends hiking, exploring and racing dragon boats!
Albus
Puplicist
Albus - Puplicist
Albus is a connoisseur of cheese, preferring a fine cheddar or pungent parmesan. He loves hose pipes, on-demand belly rubs and jumping in canals.
Minnie
Puplicist
Minnie - Puplicist
Minnie’s areas of expertise include squirrels, 11pm Zoomies and long afternoon naps (please do not attempt to contact her between 2 and 4pm)
Winnie
Puplicist
Winnie - Puplicist
Margie
Puplicist
Margie - Puplicist
An expert sofa climber and ball thief, Margie has a keen ability to sense when someone opens the biscuit barrel from anywhere in the home and then secure ownership of said biscuit through unrivalled begging skills.
Pongo
Puplicist
Pongo - Puplicist
Pongo is part Labrador, part Shar Pei and moved to the UK from Cyprus at 6 months old. He enjoys naps on the sofa, digging and destroying almost every toy he’s ever had within 2 minutes
Emma Harvey
CEO and Founder
Emma Harvey - CEO and Founder
After working in senior in-house communications roles – at Barclays, Morgan Stanley and as the global communications director of HomeServe plc – Emma launched Seven in 2013 to change the outdated ‘in-house/agency’ dynamic and build a team of experts that were a true extension to an in-house team.
Her passion for working for innovative, purpose-led organisations, has meant that her experience has spanned both communications and social impact across scale- ups, charities and purpose led global brands.
Mum of Amelie and Mia and dog Minnie, Emma loves family time, art, travel and mooching around markets (having once run her own market stalls at Camden, Spitalfields and Portobello).
Robyn Margetts
Managing Director
Robyn Margetts - Managing Director
Robyn joined Seven in 2018 following several years running communications functions in house. She has more than ten years’ experience in public relations and communications including press office, corporate comms, and internal comms.
Robyn’s previous roles include leading the PR and communications function at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, and for LV=, as well as leading on financial services and public sector campaigns at consumer group Which?.
Outside of work, you’ll usually find Robyn out running and then refuelling afterwards with one of her bakes and a G&T.
Andrew McKay
Account Director, Social Impact and Sustainability
Andrew McKay - Account Director, Social Impact and Sustainability
Andrew joined Seven in 2019. He specialises in sustainability and social impact communications, particularly around technology and innovations helping to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
In particular, he has led on comms for Challenge Works – part of innovation foundation Nesta – across multiple challenge prizes, including the Longitude Prize for AMR, Longitude Prize for Dementia, the Longitude Explorer Prizes for young people and the Afri-Plastics Challenge.
In 2023, Andrew completed the intensive Business Sustainability Management course at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) – passing with flying colours.
Andrew has a slightly unusual career history, starting out in the Sky press office, before earning an MA in Acting going on to work as a professional actor for seven years, getting to work and travel extensively around Europe.
Ed Rowley
Account Director, Public Affairs Lead
Ed Rowley - Account Director, Public Affairs Lead
Ed joined Seven in 2022, leading policy and public affairs activity, as well as looking after communications for financial services clients. His experience includes press relations, government and stakeholder engagement, political monitoring, strategic planning, and crisis management.
Ed has extensive knowledge of the workings of government and Parliament, having started his career as an assistant to an MP before going on to manage Parliamentary affairs for Ofsted. He ran business tax communications at HM Revenue & Customs and was later seconded to the Downing Street press office.
His most recent role in government was for HM Treasury, where he looked after financial services communications and advised ministers on media engagement. After leaving the civil service, Ed went to work in the world of fintech and banking, managing PR at Monzo and then global communications for Klarna.
Outside of work, Ed enjoys exploring the countryside with Margie, his four-legged companion, volunteers as a local school governor and spends far too much time playing computer games.
Kitty Guillaume
Account Director
Kitty Guillaume - Account Director
Kitty joined the Seven team in 2021 and works predominantly across the financial services side of the business.
