NEW YORK, Today: The Kiwi who co-founded international strategy & PR agency SweeneyVesty will be returning to New Zealand from the USA to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Waikato.
Brian Sweeney graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics at Waikato in 1980, and honed his communication skills editing the student newspaper Nexus before working as a producer and agent in the arts, entertainment and film business.
In 1987 Brian and Jane Vesty founded SweeneyVesty in Wellington to provide strategy and communications service to the private and public sector.
Today, SweeneyVesty has its head office in New York with a presence in Europe and Asia Pacific as well as operating throughout New Zealand, advising a diverse portfolio of clients on all aspects of their business, including critical business communications, brand development and management, and idea and concept development.
Brian Sweeney managed the Topp Twins & Sam Hunt for several years in the 1980s.
He managed the Topp Twins and poet Sam Hunt for several years in the 1980s.
In 2000, Sweeney founded the website nzedge.com, dedicated to strengthening the identity of the one million New Zealanders living throughout the world.
He’s also co-founder of 7 x 7, an ideas and networking forum set up to spark innovative global change from within New Zealand. He has been a member of the influential TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) global conference in California since 1993.
Sweeney’s interest and funding of the arts is ongoing; in dance, music, the visual arts, film and photography. He co-presented the Topp Twins’ film Untouchable Girls, and recently Italian publisher Charta released Paradise Road, a collection of his own landscape photography.
He has retained his links with the University of Waikato, as a member of the Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship Advisory Board and contributor to the Sir Edmund Hillary Centennial Steering Committee.
He will receive his Distinguished Alumni Award this Friday.
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