Bentley joins the Oldham-based events agency with a 20-year career working at advertising and marketing agencies alongside major UK brands including Bupa, Bank of Scotland, Virgin, Manchester United, B&Q and Church of England.
Alongside a number of non-exec director roles, Bentley is also an ambassador for Manchester-based homeless charity Mustard Tree, and an associate lecturer in 'design thinking' at University of Salford.
Ian Taylor, Team Spirit founder and chief executive, said: "Landing Adrian to lead our creative team is a real coup. This is the first of many exciting things that will be happening in 2015 for Team Spirit."
Bentley added: "I'm delighted to be on board and looking forward to helping take the business to another level of success."
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