Sarah Essex

Senior Partner

Sarah Essex is a Senior Partner based in Prophet’s London office and oversees Prophet’s European operations. She has worked with leading B2B and B2C companies on business issues including: corporate and business unit strategy; marketing, branding, and organic growth; channel management; e-business; competitive environment and positioning; and acquisitions.

Over the past thirteen years, Sarah has focused on helping clients develop and implement superior marketing, brand, and portfolio strategies to accelerate top- and bottom-line growth. She has worked for leading global companies in industries such as: brewing and alcoholic beverages, food and confectionery, automotive, consumer credit, construction materials, telecommunications, software, and services.

Prior to joining Prophet, Sarah was part of the European leadership team of Market2Customer®, the marketing division of the strategy consulting firm, Monitor Group. Before this she worked at Diageo, as e-business Director and later as Group Strategist where she led teams to develop Diageo’s global wine strategy and run a major acquisition process in the US.

Sarah has worked extensively across Europe and the US. She lived in Amsterdam in 1995–2000 and in New York and California in 2001.

Sarah has a First Class B.A. Honours degree in Natural Sciences and Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry both from the University of Cambridge, UK.

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