Team

Personal leadership, reliable delivery.

JPE Consulting is a specialist communications boutique for financial-market, digital-asset and European mandates. Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard leads strategy; Melek Samadzade supports research, reporting, media coordination and delivery.

Portrait of Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard in a calm advisory setting.
Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard portrait.

Founder / Senior Adviser

Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard

Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard leads mandates with journalistic instinct, financial-market understanding and European communications experience. His work often starts with one question: what will withstand public scrutiny, and for whom?

He develops positioning, topic strategy, spokesperson roles and media relations for companies with complex subject matter. He combines market understanding, editorial timing, relationships and persistence.

  • Positioning, topic strategy and senior mandate leadership
  • Financial media relations, spokesperson briefings and journalistic framing
  • European coordination in German, English, French and Italian

Personal background

German, French and Luxembourgish. European by background, multilingual in practice.

Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard is German, French and Luxembourgish. That European background shapes his work across German, French, English and Italian contexts.

Earlier roles as a PR Officer at the European Parliament and as a journalist sharpened his sense of relevance, timing and editorial fit. He also speaks Luxembourgish and Spanish.

Outside work, he is married, father of two children, a football coach and a board member of a tennis club. Sport reflects the same attitude: take responsibility, build structures, strengthen people.

Portrait of Melek Samadzade in the JPE Consulting work environment.
Melek Samadzade portrait.

PR & Operations Coordinator

Melek Samadzade

Melek Samadzade supports JPE Consulting's daily mandate work across reporting, research, media coordination, documentation and follow-up.

She contributes where precision and responsiveness matter: client reports, media summaries, share-of-voice analyses, topic preparation and journalistic requests.

With German, English, Turkish and Azerbaijani, she strengthens the team's linguistic and cultural range. She brings a careful, structured and learning-oriented way of working.

  • Client reports, media summaries and share-of-voice analyses
  • Preparation, research and structured follow-up
  • Coordination of journalistic requests and follow-up topics

Working model

Direct responsibility, clear delivery.

Mandates need strategic leadership and reliable execution. JPE Consulting combines senior advisory involvement with structured delivery: research, reporting, media coordination and European alignment.

Lead

Senior led

Strategic direction, topic judgement, spokesperson positioning and sensitive press contacts are led by Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard.

Delivery

Supported by the team

Melek Samadzade supports reporting, research, coordination, documentation and live requests.

Quality

Structured preparation

Clear briefings, follow-up and documentation help carry topics forward.

Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard and Melek Samadzade outside the Frankfurt stock exchange with the bull sculpture.
Jonathan Ponchon-Erhard and Melek Samadzade outside the Frankfurt stock exchange.

Europe

Frankfurt as a base, with a European view.

JPE Consulting helps international businesses communicate their expertise in the German-speaking market and build relationships with relevant media. Working in English, German, French and Italian, we combine market knowledge with a clear understanding of what journalists need.