Mark Hayward

About Mark

Age 42.
MEDIA EXPERIENCE 22.
YEARS WITH SWAY 10.

Age: 42
PR career: 22 years building brands
About Mark: A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing with a passion for business, family, sport and the outdoors.
Highlights: Cover stories in the telegraph, guardian and Times, and BBC Breakfast couch interview.
Client highlights: Our PR helped double the turnover of businesses year on year (for three years consecutively); supported and grew travel business over lockdown

EDUCATION & AWARDS

After achieving a BA degree in Public Relations and Sports Science awarded from Exeter University, Mark has won PR awards for campaigns including the Best Use of Photography and Design in a PR campaign, and has been shortlisted for best Consumer Campaign by the CIPR.

More recently, Mark has been recognised by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as a Fellow, in recognition of his 20+ years contribution to the marketing industry.

GET TO KNOW

I love brands that enhance our lives and wellbeing. Whether that be sport and exercise or travel or meditation, I love to find ways to open my mind to a more fulfilling way of living.

These passions have seen me play sport for my county; rebuild a primary school in the Himalayan mountains; compete in marathons, triathlons and endurance events; even travel around the world with my wife for two-and-a-half years. I believe there is always room for us to expand our minds.

PR for me is one of the most powerful forms of marketing available to a business. It is a way for us to change perceptions, educate, persuade and influence an audience through the media.

It’s so much more than an advert!

I still get a buzz every time the team generate a great piece of coverage in a key media. Whether that be the multi-page features in the FT, Telegraph, Times (to name a few) or on TV with Sky News, the BBC or ITV.

One piece however that will always stick in my mind was with Strider Balance Bikes where we arranged for the four-year-old winner of the British Balance Bike Championships to join the presenters on the BBC Breakfast couch resulting in a turning point for the brand in the UK.