Qualifications and Experience
Because David Utting comprehends the 'big'
communications picture, he
is uniquely positioned to cleverly craft and sensitively disseminate
your messages
to the audiences that count - be they the general public, media,
investors, government or other stakeholders.
A boutique communications provider, David Utting has extensive, high-level
experience, throughout Australia and New Zealand, across the communications industries in roles as:
- Senior
Ministerial Media Advisor
- Press Secretary
- Senior daily
newspaper Journalist
- Corporate Investor and Communications Manager
- Doctoral Researcher, Academic and University Lecturer
- Media Commentator
- Market Research Consultant
David Utting has lectured and tutored at
university level in Mass Communication, Journalism, Film Theory and
Literature. He spent three years as a Doctoral Student researching communications policy and the take up of new technologies such as the internet and Pay TV.
For four years, David was a daily newspaper section
editor specialising in communications, and technology with The West Australian,
a newspaper with a circulation of up to 340,000 per day.
He has extensive local government experience having served as the senior press secretary to
the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Lucy Turnbull. As senior Ministerial media advisor in NSW with
responsibility for extremely challenging portfolios including child protection,
juvenile justice, disability and aging, David is highly conversant with issues and crisis management.
He has worked as a communications and
investor relations manager for an Australian-based, listed company, chaired by Hon Neville Wran AC QC, with over a
thousand employees throughout Australia, Hong Kong and the US. David Utting's comprehensive investor
relations experience includes expertise in shareholder, fund manager
and analyst relations and he is fully conversant with relevant
disclosure laws and procedures.
He has worked on a diverse range of commercial
and political campaigns, privatisations, brandings and launches in NSW,
Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand. Industries worked in include Mining and Exploration, Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas, Property,
Financial Services, Utilities, Transport & Infrastructure, Beverages & FMCGs and Technology. David has international research experience
having visited major research and maufacturing facillities in Helsinki at the invitation of Nokia, and Japan at the
invitation of Seiko-Epson. He has also researched projects with
Time-Warner in the United States as
well as research in the UK.
David Utting holds a Bachelor of Science with a double major in
Psychology (UWA), a Graduate Diploma in Journalism (Murdoch), a Master of Arts
in Literature & Communication (Murdoch) and a Diploma in Small Business.
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 "As the proprietor of a successful boutique communications company, I deliver personalised service. I provide top quality
advice and implementation of successful strategies that will cost-effectively achieve the results you
want.
Gone
are the days of dealing with a big PR firm and being passed from
'senior' consultant to 'senior' consultant and paying an arm and a leg
for the privilege." Please contact me.
David Utting
Bachelor of Science (Psych),
Graduate Dip Journalism, Diploma Business,
Master of Arts in Literature & Communication |
