Andrew Marcus CV
Below is my detailed CV. You can find a more readable outline of my skills and experience on the About page.
Career
Tangram
(April 2025 - present)
Partner
Cultural strategy consultancy
Consultant
(January 2023 - present)
Freelance communications, marketing, brand, strategy, transformation and change consultant, coach and facilitator. Working with business, brands, arts and culture, museums, education, charities
Clients include: St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Design Museum, Museum of the Home, GlobeScan, London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), the City of London Corporation and the Touring Exhibitions Group, Engage, Museum of the Order of St John, Pilot Theatre.
Sectors: arts, culture, museum, heritage, education, university, higher education, charity, not-for-profit, NGO, sustainability, commercial, local authority
Skills: communications strategy, PR strategy, marketing strategy, brand strategy, marcomms strategy, communications campaigns, PR campaigns, marketing campaigns, strategy, planning, strategic planning, organisational planning, organisational strategy, interim leadership, stakeholder management, arts management, culture management, higher education, placemaking, reputation management, issues management, crisis management, coaching, career coaching, leadership coaching, executive coaching, group coaching, team coaching, facilitation, group facilitation, action learning, sprint facilitation, workshop facilitation, away day facilitation, off site facilitation, event management
Location: Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, London
Museum of London
Chief Communications and Digital Officer (August 2021 – December 2022) previously Head of Communications (May 2015 – August 2021), Deputy Head of Communications (March 2012 – May 2015), PR Manager (October 2011 – March 2012)
Hybrid communications director, marketing director, digital director role responsible for PR, marketing, brand and digital transformation. Culture Mile marketing lead. Director of Museum of London Trading Company Ltd.
Skills: museum PR, museum communications, museum marketing, exhibition PR, exhibition communications, exhibition marketing, communications strategy, PR strategy, marketing strategy, brand strategy, marcomms strategy, communications campaigns, PR campaigns, marketing campaigns, product launch, product marketing, event management, internal communications, partnerships, strategy, planning, strategic planning, change management, transformation, people management, organisational planning, organisational strategy, senior leadership, financial management, stakeholder management, community engagement, planning applications, public affairs, placemaking, reputation management, issues management, crisis management
Location: Barbican, City of London and Docklands/Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets, London
Porter Novelli
PR Account Manager (October 2010 – October 2011)
Global PR agency role working with BT, the Royal Mint, California Almonds, Europeana, Omidyar Network, UNICEF, Wikimedia Foundation.
Skills: media relations, executive profiling, corporate communications, b2b PR, trade PR, consumer PR, reputation management, issues management, crisis management
Location: Bayswater, Westminster, London
Science Museum
Press Officer (August 2008 – October 2010)
Skills: media relations, museum PR, museum communications, exhibition PR, exhibition communications, communications strategy, PR strategy, communications campaigns, PR campaigns, product launch, event management, internal communications, partnerships, strategy, planning, public affairs, reputation management, issues management, crisis management
Location: Exhibition Road, Kensington, London
Board and voluntary positions
Creative Estuary
Co-Chair (July 2023 - present)
Skills: leadership, placemaking, strategy, governance, change management, transformation, chairing, co-leadership
Location: Kent and Essex
A New Direction
Trustee (March 2022 – present)
Skills: arts management, arts administration, leadership, strategy, governance, change management, transformation, charity governance, not-for-profit, NGO, education, museum education, cultural education
Location: Hackney Wick, Hackney, London
Shubbak
Trustee (March 2022 – present)
Skills: arts management, arts administration, leadership, strategy, governance, change management, transformation, charity governance, not-for-profit, NGO, festival
Location: City of London, London
Theatre Centre
Trustee (September 2018 – March 2022)
Skills: arts management, arts administration, leadership, strategy, governance, change management, transformation, charity governance, not-for-profit, NGO, theatre, theatre company
Location: Shoreditch, Hackney, London and Deptford, Lewisham, London
Professional development
Animas
ICF and AC Accredited Diploma in Transformational Coaching (February 2024)
Modules: core coaching skills, thinking and beliefs, transformative presence, narrative transformations, transforming paradigms, ethics and professional practice
Marketing Week
Mini MBA in Marketing (July 2023)
Modules: market orientation, market research, segmentation, targeting, positioning, objectives, product, price, integrated marketing communications, distribution
Action Learning Centre Ltd
Action Learning Facilitator Certificate (July 2021)
Clore Leadership
Fellow (2019/2020)
IDEO U
Foundations in Creative Leadership (July 2020)
RD1st/Culture at Work
Coaching Certificate of Accreditation (July 2020)
City Lit
Group Facilitation (February 2020)
Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR)
Diploma (September 2010)
Education
University of Leeds
MA Advertising and Marketing (September 2006 – September 2007)
Modules: advertising, consumer behaviour, PR and corporate communications, internet marketing, marketing communications, marketing strategy, sales promotion and sponsorship
Dissertation: CSR reporting
BA (Hons.) Philosophy (September 2003 – July 2006)
Memberships
Clore Leadership Fellow
RSA Fellow
Chartered Institute of PR (CIPR) Accredited Member
Association for Coaching (AC) Member