First Artist Management is one of the UK's leading agencies in the entertainment business. Its main area is the representation of television presenters, sports and media clients.

We also handle events, voiceovers, book deals, PR, radio, theatre and corporate events for our clients as well as having an in-house corporate speaking division.

First Artist Management keeps a small stable of clients in order to offer a full management service. Its television clients present a wide range of shows, predominantly in the field of factual entertainment and sport, ranging across all terrestrial and some digital channels.

The company has also been instrumental in discovering television talent and nurturing clients through from having little or no TV experience, to becoming established presenters on high-profile terrestrial TV shows. The company is also pro-active in developing television formats for its clients.

PR: The business also has a specialised PR arm, working to raise the profile of its clients across television, newspapers and press.

Events: First Artist Management also has a successful events management section. Events organised include fashion shows, art exhibitions and events at Wimbledon. All of these featured prominently in the national press and on television.

Corporate Speaking: First Artist Management are uniquely placed by having an in-house corporate speaking division enabling them to maximise their own clients earning potential as well as having extensive contacts in the corporate and media world. Please see dedicated section.

More information is below on the key members of the First Artist Management team, although they also have a full back-up administrative staff.

Managing Director Nicola Ibison was a newspaper journalist for 8 years. She then worked for Central TV News and was on the newsdesk of ITN before becoming senior producer at GMTV. She founded NCI Management in the mid-90s, and in 2006 she sold the company to First Artist Corporation, where she remains MD of the entertainment and PR divisions.

email: nicolai@firstartist.co.uk

Courtneay Yeates - Speakers/Corporate enquiries, and PA to Nicola Ibison.

email: courtneayy@firstartist.co.uk

Senior Agent Julia Champion joined First Artist Management in 2002 from another top agency, where she was working as Senior Agent.  She has been an agent for six years.  Before this, Julia was a radio producer, working for both the BBC and Independent Companies.

email: juliac@firstartist.co.uk

Jonny McWilliams - Agent. Jonny originally started work in television as a researcher on the RTS award winning documentary for Channel 4 - My Shakespeare, he quickly went into programme development, writing and pitching further documentaries and formatted series for the BBC, C4 and PBS amongst others. In 2005 he left production and began work with the First Artist Management team.

email: jonnym@firstartist.co.uk

Kate Hodsdon - Agent. Kate joined First Artist from the BBC Entertainment Development department. She has worked on big studio entertainment shows, including "Strictly Come Dancing", "Dance X" and "Just the Two of Us". She formerly worked as assistant to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and has also worked in consumer PR. 

email: kateh@firstartist.co.uk

Kate Taylor  - Head Of PR. As a radio and print journalist Kate worked in Formula 1 racing and sports for eight years and then for Emap on an entertainment weekly, before becoming a full-time entertainment PR at agencies Hackford Jones and Henry's House. As a personal publicist, she worked with a wide range of celebrities and as a unit publicist on programmes including Family Forensics, Ministry of Mayhem and Tricky TV.

email: katet@firstartist.co.uk

Lily Hassan - PR Agent. Lily joined First Artist from the Sainsbury's Press Office after graduating from University of Bristol in 2006. Lily has previously worked in Consumer PR on campaigns such as Anya Hindmarch's 'I'm Not a Plastic Bag', Sport Relief and Comic Relief in-house and on Jamie Oliver's campaigns for the supermarket.

email: lilyh@firstartist.co.uk

Matthew Pitcher - Finance Manager.

email: matthewp@firstartist.co.uk