Her background is in enterprise technology and fintech comms, and she’s worked with high-profile telecoms and financial organisations on both internal and external communications, as well as Silicon Valley start-ups, supporting them on the journey from launch to becoming a profitable business.
Kitty also has experience working with government-funded, multi-stakeholder projects, managing multiple teams working across fast-moving streams of activity, including owned, earned, and paid. She is passionate about working with organisations with purpose, particularly within the consumer finance space.
Outside work Kitty enjoys reading, running, and exploring London’s many pubs.
Sean Cope
Account Director
Sean Cope - Account Director
After starting his PR career in a boutique financial and professional services agency back in 2014, Sean has enjoyed a varied career spanning both agency and in-house roles.
As well as working in the corporate teams of two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, Sean’s agency roles include working alongside fintechs (including a wide range of innovative solutions from payments to pensions), banks, alternative finance providers, top 20 accountancy and law firms, recruiters, airlines, online retailers and even a fish finger supplier. Areas of expertise include fintech, personal finance, press office management, copywriting and crisis communications.
Sean can otherwise be found reading, cooking, walking the dog or planning the next trip.
Alice Jaffe
Account Director
Alice Jaffe - Account Director
Alice joined Seven with a focus on innovation with social purpose, particularly in the health and education spaces.
Prior to her joining Seven, Alice was Assistant Editor for the Good Health section of the Daily Mail. Before that, Alice’s PR career has spanned charity and small business clients, before moving to media support and strategic communications planning across a number of health and education-based charity clients.
Outside the office, Alice can be found questioning whether she really needs to add another book to her to-read pile, eating cheese, and going for long walks around London.
Dan Lynes
Account Director, Digital
Dan Lynes - Account Director, Digital
He began his career in pharmaceutical marketing, leading both global and market-specific campaigns – from broad public disease awareness to highly targeted strategies aimed at industry professionals. He works across the full campaign cycle, from gathering online insights to inform a bespoke strategy, to developing content that drives engagement and results.
Dan is experienced in building integrated campaigns that blend data with storytelling. Whether launching a new campaign or refining an existing one, he focuses on delivering work that resonates with online audiences.
Outside of work, Dan enjoys hiking, socialising and exploring new places with his camera.
Sophia Houston
Account Manager
Sophia Houston - Account Manager
Outside of the office, Sophia can be found socialising with friends, eating the same food portions as Eddie Hall but not quite matching the same weights as him during her visits to the gym.
Bella Weetch
Senior Account Executive
Bella Weetch - Senior Account Executive
Bella recently joined the Seven team, after completing her Master’s degree in Culture and Society at LSE. Before that, she worked for a publishing house for three years, working her way up to Deputy Editor of a B2B technical magazine focused on hydrogen energy solutions.
Having grown up in the Middle East and worked in France for a year during her undergraduate degree, Bella is always on the look out for building new connections far and wide, and is passionate about inclusive, impactful and thought-provoking campaigns.
Milly Gouldstone
Account Executive
Milly Gouldstone - Account Executive
Milly joined Seven in 2024. Milly’s background is in financial and professional services PR across a range of sectors including private equity, accountancy, insurance and law.
In her spare time Milly can be found playing squash, walking her dog or watching back to back Eastenders.
Rachel Mason
Consultant
Rachel Mason - Consultant
Rachel is a public relations professional specialising in financial services and has almost 20 years’ experience in the industry, through agency and in-house roles. As head of PR at SunLife she launched the PR strategy for the business and led several large standalone campaigns, including the Cost of Dying report and Big 50, the largest ever study into the finances of over 50s. Rachel has also held senior PR roles at ethical bank Triodos and Fair Investment Company.
Agency side, Rachel has consulted for a number of leading agencies, working with a wide range of clients including Carwow and the RAC, Saltus, LifeSearch, L&G and Ceta Insurance. Before moving into public relations, Rachel was a journalist within the Daily Mail Group.
