Meet the Speaker: Benjamin Thiele-Long, Director, Cognito

Benjamin is a communications professional with experience across corporate and consumer public relations, proactive marketing, thought leadership campaigns and reputation and issues management.

He is also a former barrister, having worked for eight years practicing criminal and regulatory law, specifically white-collar crime and financial regulation enforcement and compliance. He has appeared at every level of criminal and civil trial court and court of appeal in the England advising both celebrities and well-known businesses and brands, and has extensively defended and prosecuted high profile criminal cases brought by the Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and US Department of Justice.

He has a mixture of agency and in-house experience working with a variety of professional and financial services firms, and has led a range of strategic corporate and consumer media relations campaigns across America, Europe and Asia.