Charly Cox
Managing Director
Charly founded the business after working in Sierra Leone as a communications consultant and spotting a lack of providers for innovative communications. From this frustration with ‘same old, same old’ was born a company that refuses to accept ‘that’s the way we’ve always done it’. Charly’s ability to craft practical and fun solutions comes in part from five years spent as a corporate fundraiser with Save the Children in London. This is also the drive behind the company’s commitment to offer value for money to customers in the developing world. Charly has been in West Africa for over five years, and has previously travelled widely in Europe, Asia and South America. She holds a masters degree in Photojournalism and International Documentary Photography, for which she studied in China. In her work as a consultant Charly devised and steered the communications campaign of the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health & Sanitation during the launch of the pioneering 2010 Free Healthcare Initiative, which offered free of cost health services to women and children, nationwide.
Erika Perez-Leon
Creative Director
Erika brings a breadth of experience and creative skills to Charly Cox Communications from work in creative agencies in both North and South America. She holds a BFA in Communication Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA, where she majored in photography with a focus on documentary work, with additional studies in graphic design and art history. Erika has worked as an Art Director within an advertising agency in New York with customers ranging from educational institutions to city programmes targeting health and social behavior campaigns. After that, she went on to work in Paris as a freelancer designer, supporting customers in three Spanish-speaking countries worldwide. Returning to her native Peru in 2010, Erika worked at two of the leading design studios in Lima, working on projects of brand development and implementation for clients in editorial, tourism and consumer goods sectors. Erika remains passionate about photography and has been pursuing a long-term documentary project photographing war refugee communities since 2010, which has taken her to travel widely in Latin America and Africa.
Bex Singleton
Associate Photographer
An artist and photographer, Bex works across a variety of photographic genres, specialising in documentary, portraiture, and performing arts. She holds both a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and a postgraduate degree in photography (for which she gained a Distinction) from St. Martin’s College in London. Bex has worked as a freelance photographer in London with customers such as Warner Music and musicians including the band Razorlight. She previously specialised in dance photography, documenting performances across the UK, most notably at Buckingham Palace. She photographed Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Breakin Convention and The Cholmondleys amongst many others. As with all of our team, Bex welcomes challenges and excels at working creatively to produce a photographic style that will work best for our customers.