Fearless. Truthful. Unexpected.

Ben combines his Managing Partner duties with a keen interest in the agency’s strategic thinking. He is a great believer that consumer-led insight is the key to unlocking standout work for clients. As a result, every piece of work produced by Keko London is informed by these insights, applied with a real-world sensitivity.

Ben’s career started at international consulting firm Foolproof working with clients in NYC, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Paris – which also gave him a global perspective on HNWIs. A move to JWT, the home of planning, saw him build global advertising strategies for Nokia, HSBC and Shell. His subsequent role at Imagination gave him valuable experience in the world of branding and design, before he set up Keko London in 2013.

When he’s not thinking about work, Ben is thinking (very occasionally) about keeping fit.

Brigitte founded Keko London in 2013, with Bentley as its inaugural client, and still believes strongly in helping to guide the company from her Frankfurt HQ. A Masters Degree in Business Administration has given her a career-long fascination with marketing and strategic consulting.

She worked at TBWA Frankfurt, Lowe & Partners and Michael Conrad, before becoming a member of the board at Leo Burnett. In 2001, Brigitte joined the Klaus E. Küster advertising agency as Managing Director. She became owner of the agency in 2009 – renaming it Kemper Kommunikation. Porsche AG was the main client. Others include: Porsche Design, Merck Millipore, Schüco, MHP Consulting, Telis Finanz, Heraeus, Bosch, UKM, GS1, Brose, Würth, VDMA and Claas. In 2011, she founded Keko Singapore for Porsche Asia Pacific, before opening the Keko London office.

Brigitte would love to have some hobbies, she’s just too busy.

Paul joined Keko London from Karmarama, to head up Keko London’s creative department. He has a deep-rooted belief that collaboration is the key to producing great creative work – that works. To this end, he now liaises closely with Ben and Brigitte to lead the agency in a progressive direction that harnesses the power of technology.

Whilst at Karmarama, he spent several years overseeing and producing award-winning campaigns, including two DMA Golds and a Silver, for clients such as Honda, Porsche, Sony, William Grant & Sons Distillers, Clydesdale Bank, BT and the BBC.

His career working across integrated agencies spans both the UK and his native South Africa.

In his spare time, Paul enjoys cooking over an open fire in the great outdoors (preferably outside the M25).

Flick manages the Bentley Motors global marketing account at Keko London and believes in a close and open working partnership between client and agency.

Having begun her career at King & Tuke, a boutique start-up agency in Clerkenwell, she worked across diverse accounts, from Santander Private Banking and QBE Specialist Business Insurance, to Plan International and the London Transport Museum. Her next move was into the automotive world, working on Volkswagen and Lamborghini at Adam & Eve DDB. Here, she joined the John Lewis Christmas team and helped produce the 2013 Christmas campaign, The Bear & The Hare.

In her spare time, Flick swaps the challenge of her job for challenges of her own making, including the Three Peaks in 2016, and the Corsican GR20 in 2017. Her next plan is Kayaking through the wilds of Norway.

Chris is eminently qualified in his role at Keko London. For the past 16 years, he headed up marketing at the HSBC Group, reshaping it into a truly global function and leading a team of over 1,000 people. As CMO, and member of the HSBC Group Management Board for the past 7 years, his accomplishments include the iconic ‘air-bridge’ advertising programme, and being an original architect of ‘The World’s Local Bank’ positioning.

Prior to this Chris worked in advertising, spending most of his career as Group Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, where he was responsible for clients including Mars, P&G and some infamous work for Club 18-30. He finished his time in advertising as a strategic planner in NYC, where he enjoyed the start of the first dot com boom and the end of the New York Mad Men era (ask him, he has some pretty colourful stories).

When not busy planning his new portfolio lifestyle, Chris likes to maintain his ‘life balance’ by playing chess (mind), coaching rugby (body) and painting (spirit).

Prash heads up the strategy team here at Keko London. Prash made his debut into strategic planning at Karamarama, where he worked on integrated campaigns running across TV, OOH, print, social, digital experiential and, CRM. After that he moved to the world’s biggest PR agency, Edelman. Here he was responsible for developing global campaigns, embedding planning across practices and providing strategic leadership across their communications consultancy.

