Patrick Adamson

Patrick Adamson is the CEO and Founding partner of MTI Network.

Allyson Cover

Allyson Cover is Chief Operating Officer of the MTI Network. Allyson is responsible for co-ordination and liaison between clients and Network Partners on all matters such as training, quality and administration.

Allyson also takes a lead role in organising and running all levels of MTI training courses worldwide.

Mark Clark

Mark Clark has over 25 years of working on crisis desks in both the commercial world and UK government transport and health departments. He has provided strategic media handling advice to many of the world’s leading shipping companies and has been on the front line in numerous high profile casualties.

Formerly a print journalist, and then behind the microphone on both the BBC and independent radio stations across Europe, Mark was also a personal press officer to a UK Cabinet Minister for a lengthy period and spent some time at the very highest level of government.

Between 1997 and 2011 he headed the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency’s public relations and media department. During this time he handled many significant shipping, yachting and oil incidents and worked closely with many companies and teams within the oil and gas sectors. He has been involved in many multi-faceted drills, training exercises and on-line simulations of casualty situations to test organisations, local authorities, government bodies and shipping and energy companies.

Carima Gomari

Carima Gomari joined in 2012 and is the General Manager and a Director of MTI London. Managing all aspects of the London office.

Carima also takes a lead role in all the accounts management and financial administration of MTI Network overseeing the accounts team.

Charlie Ridgeway

Charlie Ridgeway has nearly a decade’s experience in crisis communications and risk management, providing strategic counsel to a wide range of clients across the maritime sector. He specialises in managing complex media, social media and stakeholder challenges, advising on reputational threats including geopolitical incidents, environmental disasters, piracy attacks, cyber-security breaches and corporate social misconduct.

Beyond the maritime sector, Charlie has represented major global brands such as Coca-Cola, Philips and adidas. He has also worked closely with foreign government bodies, including the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia, to ensure their communications strategies are robust and crisis-ready.

In addition to reactive crisis response, Charlie supports clients in strengthening organisational resilience through proactive preparedness. His work includes delivering media training and stress-testing organisations through bespoke crisis simulations.

Daniel Bryan

Daniel leads MTI’s research and media monitoring team. He is responsible for co-ordinating monitoring across the network of offices and MTI’s in-house research. Daniel is heavily involved in day to day incident response and also participates in MTI’s global media training programme.

Daniel also plays an active role in leading MTI’s risk and compliance services, ensuring that clients and their assets are accurately represented across various maritime databases.

He holds a master’s in European politics & policy from University College Dublin with a focus on disinformation & social media.

Claudia Bailey

Claudia Bailey joined the team in January 2024 after graduating from university. Her main role is within the Daily Monitoring team, where she provides detailed reports for clients and contributes to numerous incidents, including several high-profile cases.

In addition to her core responsibilities, Claudia is actively involved in MTI Network’s global media training programme. She has also played a key role in the organisation and delivery of MTI’s annual Masterclass, held in Copenhagen and Hamburg each December.

Chandrika Ghosh

Chandrika Ghosh joined the MTI team in June 2025. She leads the development of MTI’s eLearning courses, managing the strategic design and implementation of digital training solutions. Additionally, she plays a key role in the crisis communications team, participating in MTI’s global training programme and is actively involved in incident response.

Chandrika holds a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Nottingham.

James Moore

James Moore joined the crisis communications team in summer 2025 whilst completing his master’s degree. He is actively involved in incident response, monitoring, and training, as well as producing research reports for clients.

James holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Leeds and an MSc from King’s College London in Risk Analysis with a focus on oil trading in emerging economies.

Alison Lloyd

Alison joined in 2018 and is a key member of the accounts team, responsible for overseeing the preparation of all clients’ accounts. In addition to managing client accounts, Alison ensures the accurate maintenance of office administration, client information, and the MTI database.

Alison has also led the development and launch of a new database that holds all client accounts and integrates the invoicing system. She was instrumental in updating and refreshing the MTI Network app, which was relaunched at the beginning of 2023.

Blake Sinclair

Blake joined MTI Network in 2017. He leads our ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) programme.

He holds an M.A. (Hons) in Economics.

Rory Neil

Rory joined the company in 2023 as a Senior ESG Consultant. Prior to joining MTI, he worked as an ESG consultant at a Big-4 accounting firm.

He is a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW and holds an MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester.

