Lorna O’Neill, Account Manager
Lorna O’Neill is the newest (and British) addition to the Polkadot PR team. Lorna, from Liverpool, graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK with a B.A. 1st class (Hons) degree in public relations in 2005. Her four year course incorporated a number of short term PR placements as well as a full year work placement in the third year as an undergraduate account executive within a large PR agency in Leeds.
Lorna wanted to satisfy her urge to travel before pursuing her career and embarked on a gap year that began with a seven month stint working and ski-ing in the resort of Whistler, Canada. Lorna then sampled Seattle and LA in the US before travelling around Fiji and New Zealand, finishing with a three week trip to Sydney in 2006.
In the last three and a half years, Lorna has pursued her PR career in Manchester in the UK, working on a variety of clients in the lifestyle, food, retail, health, fashion and sports sectors, encompassing PR, promotions, stunts and events. Lorna has managed a variety of campaigns including a global, Guinness World Record breaking PR campaign for Hasbro’s MONOPOLY board game and worked with brands such as Vileda, Dunlop/Slazenger, Chicago Town pizza and Dr. Beckmann.
Having fallen in love with Sydney back in 2006, Lorna decided to leave the UK and pursue her passion for PR here with completely new brands to work with – she arrived in Sydney in August 2009 and already loves living by the beach!
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