Mark Westfield
Director– C|T Financial

Mark recently joined C|T Financial after three years in corporate communications following a long career as a journalist and commentator, bringing an in-depth knowledge of media and corporate Australia .

He is a former business editor and financial columnist with The Australian , Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald 's CBD Column, business reporter for ABC TV's Four Corners and business and finance editor of ABC's The 7.30 Report .

Since moving into corporate communications, Mark has provided:

• media management and strategic communications advice for a large brewer's hostile bid for a regional rival focusing media attention on lack of corporate governance by the target Board;
• corporate positioning and issues management for a major media and gaming company;
• media management and communications advice for private equity bids for a credit rating and debt collection group highlighting weak financial performances by the defending companies;
• defence strategy and counsel for a major mining group against a hostile bid from an overseas based miner, winning media support for a much higher valuation for the defending group;
• communications advice and media management for a Sydney-based methane gas producer's successful defence against a hostile bid from an interstate rival;
• communications counsel for a major mortgage insurer seeking changes to proposed capital risk weights for housing mortgages, and;
• strategic media management and advice for an investment company conducting a proxy campaign for board positions in an under-performing industrial company.

Mark won a Walkley Award in 2001 - for a series of articles highlighting the financial problems in Australia 's second largest general insurance company at the time, HIH, in the 12 months before its collapse - and the Ford National Press Club Award for federal political journalism in 1983.

He is the author of HIH - the Inside Story of Australia's Biggest Corporate Collapse , and The Gatekeepers, the Global battle for Australia 's pay TV .

Jannette Cotterell
Director - Media & Communications

As head of the Crosby|Textor Canberra office, Jannette Cotterell has nearly ten years experience as a media and communications consultant, and 13 years as a journalist both in Australia and overseas. Jannette delivers to clients an extensive knowledge of financial and corporate communications and issues management together with access to an invaluable network of media, business and political contacts.

She specialises in assisting major companies and organisations deal with a range of corporate, regulatory and media management issues as well providing her clients with effective risk analysis, stakeholder and crisis management strategies.

Jannette has designed and spearheaded many sensitive media and financial communications campaigns for clients. These include:

• developing a long-term research and communications strategy to manage credit card reform for one of Australia 's leading banks;
• leading a research-driven, reputation enhancement project for one of Australia's most dynamic financial services companies following sustained shareholder and media criticism of its performance;
• providing high level advice (media, regulatory and political) to the CEO and board of an international organisation during a sensitive but full-scale closure and sell-off of an its national chain of supermarkets;
• securing more than $40 million in one-off Government funding for a major international aviation company to enable it to build part of a new jetliner in Australia ;
• building a successful beneath-the-radar campaign to oppose the foreign takeover of an Australian resources company and;
• working with a private equity consortium in its bid for a major Australian blue-chip corporation.

Jannette also provides reputation protection and positive positioning advice for companies, their CEOs and their boards. In particular, she assists clients preserve market credibility and shareholder support during times of intense transactional activity, and subsequent political and media scrutiny. These activities include; restructuring deals, Initial Public Offerings, mergers and acquisitions, hostile or foreign takeovers.

Jannette was an Executive Producer for the BBC World Service Television News in London and then later the Series Producer with the Seven Network's current affairs program WITNESS in Sydney. She was a Walkley award finalist for a business story and was series producer on Nine's Money program.