2018 marks Steve Morris’s tenth year as managing director at Portland. During his tenure the firm has grown from a team of 20 to more than 250. Clients include some of the world’s best-known billionaires, family offices, CEOs and philanthropists. Morris says he has worked on every kind of issue: sensitive personal and family crises, legal and criminal cases and philanthropic endeavours. Prior to Portland, Morris worked at Downing Street for five years as head of strategic communications – ‘a fantastic experience’ he says. ‘If you can deal with the British political lobby journalism, then you can pretty much deal with anything,’ he adds.