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Alex Myers
CEO + Group Founder
Founder and Group CEO, Alex has been the creative strategy lead at the agency since its inception in 2009.
CEO + Group Founder
Ali Maynard
Managing Partner, UK & Ireland
Ali is our longest standing member of the team. She’s in charge of building Manifest’s global network and running global campaigns.
Managing Partner, UK & Ireland
Jessica Becker
Managing Partner, US & Canada
Jess moved to New York to head up our American operation in 2017 – leading the agency from the front as our strategic lead in the region.
Managing Partner, US & Canada
Anna Karlsson
Managing Partner, Nordics
Anna is a co-founder of the Manifest Stockholm office, driving the agency’s operational performance and leading our Frame brand strategy team there.
Managing Partner, Nordics
Josefine Hedlund
Visual Creative Director, Nordics
A founding member of Manifest Stockholm, Josefine has a sharp eye for details, creativity and the visual aspect of our brand and campaign work in the Nordics.
Visual Creative Director, Nordics
Bec Chelin
Managing Director
Bec heads up our Manchester team, bringing a decade of top notch client service experience and leading on strategic internal comms projects. She’s also responsible for bringing all the Mancunian creative industries have to offer to the party.
Managing Director, Manchester
Isabel Thomson-Officer
Managing Director, Melbourne
A Melbourne OG, Isabel first joined us in NYC before heading back to her hometown to open Manifest’s first Australian office. Having worked as a journalist and a publicist with early-stage startups through to $billion valuation companies in virtually every industry, Isabel is our jack of all comms trades.
Managing Director, Melbourne
Jessie Bowers Jr
Creative Director, Melbourne
Melbourne’s resident New Yorker, Jessie oversees all things creative Down Under. An original graffiti kid turned painter, when he’s not busy designing and dreaming up big campaign ideas, you can find him tattooing himself, literally.
Creative Director, Melbourne
Martin Farrar-Smith
Chief Design Officer
Martin oversees brand creation within our Frame team, but also ensures we use design thinking processes across the entire business.
Chief Design Officer
Chomoi Picho-Owiny
Creative Director
Bringing his creative experience of working with some of the world’s best brands, Chomoi is responsible for Manifest’s multichannel creative output, leading the creative strategy team and building global creative processes across the group.
Creative Director
Helen Kenny
Senior Account Director
Helen’s bold and daring approach is the driving force on all of her accounts. A strong team leader; she knows how to make just about any idea happen.
Senior Account Director
Julian Obubo
Brand Strategy Director
One of the Manifest originals, and part of PR Week’s Top 30 Under 30. Jules knows how to make an idea fly. And with a voice like velvet, he also runs and records our Fresh Meet podcast.
Brand Strategy Director
Emma Seddon
Account Director
With her unparalleled tech know-how, Emma runs the show across some of our brands who are using data to shape the world. She is ruthless in delivering exceptional service, constantly driving new process to better serve clients and the team.
Account Director
Ambika Makin
Account Director
New York socialite sports furs as big as per personality and that’s why we love her. Ambika was heading up influencer campaigns before it was even a thing and can be found running Manifest’s biggest accounts when she’s not feeding everyone.
Account Director
Emma Corbett
Account Director
Emma leads our ‘Creative Series’ programme – bringing creativity out of the team. Moonlighting as an artist, she’ll jump at the chance to get lost in a creative brief & won’t surface until a stunning campaign has been delivered. If Manifest had a pet creative cat, she’d be it.
Campaign Director
Lucy Peacock
Happiness Officer
Custodian of culture in our London office, Lucy makes sure Manifest is one of London’s best places to work. Her second in command, Mabel the mini Jack Russell, also keeps the office topped up with cuddles and the occasional lick.
Happiness Officer
Mark Swainson
Financial Director
Our FD is on a mission to prove that numbers are big and clever and that spreadsheets have a place in the real world after all. Long-suffering QPR supporter; he knows his sh*t.
Financial Director
Lee Benecke
Digital Content Strategy Director
A Yorkshireman in the Manchester ranks. Lee heads up our content division – AKA the O Collective – across the group and brings a decade of content, social and digital expertise across publisher, brand, and agency.
Digital Content Strategy Director
Annie Gordon
Happiness & Operations Officer
Annie hails from Canada and brings the cheerfulness the True White North is known for. She got her start in the London office and now resides in NYC. She is always there for a hug, life advice, work advice and most importantly a glass of wine.
Happiness & Operations Officer
Shaun Beaumont
VP of Design – New York
Shaun is in charge of all things brand in our New York office. His northern British accent has been known to save the day more than once.
VP of Design – New York
Victoria Newlands
Director of Growth
Vic is our driving force for creative unification and business growth, ensuring we continue to evolve, innovate and deliver truly integrated campaigns that change the world.
Director of Growth
Niamh Spence
Senior Account Manager
Niamh brings her journalism, digital PR and influencer skills to the party. Always pushing for a news hook and excellent story to tell, she likes to be sure everything is working as hard as it can to get the job done with that busy ‘worker bee’ Manchester attitude.
Senior Account Manager
Karel Kumar
Senior Creative Strategist
Karel’s brilliantly creative fashion choices match his brilliant mind. He runs influencer relations within Frame and ensures strategic and creative excellence across all accounts.
Senior Creative Strategist
James Thomson
Head of Production
Original skater boy and second Aussie in residence, James heads up NYC’s O Collective, making awesome content for anyone who will allow him near a camera.
