After three decades of working for international companies and giving free advice to scores of people Noke Kiroyan is moving out of corporate life and into consultancy.
Noke, who used to head Rio Tinto and most recently PT Newmont Pacific Nusantara (see Unspun’s previous posting and the rather interesting comments left by some readers), is setting up a consulting firm called Kiroyan Kuhon Partners. They will be providing consulting services in the fields of Corporate Social Responsibility, start-ups, public affairs, crisis management, communications and reputation building.
The new firm will be situated in a new building, Menara Karya (on Rasuna Road next to Menara Kadin). Noke’s partner in this enterprise Albert Kuhon a former journalist with Kompas, SCTV and Suara Pembaruan before starting his own crisis management and communications firm, Arendi Kemala.
Making up the team is also Satria Budiono, a man with good government contacts who worked with APCO and then Ogilvy PR; and Natasya Kiroyan and Nadira Alatas, daughters of Noke and Ali respectively.
The girls actually run a company called Engage right now that specializes in consulting on Corporate Social Responsibility. It was also a source for Noke to start Kiroyan Kuhon Partners. Engage will eventually merge into KKP.
Unspun welcomes the potential competition and cooperation a firm like KKP brings to the communications/consulting industry. The more the merrier.
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Anyone interested in serious communications should shun this company that makes claims of sophistication when it cannot understand the dynamics of blogs and has to resort to cheap tricks like spamming to get a bit of publicity. if you trust this company to do your PR you’re likely to have bloggers flaming you.
About the Blogging bandwagon, Unspun, seems like the World Bank is finally starting to get it. Here’s a link to a piece on Salon about a subject close to your heart: staid and stolid institutions getting in on the ‘conversation’: http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/18/buzzmonitor/index.html