Andrew Bloch
Andrew Bloch & Associates, a boutique consultancy specialising in the communications and marketing industry has been named Boutique Marketing Agency of the Year 2023/4 for the second consecutive year at the prestigious Corporate LiveWire Global Awards. Over 30,000 nominations were submitted from 30 countries and judged by a panel consisting of entrepreneurs, industry professionals and consultants from across the industry. The business reported revenues in excess of £2.5M in 2023 and carried out projects in UK, USA, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Brazil and more.
Andrew’s portfolio includes non-executive director, board advisory, consultancy and project roles for a range of high growth businesses and agencies. Before setting up Andrew Bloch & Associates in 2020, Andrew co-founding Frank, one of the UK’s most respected PR agencies.
Frank has represented some of the nation’s best-known brands and is one of the industry’s most decorated agencies, responsible for some its most famous campaigns. He stepped down from his day-to-day role as managing partner in 2020 to become a non-executive director. Andrew has also acted as official spokesperson and PR advisor to Lord Sugar for over 20 years and has handled the PR for all The Apprentice winners and their companies since the show started in 2005.
Andrew is a Non-Executive Director/board advisor to a number of high growth businesses including PR software business, Propel, performance marketing agency, Exposure Ninja, soft drinks company, Dalstons Soda, influencer marketing agency, Talent Village and the UK’s leading broadcast consultancy Markettiers.
Andrew Bloch & Associates currently consults a range of businesses on their marketing and PR requirements and has advised, amongst others, Starbucks, Lidl, Mars Wrigley, Nintendo, Holland & Barrett, Innocent and St Paul’s Cathedral.
Andrew is a partner at leading M&A firm, PCB Partners, advising their buy-side clients who are looking to make strategic acquisitions in the marketing services area, and on the sell-side of the business, advising marketing services agencies who are looking for an exit. Earlier this year, Andrew helped Markettiers4DC secure investment from Waterland Private Equity in a deal reported to be in excess of £50M.
Andrew has also partnered with AAR, and is responsible for leading and expanding their PR, social, digital and influencer marketing consultancy practises as well as developing new approaches to supporting both brands and agencies.
Andrew sits on the Business Launch Group panel for The Prince’s Trust, is a founding mentor of the School of Communications Arts, a Generation Z mentor at the School of Marketing, a council member of Superbrands, an executive committee member for Variety, the children’s charity, and a group advisor to Big Community Records. Andrew is a judge on Tik Tok’s Search For The Next Great Entrepreneur.
Andrew is ranked as the most influential PR person on X. He is named as one of the Top Ten most Influential PR people in the world by Buzz Sumo. He is listed in the Evening Standard Progress 1000 list of London’s Most Influential People. Andrew Bloch & Associates was recognised as ‘Most Adaptive Business of 2020’ by Intuit Quickbooks and was named Communications and Marketing Consultant of the Year 2023 (UK) at the Global Business Awards.
