Boeing poaches Porsche press relations manager for European role

by Gemma O'Reilly PR Week UK 07-May-08, 09:52

Porsche Cars Great Britain is losing its press relations manager to Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Andrew Davis is leaving the car manufacturer following seven years in the role. He is joining Boeing as its comms manager for Europe, Russia and Central Asia. He replaces Mike Tull who is moving to the company's American offices.

At Porsche Davis was responsible for all the car marques corporate and product PR, and Government and public affairs activity. During his time at Porsche he launched over 50 variants of Porsche cars to the media and was responsible for developing the company's public affairs remit.

‘Boeing have a number of innovative plane launches in the pipeline including its carbon fibre plane which I will be invovled in,' said Davis.

Porsche is currently looking for his replacement.