Our Enterprise Advisor

Richard Halderthay

About Richard

I am currently the Director of Communications for multinational construction conglomerate Saint-Gobain. In this role I am responsible for the business’ reputation, brand, internal and external communications and I manage the business’ Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, which is critical for stakeholders.

Prior to this I held a similar post with cement and aggregates giant Lafarge in the UK and spent a number of years in Public Affairs and Corporate Communications Consultancy. I started my career in a variety of PR, communications & campaigning roles spanning nine years with the a political party, first in research, then speechwriting and then organising and running election campaigns. During this time I also spent six years as an elected City Councillor in the city where I lived - Southampton.

I hope I can bring some of my broad experience in large and complex organisations where managing and developing team members is a really important part of my role. Communications is one of the types of functions is a large business where you get a really broad range of understanding of what is going on and it’s quite often misunderstood.

My role includes internal communications, and external communications. In external communications we cover PR, marketing (digital and traditional), Social Media, Websites, trade and exhibition shows and other events for colleagues and customers. Also Public Affairs (that’s looking at what Government is doing) and managing crisis issues we may have to deal with.

As well as my day job I have been a Trustee for Anglia Ruskin University for seven years and I have six children who take up a lot of my time outside of work!