Emma Sexton

Emma is an experienced Entrepreneur and Branding Specialist with over 28 years experience.

With such extensive industry experience Emma provides a unique lens on the business of creativity having operated within creative agencies, as a leader of in-house creative teams, and for over ten years as an entrepreneur.

Emma is a design thinker and doer having started her own creative agency (Hands Down!®) in 2013, which was one of the first creative agencies in the UK to become a B Corp. The remote first agency provided strategic brand design for future focused technology brands ranging from high-growth start-ups to enterprise businesses, manufacturers, and technology giants. Some of Emma’s clients included Google, Snapchat, and Silicon Valley Bank.

In the same year she launched her agency, Emma created the UK and Europe’s only awards for in-house creative teams called Inside Out, which has grown into a highly engaged community of in-house creative leaders.

In 2017 Emma was appointed Creative Expert in Residence at the award winning King's College Entrepreneurial Institute, and in 2018 Designer in Residence at Imperial Enterprise Lab.

Over the past five years Emma has advised over 150 start-up ventures, across multiple sectors (from vegan ice cream to quantum computing and A.I.), on how to leverage design, creativity and branding to contribute to their business success.

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