Stephen Benzikie - Managing Director

Stephen joined Bell Pottinger as Managing Director in October 2005. He has 20 years’ experience of working with organisations at board level. Prior to joining Bell Pottinger he was Executive Director, Financial and Corporate Communications at global PR group Edelman, before which he was a board director of City consultancy Grandfield.

In his earlier career, Stephen spent seven years at the Daily Mail newspaper as a financial journalist, following six years as an equity analyst specialising in breweries and leisure at stockbrokers Capel-Cure Myers and Kitcat & Aitken.

Stephen’s experience includes cross-border mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, crisis management and litigation support. In recent years, Stephen has advised BP, Le Meridien Hotels, InBev, Gemplus, Orange, Clifford Chance, Invensys, Royal & SunAlliance, Boston Consulting Group, BAE Systems, Imperial Tobacco, Permira and Dubai’s DP World.

Contact:
+44 (0)20 7861 3879
SBenzikie@Bell-Pottinger.co.uk