CHI&Partners

CHI&Partners has hired Dave Bedwood, creative founder of Lean Mean Fighting Machine, as a Creative Partner – bringing him on board to help build on the agency’s reputation as a leader in integrated, innovative creativity. Starting next week, Bedwood will report directly into joint executive creative directors Yan Elliott and Micky Tudor as well as chief executive Sarah Golding. Bedwood has worked at agencies including Tribal DDB, M&C Saatchi and AnalogFolk, as well as co-founding two agencies of his own – Lean Mean Fighting Machine and data-driven marketing