PR Week name 2012’s 29 under 29 class

By Rich Leigh on Thursday, November 29, 2012

Today I was fortunate enough to be named in PR Week’s annual list of 29 PR professionals under 29 (UK).

I was invited to a photo shoot at the PR Week offices, which sounds much more glam than it was (draw parallels with the industry where you will) and told the feature would run in today’s issue. I’m really pleased to be in such good company and in short, have Andy, co-MD of my agency 10 Yetis to thank, because before getting into the industry, I had no experience whatsoever.

The average age of those in the list is 27, the youngest being Tudor Reilly’s Rachel Penniston and deWinter PR’s Jenna Vernon, both 24.

Here’s a link to the PR Week feature where you can read why each was chosen, but I thought it might also be worth highlighting my fellow 29 under 29ers here, all on one page.

Each person’s name links to their Twitter account, unless I couldn’t find one, in which case it is marked with LI for LinkedIn.

Congratulations to all.

Giles Abbott (LI), 27

consultant, Capital MSL London

Carys Afoko, 26

comms manager, New Economics Foundation

Maria Allen (LI), 28

account director public affairs, and UK lead for the EMEA energy, environment and climate change practice, Burson-Marsteller

Karen Butcher (LI), 27

account director, Hill + Knowlton Strategies

Chris Cassell, 27

account manager, Shine Communications