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The team
Vicki Spencer-Francis
Managing Director
Vicki has over 20 years’ experience in comms starting as a volunteer at channel 4 in 1998. Since then she went onto launch the UKs first digital channels at Granada Sky Broadcasting and the Cbeebies and CBBC channels at the BBC. Since moving back to Wales Vicki gained government experience both locally and nationally before launching Cowshed in 2014. Putting passion and purpose first, Vicki is steadfast in delivering campaigns for organisations the team believe in and she’s built an extremely talented team to help her do it.
Kate Mann
Associate Director
Kate leads the team through the most complex of our campaigns. A multi-award winning mother of two, Kate’s strategic thinking and knowledge of media relations makes sure our campaigns are wide reaching and inspire people to act.
Ben Freeman
Creative Director
Ben oversees the creative direction of our award winning campaigns and projects. With a strong background in branding and design and exceptional eye for detail, Ben is a problem-solver. These brilliant attributes result in outstanding and engaging content.
Stacey Oliver
Campaign Director
Stacey started her career at Comic Relief where she met Vicki. Cowshed’s first employee, Stacey has delivered some of our most recognisable campaigns, leading on clients including National Adoption Service, Public Health Wales and National Trust.
David Francis
Finance Director
Dave manages his role as overseer of finance and strategy at Cowshed between his other roles which take him around the globe. A Finance Director with over 20 years’ experience working for FTSE 100 companies, Cowshed are incredibly lucky to have his strategic and global vision to guide them as they grow. (Dave wrote that bit!)
Hannah Williams
Campaign Officer
Since joining Cowshed, Hannah’s brought bags of energy and determination, always with the best interest of clients at heart. Hannah delivers fully integrated campaigns that have a positive with enthusiasm and purpose.
Holly Fairclough
Campaign Manager
CIPR’s Young Communicator of the Year, Holly has quickly proven her ability to deliver first class campaigns with pace and precision. Her determination and passion is contagious both with the team and her clients.
Lauren Williams-Jones
Campaign Assistant
Our designated organiser, Lauren is strategic, thoughtful and dedicated. Her eagerness to grow shines through in everything she does and she always goes above and beyond to deliver for the team and our clients.
Nektaria Bogris
Senior Graphic Designer
Nektaria is an award-winning multi-disciplined integrated designer with 6 years’ experience. She recently came to Wales from London and already wishes she had been here all her life. Technically she is fantastic, a natural creative, full of ideas and concepts. She brings a fresh eye to clean, accessible design and a sharp attention to detail.
Nadia Ali
Campaign Assistant
Nadia has quickly gained experience in many aspects of integrated campaign planning since joining Cowshed as an intern. She uses her expert copy writing skills to create exciting content for Cowshed’s clients and is passionate about telling powerful stories through the written word.
Martyn Jones
Web Developer
Martyn has over 13 years’ experience programming in multiple languages. Working across B2B and B2C he has contributed to projects of all shapes and sizes. He firmly believes that websites should be accessible, environmentally friendly and incredibly fast. We can’t argue with that.
Maris Latham
Junior Graphic Designer
Maris is a bilingual graphic and typographic designer with a love for typography. A passionate, determined and dedicated individual, striving to create meaningful work that generates a positive impact.
Gemma White
Campaign Officer
Gemma has a wealth of experience in marketing, communications and events and has delivered energetic campaigns for several leading arts organisations and festivals including Wales Millennium Centre, Festival of Voice and Sŵn Festival. With an interest in psychology and social justice, she brings creative ideas and practical solutions to the team as well as an understanding ear to both our clients and the public.
Joe Moses
Web Developer
Joe is a Full-Stack Web Developer who focuses on building top-ranking, accessible and performant websites. Passionate about optimisation, typically, Joe can be seen squeezing every last drop of speed and performance out of WordPress.
Fie Adolfsen
Campaign Assistant
Fie joined Cowshed after spending three years managing social media and communications at The Cardiff Devils Ice Hockey Club. Fie has a wealth of talent and skill across all disciplines including content creation, strategy and of course, the ability to stand in cold Ice Hockey stadiums for hours and keep her sense of humour.
Llinos Dafydd
Welsh Language Creative Copywriter
With 15 years’ experience working in the communications industry as a journalist and editor, Llinos is a natural juggler with words, especially through the medium of Welsh. She’s passionate about Welsh and seeing the language thrive on new platforms such as social media and online marketing. Llinos is also a poet with over 30 awards to her name and a mother of four daughters. She’s a professional multitasker and her best work is done when there’s some delicious coffee at hand.
Admiral Archibald Duff
Mascot
Archie isn’t in the office much because he’s too naughty but he will make special guest appearances on request. Please let us know if you’re coming in and want to see him.
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Our Address
Cowshed Communication
3rd Floor,
Park House,
Greyfriars Rd,
Cardiff
CF103AF