He was most recently Editor-in-Chief of International Business Times UK, Associate Editor at Newsweek Europe and head of its editorial panel, positions he quit after his 60th birthday in 2015.
The firm grew through the 1990s off the back of major and often controversial clients such as British Gas, Kimberly Clark, Holocaust Memorial Day and the Hinduja family.
He is a regular broadcaster on religious matters, is a panel contributor to BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought and has organised topical debates in churches.
Since 2006 he co-organised Christmas benefit concerts for churches and cathedrals with Ian Anderson of Seventies supergroup Jethro Tull.
Pitcher insisted on social media that the Church should not see him as "the bad boy of its communications" and that in 2010 the prevailing culture inside Lambeth Palace was "to stonewall, to do and say nothing in response to abuse allegations.
Pitcher has contributed numerous articles in newspapers and magazines, usually on business topics and public ethics, including The Guardian[10] and the New Statesman.