Before joining STACK, Ben founded Stephens Francis Whitson (SFW) and built a blue chip client roster over eight years, winning more than 50 awards for creativity and effectiveness. In 2014 SFW was sold to the VCCP Partnership, and renamed VCCPme. Prior to this Ben was MD of Rapier, for half of the time that Campaign awarded it ‘Direct Agency of the Decade' for the noughties.