Team

Helmut von Fircks founded the F&H agency in conjunction with partners during his economics studies.

As CEO, he is responsible for the strategic orientation of the agency and runs the operational side of the business.

His consultancy expertise covers a broad industry spectrum. He has drawn on his many years' experience of corpo- rate and brand communication in his work with customers such as BMW, Löwenbräu, Nestlé Waters and Münchner Rück.

Christoph Heisig is a co-founder of the F&H advertising agency alongside Helmut von Fircks and Rolf Schmitz. His core areas of expertise are the development and implementation of communication strategies.

Over the course of his long career as a concept developer, he has refined and optimised the process of analysis, strategy and implementation. His knowledge about positioning brands and companies is based on a multi-layered core of know-how.

Alongside his communications training, he also apprenticed in graphic design with a renowned advertising agency where he learnt the fundamen- tal principles behind visual concept presentation. He also worked for a number of years as a concept developer and copywriter at Siemens. This experience gave him an insight into different corporate divisions and enabled him to develop different strategies for capital and consumer goods.

He is a founding member of the agency and, in his role as Creative Director, is responsible for the visual implementation of communications concepts.

He regards himself as an unconventional thinker, inspirer and motivator for his studio team that produces high-calibre work and unconventional ideas. He creates the faces of brands and companies.

He acquired his diverse knowledge while working in responsible roles as a designer for a number of well-known advertising agencies.

Christina Harvey-Duwé is a key intermediary between the agency and its international clients. She gained many years' experience of cooperating with global companies through her work for well-known communications agencies in London.

Her core areas of expertise include the "Tourism" and "Lifestyle & Sport" sectors and B2C and B2B communication. The key focus of her work is the strategic development of long-term communication concepts for international clients such as Expedia, Nestlé and Hiscox and implementing these concepts at national and international level. She studied marketing.

Inken Tietz as director is responsible for client development and strategic planning at F&H. Recently she took over the role as interim manager of the lifestyle & tourism practice. She used to head up the F&H „Food & Beverages“ department and the „Industry” practice.

In addition to extensive expertise in corporate and product PR, she is also highly experienced in strategic conceptual design and crisis PR.

After her studies of history of art, archaelogy and ethnology in Trier, she gained PR experiences in different cultural institutions.

Martina Ritter is responsible for the Finance, Controlling and Production divisions. Beyond these remits, she also controls the administrative aspects of the agency's operation. As a long-serving member of the team, she is an expert at organising team work to ensure that projects are managed with the required level of quality and complete on deadline every time.

Before joining F&H, Martina Ritter occupied the role of controller and production coordinator with a well-known retail firm. Whilst in this role, she also gathered further experience with various agencies and publishing houses.

She studied communication and business management and marketing and advertising psychology.

Nina Schröer is Practice Leader of the F&H Technology team and is responsible for Logitech. For this client, and as an interim solution for a period of seven months, she took over the role of PR and Communications Manager for the countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Strategic corporate and product communications are her work’s main areas of focus. Nina began her career in the research department of Roland Berger and then worked in the BMW Group’s European Sales Department. She also organised European launch events for the Brand Communication and PR division.

Nina studied tourism management at the Euro Business College in Munich.

Dr. Daniel Fleiter is leader of the healthcare team. He has many years of experience in the public relations profession. Starting as a marketing communications specialist for an international media corporation.

Daniel has worked in positions with increasing responsibility for Top 10 consulting firms and the global leader in healthcare.

His core competences are in international PR, corporate communication, product PR, strategic consulting, stakeholder engagegment, crisis and issues managagement and financial communication. He studied communications in Hohenheim and Wien.

Katja Ziegler is Practice Leader of the F&H Industry team. She has long-term experience in strategic consulting of leading clients and associations in the industrial and pharmaceutical sector. Before joining F&H, she worked in the press office of a major electronics company.

International corporate and product PR, strategic conceptual design and the communication with stakeholders is her core expertise.

She studied sociology, marketing and communication science in Helsinki and Bamberg.

Annika Bartholl leads the “Food & Beverages” unit at F&H and is responsible for strategic consulting of clients such as the Almond Board of California and the Bavarian Dairy Association. She has several years of PR experience in the Consumer (food & beverages, tourism, lifestyle) and B2B segment.

Before joining F&H Porter Novelli she worked in the communication for several international companies including Reebok Germany and Tenerife Tourism Corporation.

Her core competences are strategic planning, international coordination, organization of trade fairs and events, PR in the consumer, product and B2B/food service segments.

She studied international Cultural and Business studies in Passau/Germany with semesters abroad in France and Spain.

Bianca is heading the F&H lifestyle team serving clients such as Accor Hotellery Germany and Mamaison Hotels & Residences. Prior she has been a consultant in the technology team and was responsible for lifestyle PR for Logitech, LG Electronics and SMART Technologies. Furthermore, she is taking care of corporate communications.

The key areas of her remit are corporate communications, internal communications, events and product PR. She began her career as an online editor at Bertelsmann and then worked in various PR agencies for clients from the lifestyle, fashion, entertainment and food sectors.

She studied American studies, intercultural communication and market and advertising psychology in Munich.

Winfried Pieper is head of the graphics studio and has been with the company for many years. He is among the few graphic designers who learned typography design “from scratch”. His tremendous knowledge in this field means that he is particularly sought-after for work in the fields of identity and corporate design.

His areas of focus include corporate publishing. He has also geared his studio team towards the design of digital media. The subject of multimedia occupies a particularly prominent place in this orientation.

Winfried Pieper gained his early vocational experience with numerous well-known advertising agencies.He studied graphic design in Würzburg.

Susanne Zenz organises the Managing Director's office, is the contact for internal and external business workflows and runs all the administration.

As an employee of many years' standing, she also frequently acts in a liaison role regarding cooperation with our international Porter Novelli network.

A qualified industrial sales representative with an international background, she is skilled at handling multicultural processes and issues.