Ben Fennell

Ben Fennell

Ex CEO at BBH London
London, United Kingdom

About me

Ben joined BBH straight out of Oxford in 1994. During eight years in London Ben worked across a range of BBH business, and ran accounts such as One2One and Lynx, Ben was appointed to the BBH board in 2000.


In 2002 Ben moved to Singapore to take the position of CEO BBH Asia Pacific. During Ben’s time in Asia, BBH doubled in size and won AdAsia’s agency of the year two years out of three. In his role as Regional CEO, Ben was responsible for launching
BBH’s Shanghai office, and developing BBH’s offering in Tokyo and Singapore.


In March 2006 Ben returned to the UK to take up the role of MD of the UK business. He was promoted to CEO in 2008.

Positions

Chief Executive Officer
BBH London
2008 - Present (16 years 5 months)
Under Ben’s leadership, BBH has been in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to work for for the last 5 years. BBH has also won Campaign’s Agency of the Year title twice, Agency of the Year at the British Television Awards (Arrows) in three of the last 5 years and the Grand Prix for Effectiveness at the Cannes Advertising Awards.

He has built BBH London into a communications business encompassing advertising, social, sports marketing, crm, brand consultancy and agile video production.
Managing Director
BBH London
2006 - 2008 (2 years)
Chief Executive Officer
BBH Asia Pacific (Singapore)
2002 - 2006 (4 years)

Education

Politics

1993 - Present (31 years 5 months)

Politics

1990 - Present (34 years 5 months)

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