Bio:

Karen joined BBH after 14 years in Australia’s ad industry. She was Managing Director of Host Sydney. Prior to Host, Karen worked at BMF (B&T’s Australian Agency of the Decade) as a key member of its Account Management team.

Karen joined BBH London in April 2016 as Managing Partner, and has led Tesco business to 20 consecutive quarters of growth. In March 2018, Karen was promoted to Managing Director, overseeing the running of 60 Kingly Street, as well as continuing to lead the Tesco & Barclays businesses, amongst others. Karen was promoted to CEO in June 2020, and has been recognised as Head of Agency of the Year 2021 (Creative / Advertising) by Campaign. In May 2022, Karen helped establish BBH Dublin.

Bio:

Liverpool born, bred and proud, Gregor started his career as an Account Manager at digital and direct agency Claydon Heeley in 2006. He cut his teeth on Mercedes-Benz and Invesco Perpetual before eventually making the transition into Planning working on 3Mobile.

After a stint at digital outfit Weapon7, Gregor joined integrated agency VCCP in 2010 where he spent 6 years working initially on Burton’s Biscuits and then picking up AEG Europe, Fitness First, Which?, BetVictor and First Utility. Towards the end of 2012 he began running strategy on the O2 account.

Gregor joined BBH at the end of 2015. He is now Joint CSO and leads the strategy on Tesco, Barclays and Ladbrokes Coral.