David Phillips is co-founder and CEO of Pangolin, the creative PR and communications agency he set up in 2013 with Will Cookson after the pair met at Freuds.
The independent agency, whose clients include PepsiCo, Pernod Ricard and McCormick, says it was named Independent Consultancy of the Year at the 2025 PRmoment Awards, and the founders told LBB in March 2026 that they launched the business with just £3,000. Pangolin works from St John’s Square in Clerkenwell, London.
Here he tells Business Matters why getting it done is the agency’s superpower, and why he would have hired senior talent sooner.
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