Burway
Stakeholder Engagement
Specializing in Private Markets
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About.
Burway is an independent Communications and Integrated Marketing consultancy.
Burway crafts and delivers communications and brand strategies to shape, grow and protect reputations.
Our advice provides a competitive edge in raising capital, originating opportunities, attracting talent, creating value and building stakeholder trust.
Services
We work with our clients to create
A recognised, relevant, respected and resonant brand
Delivering the right message through the right channel at the right time
To influence the opinions and decisions of the right people.
Communications
Media Relations
Corporate Communications
M&A Communications
Investor Relations
Issues & Crisis
Media Training
Stakeholder Mapping
Fractional CCOs
Marketing
Thought Leadership
Content Creation
Digital Marketing
Presentation Training
Fundraising Advisory
Conference and AGM Support
Fractional CMOs
Brand
Brand Strategy and Implementation
Messaging
Design and Creative
Visual Identity
Benchmarking
Fractional CMOs
Lara Budgen
Partner, Head of Operations
John Thompson is the Founder and Managing Partner at Burway. John has nearly two decades experience providing advice to investors, corporates, governments and individuals.
Before founding Burway, John was the Global Head of Communications for Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure. At Actis he oversaw communications strategy for over US$ 10 billion of capital raising and advised on M&A and portfolio company activity across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. He was also responsible for delivering a brand evolution for the firm to reflect its strategic direction and worked with Actis' world-class Sustainability team to launch an open-source Impact Measurement framework.
Prior to joining Actis, John’s background was working within leading global consultancies including Edelman, Fleishman Hillard and Bell Pottinger. He also spent two years as an entrepreneur in Sub-Saharan Africa as a journalist, publisher, and consultant.
John is part of the steering committee of Private Equity International’s Marketing, Investor Relations and Communications Forum, he is a judge on PR Moment’s inaugural ESG awards panel and an alumnus of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle.
Lara Budgen is Head of Operations with over 22 years of experience in financial services particularly working for Single Family Offices and private markets. She leads operations at Burway and handles stakeholder engagement, project management, and fractional resourcing.
Her career began at Bloomberg, followed by a role at a start-up wealth management firm. She later became Head of Marketing and Investor Relations at a commercial real estate firm and then led operations for the London arm of a family office followed by taking on a role of Director at Institutional Investor. Over this period, she built a vast network of Single and Multi Family Offices.
Lara has consulted for Single Family Offices and held the role of Director of Principal Investments at a Portuguese NPL and real estate business. She most recently worked in a strategy role with an Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure company.
Currently, Lara serves on the Management Committee for a Single Family Office. She holds an Investment Management Certificate (IMC).
Outside of work, Lara is passionate about the countryside, horses, skiing, and tennis.
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