LONDON — Koray Camgöz, the Public Relations and Communications Association’s (PRCA) director of communications and marketing, will leave the association in April this year.

Camgöz joined the PRCA in 2019 as head of communications and marketing – replacing Matt Cartmell, who left to set up his own B2B marcomms consultancy, Carta Communications – before being promoted to director a year later when his responsibilities were extended to events and public affairs.

A key member of the senior management team, Camgöz led the PRCA’s crisis response to the pandemic in 2020 and has shaped the association’s approach on policy issues from diversity, equity and inclusion – including being instrumental in the launch of the Race and Ethnicity Equity Board – and climate change.

Camgöz’ next move is not yet known. He told PRovoke Media: “It’s been an incredible journey and I couldn’t be more proud of what my colleagues and I have achieved in the past few years. From our award-winning crisis response to the pandemic, to the changes we championed on DEI, our work will have a lasting impact.

“I’m enormously grateful to my colleagues for their support, and I wish the association every success in its future.”

The departure will be a significant loss to the leadership of the PRCA, which is currently going through both a governance review and a complaints investigation relating to the conduct of director general Francis Ingham.

PRCA chair Sarah Scholefield, global CEO of Grayling, said: “Koray has played a large part in the success and growth of the PRCA since he joined, and has been integral in driving some critical initiatives. He is very highly-regarded, internally and externally – deservedly so –  and will be much missed. I wish him the greatest success with his next chapter.”