James Tall
Fintech Consultant
James Tall - Fintech Consultant
James is a freelance writer and PR consultant, with over 10 years’ experience in financial services and fintech.
He worked across Asia and Europe in a number of in-house communications and agency roles before setting up as a freelancer in 2018. James worked at P2P platform RateSetter as fintech was taking off in the UK and retains a strong interest in innovative finance models. James used to live in Hong Kong, where he spent the weekends hiking, exploring and racing dragon boats!
Albus
Puplicist
Albus - Puplicist
Albus is a connoisseur of cheese, preferring a fine cheddar or pungent parmesan. He loves hose pipes, on-demand belly rubs and jumping in canals.
Minnie
Puplicist
Minnie - Puplicist
Minnie’s areas of expertise include squirrels, 11pm Zoomies and long afternoon naps (please do not attempt to contact her between 2 and 4pm)
Winnie
Puplicist
Winnie - Puplicist
Margie
Puplicist
Margie - Puplicist
An expert sofa climber and ball thief, Margie has a keen ability to sense when someone opens the biscuit barrel from anywhere in the home and then secure ownership of said biscuit through unrivalled begging skills.
Pongo
Puplicist
Pongo - Puplicist
Pongo is part Labrador, part Shar Pei and moved to the UK from Cyprus at 6 months old. He enjoys naps on the sofa, digging and destroying almost every toy he’s ever had within 2 minutes
Emma Harvey
CEO and Founder
Emma Harvey - CEO and Founder
After working in senior in-house communications roles – at Barclays, Morgan Stanley and as the global communications director of HomeServe plc – Emma launched Seven in 2013 to change the outdated ‘in-house/agency’ dynamic and build a team of experts that were a true extension to an in-house team.
Her passion for working for innovative, purpose-led organisations, has meant that her experience has spanned both communications and social impact across scale- ups, charities and purpose led global brands.
Mum of Amelie and Mia and dog Minnie, Emma loves family time, art, travel and mooching around markets (having once run her own market stalls at Camden, Spitalfields and Portobello).
Robyn Margetts
Managing Director
Robyn Margetts - Managing Director
Robyn joined Seven in 2018 following several years running communications functions in house. She has more than ten years’ experience in public relations and communications including press office, corporate comms, and internal comms.
Robyn’s previous roles include leading the PR and communications function at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, and for LV=, as well as leading on financial services and public sector campaigns at consumer group Which?.
Outside of work, you’ll usually find Robyn out running and then refuelling afterwards with one of her bakes and a G&T.
Andrew McKay
Account Director, Social Impact and Sustainability
Andrew McKay - Account Director, Social Impact and Sustainability
Andrew joined Seven in 2019. He specialises in sustainability and social impact communications, particularly around technology and innovations helping to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
In particular, he has led on comms for Challenge Works – part of innovation foundation Nesta – across multiple challenge prizes, including the Longitude Prize for AMR, Longitude Prize for Dementia, the Longitude Explorer Prizes for young people and the Afri-Plastics Challenge.
In 2023, Andrew completed the intensive Business Sustainability Management course at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) – passing with flying colours.
Andrew has a slightly unusual career history, starting out in the Sky press office, before earning an MA in Acting going on to work as a professional actor for seven years, getting to work and travel extensively around Europe.
Ed Rowley
Account Director, Public Affairs Lead
Ed Rowley - Account Director, Public Affairs Lead
Ed joined Seven in 2022, leading policy and public affairs activity, as well as looking after communications for financial services clients. His experience includes press relations, government and stakeholder engagement, political monitoring, strategic planning, and crisis management.
Ed has extensive knowledge of the workings of government and Parliament, having started his career as an assistant to an MP before going on to manage Parliamentary affairs for Ofsted. He ran business tax communications at HM Revenue & Customs and was later seconded to the Downing Street press office.
