Dave Bedwood

Dave started his career as a Creative back in 1998 working at several of the large ATL agencies in London: Partners BDDH, MPGM, Y&R, M&C Saatchi.

By 2001 he was Tribal DDB’s Creative Director, running Volkswagen, The Guardian and British Gas.

In 2004, alongside three Tribal DDB colleagues co-founded ‘Lean Mean Fighting Machine’ (LMFM) That year Dave was voted into Campaign Magazine’s ‘Faces to Watch’ as well as Campaign’s ‘Top Ten Creative Directors’.

At LMFM Dave ran Virgin Games, Dr Pepper (Coca Cola), Strongbow (Heineken International) Signal, Flora, Domestos, (Unilever), Samsung, Google and Emirates.

2006 saw Dave win Campaign’s ‘Young Achievers of the Year’ Award and become the number one Creative in digital advertising, as voted for by his peers.

Dave has picked up numerous industry awards such as: Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, Clio, Andy’s, ADC, Creative Circle, BIMA and the Webbies. He has also been a judge and Chairman on several of these major award shows.

In 2008, Dave made The Observer’s Future 500 list, Campaign’s A-List, and saw LMFM become the first, and only, UK agency to win ‘Interactive Agency of the Year’ at Cannes.

In 2014 LMFM sold to M&C Saatchi. Dave became Creative Director for Transport for London, Etihad, Virgin Holidays and Land Rover.

In 2017 Dave joined advertising network The & Partnership as Creative Partner, where he ran the Lexus Europe and Lexus International (Tokyo) accounts.

From 2020 to present day he co-founded The Good Work Quickly a creative production company – which has seen Dave move into Directing and Editing. Now at Gravity Media, Dave will be Creative Partner – writing, directing and overseeing the creative output.