Ben Pinnington
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Ben Pinnington

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Ben Pinnington is the founder of international public relations business Polaris Media. Having founded Polaris in Liverpool, UK in 2011, he expanded it to Chicago in 2022 where he now lives with his family. He works with businesses worldwide, including shipyards, ports, shipping lines, barge operators, class societies, ship registries, equipment makers and trade bodies. A married father of two Ben is a trained newspaper reporter, a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), and is Vice President of the Chicago Propeller Club, a chapter of the International Propeller Club the world's largest maritime networking organization. Polaris won the Global Performance Award and Professional Services Business of the Year Award at the 2022 and 2020 Mersey Maritime Awards respectively in the UK. The Chicago Propeller Club was awarded International Chapter of the Year in 2024 by the International Propeller Club out of 80 clubs worldwide. Ben published his first book Making Waves: PR strategies to transform your maritime business in 2021. It became an Amazon best seller, a CIPR Silver Winner and was called 'a must read for maritime businesses' by the Nautilus Telegraph. The second USA themed edition of the book features 45,000 new words including a new in depth section on the US maritime industry.
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