His most recent role in government was for HM Treasury, where he looked after financial services communications and advised ministers on media engagement. After leaving the civil service, Ed went to work in the world of fintech and banking, managing PR at Monzo and then global communications for Klarna.
Outside of work, Ed enjoys exploring the countryside with Margie, his four-legged companion, volunteers as a local school governor and spends far too much time playing computer games.
Kitty Guillaume
Account Director
Kitty Guillaume - Account Director
Kitty joined the Seven team in 2021 and works predominantly across the financial services side of the business.
Her background is in enterprise technology and fintech comms, and she’s worked with high-profile telecoms and financial organisations on both internal and external communications, as well as Silicon Valley start-ups, supporting them on the journey from launch to becoming a profitable business.
Kitty also has experience working with government-funded, multi-stakeholder projects, managing multiple teams working across fast-moving streams of activity, including owned, earned, and paid. She is passionate about working with organisations with purpose, particularly within the consumer finance space.
Outside work Kitty enjoys reading, running, and exploring London’s many pubs.
Sean Cope
Account Director
Sean Cope - Account Director
After starting his PR career in a boutique financial and professional services agency back in 2014, Sean has enjoyed a varied career spanning both agency and in-house roles.
As well as working in the corporate teams of two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, Sean’s agency roles include working alongside fintechs (including a wide range of innovative solutions from payments to pensions), banks, alternative finance providers, top 20 accountancy and law firms, recruiters, airlines, online retailers and even a fish finger supplier. Areas of expertise include fintech, personal finance, press office management, copywriting and crisis communications.
Sean can otherwise be found reading, cooking, walking the dog or planning the next trip.
Alice Jaffe
Account Director
Alice Jaffe - Account Director
Alice joined Seven with a focus on innovation with social purpose, particularly in the health and education spaces.
Prior to her joining Seven, Alice was Assistant Editor for the Good Health section of the Daily Mail. Before that, Alice’s PR career has spanned charity and small business clients, before moving to media support and strategic communications planning across a number of health and education-based charity clients.
Outside the office, Alice can be found questioning whether she really needs to add another book to her to-read pile, eating cheese, and going for long walks around London.
Dan Lynes
Account Director, Digital
Dan Lynes - Account Director, Digital
He began his career in pharmaceutical marketing, leading both global and market-specific campaigns – from broad public disease awareness to highly targeted strategies aimed at industry professionals. He works across the full campaign cycle, from gathering online insights to inform a bespoke strategy, to developing content that drives engagement and results.
Dan is experienced in building integrated campaigns that blend data with storytelling. Whether launching a new campaign or refining an existing one, he focuses on delivering work that resonates with online audiences.
Outside of work, Dan enjoys hiking, socialising and exploring new places with his camera.
Sophia Houston
Account Manager
Sophia Houston - Account Manager
Outside of the office, Sophia can be found socialising with friends, eating the same food portions as Eddie Hall but not quite matching the same weights as him during her visits to the gym.
Zofia Tanaka
Account Manager
Zofia Tanaka - Account Manager
Zof works across Seven’s financial services, tech and innovation clients. She began her comms career working primarily in corporate communications across sectors including luxury, media, tech, and financial services. She then switched to working for public sector clients, including non-profit organisations focussed on global issues like climate change, human rights and conflict, and poverty and inequality.
Outside of the office, Zof can be found gallivanting around London with her friends, playing netball, and snacking on outrageously chocolatey biscuits.
Bella Weetch
Senior Account Executive
Bella Weetch - Senior Account Executive
Bella recently joined the Seven team, after completing her Master’s degree in Culture and Society at LSE. Before that, she worked for a publishing house for three years, working her way up to Deputy Editor of a B2B technical magazine focused on hydrogen energy solutions.
Having grown up in the Middle East and worked in France for a year during her undergraduate degree, Bella is always on the look out for building new connections far and wide, and is passionate about inclusive, impactful and thought-provoking campaigns.
