Smoking Gun PR has hired Hayley Peters to its senior team.

Peters, who joins from Weber Shandwick where she was senior account director, will deliver strategic counsel and support to a number of the agency’'s biggest clients, in addition to driving new business and developing the agency’'s insight-driven approach to communications..

This senior appointment follows a number of hires for the agency over the last six months, including Tally Thompson as junior account executive, Kineta Kelsall as digital manager, and Beth Nicholson and Kirstin Mack as senior account executives, taking the head count to 16.