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Agency of the Year Nominees
Emerge
Emily M Austen is the founder and CEO of EMERGE, her award-winning PR agency with offices in London and LA, pivotal to the launch and scale of a number of global brands, including Huel, Spanx, 1Rebel, rewardStyle, Nickelodeon, Rayban and ViaVan. Austen also acts as the Strategic PR Advisor to the UN Women UK.
KTW & The Wick
Katy Wickremesinghe is the creator of The Wick, a content platform and hub to connect the culturally curious. Breaking open the art world and offering access to expert and new perspectives, The Wick is on a mission to enable individuals and businesses to understand the impact of arts, culture and design on our daily lives and commerce to make them more art engaged and responsible.
Katy is a top 5 Luxury power player (PR Week PowerBook 2020 & 2021), and formed KTW in 2014 after a decade at Freuds. A committed cultural advocate and philanthropist, Katy serves as an RA, Serpentine Future Contemporaries and V&A Young Patron. She is also committed to mentoring as part of The Association of Women in The Arts (AWITA), Art Market Mentors (AMM) and Warwick Business School.
SEEN Connects
Sedge Beswick is the Founder and Managing Director of SEEN Connects, her innovative, globally based influencer marketing agency. SEEN Connects is focused on empowering businesses to harness their social media presence to create meaningful consumer connections, in partnership with an unrivaled community of highly engaged influencers. Having previously worked at Red Bull and Three UK, Sedge moved to ASOS before setting up Connects, working as their Global Social Media manager taking them from a lesser known fashion hub, to the world’s most visited ecommerce clothing site. Her client list includes: Nike, Bumble, Panasonic and eBay.