Talk:Hakluyt & Company

Origin of the name Hakluyt
It would be good to have some explanation here, as neither founder was surnamed Hakluyt. And a note on pronunciation. --Bacon Man (talk) 14:48, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

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I would like to suggest some changes to the Hakluyt & Company Wikipedia entry. I believe they are non-controversial, as they simply update the references to Hakluyt’s overseas offices, management and boards. I have an interest, as I am an employee of Holdingham Group, of which Hakluyt & Company is a trading name. That is why I am proposing these changes here rather than simply making them myself.

The updates are as follows:

1. In the second paragraph, "Hakluyt is headquartered in London and has subsidiary offices in Singapore and New York” should be changed to “Hakluyt is headquartered in London and has subsidiary offices in Singapore, New York and Tokyo”.

The supporting reference is www.hakluyt.co.uk.

2. Keith Craig retired as CEO in 2016, and I would suggest adding a sentence to the end of the second paragraph as follows: “In March 2016, Dr Paul Schreier became the new CEO of Hakluyt, in succession to Keith Craig. Unlike his predecessors, Schreier does not have a background in intelligence. A former Royal Navy officer, he was a partner with McKinsey & Company, worked in the office of the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and was Chief Operating Officer of Macquarie University in Australia.”

Supporting references for this statement can be found at https://mq.edu.au/about/executive/vice-chancellor/2015/10/13/changes-in-the-executive-group/ AND AT https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paul-schreier-ab80011. ‎

3. The fourth paragraph, on the Holdingham board, is out of date, and I suggest replacing it with: “In January 2016, Lord Paul Deighton joined the company’s board, which is chaired by Sir John Rose, former CEO of Rolls-Royce. Deighton was previously the head of the Organising Committee for the 2012 London Olympic Games and a minister in the British Treasury. The other members of the board are Robert Webb, QC and Matthew Williams.”

Supporting references are at http://holdingham.com/directors AND AT ‎https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/deighton-lord-commercial-secretary-to-the-treasury-acoba-recommendation--2/summary-of-business-appointments-applications-lord-deighton

4. The section on The Hakluyt International Advisory Board is also out of date, and I suggest replacing it with:

“Hakluyt’s International Advisory Board comprises senior figures with backgrounds in business and government. It is chaired by Niall FitzGerald, KBE, former CEO and chairman of Unilever. Its members in January 2017 were:

Sir Roy Anderson, former Rector, Imperial College, London

Manvinder (Vindi) Banga, partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

Senator Bill Bradley, Managing Director, Allen & Company

Keith Craig, former Managing Director, Holdingham Group Ltd

Sir Christopher Gent, former chairman, GlaxoSmithKline and former CEO, Vodafone

Irene Lee, chairman, Hysan Development Co. Ltd

Sir Iain Lobban, former Director, UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Minoru (Ben) Makihara, KBE, former President and Chairman, Mitsubishi Corporation

Trevor Manuel, former Minister of Finance, South Africa

Akio Mimura, chairman, Tokyo and Japan Chambers of Commerce and Industry and former President, Nippon Steel

Lubna S. Olayan, CEO and Deputy Chairperson, Olayan Financing Company

Amaury de Seze, vice-chairman, Power Corporation of Canada

Andreas Sohmen-Pao, chairman, BW Group

Louis B. Susman, former US Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Ratan Tata, GBE, chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons”

The supporting reference for this is http://holdingham.com/advisory_board

If someone was happy to make these changes, I would be grateful.

HoldinghamCharles (talk) 14:54, 12 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Press release free of charge? Wikipedia is not a platform for PR. You should write here something about who murdered Ken Saro-Wiwa and about the spy Manfred Schlickenrieder on Hakluyt's payroll. Wikipedia would be grateful. --87.156.231.94 (talk) 18:20, 18 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Objection not upheld. The amendments proposed are all matters of factual accuracy and have been carried out.  The user's comment will be deleted within six months if no further comment is made.Bacon Man (talk) 14:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

COI edits 29 June 2023
Just a note to disclose my conflict of interest, I have updated some uncontroversial information directly including the directors and office locations. I have also corrected the former references so these now point to the correct site areas and not just the homepage. HakluytUser2 (talk) 16:57, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I made a further change on 07 June 2023 to bring the infobox up to date. HakluytUser2 (talk) 14:30, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Request
Hi, I have a conflict of interest and have been making some uncontroversial changes to update the article, to accurately reflect the personnel currently involved with Hakluyt & Company. I would also like to bring the International Advisory Board up to date as per the below, removing ( strikethrough ) former members no longer active and adding (bold) new, active ones. I am happy to do this myself if appropriate but please let me know if you have any concerns about the material or think it’s better that the community takes this step. Thank you in advance! (Chairman) – former CEO and chairman, Unilever''' The former president and chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation, Minoru (Ben) Makihara, served on the advisory board of the firm from 2004 to 2020.
 * Paul Achleitner – former chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank
 * M. S. Banga – partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and former chairman and managing director, Hindustan Unilever
 * John Bell – Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford
 * Douglas Flint – chairman, Standard Life Aberdeen
 * Jeff Greenberg - CEO and Chairman, Aquiline Capital Partners
 * Muhtar Kent – former CEO and chairman, The Coca-Cola Company
 * Irene Lee – chairman, Hysan Development Co. Limited
 * Iain Lobban – former director, UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
 * Trevor Manuel – former minister of finance, South Africa
 * Lubna Olayan – CEO and deputy chairperson, Olayan Financing Company
 * Sandi Peterson – former group worldwide chairman, Johnson & Johnson and independent director, Microsoft Corporation
 * Alfonso Prat-Gay – former minister of the economy and President of the Central Bank of Argentina
 * John Rose – former chairman, Hakluyt & Company
 * Shuzo Sumi – former president and chairman, Tokio Marine Holdings and chairman of the board, Sony Corporation
 * Ambassador Louis Susman – former US ambassador to the UK
 * Ratan Tata – chairman emeritus, Tata Sons
 * Shriti Vadera – chair, Prudential Plc, former chair, Santander UK
 * Mark Wiseman – former senior managing director at BlackRock, and former CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
 * '''Niall FitzGerald

HakluytUser2 (talk) 11:48, 14 July 2023 (UTC)


 * It's not usual practice to list "advisory boards" on company articles, per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. It sounds like this advisory board may be separate from the board of directors? Strike that, I see it's an advisory firm. In any event, we don't really list those either. In lieu of better sourced content being added, I'm not sure what this list brings to the article, except to turn the article into a list. Also, I moved your signature to the end of your post, that's where they're usually placed, as the last thing in your talk page message. Regards,  Spintendo  14:11, 14 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: I agree with Spintendo on this and I have gone ahead and removed that content from the article. Actualcpscm (talk) 14:54, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

COI edits 13 October 2023
Hi, I would like to make a request that the following paragraph be removed from this article:

"In 2023, the British Labour Party employed Hakluyt to help it court the British business community by arranging meetings with prominent business figures."https://news.yahoo.com/labour-taps-hakluyt-adviser-woo-092048383.html

The source provided (citation 11, Bloomberg) states that Hakluyt has confirmed that the British Labour Party is not a client, and that Hakluyt does not work for political parties, and the British Labour Party declined to comment. As such, the update is speculative rather than factual and should not be included on Wikipedia.

I declare that I have a professional conflict of interest and have been employed by Hakluyt & Company to edit Wikipedia.

Many thanks HakluytUser2 (talk) 16:27, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ The claim in question has been reworded to more closely align with the information provided in the Bloomberg source. Regards, Spintendo  06:12, 14 October 2023 (UTC)