Milly Gouldstone
Account Executive
Milly Gouldstone - Account Executive
Milly joined Seven in 2024. Milly’s background is in financial and professional services PR across a range of sectors including private equity, accountancy, insurance and law.
In her spare time Milly can be found playing squash, walking her dog or watching back to back Eastenders.
Catrin Davies
Account Assistant
Catrin Davies - Account Assistant
Cat made the big move to London in 2024 to join Seven after her travels. At Cardiff University she studied Journalism, Politics, and Communications, followed by a Master’s degree in Marketing. Before Seven, she developed her communications skills, interning at a second-hand clothing retailer, and at a health and well-being app.
In her spare time Cat enjoys cooking veggie food, giving far too much attention to her bearded collie, and if you’re lucky you’ll catch her on the occasional run.
Rachel Mason
Consultant
Rachel Mason - Consultant
Rachel is a public relations professional specialising in financial services and has almost 20 years’ experience in the industry, through agency and in-house roles. As head of PR at SunLife she launched the PR strategy for the business and led several large standalone campaigns, including the Cost of Dying report and Big 50, the largest ever study into the finances of over 50s. Rachel has also held senior PR roles at ethical bank Triodos and Fair Investment Company.
Agency side, Rachel has consulted for a number of leading agencies, working with a wide range of clients including Carwow and the RAC, Saltus, LifeSearch, L&G and Ceta Insurance. Before moving into public relations, Rachel was a journalist within the Daily Mail Group.
James Tall
Fintech Consultant
James Tall - Fintech Consultant
James is a freelance writer and PR consultant, with over 10 years’ experience in financial services and fintech.
He worked across Asia and Europe in a number of in-house communications and agency roles before setting up as a freelancer in 2018. James worked at P2P platform RateSetter as fintech was taking off in the UK and retains a strong interest in innovative finance models. James used to live in Hong Kong, where he spent the weekends hiking, exploring and racing dragon boats!
Albus
Puplicist
Albus - Puplicist
Albus is a connoisseur of cheese, preferring a fine cheddar or pungent parmesan. He loves hose pipes, on-demand belly rubs and jumping in canals.
Minnie
Puplicist
Minnie - Puplicist
Minnie’s areas of expertise include squirrels, 11pm Zoomies and long afternoon naps (please do not attempt to contact her between 2 and 4pm)
Winnie
Puplicist
Winnie - Puplicist
Margie
Puplicist
Margie - Puplicist
An expert sofa climber and ball thief, Margie has a keen ability to sense when someone opens the biscuit barrel from anywhere in the home and then secure ownership of said biscuit through unrivalled begging skills.
Pongo
Puplicist
Pongo - Puplicist
Pongo is part Labrador, part Shar Pei and moved to the UK from Cyprus at 6 months old. He enjoys naps on the sofa, digging and destroying almost every toy he’s ever had within 2 minutes
Our Purpose
We work in partnership with clients that are positively driving change or disrupting their sector – whether through new technologies or social impact initiatives – to tell their stories and reach their intended audiences. We develop campaigns that drive impact and change based on in-depth insight, and creative, stand-out delivery tactics. We are committed to:
Supporting innovative, disruptive and purpose-led businesses to amplify their messages through impact-driven media relations.
Acting as a genuine extension to in-house comms and marketing teams, collaborating closely on strategy, plans and execution.
Ensuring clients reach their target audiences through clear, creative and insightful campaigns.
How We Work
Our Experience
We have deep knowledge and extensive experience across the sectors we work in – including technology, AI, fintech, health-tech and sustainability. By working as an extension to our clients’ in house teams, having a small team of experts on each account, and a strong focus on our core areas, we are able to stay across the latest developments in these sectors, enabling us to offer genuine consultancy to our partners.