Nicholas van Baal

Nick joined the company in February 2025 as a Sustainability/ESG Consultant. Before joining ITI, he worked at ISS STOXX as the ESG Ratings Team Lead for commercial banks and capital markets.

He holds an MA in Geography and Business from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Climate Change, Management, and Finance from Imperial College London.

Fran Hodge

Fran joined in 2023 and has a key role in data analytics and research at ITI. She supports the team in analysing key trends in large data sets and benchmarking of companies across the sector.  She has drafted comprehensive sustainability reports for a diverse range of organisations, including NGOs, research centres, and private enterprises.

Fran holds a MSc from UCL in Environment and Sustainable Development and is PAS2060 qualified.

Martin Baxendale

Martin was educated in the UK and holds a BA (Hons) from London University. After working for a City based advertising and public relations agency, he joined the MTI Network’s London office in 1998. During his time with MTI, Martin has overseen traditional public relations projects, as well as working extensively on incident response and reputation management programmes.

He has advised on a number of high-profile media incidents, as well as a wide range of pre-emptive strategic programmes. He is also closely involved in MTI’s various training programmes.

Graham Isdale

Graham has handled crisis-communications assignments for some of the world’s best-known companies and has supported MTI in the UK for the past 10 years.

A former UK Board director of one of the world’s largest communications companies, he has provided high-level strategic advice to conglomerates in sectors ranging from shipping and nuclear to transportation and chemicals. A former award-winning newspaper editor, he was instrumental in building two of the largest and most successful independent PR consultancies in the UK.

Graham, who is based in Glasgow, Scotland, has carried out media training for global brands across Europe and continues to be recognised as a leading issues-management specialist, having handled major assignments for multi-nationals from North America to Asia. These have included everything from an oil slick in the Philippines and a tanker adrift in the Indian Ocean to the capsizing of a tug in Scotland. He also ran a successful media and political campaign to save the North Sea emergency response and rescue fleet.

His other assignments have ranged from handling industrial blackmail for a US computer giant and various nuclear emergency incidents across the UK to animal welfare brutality in West Virginia, the Dunblane Primary School massacre in Scotland and explosions and a bomb threat at chemical plants in England, France and Italy.

Cor Radings

Having worked as a corporate communications director with Royal Nedlloyd and P&O Nedlloyd, Cor Radings joined MTI Network in 2001.

As Senior Partner he is specialised in 24/7 media advise during high-profile shipping and offshore incidents.

Cor Radings is also involved in MTI Network’s worldwide media training programme.

Bart De Clerck

After completing his Law degree at the Antwerp University, Bart De Clerck has worked as a journalist for Belgian newspapers and television for over 10 years.

Throughout his media career, port related matters have always been one of his specialties and Bart has since left journalism to set up his own Antwerp based communication company which focuses on crisis communication and media training.

Bart has been MTI’s representative for Belgium since 2008.

Christina Dupré Roos

Christina worked with INTERTANKO (The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners) for 15 years prior to her 16 year track record within maritime PR. Christina has arranged and led over 50 maritime press tours around the world (Houston, Rio de Janeiro, Dubai, Murmansk, Vancouver, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Hamburg, London and Oslo). She is regularly called up by leading global companies to arrange press events for selected maritime and offshore journalists. Christina is also press responsible for Nor-Shipping, a position that she has held for 13 consecutive years.

Roddy Craig

Roddy is a British national who has lived in Norway for over 20 years. During his career in London he worked in editorial management roles for leading global publishing houses focusing on illustrated reference books and multimedia. He relocated to Oslo to work for international shipping news provider TradeWinds, then moved into maritime communications. Roddy enjoys the craft of writing, editing and translating, and supporting clients to get their message across.

Steve Marshall

Steve is a UK-educated journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in business and PR writing in the energy and maritime sectors, having previously worked for leading industry publications Upstream and TradeWinds. Based in Norway, he has covered investigations related to offshore incidents, written extensively on key issues such as decarbonisation and digitalisation for maritime clients in relation to PR activities and has developed strong expertise in media relations.

Marina Leonidhopoulos

Marina Leonidhopoulos is the founder of Out of the Box PR that represents MTI Network in Greece; she is now the agency’s Managing Partner. Marina started her career as a copywriter in advertising but was soon won over by the PR industry and founded her first agency, Stigma Communication in 1994; the company later became the Greek subsidiary of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, a member of the Ogilvy Group in Athens.

