Mary Gearing has 20 years of experience with a broad range of expertise in the communication, reputation, and PR industry.

She joined Magna Carta in 2006 servicing and heading up the day-to-day operations, overall integration, media relations and crisis and issues management requirements for some of the agency’s largest client accounts such as MTN South Africa, Vodacom, Microsoft and Standard Bank.

A large part of her career has been spent in the consumer & retail, automotive and financial service industries.

Prior to Magna Carta, Mary worked at a specialist PR consulting firm focusing on a variety of big blue-chip/IT clients including Sony, Toshiba, Logitech, Computer Associates (CA), Oracle to name a few.

With a degree in Corporate Communications and Public Relations, Mary believes that reputation management is not a crisis or issues management tool but rather a proactive approach to how we communicate, conduct business and show up as a brand. It should be wrapped around everything we do and say.