Ray Eglington is a founding partner of Four Communications Group, the leading integrated communications agency with more than 370 staff in offices in the UK and Middle East.  He has run Four’s MENA operations since 2005, leading teams in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.

With more than 30 years of in-house and agency PR experience, Ray’s skills lie in strategic brand positioning, integrated campaign development, and crisis & issues management.

Ray has won many awards for his campaigns, including the PR Week Grand Prix, the IPR Sword of Excellence, PRCA Outstanding Consultancy Practice Awards, Sabre Awards and numerous MEPRA awards.  Four is the current Large Agency of the Year in the Middle East.

Ray sits on the Group Board and the Executive Committee of Four Communications Group, as well as the Group’s specialist practice management boards.  He was Chair of the Middle East Public Relations Association in 2017 and 2018, a period which saw the trade association develop its largest ever membership, its widest range of activities and its most successful financial performance.  He is also Chair of Greencombe Limited, a UK-based park homes business.

Before starting Four, Ray was a main board director at Charles Barker BSMG Worldwide, the UK’s sixth-largest agency, and before that, he held positions as a director at Countrywide Porter Novelli and as European public relations manager for Sabre / American Airlines.