Prash’s strengths lie in integrated campaign strategy, advising clients across the customer journey, working closely with creative, building teams and fostering a positive working culture.

A selection of the brands he’s worked with include: Age UK, ASICS, BBC, Geneva Motor Show, Heineken, Honda, HP, Microsoft, Nintendo, Porsche, Siemens, Unilever and Xbox.

In his spare time, if he’s not running around after his son, he’s running around after a football.

Andrew joined Keko London in 2014 as Head of Design. His passion and beliefs around typographic craft and minimalistic design style were born before the age of soulless computer programmes. He has old school values delivered with new world tools.

A Design Degree from Newcastle University (Australia) springboarded him into advertising with stints at Ogilvy & Mather, Fame Advertising and McCann Worldwide’s Momentum. He worked on both Australian and global brands including Motorola, American Express and General Motors Holden. In 2006, Andrew’s career shifted to the UK at the London Transport Museum, followed by DLKW Lowe, Bray Leino, Ogilvy One and CHI & Partners. His clients includes British Airways, Vauxhall, The Times, Konami, Krispy Kreme and, of course, Bentley Motors.

When not behind a mac, he’s behind a BBQ (and for the record, he reckons gas beats charcoal).

Emma is Senior Account Director for the global side of the Bentley business. She was one of the first employees of the newly founded Keko London in 2013. Emma initially joined as Ben Whattam’s PA but rapidly outgrew the role. She took naturally to being given important client service responsibilities. Her belief in being meticulous across single every aspect of her work has made her invaluable to the company, and the clients.

Between 2008 and 2011, Emma studied Geography at Bristol University. Following graduation, she worked as a Scuba Diving Instructor in Central America for five months, before returning to London to work in events, specialising in catering and hospitality.

On Friday after work, she is inevitably first to encourage the opening of a bottle of prosecco – something she also performs with meticulous attention to detail.

Mark has joined Keko London after more than thirteen years’ experience working in and around the world of CRM. During that time, he’s seen the days of bulk-and-blast email sends evolve into data-driven, customer-centric ecosystems. He is a progressive practitioner and now has a firm belief that the future of our industry is data shaped. That’s why he’s here at Keko London.

Before joining the agency he was employed client-side at Canon, and proved himself instrumental on the ‘Live for the Story’ brand repositioning, and its supporting CRM strategy. His career has also seen him work closely with a diverse group of progressive thinking clients, including Samsung and Waterstones.

When his mind isn’t strategically wired, he’s focused on collecting – and obsessively hoards – trainers, books, instruments, and vinyl records. In fact, “he’s gonna need a bigger house”.

Claire leads brand planning at Keko for the global Bentley Motors account. In the past, she has worked with both challenger brands and household names, including RBS, Vodafone, Shell, Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Mars Inc, PepsiCo, Dove and Compare the Market, helping to reposition them, to define their purpose and to promote their products.

A modern brand planner at modern agency, Claire’s experience isn’t so much ‘T-shaped’ as star-shaped. She is able to join the dots between brand development, consumer research, social strategy, and comms planning.

As a former England rower, Claire’s ethos – to gain a competitive advantage – is applied with no less passion to her client’s business. These days, she can mostly be found Triathlon training and enjoying London restaurants, though she recognises that one doesn’t necessarily help the other.

Kirstie is one of the shining new lights in the Keko London creative department. She originally started her career as Ben’s PA, but a comprehensive range of creative skills inevitably empowered her discipline change. She believes passionately in always challenging herself and, in doing so, she produces thinking that challenges our clients, too.

Before arriving in London in 2014 from the land of bagpipes and whisky, Kirstie studied Fine Art at Edinburgh University, interned in Global Marketing at Winsor & Newton and was artist-in-residence at The Edinburgh Academy. Other skills include painting (pictures and walls), making tea (properly, like they do in Yorkshire) and IT (self-taught).

Outside the slanting walls of Keko HQ, Kirstie spends as much time as possible elbow deep in charcoal and exploring/getting lost in London.

With a strong belief in using customer data alongside psychological theory, Chris combines a credible technology foundation with the ability to build relationships at all levels.

