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PRA Group Leader Wins Silver Stevie Award in 2024 International Business Awards
NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PRA Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRAA), a global financial services company, is proud to announce Elizabeth Kersey, senior
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[{"type":"text","content":"NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PRA Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRAA), a global financial services company, is proud to announce Elizabeth Kersey, senior vice president of communications and public policy, was named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in the Communications, Investor Relations or PR Executive of the Year category in the 21st Annual International Business Awards®.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"I am humbled to receive this prestigious award and to be recognized among top business leaders worldwide. This truly is a great honor, not just for me, but also for my team, as our shared success is highlighted on the global stage,\" said Kersey.\nKersey has more than twenty years of public affairs and government relations experience across various sectors. In her role at PRA Group, she leads public policy and communications efforts – internal and external global communications, branding, public and media relations, corporate philanthropy, community engagement and government relations. Kersey is a graduate of Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University. She serves on numerous executive and advisory boards, including the board of directors of Virginia FREE and the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.\nThe International Business Awards are the world's premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – are eligible to submit nominations. The 2024 IBAs received entries from organizations in 62 nations and territories.\nMore than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration. Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 300 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process in June and July.\n\"Building a global brand of PRA is an extraordinary achievement which requires unique capabilities, imagination and a lot of knowledge and instinctive perception and communication skills,\" said one judge after reviewing Kersey's nomination. \"Elizabeth Kersey seems to have influenced substantially all internal and external communication, and her work clearly leaves a mark in the history of the company.\"\n\"The International Business Awards are highly competitive and it is wonderful to see Elizabeth's work recognized among the very best, a...