About the speaker:

Marian Brannelly is the Global Director of Awards at LIONS, where she brings more than a decade of experience in the creative marketing industry to the role. She works across the breadth of the global creative marketing community to identify the trends shaping the industry and has been a driving force behind innovative changes to the Awards. 

She previously led the communications and PR function during a transformative period at LIONS and held similar roles in startups within ad tech and media organisations, shaping the strategic direction of communication and partnerships within the organisations. She has been instrumental in developing and spearheading the LIONS' talent accelerator programme for women, See It Be It. 

Marian cares deeply about creativity and the many ways it can affect positive change and drive progress.