For more than 15 years, he has delivered frictionless, relevant and contextual customer experiences. He has led the development of a wide range of projects for brands such as HSBC, Shell and Rimmel, covering everything from mobile apps to global websites. From systems architecture to customer experience strategy and the delivery of strategic change, his work has taken him deep into the Financial Services, Automotive, FMCG, Communications, Hospitality and Retail sectors.

Outside the office, Chris is passionate about the outdoors, an avid mountain biker, he even visits it sometimes.

Hannah is Senior Account Director for the Regional side of the Bentley Motors business and believes in teamwork between agency and client through consistent communication.

Having begun her career at Bentley in the United States, she worked with the Sales and Marketing Teams, developing strong relationships with the Retailer Network. Hannah supported retailer vehicle orders, training and national events. Her next move was to New York City where she joined the global Cadillac Marketing Team. During her time at Cadillac, she was responsible for all consumer-facing experiences and global Partnerships. These ranged from test drive initiatives to collaborations and activations within the pillars of fashion, design and hospitality.

In her spare time, you can find Hannah exploring London’s vibrant markets. She enjoys cooking and yoga, as well as the occasional Netflix binge with a glass of wine.

Chester joined Keko London as Chief Dachshund in 2017, the latest move in a glittering career that has spanned almost six months.

Standing 0 ft 7 in his bare feet, his imposing presence is felt continually at Keko. Whether he’s sharing the benefits of his unique smell-based creative insight, or simply forcing junior members of staff to carry him, Chester is both respected and feared, throughout the office.

As one of London’s most prominent Dachshunds, Chester has long felt that his German ancestry could represent a kind of conceptual bridge between Keko London and its sister company in Frankfurt, Kemper Kommunikation. He is alone in this belief.

He is not only the definition of style and sophistication, but also of Keko’s internal philosophy of KeepVerging…always looking for what is next. He even has his own Instagram channel @MrChesterWBR.

Harry has joined Keko London as a Planner, where he is primarily working on Bentley. Harry’s prior role was as a Media Planner at Mindshare and Rocket PHD. During his time in Media, he has worked in both digital media and planning, working on a number of high profile accounts including: Nike, Porsche, Sega and UKTV

His experience in Media has taught him the importance of placing the user at the center of his work – a learning he brings to his role at Keko. Harry is excited to be gaining exposure to the creative process to establish a more holistic understanding of the industry.

In his spare time, you will find Harry in the kitchen rolling fresh pasta, making ice cream and baking sourdough bread.

Nina manages PR at Keko London, working primarily on Bentley, as well as looking after communications for the agency itself. She combines exquisite attention to detail and an eye for a story with a belief in a closely aligned and coherent PR, marketing and advertising strategy.

Nina joined Keko London from Boodles, where she was PR Executive. She has a fascination for all things creative, having completed a History of Art degree at Oxford Brookes University. After a short stint working for fashion magazines, she quickly progressed into the world of PR, making full use of her social media, copywriting, communications and creative skills.

Outside of work, Nina can frequently be found exploring London’s pubs. She is also an avid bookworm, taking the long route to work to get extra reading time on the morning bus.

After more than ten years of freelancing in the world of motion design, collaborating with global agencies across advertising, branding, digital, TV, film, music and architecture, Charles has found a more permanent home at Keko.

Drawn to Keko’s forward-thinking outlook towards the future of brand development, as well as the strong relationships between the agency and their clients, Charles specialises in creating and developing engaging content in a variety of media, including social, digital and tradtional advertising, embracing new technologies and methods in a constantly evolving field.

Somehow, he also finds time to play and produce electronic dance music, enjoy bike-riding, rock-climbing and kite-surfing, practise yoga and meditation, and add to the extensive list of countries he’s visited.

Amy always wanted to be a writer, even when she was a little girl. She’s yet to actually finish writing a book but she is proud that her social copy has been seen by millions of people all over the world.

She studied Fashion Journalism at the London College of Fashion before naturally falling into doing social for a couple of small fashion PR companies. From there, she worked on a bunch of household name brands in booze, boobs and automobiles, including Malibu rum, Triumph lingerie, and Jaguar and SKODA cars.

More recently, she’s done social for two of the three biggest mobile phone companies in the world: Samsung and Huawei. Outside of work, she likes books, board games and Bodypump.

