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Our Services .

Branding

Your brand is your identity – from the first thing your audience sees, to the last word you leave them with.

Business Development

Every business needs to sell – no sales means no growth, which means no future. So we help you win, then build rewarding relationships with clients.

Team Development

A significant part of any brand strategy should lie in attracting and retaining the right talent, while harnessing that talent to its full potential.

What we do .

Twist is a growth agency – because we find insightful, creative and practical ways to grow your business. Whatever size your business, we help you enter the market – then engage and inspire your target audience. We do this by defining your brand story – then showing you how to tell that unique story in everything you do. And by carefully analysing your team’s performance and motivation, we’ll fully harness workforce skill and creativity. Because unifying these separate parts into a harmonious, compelling whole transforms a brand people know into a brand people love.

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To achieve the best results, you need to work with the best. So we choose talented people with precisely the skills and expertise to grow your business. Our pool of expertise includes:

Marie Martens

Founder

Before founding international growth agency Twist, Marie gained invaluable experience at leading publications and communication companies, across the UK, EMEA and North America. Over ten years she excelled in sales, marketing, and international business development in roles at Getty Images, BioMed, Clean Tech Group and Explania. Driven by a boundless entrepreneurial spirit, Marie is a dedicated, insightful, creative business-woman. An inspiring communicator, she has a deep knowledge of her industry, and a hunger for new ideas. This ambition and energy saw her create her own company Twist Consulting in 2010. Marie now focuses her formidable talent for sales, marketing and branding on helping fresh, young tech start-ups grow to their full potential.

Jamie D. Huxley

Copywriter

Jamie D. Huxley is a freelance copywriter, scriptwriter, and comedy writer. Graduating from St Catherine’s College, Oxford with a BA Hons in English, he beat thousands of applicants for a copywriting role at award-winning London ad agency TMW. There he worked on brands like Guinness, British Airways, Nissan, Lloyds, and the RAF, while becoming the lead writer for T-Mobile (now called ee). Going freelance in 2009, he’s since worked for leading London agencies, including The Red Brick Road, AKQA and WCRS. He’s written everything from cocktail menus, to X-Box in-game dialogue, Facebook apps, whiskey press ads, viral scripts and 60th birthday speeches. He’s recently had a comedy sketch show performed in Covent Garden, London, and had a script recorded by the BBC.

Sylvie Verbanck

HR Business Partner

Sylvie brings her long experience as a high-tec IT head hunter to Twist. With a Masters in civil engineering from Ghent University, she began her career at Haecon, working on major international construction projects. She then co-founded of several hugely successful companies with leading entrepreneur Kristof de Spiegeleer, including Hostbasket, Dedigate, and Datacenter Technologies. Deeply immersed in the IT industry, she relishes the challenge of finding exceptional people who can grow businesses – taking the lead in a meticulous process of selecting the perfect profile.

David Robinson

Creative Director

Steve Jobs

Chief Inspirational Officer

Obviously we wish Steve was with us at Twist. But he will always be a vital part of our team and our philosophy. He inspires everything we do, through his belief that however crazy an idea, it’s rule-breakers that ultimately change things. He’s why we help entrepreneurs, innovators and big thinkers grow their businesses and bring their ideas to the world.