Citywealth Brand & Marketing Awards 2025
Citywealth Brand Management & Reputation Awards 2025 – Judges
Karen Jones
Citywealth
Editor & CEO
Karen founded Citywealth after a career at News International, The Times, and Sunday Times in the legal, financial and recruitment sections. She also ran the Legalease flagship title Legal Business/Asia Pacific Legal 500, and launched Legal Business Awards and Legal 500 events.
She founded Citywealth in 2005 and her work as a Citywealth founder and CEO was recognised by multiple awards, having gained no less than eleven Stevie awards in total, with four gold awards amongst these – Female Entrepreneur of the Year (2017) , Most Innovative Woman of the Year – Business Services (2023) and Woman of the Year – Business Services (2024). The growing development of the Powerwomen Awards USA was recognised by another gold Stevie award in the Achievement in International Expansion category in 2024.
Karen’s contributions to business were also noted by the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry SME London Business Awards, presenting her with a silver Business Woman of the Year award in 2024.
Alastair Gallichan
Standard Bank Offshore
Event & Marketing Manager
Alastair is an award-winning Event and Marketing Manager at Standard Bank Offshore, where his leadership has driven notable outcomes across international jurisdictions. His standout achievement in 2024 was receiving a silver award for Best Marketing Manager at the Citywealth Brand Management and Reputation Awards.
Alastair’s career is marked by successfully integrating Standard Bank’s international solutions across 22 sub-Saharan countries, elevating the brand’s global presence. His expertise extends over 16 years in luxury hospitality, event management, and marketing, during which he has contributed to the success of events, including the London 2012 Olympic Games, Formula 1, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Today, Alastair continues to elevate Standard Bank Offshore’s profile, ensuring seamless event execution and impactful marketing campaigns that resonate globally.
Annette Morgan
IQ-EQ
In-House Event Manager and Event Strategy & Execution Expert
With extensive experience in event management and strategy, I specialise in delivering exceptional brand experiences and creating high-impact events that drive results. Having previously worked with top-tier organisations like Slaughter and May, Ashurst, and EY, I bring a wealth of knowledge in managing large-scale corporate events and ensuring seamless execution across diverse platforms.
Currently, I lead the events team at IQ-EQ, where I am responsible for delivering outstanding event experiences for our clients, while standardising global event processes with a sharp focus on ROI. By collaborating closely with regional teams, I ensure brand consistency and the highest standards of event delivery, all while focusing on creating value through meaningful engagements.
Driven by a passion for innovation and continuous improvement, I thrive on building strong event strategies that enhance brand presence and create lasting impressions.
David Masters
Lansons
Partner and Director
Highly experienced and accomplished integrated communications professional providing board-level strategic advice to asset and wealth managers, hedge funds and private equity. Proven track record in storytelling and thought leadership to grow, protect and enhance brand reputation and engage stakeholders. Collaborative approach with an analytical background and creative outlook.
Gus Sellitto
Byfield Consultancy
Co-Founder
Co-founder of Byfield Consultancy, a specialist legal communications consultancy that provides profile raising, litigation communications and reputation management PR for the legal sector and its clients. Gus have 25 years’ experience in legal and litigation PR and crisis management and provide senior level reputation counsel to domestic and international law firms and legal sector businesses, particularly in highly pressurised and often business critical situations.
Kim Lansdown
Fladgate
Director of Strategy
After starting my career as a criminal barrister, I went on to work in advertising and marketing, developing international and domestic campaigns for a wide range of clients including Mars, Fiat, Dulux and Google. I moved back into the legal world in 2015, becoming Head of Marketing and Business Development at a silver circle firm before joining Fladgate in April 2024.
Lawrence Gosling
Artemis Investment Management
Head of PR, Comms and Content
Having spent over 30 years writing about the asset management industry I now have the pleasure of joining it and working for arguably the ‘original’ boutique Artemis helping to showcase the investment talent the firm has.
Paul Wreford-Brown
This Is Embrace
Digital Director
As the Digital Director and an Owner of This Is Embrace, I have over 20 years of experience in leading digital initiatives and projects for clients in financial services, healthcare, and public sector. I am passionate about creating personalised digital customer experiences that bring customers closer to our clients and deliver measurable results.
Sarah Keltie
Waverton Investment Management
Head of Private Clients Business Development
Sarah joined Waverton in 2023 and is responsible for helping to expand the firm’s high-net-worth client proposition. Sarah also leads the firm’s business development strategy for the professional services sector including lawyers, accountants, trust companies and investment consultants. Sarah previously held senior business development roles at Close Brothers Asset Management and the international law firm Taylor Wessing.
Tracey Rodgers
Ogier
Head of Client Intelligence
I am a Marketing and Business Development professional with indepth experience of Client Relationship Management (CRM) systems and processes for improved client relationship management and new business.
I joined Harneys to deliver a firm-wide CRM strategy that encompasses both law and fiduciary businesses across four regions. This involves working across IT, finance, HR, and MBD, encompassing MDM, data flow between systems and innovative technology solutions to improve processes and provide analytics.