Fenton Fitzwilliam strengthens UK leadership with two senior appointments

Mace | 29th July 2026 | Moves

Fenton Fitzwilliam is an Irish-headquartered public affairs and strategic communications consultancy.

The specialist advisory firm has appointed Gary Follis as Senior Adviser and Hamish Docherty as Director, further strengthening its senior leadership team.

The appointments follow the recent announcement of Natalie Buxton as UK Managing Director and underline Fenton Fitzwilliam’s ambition to build a best-in-class advisory capability serving organisations operating in complex and highly regulated sectors.

Moray Macdonald, CEO, said: “Gary and Hamish are exactly the kind of senior advisers we want to build Fenton Fitzwilliam around. Gary’s political relationships and regulatory track record are genuinely rare, and Hamish brings real depth in energy and infrastructure, sectors that sit at the heart of what we do. Together they will make an immediate difference to our clients and to the calibre of our UK team.”

Hamish Docherty, Director

Hamish joins from Weber Shandwick, where he was most recently Director and a member of the senior leadership team. Prior to that, he spent five years at Teneo, working with some of the world’s largest and most high-profile companies across corporate affairs, strategic communications and crisis management.

Most recently, at Weber Shandwick, he led a number of the firm’s key accounts, specialising in advising energy and infrastructure clients, including those operating in the nuclear, offshore wind, oil & gas and heat network sectors.

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