George Candon

Current

• Director at Weber Shandwick

Past

• Account Director at Weber Shandwick
• Account Manager at Weber Shandwick
• Marketing Communications Manager at Upaid Systems

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Education

• Queen's University Belfast
• Trinity College, Dublin
• Università di Bologna

• Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)

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Connections

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Industry

Public Relations and Communications

George Candon’s Summary

George Candon is Director Communications at Weber Shandwick Brussels where he leads a team of 11 communications professionals on campaigns ranging in scope from Brussels-hubbed pan-European programmes to EU-focused communications outreach and Belgian-market campaigns. Major blue-chip client accounts that George currently runs include UPS, General Motors, MasterCard, Microsoft, Royal Dutch Shell, bmi and Honeywell.

George enjoys broad experience in a range of communications disciplines, most notably in consumer PR, corporate communications, issues management and crisis communications. He drives Weber Shandwick Brussels' social and digital media strategy, ensuring that all communications campaigns thoroughly integrate both on-and offline channels in an inline communications approach. George is also an experienced media trainer.

George has led on a number of award-winning campaigns, including the Opel Corsa launch (winner 2007 Gold SABRE award for the best PR campaign in the Automotive sector) and the Glaverbel/AGC Flat Glass rebranding campaign (Award of Excellence in the Industrial sector, 2008 SABRE awards).

George holds an MSSc in European Political Integration from the Queen's University of Belfast, and a BA (Mod) Hons from the University of Dublin (Trinity College). He is past Secretary of the TCD Alumni Association France and current Secretary of the Belgian chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.

George Candon’s Specialties:

Pan-Eurpean campaigns & network management; consumer PR; corporate communications; business-to-business communications; media training; crisis communications

George Candon’s Experience

• Director

  Weber Shandwick

  (Public Company; IPG; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  July 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Account Director

  Weber Shandwick

  (Public Relations and Communications industry)

  July 2007 — June 2009 (2 years )

• Account Manager

  Weber Shandwick

  (Public Company; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  March 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 4 months)

• Marketing Communications Manager

  Upaid Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 8 months)

George Candon’s Education

• Queen's University Belfast

  MSSc , European Politics and Public Policy , 1997 — 1998

• Trinity College, Dublin

  Bachelor of Arts [Letters] , Italian and French, School of Languages , 1991 — 1997

  Activities and Societies:

  DU Choral Society
  DU Historical Society

• Università di Bologna

  1996 — 1996

• Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)

  Italian and French 1992 — 1993

Additional Information

George Candon’s Groups:

•    Trinity College Dublin - Alumni and Friends
•    Trinity College Dublin - Brussels Alumni

George Candon’s Contact Settings

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