Chris Gray

Senior Associate

Location: Oceania

Chris Gray is Managing Director of Australian-based public relations agency and a Senior Associate with GoCrisis.

A highly experienced crisis communications practitioner, he regularly advises clients and helps them manage complex, difficult and confronting issues so they can communicate with speed and clarity to key stakeholders.

As a former journalist with leading news organisations, he brings his knowledge of newsroom environments to the fore to equip clients to deal confidently and persuasively with media in order to manage their messaging in both benign and hostile scenarios.

He has trained more than 500 executives over the past two decades in the art of media relations and crisis communications across both the private and public sectors. Chris is often called on to speak on reputational matters and undertakes training of senior executives in the areas of crisis, media and presentation skills. He provides ‘on-call’ support to organisations and has responded to major crises in Australia and overseas.

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Tresslyn Smith

Associate

Location: Oceania

Tresslyn has 28 years of experience working in the Department of Consumer Protection where she was Senior Regional Officer and spokesperson for the Department. Prior to her role as SRO, she held the position of Investigations Officer for Consumer Protection and Office of Industrial Relations. Tresslyn has experience and wide-ranging knowledge across multiple sectors. She has extensive knowledge of relevant consumer legislation and has provided advice for both consumers and traders. Tresslyn has a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Majoring in History & Literature.

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Jim Antoni

Senior Associate

Location: Oceania

Jim is a Senior Associate at GoCrisis based in Sydney, Australia. He is a highly qualified, motivated and innovative senior professional with an extensive knowledge base and experience in emergency planning, business resilience, organisational resilience, business continuity, training, exercise drills, policy and procedures, document management, and communications.

Since 1984, Jim has worked in various roles including sales, customer service, operations, office administration, reservations, marketing, document writing, training, regulatory, and for the most part, Crisis Management.

Jim’s career with Qantas commenced as an aspiring reservations consultant and from here worked his way through various roles before finding his niche in Crisis Management. Whilst at Qantas, Jim was involved in responding to 21 events in 18 months including Bali Bombings, Thailand Tsunami, Middle east unrest, QF30 oxygen tank explosion, QF72 depressurisation, BKK Unrest, Volcanic Ash eruption, and Swine Influenza. Most of this time was spent coordinating and deploying relief teams to the site as well as Care Team/Family Assistance responsibilities.

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Alistair Nicholas

Senior Associate

Location: Oceania

Alistair Nicholas has more than 25 years’ experience in crisis management communications, crisis planning, and crisis training covering Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, China and the United States. Alistair has written crisis communications manuals and crisis management plans for major multinational corporations and government agencies and provided crisis training programs to them. He has counselled many organisations during their responses to crises, including acting as an official spokesperson for organisations during live crisis situations.

Alistair has worked on crises ranging from accidental deaths and injuries through to pharmaceutical and consumer product market recalls, fraud and embezzlement, and government corruption cases. He has provided communication counsel and support during media inquiries, coronial inquests, court trials, and government inquiries.

Alistair’s career of more than 30 years also includes senior roles in government, politics, diplomacy, and the media.

Alistair holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science from the University of New South Wales and a Certificate in Executive Leadership from Cornell University. He is based in Sydney, Australia.

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