Mark is a vastly experienced senior art director whose deep knowledge, and easy manner, equip him perfectly to help in the creation, crafting and delivery of Keko London’s diverse output. He believes that even quantity should be delivered with quality.

Graduating with a degree in graphic design, Mark’s career began in the design industry, then segwayed into the world of advertising as an award-winning art director and latterly, creative director. He worked across London’s leading agencies including Grey, Craik Jones and Publicis instigating work for BMW, Diageo, Unilever, Renault, EE and Land Rover. A raft of creative awards include D&AD, Cannes Lions, Eurobest and the DMA.

Outside the office, when not on his Triumph Bonneville, he’s up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed every Saturday morning at Putney School of Art honing his passion for screen printing.

Clemmie joined Keko London as a New Business Executive after graduating from the University of Newcastle (England) with a degree in Sociology. This move was triggered by her belief in the importance of reaching and influencing prospective clients – and her desire to understand the principles behind achieving this.

With an educated background in behaviourism, and a genuine fascination about what makes different people tick, her self-motivated attitude, and determination to get things done, have already proved invaluable to Keko London.

Outside of work, her weekly social life keeps the office mightily entertained. On weekends though, Clemmie assumes her role as country bumpkin undertaking long dog walks and exploring the various pubs and gastro restaurants that puncutuate the North Norfolk coastline.

Tim is the Financial Controller at Keko London, providing in-house accounting and financial business support. He works closely wth Ben and Brigitte, and strongly believes that his input and calculations are based firmly on fact – and uses data to back up his insights and projections.

He started his career in Finance at Hays Recruitment, before moving into a role as Financial Analyst at Virgin Media, which helped develop his skills in commercial modelling. Prior to Keko London, Tim spent six years as the Management Accountant at Coley Porter Bell in the Ogilvy & Mather Network, gaining invaluable understanding of the agency model.

If you’re looking for Tim out of office hours, you’ll find him – out of breath – at the 5-a-side football pitches in Wimbledon.

Kallinthi is our Creative Services Manager and truly believes that good communication and a can-do attitude can have only positive effects in a working environment.

Having begun her career at NBCUniversal International Networks in marketing and later on production, she worked across multiple channels (Syfy, 13th Street, E!, Universal Channel, Telemundo, Studio Universal). Wanting to experience a client facing environment, she then moved into the PR world at Edelman Deportivo where she worked on a range of clients including Shell, HP and Unilever as a junior producer. She took the opportunity to move into a resourcing role, where she worked alongside the design and film team.

In her free time Kallinthi enjoys planning her next travel adventure, ideally practicing meditation and yoga whilst enjoying hidden nature spots. She revels in gazing across city skyscapes, always accompanied by a tasty portion of chips.

Georgie joined the global account team in 2015 and works across all areas of brand communications. She believes you should not only trust your instincts – but have the courage to act on them.

Georgie originally took an internship with Keko London, having completed a degree in Criminology. She was responsible for the migration of the entire Bentley Motors website, sparking a keen interest across all digital projects. She also has a passion for charity fundraising and, in collaboration with Amelia, has set up our own initiative ‘Keko Kares’ that raises money for local Soho charities and other worthwhile causes.

Outside of work, Georgie has successfully competed in numerous sporting activities, from equestrian events to rowing for her university at national level. She is now focusing on open-water swimming.

As both wordsmith and strategist, Matt teamed up with Ben Whattam to launch the Keko London’s first office in 2013, where he still continues to articulate the Bentley story: past, present and future, to this day.

Matt began his career in market research, before turning his hand to strategy development during the first dotcom boom. A move into integrated marketing saw him rise to Head of Planning at the independent agency Chemistry, where he eventually made the move into the creative department, beginning a new life as a copywriter. Ten years, several agencies and many creative awards later, he now provides both the copy craft, and strategic rigour, that Keko London’s impressive client list demands.

In his spare time, he’s writing his first novel. Problem is, he doesn’t
get much spare time.

In early 2018 , Diana joined Keko London with responsibilities for all projects and client requests relating to Bentley’s European operations. Her day-to-day now typically includes taking on client briefs, writing agency briefs, managing projects, and constantly ensuring the European team’s expectations are not only met, but exceeded. Importanly, she is not afraid to get to the point – with anyone – to achieve the most effective results.