In 2004 left the Ogilvy Group and founded Out of the Box PR that offers the full spectrum of Public Relaions services to corporate and consumer brands. Over the year she has worked with several clients from different industries on Issues & Crisis Management programmes.

Dimitris Roulias

Dimitris Roulias is the CEO of Out of the Box PR that represents MTI Network in Greece. Dimitris is a seasoned PR professional with over 20 years’ experience in Corporate Communication and Issues & Crisis Management. He started his career as the Head of Communication at IBM Hellas and later moved to the Ogilvy Group to set-up Ogilvy Interactive. He then became the CEO of Ogilvy One in Athens before moving on to Communication Effect, the Edelman affiliate in Greece as VP.

As of 2008 he is a partner at Out of the Box and the agency’s CEO. He is currently a member of the Board of HACA, the Hellenic Association of Communication Agencies, serving a term as Secretary General.

Laura Grani

Laura Grani is Italian by birth and moved to Spain 12 years ago. She has been working for SCR for 10 years and is the company Head of Media Relations. Laura has an engaging character which enables her to get the most out of the media using her in depth knowledge and intelligence. She has been involved in various maritime incidents which have involved looking after crew, passengers and press alike, is multilingual and has a full understanding of the shipping industry.

Antonella Romano

Antonella graduated from the University of Salerno in 1993. Following work experience in New York and London and Milan, she joined Noesis, MTI’s partner in Italy, in 1997. In Noesis, she heads the Corporate, Finance and Health Care divisions. In the last few years she has specialized in crisis communications, advising clients on acquisitions, reorganizations, media attacks, judicial enquiries. The most recent crisis she managed was that of Asso Ventidue, the Italian ship occupied by the Libyan military. Antonella is qualified as a professional journalist. She speaks Italian, French and English.

Martin Slater

Martin began his career in shipping as a marine insurance broker at Lloyds. Following a BA at Essex University and a Ph.D. at MIT, he taught for several years at the Universities of Harvard, Clark (USA), Essex (UK) and Turin (Italy) before taking up a post in the UK Treasury advising ministers on agricultural and trade policy. In 1991, he founded Noesis, MTI’s partner in Italy, which is one of the country’s leading PR companies. Expert in crisis management and issue management, he has advised clients in many areas of business including finance (American Express, Fidelity, M&G, Clerical Medical, Credit Suisse, Deutschebank), Energy and chemicals (Lyondell Basell, Solvay), Pharmaceuticals (Pfizer, Abbott, MSD, Novartis), Food and Beverage (Fratelli Beretta, Stock, Warsteiner, Bonduelle) and shipping (Navigazione Montanari, Augusta Offshore). Languages: English, Italian, French.

Georges Laederich

Georges Laederich is Managing Partner at Arjuna consultancy which represents MTI Network in France. Arjuna is specialized in crisis management and communication since 1993. It is recognized among the leading independent crisis consultancy in this specific area of expertise. Arjuna offers its clients with 24/7 permanent support in operational organization, decision-making and communication as well as anticipation processes and training.

Before joining Arjuna, Georges has been a journalist and TV reporter for 10 years in France. He Graduated from Hec Business School with a master’s in international management. He supports clients from all sectors including the transportation and industrial sector. He owns and manages Arjuna with Thibault Richard since 2022.

Barış Karcıoğlu

Barış has worked in both print media and television as journalist, editor, and news director respectively. He has also worked as Deputy Economy Manager for the Habertürk daily newspaper. He has worked as media adviser at the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) for two years and has been the General Manager of Mese Communications since 2012.

Deniz Tanış

Deniz has worked in communications for over 30 years including roles as Editor-in-Chief, Content Development, Copywriters Group Director, Business Development Director and media strategist.

He has provided communication consultancy for dozens of leading national and multinational brands, from hugely varying sectors, ranging from finance to aviation and shipping.

Crisis & issues management stand out as areas where his expertise has deepened, in addition to reputation and brand management. He has been with Mese Communications since 2010.

Darrell Wilson

Darrell Wilson is President of MTI Network USA and is responsible for leading industry crisis response efforts. Darrell joined MTI after his retirement from a 21 year career with the US Coast Guard as a Public Affairs Chief.

