David Yelland (born 14 May 1963) is a former journalist and editor of The Sun and founder of Kitchen Table Partners, a specialist public relations and communications company in London, which he formed in 2015 after leaving the Brunswick Group LLP.
Yelland subsequently traced his birth father, the late John Sheridan, who was an Irish folk musician, newspaper executive and later peace campaigner and bookshop owner.
[1] He was a trainee with Westminster Press, then part of Pearson, and worked on a series of regional papers including the Northern Echo and the North West Times in Manchester.
[4][10] Yelland appeared on the BBC Today programme and wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian on 29 September 2013 arguing for reform of the press and for the Royal Charter on its future to be adopted.
His clients have included Lord Browne, Burberry, Ocado, Norman Foster, Tony Ball, Warner Music Group, Brookfield Multiplex,[12] Tesco,[12][13] Coca-Cola[12] and Cadbury-Schweppes.
In 2015 he left Brunswick to form Kitchen Table Partners which the Financial Times reported would counsel individuals as well as businesses.
Yelland has written a children's novel about a 10-year-old who tries to hide his father's alcoholism, titled The Truth about Leo,[14] which was published by Penguin Books in April 2010.
Their son, Max, was born in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Shepherd's Bush, London, in August 1998.