Managing Director of Bluesoup
Ben is a highly experienced marketing strategist having worked at the Board level within advertising agencies for over 30 years. He began his career in London working on clients such as Ford, Audi, Tesco, Wickes, the RAC, NatWest and the Met Police. Career highlights include planning the launch campaign for the Ford Focus, helping turn the RAC orange and winning awards for Tesco & the Met Police as well as a New York Ad Effectiveness Award for Audi. Ben is Chair of Trustees for an educational charity, Edukid, which works in Uganda, Cambodia and Peru, helping children in extreme poverty access education. He regularly leads trips for UK students to visit the projects, to learn about their role as global citizens. Ben is a mentor as part of the IWTTF Male Allyship programme, and took part in the 2024 “G Trek for Good” alongside 20 colleagues from the travel industry, in the Columbian jungle.
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IWTTF is a great initiative. It celebrates an industry I have worked in for over 20 years and it promotes the hard work, resilience and determination of women within the industry. Diversity is key to new ideas, and to ensuring a breadth of ideas and creativity. The IWTTF promotes and celebrates this diversity which can only be good for the industry as a whole.
To be nominated for, let alone win, such an award, which recognises effort & achievement in a tough industry, battling challenging conditions is an incredible endorsement of hard work and persistence.