Darrell worked in New York, San Francisco and, for the last 10 years of his career, Alaska where he managed the Public Affairs program for the State. Darrell handled media/community relations and managed Joint Information Centres to handle community concerns during major incidents. He has been involved in a wide range of incidents ranging from stowaways, drug smuggling and rescuing stranded boaters, to major shipwrecks, fires and oil spills.
Darrel has extensive experience teaching Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and JIC operations to Coast Guard men and women and industry partners. Darrell is based in the US Gulf Coast where he is just a short flight from any coast in the US. His experience, enthusiasm and Coast Guard knowledge has enhanced MTI’s ability to provide the best Reputation Management services to our clients around the world.

Jonathan Chia

Jonathan Chia is SVP of MTI Network USA, handling incident response for the Americas and leading the new media technology response in the ever- evolving era of social media. Jonathan joined MTI Network in 2019 and since then has handled a variety of high-profile incidents, including the largest salvage operation of a capsized vessel in U.S. history. Jonathan brings over 15 years of communications experience for major U.S. corporations to his work for MTI Network advising clients on actions and communications during an incident. 

Jonathan is involved in all areas of MTI Network’s business of global media response and media training. Having worked extensively in incident response and media/community relations in a Joint Information Center (JIC) with the U.S. Coast Guard and various state organizations, Jonathan is equipped to handle any reputational, media, and community issues that arise during a major incident.  

Jonathan also handles communications, content, and investor relations for Marine Money, and is well-versed in commercial market priorities & response, management issues.

David Solsbery

David Solsbery has two decades of experience working in the corporate communications and reputation management field, providing dozens of Fortune 500 companies with media relations and PR, crisis communication, internal communication, stakeholder engagement and policy tracking and analysis support during this period.

David’s background is primarily supporting clients in and around Latin America, where he lived and worked for over 15 years as Director of Speyside, a corporate communications agency providing on the ground support to companies in the maritime, financial, pharmaceutical, and mineral extraction sectors.

As a member of the MTI team, David provides corporate reputation and crisis management support in the US, from a hub office in Miami, as well as coordinating all crisis support in Latin America.

Karen White

Karen brings more than 20 years of communications experience to every project, providing executive counsel and strategic advice for a wide range of organizations as they navigate complex and challenging files. Karen specializes in strategic communication and cyber incident response and planning; emergency and crisis communication; issues and reputation management; and stakeholder, government and media relations.

As a trusted partner, she works closely with organizations to effectively manage a range of emergency and operational responses including offshore and marine-based incidents in the natural resources sector, oil spills, labour and workplace incidents, executive malfeasance, and natural disasters. She is a sought-after speaker and trainer, who prides herself on working collaboratively to build effective reputation and brand strategies.

Karen is a leading cyber preparedness and crisis response expert. Recent cyber incidents include communications counsel and advice following cyber attacks in the health care system that resulted in significant system disruption, ransomware attacks on national retail chains with impacts to business operations and privacy breach of employee and customer information, and cyber incident response in the financial, insurance, and IT sectors. She has also developed and exercised cyber crisis communications planning and preparedness with law firms, marine transportation, and energy sectors.

Ian Herbison

Ian began his consulting career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the UK before moving to Central and Eastern Europe and working with multinational investors on M&A and privatisation projects, with clients including Unicredit, Allianz and Deutsche Telecom.

In 2001 he joined Mmd – the leading corporate communications and public affairs consultancy in Eastern Europe – providing board-level counsel to companies in the energy, mining, steel, telecoms and financial services sectors. He developed and led offices in seven markets before assuming overall responsibility for the CEE region.

He has directed pan-European campaigns for Visa, Google, HP, Nokia and GE, working with European and global communications directors to set strategy and directing international teams in up to 19 countries to ensure effective delivery in each territory. In 2009 he left Mmd and co-founded Speyside.

Ian has extensive experience in issues and crisis management, financial communications, and managing communications and public affairs for foreign investment projects for top-tier global companies.

Silvia Ardila

Silvia brings 18 years of experience to her role as Latin America Regional Director, where she oversees the team and operations across all countries in the region.

Her track-record in corporate affairs and public policy includes senior counsel and support for leading companies in both Latin America and Europe: working across a spectrum from corporate reputation building to stakeholder relations and issues and crisis management. Client experience includes mining, energy, healthcare, financial services, and new emerging digital-disruptor sectors such as mobility & fintech.

