Ben Foster is our head of capital markets communications for the EMEA region, having joined in September 2023. He leads the firm’s capital markets communications activities – overseeing its M&A, Activism, IPO and Financial Calendar offers.
After early roles in advertising and investment banking, Ben joined Dewe Rogerson where he advised on a number of the UK privatisations. He then spent 11 years at Financial Dynamics as a Partner and Consumer Industries Sector Lead and was part of the MBO that led to the sale to FTI.
He co-founded Pendomer Communications in 2011 and subsequently sold the business to Teneo in 2016, following which he spent seven years as a Senior Managing Director in their London office.
Ben is a seasoned communications adviser who has operated at the vanguard of strategic and integrated communications for over twenty five years. He specialises in providing financial and corporate communications advice in the UK and internationally. He has extensive experience in both the listed and private equity arenas across a broad range of industry sectors.
Ben’s expertise includes strategic communications, reputation management, high profile media relations, corporate repositionings, M&A, IPOs shareholder activism, operational and financial restructurings, crises, IR and internal communications.
Ben holds a BA Hons from the University of Bristol.
