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Marketing guru named ‘Future Face 2018’

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A MARKETING specialist working in Birmingham’s commercial property sector has been named the city’s Future Face 2018.

Rebecca Halbert was crowned overall winner at the fourth annual Future Faces Awards dinner which is run by the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce. The awards celebrate the rising stars aged 35 and under from the Greater Birmingham business community.

Ms Halbert, who is marketing manager for commercial property consultanc­y GVA, won the sales, marketing and communicat­ions award before being picked from the category winners to be crowned overall Future Face 2018.

She has held a number of communicat­ions positions since completing her studies at Nottingham Trent University, including as a fundraisin­g communicat­ions officer for charity Parkinson’s UK in London and marketing manager at Millennium Point in Birmingham. This year’s awards also featured a new category to celebrate the third sector to reflect the growing reputation of the work being done in the region.

The other category winners at the ceremony were:

Arts and Culture: Aimee Spinks, Aimee Spinks Photograph­y

Entreprene­urship: Joe Kibbler, icaruspart­s.com

Finance: Jonathan Bennett, Mazars

Industry: Beatty Vinci

Legal: Emma Noble, Pinsent Masons

Technology and Innovation: Kari Lawler, Lawler Industries Matt Lofts, Balfour

Third Sector: Compton Care

A special ambassador award was given on the night to Jaccy Gascoyne, a financial crime investigat­or with Deutsche Bank in Birmingham, for Hamish Shilliday, being an outstandin­g advocate the chamber over the past year.

The awards ceremony was held at Symphony Hall in Birmingham and welcomed around 450 guests to the black tie dinner. for

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