"Rachel's organisation of the media at the Smiths Detection Security and Resilience Forum helped make the event an enormous success. She effortlessly coordinated the national media including nine TV crews and helped secure excellent coverage for Smiths in all the UK newspapers and on national and international TV. Her professionalism and media relations skills under pressure proved invaluable."   Stephen Phipson, Group Managing Director, Smiths Detection


 
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Larchmaker is the trading name for Rachel Lankester, a 15 year City, financial and corporate communications veteran.

Rachel was, until February 2007, Group Communications Manager for the FTSE 100 global technology business, Smiths Group plc. Prior to Smiths, she was a Director at the City consultancy Citigate Dewe Rogerson in both London and New York. She has also worked for Capital MS&L and Weber Shandwick.

Rachel started her career as a commercial assistant at the British Embassy in Beijing, following which she edited Asian news for Reuters. She then moved briefly into investment banking at Robert Fleming after completing an MBA at Imperial College in London, before she discovered the delights of financial PR.  

Rachel has managed corporate and financial communications for multinationals and small entrepreneurial businesses around the world in a wide variety of industries.

She speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and Spanish, reasonable French, and understands some Portuguese and Italian.  She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).

 

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