Harry Sheward
Managing Director

Harry boasts over 15 years experience, working mainly “through the line” at Craik Jones, Tequila and HHCL on brands including Shell, the COI and Orange for which he won a DMA Gold. At BEC he was instrumental in winning the British Heart Foundation and has overseen the launch strategy and supporter comms planning. He has also helped bring greater clarity and simplicity to Motability’s offering.

Steve Edwards
Creative Partner

The winner of numerous creative awards, Steve’s cluster includes the prestigious Royal Mail/DMA Grand Prix award for Greenpeace and a D&AD nomination and Design Week Gold for Volkswagen Passat. As well as gaining international recognition for Alliance & Leicester, he has produced DRTV for British Red Cross.
 

Chris Barraclough
Creative Partner

In 1991 Chris was a founding partner of BHWG (later Proximity) and in 1999 was appointed Chairman. In 2003 he branched out to set up a new creative agency, BEC. Chris has won many awards for his writing and is a recognised authority on responsive creativity. He’s an opinionated blogger, a Fellow of the IDM and takes its copywriting course.

Caroline Gibbs
Planning Director

Caroline joined from Kitcatt Nohr where she won 13 planning awards including DMA Gold for Bookstart. For VSO she helped double fundraising income while for Friends Reunited she generated record breaking levels of traffic. She’s produced brand positioning and identity projects for Jazz FM and Asthma UK and developed a new Tobacco Control Pregnancy communications strategy.

Linzi Chapman
Senior Account Director

Formerly of Black Cat, Linzi has been with BEC for 5 years, running the account handling teams and providing inspiration for clients. Linzi strengths include impeccable client service and has been responsible for impressive growth amongst a number of clients especially Nectar, Motability and Air France KLM.

Regan Maloney
Digital Planning Director

Regan has worked both agency and client side for organisations such as Ogilvy Interactive; Barclays Bank; Dare Digital, Tequila London and Craik Jones. With her extensive digital experience she has worked on campaigns for the likes of Absolut, American Express, Barclays International Banking, Prudential, Reuters, Unilever for which she won a DMA, Diageo, ATOC and The Sun.