Burson-Marsteller

Jeremy Galbraith is the CEO of the Burson-Marsteller Europe, Middle East and Africa region and a member of Burson-Marsteller's Global Leadership Team. He was previously the CEO of Burson-Marsteller in Brussels from 2000 to 2007 having first joined Burson-Marsteller in 1995 to head up the UK Public Affairs Practice. Prior to this he had been Deputy Managing Director of Market Access, a leading Westminster political consultancy and a Director of its sister company in Brussels. He began his career working in the House of Commons for a senior Conservative member of the Trade and Industry Select Committee.

Jeremy has spent over 20 years helping leading companies and organisations manage critical issues and influence European political processes – at European Union and Member State level - to preserve or advance business goals. He has also advised governments, Prime Ministers and other senior politicians on positioning themselves at home and around the world. In addition he has acted a consultant to regulators as well as to local government bodies. His client assignments have led to significant experience supporting applicant and candidate cities in their bids to host Olympic and Paralympic Games as well as companies in winning government procurement contracts.

He was worked with clients in a very wide variety of sectors including agriculture, airlines, alcoholic beverages, animal health, chemicals, cosmetics, employment, energy, environment, financial services, food and beverages, health, media, packaging, pharmaceuticals, sport, telecommunications, transport and water.

He was educated at Leeds University, from which he graduated in Law. He fought a London seat for the Conservative Party at the 1992 General Election.He was a non-executive director of the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London from 1997-2007.

Roman Geiser was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Burson-Marsteller EMEA on 22 October 2009. Before taking on this role he was responsible for Burson-Marsteller’s Swiss operations and Managing Director for Affiliates & Acquisitions in EMEA. Roman remains in charge of the Swiss operations until a new CEO Switzerland is appointed.

Roman is an expert in corporate and public affairs and consults various industrial and services clients and industry associations on public affairs issues and corporate communications. He has special expertise in the management of political ballot campaigns, the field of biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry as well as in the energy sector. Roman is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Young & Rubicam Holding Switzerland and is president-elect of the Association of PR Agencies in Switzerland (BPRA).

Before joining Burson-Marsteller, Roman worked for an association promoting Swiss business and industry that serves as a public relations agency for the general Swiss economy. In this position, Roman represented the interests of Swiss industry in several public affairs and political campaigns. His function as campaign manager and political strategist included the provision of political advice to members of the Swiss business community as well as of members of the Swiss parliament. He was also responsible for an extensive biotech-campaign – one of the biggest political campaigns in the history of direct democracy in Switzerland – which resulted in a 66.7 % vote against a general ban of biotechnology in Switzerland.

Roman has a degree in business economics from the School for Business and Administration in St. Gallen. In the Swiss Military he served as lieutenant commander of the 31st infantry batallion.

Paul Herrick is Managing Director, Human Resources for EMEA, with responsibility for the HR function across the European markets.

Prior to joining Burson-Marsteller, Paul was Senior Manager of Corporate HR of Amadeus GTD - a leading provider of IT solutions to the travel industry - with global HR responsibility for talent management and e-HR worldwide, together with generalist HR responsibility for Amadeus’ e-commerce business unit, e-Travel. Previously he was the European Human Resources Manager for GE Energy Services for Penpower, based in Ireland, with operations in Europe. Paul has extensive international experience having lived and worked in Ireland, USA, UK, Spain, Germany, Middle East, Pakistan and Malaysia. Paul is Fluent in Spanish.

Paul holds a double Honours BA in Psychology from University College Galway, Ireland and a Masters Degree in Human Resources and Occupational Psychology from University College Cork, Ireland.

Katarina Wallin Bureau is Managing Director and responsible for strategy for the EMEA region. She also focuses on international and European government and media relations. She has significant experience in leading pan-European campaigns.

Katarina previously spent four years with Marakon Associates, a strategic management consultancy in London, advising clients on business strategy across a variety of sectors. She has also worked for the European Commission, in Brussels and at the EU Delegation in Kiev, working as a project manager on the EU’s assistance programme to the CIS states. Prior to joining Burson-Marsteller she worked with a big media syndicate as part of the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute.

Katarina is fluent in Swedish, English, and French, and speaks some Russian. She has a Master’s degree in Political Economy and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, both from the London School of Economics (LSE). She studied French language and literature at the Sorbonne.