Jack Pearce – Part 3

Entrepreneur, Educator, Journalist, PR Pro
Founder of Matrix Public Relations

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Namita Thakkar

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Melwyn Abraham

About Jack Pearce (Part 3)

Entrepreneur, Educator, Journalist, PR Pro Founder of Matrix Public Relations

Jack Pearce is the founder of Matrix Public Relations, a company he established in 1999.

He has over 30 years PR and journalism experience in the Middle East. He was a co-founder and former chairman of the Middle East PR Association (MEPRA) and regularly spoke at forums and is quoted in the media on public affairs issues.

Prior to setting up Matrix PR he was Senior Director of Client Servicing for IPR, the Middle East affiliate of Shandwick, the world’s largest PR firm.

Before this he was Public Affairs Manager of The British Bank of the Middle East (now HSBC Middle East) with overall responsibility for all the marketing, advertising and public relations activities of the Bank’s head office and 26 branches.

He began his career in the UAE as PR Manager of the Abu Dhabi Inter-Continental Hotel where, in addition to routine hotel PR work, he coordinated two GCC summit conferences and numerous state occasions and head of state visits.

He was later appointed editor of the UAE’s What’s On magazine and subsequently became country manager of the international PR firm Hill and Knowlton, a position he held for five years

About this Episode

This is the third episode of a series of conversations with PR Guru and founder of Matrix Public Relations, Jack Pearce.

In this episode, Jack shares some more stories from the early days of Matrix.

Tune for some stories from Uncle Jack!

“We managed to contain the crisis that was very public.“
Jack Pearce

“The world’s tallest flag pole is in Dubai, the world’s biggest flag either in Dubai or Abu Dhabi I think, so many of the world record that Dubai just keeps on breaking, it was all started as an idea from Matrix PR.”

– Jack Pearce