KARYN ARKELL

Founder and Managing Director

027 475  3511

Karyn is known for successfully leading one of New Zealand’s largest and most successful PR agencies at the time, as CEO, in a 13 year career at Acumen. Prior to this, she held roles in another international PR agency and in-house at Telecom New Zealand.

While managing offices in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney, a diverse, blue chip client portfolio and a very large consulting team across all areas of the communications spectrum (corporate, consumer, events, research and creative), Karyn has gained deep and wide experience across a myriad of business and communications challenges and opportunities, as well as extensive professional networks.

She has provided stewardship for some of our country’s best-loved brands, is a confidante and trusted adviser for businesses and high-profile individuals facing crises, understands the capital markets and acts for several listed companies including managing M & A projects and capital transactions, and can crack engaging ideas to motivate consumer behaviour.

Whatever it takes.

Karyn is widely regarded as a leading industry expert on issues, crises and reputation management and as one of our most respected PR professionals regularly represents New Zealand as a judge in international industry awards programmes.