Head of Production
Anna Karlström
Account Director
Manifest Stockholm wouldn’t work without our PR queen and Account Director Anna. She is also holding down the job as Happiness Manager in the Stockholm office, making sure that everybody keep their spirit up.
Account Director
Rosanna Bhanji
Creative Strategist
Rosanna is taking Manifest Stockholm to another creative level by being 100% limitless and allergic to the words “that won’t work”, always on point to the brand and KPI´s ofc.
Creative Strategist
Jordan Mulvaney
Digital Manager
Social media-obsessed and lover of all things digital, Jordan is the creative brain behind our clients’ social content. He is sometimes indifferent to most things in the world, like when people call him a Social Media Guru. He doesn’t correct them.
Digital Manager
Emily Huyton
Senior Account Manager
Emily joined us from the north and is a driving force for best in class client service. With a no nonsense approach, she brings teams together to deliver projects on time, on budget and on strategy!
Senior Account Manager
Aaron Maughan
Account Manager
Manifest’s global heart-throb, Aaron keeps things running across clients and continents. With a passion for gaming, he’s run some of our most exciting events for the likes of Playstation and Kaspersky.
Account Manager
Tori Halman
Account Manager
Originally a journalist, Tori is a self-confessed media addict and die-hard publicist. When she’s not making journalists her best mate, (or shamelessly sliding into their DMs) she’s ensuring her accounts are all shit-hot – thanks to a borderline OCD approach to deadlines.
Account Manager
Liana Maher
Campaign Manager
With a penchant for puns, Liana is one of our pitching golden girls. She drives coverage, conversations and brilliant creative across all of her accounts.
Campaign Manager
Dana Leigh
Campaign Manager
A born and bred Londoner, Dana gets her kicks from all things creative. Regularly found wading through PR week, shouting ideas in brainstorms and thinking of new ways to pitch stories to journos.
Campaign Manager
Lauren Kaufman
Senior Account Executive
Lauren mingles with media and noses around for new business. She is the queen of calm and never breaks a sweat, not matter what is hurled at her.
Senior Account Executive
Natalie DiBona
Account Coordinator
Natalie is our resident Boston sports fan who hopped over to NYC to join as an Account Coordinator. She doubles as a design whizz and can most likely be found obsessing over Insta aesthetics and matcha tea on a regular basis.
Account Coordinator
Petra Wartmark
Digital Campaign Manager
Petra is the digital mastermind in our Stockholm office. If someone needs help with anything or everything digital – this is your girl!
Digital Campaign Manager
Elsa Druiett
Account Manager
Ambitious and enthusiastic, Elsa is a driving force behind press office. She knows the media landscape like the back of her hand and secures the most coveted coverage spots.
Account Manager
Holly Atterton
Project Manager
Full of creative energy, Holly is the driving force behind keeping our accounts running like clockwork. Her background in performing arts brings stories to life in new and imaginative ways, ensuring she is the first to spot clever newsjacking opportunities for her clients.
Project Manager
Thom Myers
Content Editor
Thom turns raw footage into works of art. A proud Yorkshireman and key member of our content division, The O Collective, he is our go-to guy for all things video editing, digital animation and tea making.
Content Editor
Iwi has overall responsibility for the controllership and financial reporting, planning and budgeting activities for Manifest. After office hours she is an absolute adrenaline junkie – so car racing, skydiving and bungee jumping suit her alter ego.
Financial Controller
Mel Mathewes
Campaign Executive
Bringing her boundless energy from across the pond, Mel sprinkles her media magic on every account she works on. She’s our go-to gal for pitching and boasts hoards of coverage to her name. Journalists love Mel. Manifest loves Mel. We’re not letting her back to the States anytime soon…
Campaign Executive
Jessica Jarrett
Account Executive
JJ is a MI transplant and proudly suffocates NYC with her unsolicited politeness. She dabbles in press office, branding and digital strategy. She has strong moral obligations to living a pro-gluten lifestyle and will never be caught without some form of caffeine on her person.
Account Executive
Dineo Mabena
Campaign Executive
With many years experience in the film industry and as the mother of a book-mad four-year-old, Dineo lives and breathes to create stories. Finding resonance in each brief, Dineo makes each campaign relatable to everyone who comes across it – shattering race, gender and class lines.
Campaign Executive
Daryl Ho
Campaign Executive
Hailing from sunny Singapore, Daryl brings the heat from across the world to secure shit-hot coverage spots for his clients. With a keen eye for compelling narratives, he harnesses the power of insight to drive bold, beautiful and brilliant storytelling.
Campaign Executive
Ebba Åkerlund
Digital Campaign Manager
Ebba is our Digital wizard who’s not just keeping all of our social media accounts running like clockwork, but also has a crazy eye for detail and is absolutely fearless when it comes to new challenges.
Digital Campaign Manager
Caitlin Marsh
Campaign Executive
A top-notch media hound and integral to the office bants, Caitlin is the latest addition to the Manifest team. With a keen eye for the hottest coverage spots and a black book of journo pals, we’re not sure what we did before her.
Campaign Executive
Rosie Humphrey
Spark Intern
One of our Spark interns, Rosie “definitely from the north” Humphrey is already a media master. Never without a smile on her face, she makes getting amazing coverage for 6 different clients at the same time look easy.
Spark Intern
