Amanda Groty is a Senior Managing Director with Teneo.

She has over 20 years of experience across a variety of in-house and agency roles including ABB, where she was Head of Communications; Nissan, where she led all global corporate comms; and PayPal, where she was senior director and Head of Communications for EMEA. In those roles she has worked consistently at Board level, delivering strategic comms programmes across international markets.

Prior to this she also headed up (and grew) the tech practice at H&K for over six years, and brings along deep expertise and an extensive network across that sector.

Prior to joining H&K, Amanda was Managing Director of Beattie Media where she built its London operation from scratch, and led for five years at Firefly Communications UK.

She started out at ABC News in the Washington DC headquarters after achieving a BA in English from Hood College, Maryland, USA.