We've got a great, diverse team of people here at Bell Pottinger North with a huge depth of experience and expertise. We're committed to doing a great job and we employ only seasoned professionals who understand your industry and the media and have experience of the full spectrum of PR skills.

Alex Henshall

Account Director, Professional Services

A marketing graduate and post-graduate, Alex has nearly 15 years’ marketing and communications experience specialising in the financial and professional services and healthcare sectors. He provides PR consultancy to a range of clients and has extensive experience of managing and implementing B2B and B2C campaigns.

Chris Warham

Managing Director

A member of the CIPR and the marketing society and with more than 20 years' experience of driving strategic and tactical communications, Chris' primary focus is on messaging and corporate positioning as well as the strategic integration of clients' reputation management activities with day to day sales and marketing.

Debbie Garrity

Director, Property & Planning and Building & Materials

A former press officer of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Debbie joined the Bell Pottinger team in 2005. With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, she heads our Property & Planning and Building & Building Materials teams.

Deborah Leah

Account Director, Technology

A consummate PR and communications professional specialising in technology, Deborah develops and executes PR programmes that support her clients’ strategic business objectives.

Emily Crellin

Account Director, Property & Planning and Building & Materials

With nine years’ PR experience in the B2B sector, Emily joined Bell Pottinger in 2005 and works with our clients in the property, planning, building and building materials sectors.

Fiona Whyatt

Senior Account Manager, Technology and Professional Services

As a former editor, Fiona understands what journalists need to fill their pages. Joining Bell Pottinger over ten years ago gave her a taste of life on the other side and she manages a range of clients in the technology and professional services sector.

Heather Butler

Former journalist and news editor Heather spent almost six years in regional newspapers before joining the BPN property, planning and construction team. Now a senior account manager with three years B2B experience, Heather handles the public relations and marketing requirements of a portfolio of clients including contractors, developers, building consultancies, and the world’s largest brick manufacturer.

John Butters

Director

John has more than 15 years’ experience of delivering proactive public relations campaigns – both in the UK and overseas. He also advises people who find themselves in the media spotlight including former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatraa and Gillian Duffy, who Gordon Brown referred to as a bigoted woman.

Linsey Henshaw

Linsey heads-up our digital practice. With a background in product development, brand and reputation management, she has worked with forward thinking brands including Microsoft, HP and Cisco.

Marie O’Connor

Marie specialises in consumer PR and has both agency and in-house experience working for leading supermarket retailer Morrisons. She has managed PR campaigns for an extensive range of clients including Virgin Media, easyJet, National Lottery and Nestle.

Michael Portz

After graduating in 2007, Michael worked on the launch of Google's key business platform, Google Docs. He also helped implement award-winning PR campaigns for a range of technology and professional services clients. In 2009, Michael joined the Bell Pottinger team working across a range of health, professional service and technology clients.

Pippa Davies

Former Oxford University student Pippa Davies joined Bell Pottinger in 2008 having spent three years as a broadcast journalist at BBC Radio Merseyside. She has experience in a wide range of sectors including technology, property, professional services and healthcare.

Richard Clein

Associate Director

A former BBC journalist and broadcaster, Richard heads up our Liverpool office. An expert media trainer, his work focuses on managing reputations particularly at times of crisis. He is also connected to politicians across the UK and has served on the Liberal Democrats Federal Executive.

Zoe Ensor

Director, Consumer

A former journalist with more than 20 years PR experience, Zoe specialises in consumer PR and has delivered a broad spectrum of campaigns for global brands.

Terry Gilligan

Account Director

Terry has 14 years consultancy experience of both consumer and B2B PR, specialising in community and creative campaigns and events. Responsible for delivering many high impact client events ranging from the Northern Business Journalist Awards to national experiential events and marketing activity for Virgin Media and Telewest Broadband.

Nathan Lane

Director

Nathan has 14 years experience working in agencies across the UK. A former president of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire CIPR and PRCA Midlands he has managed award winning teams for ten years. His experience includes consumer campaigns for three of the big four supermarkets, planning and public consultation consultancy for the big three housebuilders, inward investment campaigns for local authorities and RDAs, crisis PR for multi-national manufacturing firms and financial institutions and he launched a financial PR business in 2006. Nathan has lectured internationally on social media and was awarded the title of Pro bono Hero in 2008 for his work with Business in the Community.

Robert Stebbings

Account Manager

Robert has over nine year’s experience in successfully delivering consumer and b2b PR campaigns and has developed extensive media contacts across a range of sectors. In addition he has specialist knowledge in sport sponsorship activation and blogger relations.Notable sector experience includes e-commerce (Alibaba.com), construction (Portakabin), financial services (Britannia Building Society and Yorkshire Bank), beverage (Tetley’s), print (Pindar and Print Yorkshire) plus health and leisure (888.com, Football Association, Pure Gym and PortaSki).

Sandrine Powell

Account Director

Sandrine has 10 years in PR and began her career in London working on consumer brands such as Waitrose and John Lewis. Having made the move up north, she has worked across a variety of B2B and consumer clients, including Vidal Sassoon, Scholl, TV Licensing and Welcome to Yorkshire. Sandrine is an account director at Bell Pottinger and works across the professional services sector, with experience of handling the PR for legal and accountancy practices, and within the environmental sector, having handled the PR for the government’s Recycle Now campaign. She also handles the communications activity for Camelot, NAAFI and The Women’s Business Forum.