Gregory Leddy

Managing Director

With more than 30 years experience in public relations and advertising, Gregory Leddy is an expert in international and intercultural communications. He has managed multi-disciplinary programs in country marketing, tourism promotion and economic development and has broad experience serving corporate and government clients throughout the United States and Latin America.

On behalf of Mexico’s Ministry of Tourism he developed and implemented the global communications strategies and programs that helped position Mexico as a world-class tourist destination, promoting both the country’s variety of destinations and its tourism industry to key markets in the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America.

He developed Mexico’s first-ever foreign direct investment marketing program, funded by Mexico’s Foreign Export Bank and the private sector, and FDI marketing campaigns for Panama and Honduras working with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Leddy is the former Director of Latin American Operations for Hill and Knowlton in New York, General Manager of Fleishman-Hillard's representative office in Mexico City and Senior Vice President of Fleishman-Hillard Latin America, based in Miami.

His clients have included such household names as Citicorp, Microsoft, Pepsi-Cola, Kraft, Anheuser-Busch, Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive, and start-ups such as Timestrip, Plc., in addition to many others.

In the tourism industry his clients include Tourism Ireland, Sheraton Hotels, the Mexico Tourism Board, AeroMexico, Las Brisas Hotel, the Mexico City Tourism Authority, Panama, Acapulco and the Acapulco International Convention Center.

An American who has lived in the U.S., Mexico, Italy, France, UK, Venezuela and Argentina, he is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and fluent in Italian, French and Portuguese.