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Brian Sweeney
Director at SweeneyVesty
Brian Sweeney is a co-founder and Director at SweeneyVesty, a strategic communications consultancy based in New York and New Zealand. Established in 1987 alongside Jane Vesty, the firm specializes in public relations, marketing strategies, and business communications, serving clients across various sectors globally. SweeneyVesty operates with a focus on bespoke communications strategies and has experience in over 50 countries.123
Sweeney has a rich background in public relations and creative strategy, having been involved in numerous award-winning campaigns recognized at prestigious events like Cannes Lions and Clio Awards. His career began in the arts as a producer and impresario, managing various performing artists before transitioning into strategic communications.13
He is also known for his contributions to nation branding through projects like nzedge.com, which celebrates New Zealand's achievements and cultural narratives on a global scale. Sweeney's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and History from the University of Waikato.13
Highlights
Mesh with the best! I love this company. I’m a board member and fan. This week brings podium finishes for Kaynemaile architectural mesh in the Fast Company Innovation By Design in the categories for Sustainability, Circular Design, and Materials.
This follows two major awards from New York’s Architzer for Sustainable Design and for Building Envelopes, Cladding & Roofing, and the prestigious Architectural Record’s Product of the Year award for Building Envelopes.
What is a building envelope? It includes all the building components that separate the indoors from the outdoors. Building envelopes include the exterior walls, foundations, roof, windows and doors. Every building has one. Kaynemaile is unique, beautiful, sustainable – and it’s from Petone, to the world. More ‘winning the world from the edge.’
The full cover treatment is from Construction News NZ and features the Kaynemaile façade on the Lawson Lane carpark in Santa Clara, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Kaynemaile Limited #nzedge #architecture #facade
Swisher Dishes. Kara Swisher is really chatty. Whether leading or responding or interjecting, Kara Swisher is compelling listening on her podcast On with Kara Swisher and with NYU Professor Scott Galloway on Pivot. She was chatty with Walt Mossberg for many years at the Code Conference. Kara, at The Washington Post, and Walt, at The Wall Street Journal, were the first journalists at these titles to write about the emergence of digital, which, as zeitgeists go, is arguably the most compelling and paradigm-shifting, though the harnessers of fire would mostly beg to differ.
The title of Kara Swisher’s new book Burn Book: A Tech Love Story can be read different ways. Burn rate. A book to burn. Harnessers of fire. A teenage diary that Wikitionary defines as “a book for writing unpleasant information about others.” With chapter headings such as “Sillywood,” “I, Asshole,” “The Most Dangerous Man,” and “Staying Vertical,” Kara gives more than she gets. She’s a truth teller, frenemy, rogue – and chatty. Read for a ‘riders of the storm’ documentary of the digital unfolding.
More than a tech arbiter, Swisher, from her recent podcasts, is passionate about democracy, the functioning of society, business success and failure, artists and innovators, and fellow journalists in an upside-down media world. With podcast episodes titled like “Martha Stewart Makes No Apologies for Being Perfect,” who can resist Kara Swisher?
karaswisher #burnbook #AI #digital
On with Kara Swisher https://apple.co/3T1BZsU Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway https://apple.co/43ccZE8
