• Philippe Holtzweiler
    Founder

    When I founded HOPE, back in 1997 in picturesque Freiburg, Germany, I had just spent (after graduating from a very prestigious and surprisingly boring business school) 15 years managing branded products and services in different European markets. This experience had convinced me of two things:
    • Effective international communications demand a high level of cross-cultural expertise.
    • For most companies, using the services of truly global agencies is beyond reach, and in many cases, exceedingly time-consuming and complicated.
    This has held true to this day, after a journey which brought me to relocate to the British Isles and the American mainland.

    What I did not expect, though, is that the agency’s concept would appeal to unexpectedly large clients, and that, besides a lot of international work, we would be quite active on various single national markets. All the better.

    Olga Krasnova
    Senior Partner

    When Philippe and me got married, in 2016, I had a choice: continue working in the natural supplement industry in Southern California, where I had held various executive positions in logistics, sales and international development for the best part of 20 years, or join HOPE.

    I opted for Philippe’s business, as I could both extend HOPE’s range of language and cross-cultural capabilities (I’m a Russian-born American), and leverage my knowledge of a booming industry where HOPE was not yet present. Together, we are keen to further expand the agency’s – and its clients’ – horizons. In addition, joining the agency has given new perspectives to my passion for photography…
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