Our Ethos

COMMUNiCATE has provided valuable support to over sixty companies and organisations over the past four years. Essential to this support is the ethos of our team:

• All of our team (employees or associate partners) behave as if they were employees of our clients. They realise that it is our clients that ultimately contribute to their salaries and are committed to the success of the clients’ projects.
• We communicate regularly and openly with our clients to continually provide maximum ‘value for money’ services. This ensures that we are constantly communicating in the right manner and at the right time.
• We pride ourselves on being a highly ethical company with its clients, its staff and with its suppliers.
• Above all, our team is highly motivated & tenacious

The COMMUNiCATE Team

COMMUNiCATE has provided valuable support to over sixty companies and organisations over the past four years with PR, Event Management, Mentoring, Consultancy and Training. Essential to this support is the experience of our team. Please click on our team members names to learn more.

• Laura Curtin | Managing Director
  Founder of COMMUNiCATE, Laura Curtin has helped to drive the business and build the COMMUNiCATE brand and its reputation as one of the Cork’s leading business management and communication consultancies. Over the past fifteen years Laura has held a number of marketing and management roles both in Ireland and abroad with the following companies: Flextronics, Campbell Catering, AIB, The Broughtons Group (Australia) and Adidas. With these companies her responsibilities ranged from strategy development, public relations, media liaison, sales support, communications, customer care and brand development to managing global sales conferences and company / product launches, coordinating European trade shows and organising national fundraising events. Her expertise added greatly to the growth of these companies.
  
  Creative, Supportive, Team Focused and Enterprising are some words that describe this “bubbly” entrepreneur. Laura is a strongly motivated, high-energy professional with a proven track record of success in all areas of business. She provides mentoring support for the South Cork Enterprise Board, the Cork City Enterprise Board and is a facilitator for the Excellence Through People Award. She is on the Steering Committee for the Events Industry Skillnet and is member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, Neo Ireland, Events Industry Skillnet and www.irishbusinesswomen.com. For relaxation Laura enjoys travel, reading, music, rugby and sipping a glass of champagne in the tranquility of her garden!
• Irina Ignatjuk | Events Account Executive
  Irina has extensive experience in event management as she has strong project management and team leading skills. Over the past four years Irina has worked in Germany supporting companies with market research, event management and marketing. Organising trade delegations to San Francisco, national conferences and business development all come naturally to her.
  
  Creative, Dynamic, Communicative and Dedicated are some words that describe Irina. For relaxation Irina enjoys reading books about the medieval ages and political issues, listening to good music, travel, sports and socialising with friends and getting to know new people.
• Christoph Bloch | PR Account Executive
  Christoph’s role in COMMUNiCATE is to support clients with their PR requirements. He has a strong communications background having worked with a number of cultural institutions, being responsible for project implementations. This required good communication skills, adhering to tight deadlines, managing events on site, overseeing promotional campaigns and ensuring the institutions received media coverage. In addition, he has worked with a number of advertising agencies supporting promotional campaigns in the retail sector.
  
  Christoph is an organised, creative and extremely professional individual who enjoys the challenges associated with creating innovating PR campaigns. While working on client projects he becomes an integral part of the client team.
  
  For relaxing Christoph enjoys reading books about political and historical issues, listening to good music and playing soccer. He is also interested in travelling and getting to know new people from different countries and cultures.
  
  
• John Curtin | Financial Controller
  John Curtin has extensive experience in all aspects of financial, operation and general management. He has worked in many industries including Construction, Manufacturing, Property, Distribution, Data & Records Management, IT and Service industries.
  
  John is a strongly motivated, high-energy professional with a proven track record of success in profit management and management information development / systems. For relaxation John enjoys rugby, opera, reading and enjoying the company of his three grandchildren!

Corporate Social Responsibility

COMMUNiCATE’s corporate social responsibility practices are broad in scope, and include a focus on education, environmental protection, health and safety and the support of communities around the world. COMMUNiCATE continues to build upon these efforts and invest in communities through financial contributions, volunteer work, support programs and donation of resources.

COMMUNiCATE’s social responsibility mission is to positively contribute to communities and the environment by adhering to the highest ethical standards of practice with our customers, suppliers, partners, employees, communities and providing a safe and quality work environment for our employees.