Barrie Kelly

Barrie Kelly joined Visit Chester and Cheshire (formerly CWTB) in 2004 and is now Director of Operations.

Previously he was Head of Marketing and Commercial Development at The Mersey Partnership – the economic development, investment and tourism body for Liverpool and Merseyside.
 
Born in Wigan and living in Frodsham, Barrie is an experienced strategic marketer, beginning his career at Stowe Bowden Wilson (part of the McCann-Erickson group), a then top five advertising and marketing agency in Manchester.  He then progressed as Communications Director for The Data Protection Office in 1996.

Throughout his career he has had an outstanding track record of success in both private and public sectors.  This has been recognised within the industry with a number of prominent awards including a CIM SWOT Award for brand repositioning (1999), an IPA commendation for advertising effectiveness (1998) and most recently an award from England for Excellence for web site design (2003).