The Rhythm of Reputation
Pentameter is a specialist reputation, media and strategic communications advisory based in New York, founded and run by media industry veteran James Doran.
Pentameter advises an exclusive stable of companies, executives and high-net worth individuals in geographies that include the United States, the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. Pentameter is the underlying rhythm that sets a great story apart from the rest. When your business, your brand, your team and your clients are connected by a compelling narrative, they move to a powerful and unifying beat.
“Pentameter is the underlying rhythm that sets a great story apart from the rest.”
James Doran
Pentameter’s founder and principal, has more than 30 years of experience working at the highest levels of financial media and strategic communications worldwide. Today he advises on reputation, media and strategic communications related, among other situations, to government inquiries, criminal investigations and civil litigation in multiple jurisdictions, numerous regulatory inquiries, and the intense media scrutiny that accompanies them. Before that he travelled the world as a staff business writer and foreign correspondent for The Times of London, where he also served as bureau chief on Wall Street and in Washington DC. As a senior journalist he worked across the UK and Europe, the Americas, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. He also worked at The London Evening Standard, the Financial Times, Bloomberg News and The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi. At Pentameter James counts Fortune 500 companies, high-net-worth individuals, C-suite executives and global industry bodies among his clients.