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Neil Daugherty has over two decades of experience advising senior leaders on using reputation to create commercial advantage.
He specialises in strategic communications projects, crisis communications and special situations, worldwide. He has particular experience working with blue chip organisations on campaigns with strong or contentious political dimensions (energy security, runway expansion). Neil has deep experience in both the sports business and TMT sectors, as well as advising clients around the world at all levels of the energy value chain.
Neil was the founding Managing Director of Blue Rubicon Qatar in 2013 before moving back to London in January 2017, having established the agency as the market leader there.
He has extensive sports experience having worked for major sports governing bodies, leading football clubs and sports investors, think tanks and sports charities.
Before joining Teneo, Neil worked for Hill & Knowlton, after graduating from Pembroke College, Cambridge with a MA Cantab in History, and Social and Political Sciences. He is the Senior Independent Director and Board Trustee of the Nike London Youth Games, the biggest pan-London multi-sport youth sports competition.
Across Europe, professional athletes are limbering up to begin competitions behind closed doors – will history judge their employers kindly? In our household, we spent Saturday afternoon watching a live broadcast of the German Bundesliga for if not the first time, one of the few in living memory. In the…
Everybody has a plan, and then they get punched in the mouth,” was former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson’s take on the established trope of military theory which can be traced to the rather less famous nineteenth century Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth von Molkte. Until recently there were few…
Sports, as one of the world’s most enduring and captivating forms of live entertainment, is being disrupted at uncommon speed and on an unprecedented scale globally. The result is that the commercial development of sports is changing in ways and at a speed hitherto unknown. For example, football (soccer to…
