Our Team

Charlie Miller brings decades of global experience as a communicator, journalist and writer helping major corporations across more than 40 markets to successfully engage with stakeholders, build reputation and navigate issues, challenges, and crises.

A highly regarded communications professional and award-winning journalist, he has exceptional experience in the fields of media relations, reputation management, issues management, and crisis communications.

Charlie led aerospace giant Boeing’s global communications team for 12 years. His mission was to support global business growth and protect the company by optimizing reputation and mitigating risk with comprehensive issues and crisis management around the world.

Charlie spent a total of 20 years at Boeing initially leading and building an international team to optimize communications in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia.

Prior to Boeing, Charlie jointly led Corporate Media Relations as Head of News at Europe’s biggest defense company BAE Systems.

Earlier, Charlie forged a successful 20-year career as a journalist, primarily covering Global Affairs and Defense for the UK national news agency, the Press Association. He received the UK “Scoop of the Year” award for breaking the news of the death of Princess Diana in 1997.

A British national, Charlie moved to the United States with Boeing in 2013. He is currently based in Chicago. He speaks English and French.

Ged Henderson is a multi-award winning former regional newspaper editor and national newspaper journalist with 40 years’ experience in the media industry. During his career he has covered major news events, including the Lockerbie air disaster, and has travelled extensively, filing stories from the Falkland Islands, Cyprus, East Africa and Asia.

His numerous awards include being named UK Industrial Journalist of the Year for his incisive work covering business for the Manchester Evening News. He has edited two award-winning regional daily newspapers – The Journal in Newcastle and the Blackpool Gazette. Ged has worked for Polaris since 2018 helping manage a number of key long term retained accounts.

Hannah Sherlock is a qualified Journalist and PR and Content Consultant, successfully delivering both B2B and B2C communications, bespoke PR strategies and campaigns, copywriting, media relations, thought leadership, social media content and influencer outreach. This is all with the aim of raising brand awareness and building positive exposure for her clients.

Hannah has a wealth of experience across a wide variety of industry sectors, including professional services (recruitment, legal and finance), construction, engineering, maritime, retail, eCommerce, supply chain and logistics, healthcare, hospitality, tech, lifestyle and interiors, food and drink, automotive and more.

Jon is a senior BBC journalist specialising in online production, newsletter creation and production and developing content formats designed to appeal to ever-changing digital audiences.

Across more than 20 years, he has been front page editor for BBC Sport, worked as senior development journalist and led an analytics team digging into user data to understand changing behaviours.

He fronts two BBC newsletters and, sent to a somewhat smaller audience, a personal one on life as a Labrador owner.

Milda Cuplinskaite is Polaris office manager and has worked for the company since 2018 . Milda is a law and management graduate of Mykolas Romeris University (MRU). She undertakes digital media monitoring and business development outreach attending maritime trade associations events on Polaris behalf.

Pamela Brown MBE JP DL is one of Merseyside and UK’s best known maritime figures. Pamela has advised Polaris and our clients since 2016 and represents Polaris at trade associations and events. Pamela is a director and trustee of numerous charities including the Mersey River Festival, the Mission for Seafarers the Liverpool Seafarers’ Centre, Friends of the Sea. Pamela was awarded the Merchant Navy Medal for services to the industry.