Our Team
Emma Harvey
CEO and Founder
Emma Harvey - CEO and Founder
After working in senior in-house communications roles – at Barclays, Morgan Stanley and as the global communications director of HomeServe plc – Emma launched Seven in 2013 to change the outdated ‘in-house/agency’ dynamic and build a team of experts that were a true extension to an in-house team.
Her passion for working for innovative, purpose-led organisations, has meant that her experience has spanned both communications and social impact across scale- ups, charities and purpose led global brands.
Mum of Amelie and Mia and dog Minnie, Emma loves family time, art, travel and mooching around markets (having once run her own market stalls at Camden, Spitalfields and Portobello).
Robyn Margetts
Managing Director
Robyn Margetts - Associate Director
Robyn joined Seven in 2018 following several years running communications functions in house. She has more than ten years’ experience in public relations and communications including press office, corporate comms, and internal comms.
Robyn’s previous roles include leading the PR and communications function at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, and for LV=, as well as leading on financial services and public sector campaigns at consumer group Which?.
Outside of work, you’ll usually find Robyn out running and then refuelling afterwards with one of her bakes and a G&T.
Andrew McKay
Account Director, Social Impact and Sustainability
Andrew McKay - Account Director, Social Impact and Sustainability
Andrew joined Seven in 2019. He specialises in sustainability and social impact communications, particularly around technology and innovations helping to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
In particular, he has led on comms for Challenge Works – part of innovation foundation Nesta – across multiple challenge prizes, including the Longitude Prize for AMR, Longitude Prize for Dementia, the Longitude Explorer Prizes for young people and the Afri-Plastics Challenge.
In 2023, Andrew completed the intensive Business Sustainability Management course at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) – passing with flying colours.
Andrew has a slightly unusual career history, starting out in the Sky press office, before earning an MA in Acting going on to work as a professional actor for seven years, getting to work and travel extensively around Europe.
James Tall
Fintech Consultant
James Tall - Fintech Consultant
James is a freelance writer and PR consultant, with over 10 years’ experience in financial services and fintech.
He worked across Asia and Europe in a number of in-house communications and agency roles before setting up as a freelancer in 2018. James worked at P2P platform RateSetter as fintech was taking off in the UK and retains a strong interest in innovative finance models. James used to live in Hong Kong, where he spent the weekends hiking, exploring and racing dragon boats!
Kitty Guillaume
Account Director
Kitty Guillaume - Account Director
Kitty joined the Seven team in 2021 and works predominantly across the financial services side of the business.
Her background is in enterprise technology and fintech comms, and she’s worked with high-profile telecoms and financial organisations on both internal and external communications, as well as Silicon Valley start-ups, supporting them on the journey from launch to becoming a profitable business.
Kitty also has experience working with government-funded, multi-stakeholder projects, managing multiple teams working across fast-moving streams of activity, including owned, earned, and paid. She is passionate about working with organisations with purpose, particularly within the consumer finance space.
Outside work Kitty enjoys reading, running, and exploring London’s many pubs.
Sean Cope
Account Director
Sean Cope - Account Director
After starting his PR career in a boutique financial and professional services agency back in 2014, Sean has enjoyed a varied career spanning both agency and in-house roles.
As well as working in the corporate teams of two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, Sean’s agency roles include working alongside fintechs (including a wide range of innovative solutions from payments to pensions), banks, alternative finance providers, top 20 accountancy and law firms, recruiters, airlines, online retailers and even a fish finger supplier. Areas of expertise include fintech, personal finance, press office management, copywriting and crisis communications.
Sean can otherwise be found reading, cooking, walking the dog or planning the next trip.
Ed Rowley
Account Director, Public Affairs Lead
Ed Rowley - Account Director, Public Affairs Lead
Ed joined Seven in 2022, leading policy and public affairs activity, as well as looking after communications for financial services clients. His experience includes press relations, government and stakeholder engagement, political monitoring, strategic planning, and crisis management.
