Clayton Hirst

Clayton has nearly three decades' experience in corporate affairs, communications and the media. He is currently Director of Corporate Affairs for Halma, the FTSE 100 global group of life saving technology companies. Before that he headed corporate affairs for the John Lewis Partnership, was Director of External Communications at Virgin Media and Director of Communications for Ofcom. Clayton spent the early part of his career as a journalist, latterly Deputy Business Editor at the Independent on Sunday.