Drew Benvie — Co-Founder
I am founder and CEO of multi award winning communications agency Battenhall, PR Week specialist consultancy of the year 2025, and Campaign CEO of the year 2024. Battenhall’s been named The Drum's social media consultancy of the year three years running, as well as PRCA, CIPR, PR Moment and Global Social Media Awards agency of the year 30 times and counting altogether l. I was voted NMA’s top social media person, am 14 years a PR Week PowerBooker, have a PRCA outstanding contribution award and did a TED Talk about all of this. I set up Battenhall solo after having been a founding figure in the social media movement. I started it in the late 90’s and wrote the social media page on Wikipedia. More recently I founded RAISE, a non-profit initiative to for social media safety. It’s seen me write courses for schools, deliver workshops in prisons, and work in the media. It’s a big part of the culture and ethos behind Battenhall, which is to create the next great agency.
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Experience: 26 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Public Relations
- Leadership
- Social Media
Career Highlights
- Founder of award-winning agency Battenhall
- Recognized as Campaign CEO of the Year 2024
- Pioneered social media safety initiatives
Work Experience
Raise
Founder (2 yrs 8 mos)
Battenhall
Chief Executive Officer (13 yrs)
33 Digital
Founder & Global Managing Director (3 yrs 10 mos)
Hotwire
Business Director to UK CEO (5 yrs 4 mos)
TEAM LEWIS
Account Director to Associate Director (1 yr 8 mos)
Bray Leino
Senior Account Manager (2 yrs)
Hotwire
Account Exec to Account Manager (2 yrs 6 mos)
Acequote.com
PR Executive (1 yr)
Cardiff Students' Union
Campaigns & PR Sabbatical Officer (1 yr 2 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
at The King’s School, Worcester