Rachel Thomas is a Director who joined Merlin from Eloqui PR where she specialised in corporate PR for clients such as GE and Visa Europe. At Merlin she focuses on alternative assets and consumer and leisure sectors. In particular, she has extensive experience advising private equity firms across the deal spectrum on their positioning amongst investment and target investee audiences and communication for their investee firms in preparation for exit. Clients in this area include Bridgepoint and Equistone (previously Barclays Private Equity).

Working across financial, consumer and business to business communication, Rachel has wide ranging experience in supporting the corporate reputations of multinational companies and issue management. Rachel has a Master’s degree in Divinity (Systematic Theology and Philosophy) from the University of Edinburgh (2001-2005).