PAULINE RAY
Director Pauline Ray has worked in the public relations industry for more than 20 years, concentrating on a range of travel and design clients, including Cathay Pacific Airways, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, the Designers Institute of New Zealand, Warren and Mahoney, Objectspace and Alt Group. Prior to starting up her communications consultancy, she was a journalist for over 15 years with key roles including: producer of TVNZ’s Business World, Senior Writer for the New Zealand Listener and News Editor of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly. Experience in the UK included working as a sub editor on the Financial Times.
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​Pauline managed the communications in New Zealand for more than 20 years for Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, assisting to raise the airline’s profile in New Zealand and managing and escorting media familiarisation trips. For the past 12 years she has also managed the communications for the Best Design Awards, the country’s premium design awards organised by the Designers’ Institute of New Zealand. Dock Street Group is a platinum sponsor of the Designers Institute, and Pauline was made an honorary member of the institute in 2012. She is also a life member of New Zealand Travel Communicators, and is on the board of Objectspace Gallery.
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Pauline, who has a BA in history from the University of Canterbury, enjoys using the knowledge and experience she gained from working at senior levels in the print and electronic media to raise the profiles of Dock Street Group clients.
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JONATHAN KILLICK
Jonathan holds a BA in English and a BCS in Public Relations and has worked in the PR industry for five years.
Specialising in consumer PR, Jonathan has worked across a broad range of topics including design, fitness, FMCG, IT, logistics, and especially tourism. He has a particular enthusiasm for travel PR having worked for a mix of air, sea, and land travel clients throughout his time at Dock Street as well as authoring his own published stories.
Never afraid to get behind the lens, Jonathan has a passion for manual digital photography and composing the perfect image. He brings out the Canon 80D to capture client events and the occasional product shot.
The reason he is in PR, he says, is a love of the classic Kiwi yarn and a firm belief in the power of a good story to get a client’s messages heard. He is a sharp writer for a variety of contexts including marketing communications, press releases, and all the grey areas in between.
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KEELY ALLEN
Hailing from California, Keely joined the team in 2015 and works across Dock Street Group’s portfolio of travel and design clients. While in the last year of her undergraduate degree, Keely worked with The Blind Foundation as a part of AUT’s Outside the Square student-run consultancy to build awareness of the Blindweek street appeal through a supersized braille wall stunt. Keely is keenly interested in the challenge that comes with devising short and long-term PR strategies and has an affinity for art and design. Growing up immersed in arts, she is particularly passionate about developing plans to see the art community succeed in an increasingly challenging media environment.She holds a BCS in Public Relations and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing.
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