Before joing Keko London, Diana worked as a Transcreation Account Manager at WilliamsLeaTag. In this role she managed adaptations into European languages for TV, print and digital collateral for FMCG brands. She also enjoyed nuturing ongoing relationships with clients in the DACH region, and working on content development across multiple languages.

When not at work (which is not often) she loves the great outdoors (taking in the fresh air) and the great indoors (taking in a good movie).

Lauren joined Keko London on a full-time basis after originally undertaking freelance work on Bentley’s CRM account, taking responsibility for the Aftersales and Pre-owned elements of the Bentley Motors business. She has a strong belief that to get the best out of everyone, everyone needs to be connected. And she provides that connection.

With nearly eight years of account management experience, she comes from a fully integrated background having worked across a number of sectors. Her list of previous clients include: Sky, Jaguar Land Rover, Genting Casinos, Sainsbury’s and Nails Inc.

When the work whistle blows on Friday evening, Lauren can be found following Arsenal Football Club (the only London team in her opinion) for all home and away fixtures. If there’s no game, she’ll be in one of the 100s of bars/pubs in Soho.

James runs jdubbya ltd. from within the Keko London studio, and provides a talented and tech-savvy creative resource whenever workflow demands it. James is a firm believer in the ethic of teamwork – something he excels at. And that Keko often benefits from.

He was previously Creative Partner at the start-up agency Superstructure® and Creative Group Head at This is BD, on the Coca-Cola GB, Cineworld and Nike Accounts. James has also plied his considerable talents at KLP Euro RSCG, Iris, Elvis and The Marketing Store. His knowledge of branding ID, retail design, interior design, shopper marketing and packaging disciplines is nothing short of encyclopaedic.

In his spare time, he divides his life between designing bikes, illustrating cars, family, drinking, eating and sleeping (the latter usually losing out to the others).

As Account Manager on Bentley Global, Maria is an essential part of the day-to-day running of the account. Even at the very busiest times, she believes in doing everything with a smile.

Maria graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with first-class honours in Marketing and Advertising, and went on to work at eg+, a content and production agency, managing global campaigns for Mercedes-Benz, Sony, and Intel across print, digital, TV and social media, before joining Keko London.

Outside work, she is obsessed with the TV show Friends and reached the top five in the UK in a Friends quiz, which made her day, her week, her month and even her year.

Andy joins the ranks of Keko London’s writers after three years at Deliveroo’s in-house creative studio, where he contributed to the company’s rapid growth from an initial team of just 30 people.

Having started out answering phones on the customer service desk, Andy went on to use the insights he’d gained there to develop campaigns in the creative team. He is now excited to take his skills to the next level with new challenges at Keko London. He follows a simple philosophy – never stop improving.

His spare time is spent writing screenplays, training too hard, and eating too much.

Tori has joined Keko London as the new Producer and is responsible for maintaining high production standards and leading the crafting and production of ideas through to project execution and delivery across all mediums.

Before Keko, Tori was at BBH for 3 years producing award-winning campaigns for clients such as Audi, Tesco and Dulux. Tori has a strong background in production and a demonstrated history of working with the automotive industry which will be valuable to Keko London.

When she’s not on-set shooting, you’ll find Tori in one of London’s many bars with a G&T in hand or back at home in the land of concrete cows tucked away somewhere drawing.

Lottie is the Office Manager at Keko London. She believes that if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing exceptionally well.

Like all Keko London employees though, there is more to Lottie than meets the eye. She originally studied Art Foundation at Oxford Brookes University, followed by an Executive PA Diploma course at Oxford Business and Media School before moving to London. After 7 years of working in the finance sector as a PA, she decided to take a break and move to Florence to study portraits. She’s now back in the heart of capital.

In her spare time, Lottie keeps up her drawing skills with regular commissions for portraits of both pets and people. She also loves the art of boxing.

Joe joined Keko London as an Account Executive with responsibilities across the Bentley Motors UK account. His belief that administrative talents – and his are formidable– should also be delivered with a real sense of passion for the business of advertising has seen him hit the ground running.