Ed has extensive knowledge of the workings of government and Parliament, having started his career as an assistant to an MP before going on to manage Parliamentary affairs for Ofsted. He ran business tax communications at HM Revenue & Customs and was later seconded to the Downing Street press office.
His most recent role in government was for HM Treasury, where he looked after financial services communications and advised ministers on media engagement. After leaving the civil service, Ed went to work in the world of fintech and banking, managing PR at Monzo and then global communications for Klarna.
Outside of work, Ed enjoys exploring the countryside with Margie, his four-legged companion, volunteers as a local school governor and spends far too much time playing computer games.
Alice Jaffe
Account Director
Alice Jaffe - Account Director
Alice joined Seven with a focus on innovation with social purpose, particularly in the health and education spaces.
Prior to her joining Seven, Alice was Assistant Editor for the Good Health section of the Daily Mail. Before that, Alice’s PR career has spanned charity and small business clients, before moving to media support and strategic communications planning across a number of health and education-based charity clients.
Outside the office, Alice can be found questioning whether she really needs to add another book to her to-read pile, eating cheese, and going for long walks around London.
Dan Lynes
Account Director, Digital
Dan Lynes - Account Director, Digital
He began his career in pharmaceutical marketing, leading both global and market-specific campaigns – from broad public disease awareness to highly targeted strategies aimed at industry professionals. He works across the full campaign cycle, from gathering online insights to inform a bespoke strategy, to developing content that drives engagement and results.
Dan is experienced in building integrated campaigns that blend data with storytelling. Whether launching a new campaign or refining an existing one, he focuses on delivering work that resonates with online audiences.
Outside of work, Dan enjoys hiking, socialising and exploring new places with his camera.
Sophia Houston
Account Manager
Sophia Houston - Account Manager
Outside of the office, Sophia can be found socialising with friends, eating the same food portions as Eddie Hall but not quite matching the same weights as him during her visits to the gym.
Rachel Mason
Consultant
Rachel Mason - Consultant
Rachel is a public relations professional specialising in financial services and has almost 20 years’ experience in the industry, through agency and in-house roles. As head of PR at SunLife she launched the PR strategy for the business and led several large standalone campaigns, including the Cost of Dying report and Big 50, the largest ever study into the finances of over 50s. Rachel has also held senior PR roles at ethical bank Triodos and Fair Investment Company.
Agency side, Rachel has consulted for a number of leading agencies, working with a wide range of clients including Carwow and the RAC, Saltus, LifeSearch, L&G and Ceta Insurance. Before moving into public relations, Rachel was a journalist within the Daily Mail Group.
Bella Weetch
Senior Account Executive
Bella Weetch - Senior Account Executive
Bella recently joined the Seven team, after completing her Master’s degree in Culture and Society at LSE. Before that, she worked for a publishing house for three years, working her way up to Deputy Editor of a B2B technical magazine focused on hydrogen energy solutions.
Having grown up in the Middle East and worked in France for a year during her undergraduate degree, Bella is always on the look out for building new connections far and wide, and is passionate about inclusive, impactful and thought-provoking campaigns.
Milly Gouldstone
Account Executive
Milly Gouldstone - Account Executive
Milly joined Seven in 2024. Milly’s background is in financial and professional services PR across a range of sectors including private equity, accountancy, insurance and law.
In her spare time Milly can be found playing squash, walking her dog or watching back to back Eastenders.
Albus
Puplicist
Albus - Puplicist
Albus is a connoisseur of cheese, preferring a fine cheddar or pungent parmesan. He loves hose pipes, digging up Andrew’s vegetable patch, on-demand belly rubs and jumping in canals.
Minnie
Puplicist
Minnie - Puplicist
Minnie’s areas of expertise include squirrels, 11pm Zoomies and long afternoon naps (please do not attempt to contact her between 2 and 4pm)
Winnie
Puplicist
Winnie - Puplicist
Margie
Puplicist
Margie - Puplicist