December 3, 2024
Philippa Ushio leads teams in developing communications strategies and mounting multi-disciplinary campaigns to protect and enhance business value.
Throughout her career, Philippa has provided strategic counsel to clients facing a wide variety of complex issues, focusing particularly on their communications challenges. She has led a myriad of innovative programs around the world that have advanced the business objectives of clients in many different industries, including financial services and fintech.
Previous client experience includes working with brands such as Delta Airlines, Advisor Group, Bain Capital, Millennium Trust, Barclays Capital, Tata Chemicals, Slack, HSBC, Umpqua Bank, Credit Suisse, William Blair, Schroders and Investcorp. Before joining Prosek Partners, Philippa was the founder of Wall & Broadway, a consultancy that specialized in providing strategic communications solutions to startups. She began her career in the Middle East with FTI Consulting where she led communications strategy on the restructuring of the Emirate’s government healthcare funding program while also consulting for Lloyds TSB and the Emirates Group.
Philippa has a postgraduate diploma from Cardiff School of Journalism and a MA from St Andrews University in Scotland. She lives in New York with her family.
Learning about different cultures and assimilating to regional nuances has been the greatest challenge and greatest pleasure of my career. I have also worked on some game- changing programs such as the Dubai Health Authority healthcare funding model, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Theranos.
I have a bit of an extreme streak…I raced a tuk tuk from Bangladesh to Goa, dug the foundation for bridge in Bolivia, hitchhiked in Malaysia, jumped out of a plane over Mexico, drove solo from CA to NY and have I been diving with great white sharks in South Africa.
I really listen to clients – I try to put myself in their shoes and think around problems from their perspective.
Soup. I eat it almost every day.
Skiing, walking and running (usually right behind my 3 yr old)
Those coveted moments when an account sings…the team are working well together, the results are coming in and everyone is supporting each other. I love those moments – and fortunately for us, they happen every day.