Julia Hipkiss
Senior Director
A strategic comms consultant through and through
Having moved back to Newcastle after 20 years in London, I was delighted to find an agency with a North East office that delivers strategic communications work that is often considered the remit of big London agencies. It’s fantastic to be able to bring my 15 years of consultancy expertise to 56 and work with the team delivering high-quality work for our fantastic roster of clients.
Before joining the 56° North team, I spent many years at two of the country’s most well-renowned agencies – Bell Pottinger and FleishmanHillard. As a partner at both agencies, I advised a huge range of clients on their corporate reputation, including Landsec, YouGov and Electronic Arts, and lead teams delivering integrated creative and thought leadership campaigns for the likes of UK Finance, Mondelez International and HSBC.
And… I was once in a billboard advertising campaign for Tampax that appeared in Germany. It mainly involved getting up before the larks, hanging out in a club in Brighton and caressing the ‘product’ across my cheek! Very glamorous.