Before joining Speyside in 2016, she spent several years living in Italy and France, where she worked in healthcare-specialized consultancies and led projects for companies such as Novartis Corporate in Basel. In Latin America she has also worked as Corporate Affairs Director for HC-Human Capital and as external relations leader for Latin America at IBM, positioning the company among key stakeholders. Besides her work at Speyside, she has worked as Corporate Affairs and Reputation Professor at Universidad El Bosque and Universidad Sergio Arboleda in Colombia.

Andrew Leahy

Andrew Leahy is the Director for Southeast Asia of the MTI Network and a senior responder with casualty experience dealing with some of the most significant incidents in recent history. Based in Singapore, he is also involved in MTI Network’s worldwide media training programme.

Andrew worked for over a decade as a Broadcast Journalist in Australia for a major Australian Network giving him an unprecedented understanding of how the media works and the methods they use to elicit information. His ability to translate this media experience into tangible learnings for clients makes him an excellent crisis management trainer for the Maritime Industry in Asia.

Nick Roe

Nick is the Regional Director of Maritime Technical International and focuses on the business in the Asia Pacific region. Nick was educated in the UK and holds a BA (Hons) from Bristol University.

He has worked in the shipping industry since he graduated in 2004. Having started his career at VShips in London, he continued to work in shipbroking for Maersk Broker and Wallem in Hong Kong. His background in commercial shipping brings first hand knowledge of operations, chartering and ship management to MTI Network.

Nick is involved in all areas MTI Network’s business of global media response and media training. Having worked extensively in incident response and conducted executive media training programmes and seafarer conferences throughout the region.

Yoshinori Fukushima

Yoshinori Fukushima graduated from Meiji University with a major in Agricultural Chemistry. After a few years working under film production, he joined a leading company of retail chain stores as a director of research and development division of new media, and as a sales manager of TV copyrights.

He now works as a PR director of Japan PR Vision, whose main clients include e-commerce business, IT business, retail business, entertainment business, and others.

Vidheesh Tyagi

Vidheesh Tyagi is Vice President of Mileage Communications (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Vidheesh has over 19-years of experience in corporate and marketing communications, tourism marketing and hospitality sales. He has successfully handled various PR initiatives, marketing promotions and events for Mileage clients in India. His strengths lie in communication skills, strategizing, below the line promotions  besides crisis communications.

Sunil Puri

Sunil Puri is Managing Director of Mileage Communications (India) Pvt. Ltd. a joint venture company with Mileage Communications Singapore.

Sunil has over 25 years experience in finance, marketing, tourism and public relations, and has created and implemented a range of successful PR programs for international clients. His strengths include marketing communications, finance, designing PR strategies and crisis communications.

Gina de los Reyes Virtusio

Gina Virtusio is an experienced PR and communications professional with a demonstrated history of working in various industries, of which currently- is in renewable energy. In the past, she has worked with domestic shipping, hospitality, travel/tourism, real estate and property development, retail, and international non-profit organizations.

Gina has successfully worked on strategic programs and earned a number of recognitions and awards in PR and Corporate Communications, Crisis Communications, Building Brands, Marketing Communications, Media Management, Advertising, Special Events Management and Fundraising for non-profits.

Ashley Rambukwella

Ashley has more than 20 years of experience providing issues management, crisis communication and strategic communication counsel, gained during some of the most significant energy and maritime incidents including offshore spills, industrial action, cybersecurity, biosecurity and litigation support. He helps businesses to prepare for, deal with and recover from sudden events and sustained attacks that threaten their reputation and future. During a crisis, his expertise enables them to respond effectively at speed and navigate the demanding media, employee, customer, regulatory and political communication environments successfully.

Loretta Ahmed

Loretta is the founder and CEO for Houbara Communications. A brand reputation and crisis communications expert with over 30 years’ solid experience guiding clients through transformational times, she has media trained many of the region’s most prominent business leaders.  Previously CEO for Grayling’s UK operations, she moved to the region to head up Grayling’s MEA business in 2013.  In 2019 she acquired the UAE business to create an independent agency which has been recognised by Campaign as Independent Agency of the Year.  Loretta has been recognised for her ‘outstanding contribution to the PR industry’ by the CIPR and as ‘Middle East PR Leader of the Year’ by PRCA.  A former chair of PRCA MENA and Vice President for the Middle East Region for ICCO, she now chairs Global Women in PR MENA.