About us
Gavin Devine
Gavin is an experienced and award-winning business leader and strategic communications advisor working with clients primarily in the infrastructure, energy, food and farming, and transport sectors. He has had a more than 30-year career in consultancies, trade bodies, and the House of Commons.
He has also built businesses, managed change and integrated consultancy firms in the UK and overseas. And he has also advised clients on significant campaigns to rebuild corporate reputations, secure significant contracts, reposition businesses, and change the regulatory and legislative environment.
Ali Straker
Ali is a strategic communications leader with a proven track record devising and delivering successful, award-winning multi-channel communications campaigns and guiding long-term reputation management. She brings deep experience as a board member and senior leader, helping organisations navigate complexity and engage effectively.
Ali is curious and perceptive, combining analytical rigour with a passion for purposeful storytelling. Never short on ideas, she thrives on creating insight-driven strategy and helping organisations, teams and individuals communicate with authenticity and purpose.
How we work
Gavin and Ali are the lead consultants at Park Street Partners. We also have the support of several specialist partners whose expert skills we call upon when needed.
This means we can deliver communications and lobbying support across the UK and Europe; media training from a frontline ex-Sky and ITN news reporter and presenter; or specialist advice from leading communications industry professionals.
From across our network we can also deliver graphic design, brand advice, digital and website builds, investor relations advisory, crisis communications, and more.
We are also proud to have a strategic partnership with Top 50 UK communications and public affairs agency PMLR
The Partners
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Chris is an expert media trainer and filmmaker helping companies and their leaders tell their stories better. He spent more than 20 years on the frontline of international television news, first with ITN and then Sky News as a senior reporter and presenter. He covered major news stories across the globe including the fall of the Berlin Wall, conflicts in Europe, Africa and Middle East, 9/11 and the Asian tsunami.
He now works with a wide range of UK and international businesses, financial services firms and third sector organisations helping them tell their story through media and presentation training, and by guiding them through the process of creating and distributing compelling video content.
Chris Roberts
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Craig Harrow is a vastly experienced senior adviser in strategic communications, campaigning and lobbying based in Edinburgh. Having begun his career in the UK House of Commons, Craig has since worked for lobbyists, communications consultancies, and a law firm, as well as working in-house and running his own consultancy.
He is immersed in the political world and was Vice President of the Liberal Democrats from 2010 to 2016. He has worked closely with Cabinet Ministers past and present, and was a founding board member of the successful Better Together campaign. Amongst Craig’s extensive client list have been household names in retail, transport, financial services, energy and pharmaceuticals.
Craig Harrow
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Garrett Fennell is one of the most respected and best-known public affairs practitioners in Ireland. A solicitor with experience of working in both Dublin and Brussels, Garrett has widely acknowledged expertise in advising clients on key strategic public affairs and regulatory challenges, especially on the interface between national requirements and EU obligations. He also has considerable expertise in supporting clients on multi-agency permitting and consent requirements linked to complex, large-scale infrastructure projects, particularly in the transport and energy sectors.
His current client work involves providing counsel to international and domestic businesses, utility providers, financial institutions, representative and professional groups, and public authorities.
Garrett Fennell
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Marek Matraszek is Chair of the Warsaw-based CEC Group, which he co established in the early 1990s. The Group grew rapidly to become the leading public affairs and political communications agency and network in Eastern Europe, with offices in Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, plus partners in Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Romania.
Marek’s expertise is in designing and implementing strategic communications and lobbying campaigns for major multinational businesses in Poland and across the Central European region. He has particular expertise in defence and security issues.
He writes widely on Polish and international affairs for a range of local and international publications and frequently comments on Polish politics for global media outlets.
Marek Matraszek
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Sally has spent more than thirty years helping global organisations navigate complex stakeholder environments at moments of rapid technological change. For two decades, she worked in senior consultancy roles, culminating in six years as UK and then EMEA CEO of Hill & Knowlton Strategies. Since 2012, she has led global stakeholder engagement at ICANN, the global non-profit that coordinates the internet’s domain name system, appointed Interim President & CEO in 2022, guiding the organisation through a pivotal transition.
Sally also chairs the advisory board of Smartology, a contextual digital advertising company, and coaches senior women entering leadership roles. She regularly addresses international audiences on the critical role of the internet’s technical infrastructure.