Andy Cheetham founded CheethamBell in 1992 with partner David Bell. CheethamBell soon became Manchester’s creative hotshop winning over 250 local, national and global awards in an eight year period. In early 2001 CheethamBell merged with JWT to become CheethamBellJWT.

At the end of 2001 CheethamBellJWT was ranked (by Campaign Magazine) as the largest agency outside of London. Andy is on the IPA (Insititute of Practitioners of Advertising) council and was made a fellow of the IPA in 2002. Andy now has a dual role as creative director of CBJWT and a national brand creative director of JWT London.