Integrated Marketing & Communications Firm LDWW Promotes Annabel Hardin and Ashley Wilemon to Partner
Both recognized for their leadership, strategic contributions to agency’s growth
DALLAS and OKLAHOMA CITY (June 25, 2025) – To continue to fuel its growth in size and breadth of services, LDWW has promoted Annabel Hardin and Ashley Wilemon to Partner, the highest level within the fast-growing independent integrated marketing firm.
The Partner title signifies team members who lead strategic direction, provide senior-level counsel and manage agency teams to deliver excellent work that drives business. Hardin and Wilemon demonstrate another chief element of the firm’s culture – a commitment to integrating multiple strategic and digital marketing disciplines to achieve clients’ objectives. Hardin is based in Dallas while Wilemon is based in the firm’s Oklahoma City office.
LDWW, one of the leading integrated marketing and communications firms in the Southwest, provides a spectrum of services, strategies and solutions that directly serve clients’ needs. These services include communications, creative, digital and advertising across a vast range of client industries.
“Being elevated to Partner is a recognition of Ashley’s and Annabel’s long-standing dedication to our firm, doing right by our clients and the impressive creative and strategic thinking that they have demonstrated in their tenures with us,” said Ken Luce, founder of LDWW.
Hardin has been with LDWW for 10 years while Wilemon has for five years, however she has known and worked with Luce for over 20 years.
“A major tenet of our culture is to develop talent and grow skills within our staff and then recognize that growth by giving those team members additional opportunities and responsibilities,” Luce added. “These promotions are the embodiment of that.”
Hardin works in both creative and account service. She spearheaded and currently oversees LDWW’s production of compelling video content and innovative storytelling. Her work on projects such as Big 12 Champions for Life and Future For Football have garnered prestigious awards, including a Lone Star Sports Emmy, a Webby Award, a selection at the Maui Film Festival, and multiple Telly and College Sports Media awards.
Before joining LDWW, Hardin served as a Digital Media Producer for Fox Sports Interactive, where she developed trending content across various Fox Sports digital platforms. She also played a key role in ESPN’s Content Development department, developing original content for the network’s Year of the Quarterback initiative and the Emmy Award-winning 30 for 30 series, among other projects.
She holds an EMBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Wilemon is a leader on the Account Service team at LDWW and heads the LegalShield account, which has grown to include a range of integrated services. In addition to managing accounts, she counsels clients on brand positioning and reputation management issues. She has developed media relations and brand communications strategies for a variety of clients including Cars.com and Carnival Cruise Line.
Previous to LDWW, Wilemon has experience with both mid-size and large international marketing and communications agencies where she led practice areas focused on client service and strategy and on corporate public relations and public affairs. During her career, she’s provided counsel on crisis and issues management, media relations, and brand development and positioning to clients across multiple verticals, including aerospace and defense, technology, financial services, travel and energy.
Wilemon is a graduate of Class 38 of Leadership Oklahoma City and has taught PR Writing at the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma, as well as consulted with the U.S. State Department on best practices for media measurement. She graduated magna cum laude as a Trustee Scholar from Boston University with a degree in communications and a minor in business administration.
To learn more about LDWW, its clients, work and areas of expertise, please visit www.LDWW.co or reach out to hello@ldww.co.
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About LDWW
LDWW is a leading integrated marketing and communications agency serving clients on a global, national and local scale from offices in Dallas and Oklahoma City. LDWW builds communities for its multi-national clientele and creates advocates for their brands. By integrating analytics, branding, creative, digital strategy, media buying, public relations and strategic planning, LDWW provides clients with the multi-discipline solutions and strategies that are needed to address complex marketing and communications issues and situations. Honored as a leading creative and Top-100 agency nationally, LDWW has won over 200 industry awards and is one of the only firms that can claim a Lone Star Regional Sports Emmy, Boutique Agency of the Year and two Global SABREs from PRovoke Media, as well as a PRSA Best of Silver Anvil award winner.