Joe graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in American and Canadian Studies. Having an educated background in creative literature and film has imbued Joe with a highly developed critical perspective that has already proved invaluable in the day-to-day creative agency process.

Outside of the office, Joe puts his enthusiasm for all things film into practice. He also runs an Instagram account for his dog Chewy…who currently has more followers than he does.

Laura joined Keko London as a Junior Planner after graduating from the University of Sheffield with a degree in History and Politics.

Within Keko London, Laura is responsible for thoroughly understanding our client’s brands, their audiences and their products. This knowledge enables her to compile strategic documents that advise our clients about how to position and communicate their brands to affluent audiences.

Outside the office, Laura can be found exploring the West End theatres (her favourite musical to date has to be Billy Elliot) or planning her next adventure. After trekking around South Asia recently, the next destination on her list is undoubtedly South America.

Matt joined Keko London to work as the Social Media Manager across Porsche GB, having developed a talent for automotive social media working on other well-known names including BMW and Land Rover.

Matt has always had a love of advertising, and he graduated from Kingston University with a degree in Marketing Management. He was drawn to social media as the medium where everything ‘breaks’ first, and is a firm believer that leading at social has a key role to play in strengthening all marketing activity.

When not refreshing his various feeds, Matt is discovering London via beer and burgers, and aims to travel further afield in 2019.

Naser has joined Keko London’s Bentley Middle East team as an Account Manager and brings with him eight years of experience, having worked in leading Middle East agencies as both Head of Copy and Associate Creative Director.

Naser comes from a fully integrated communications background, delivering creative and client relations services to automotive brands Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, Kia and Mazda. Other brands Naser has worked on include St. Regis, Qatar Airways, Orange and IKEA.

With his Arabic fluency, deep insight and understanding of the Middle East culture, he is keen on delivering comprehensive client servicing to Bentley Middle East.

Outside of work, Naser enjoys watching and reviewing foreign films and documentaries. His guilty pleasure is building toy robots and Lego sets – he is, of course, just helping out his stepson.

Sophie joined Keko London as a Design Intern and soon secured a permanent position in the design team. She takes inspiration from print design and loves to explore different media to influence her creative approach – particularly letterpress, sign-writing and hand lettering.

After studying at the University of Leeds and then the University of Sydney, she graduated with an international degree in the history of art. She then spent several years working in studio management and administrative roles until, craving more creativity, she enrolled on a graphic design course at Shillington College. There, she was able to hone her technical skills and nurture her creativity – and now she explores her passion for design on a daily basis.

Always on the lookout for the next adventure, Sophie loves to travel and can usually be found exploring the great outdoors on a hike.

Wilf is now working as an Account Manager on the Bentley Motors Global account, where his belief in tackling his responsibilities with energy and enthusiasm have already started him on a rapid upward learning curve in the world of advertising.

Wilf graduated in 2016 with a degree in Psychology from the University of Sussex, before spending a ‘hands-on’ year learning about the business of wine production and marketing at wine company, Fine and Rare. He then cleared his head by travelling the world before joining Keko London in 2017.

When not in the office, Wilf can be found poring over prison documentaries trying to unravel the criminal mind, or planning his next global adventure.

Previously Global Art Director on Jaguar Land Rover, Samuel joins Keko London to explore new avenues in the automotive industry with Bentley and Porsche UK. His aim is to challenge conventions, grow solid relationships and inspire this tech savvy world with unique concepts that will be remembered. With a background in design, he brings a wide spectrum of skills to Keko, helping the agency to introduce new technology to its clients.

When he’s not working, he’s working on something else. To put it simply, he’s never not working. Whether that’s producing underground music in Ableton, experimenting with different cuisines in the kitchen or generating proactive content for his social platforms, Samuel has his mind set on constant progression throughout all areas of his life, not just his advertising career.

Tim joined the Keko London team as Account Executive for the Bentley Europe account. He believes creativity is the key asset for any agency wishing to thrive in the new marketing landscape.

Tim graduated from King’s College having studied Business Management with core modules in Marketing. Having previously worked in PR, he decided to follow his passion for marketing and advertising – which is how he found his way to us.

Outside the office, you’ll find Tim on a tennis court or a football pitch. But, whenever a long weekend arrives, he’ll be riding a motocross bike on the dirt roads of Southern France.