Contributors

Thor Thomsen

Head of Partnerships • TwentyThree

Thor has 15+ years experience in the performance marketing industry working with business developments on a global scale, partnerships and strategy. He is currently heading up the Partnership department with TwentyThree, Europe’s leading webinar and video marketing platform.

Daniele Saccardi

Senior DPR Lead • Preply

Daniele Saccardi is the Senior DPR Lead at Preply, the world’s largest online education platform. Joining the business in 2021, Daniele created the Digital PR machine that is driving Preply’s SEO dominance through link acquisition. He works closely with Social, Brand & Content to deliver meaningful stories to a world of learners.

Dela Quist

Non Executive Director • The Email Factory

Dela is widely recognized as a thought leader in the industry, in 2022 The ANA Email Experience Council made him Email Marketing Thought Leader of the Year and published numerous articles on unlocking the power of email marketing and the importance of frequency. Dela’s most impactful contribution to the industry is his controversial opinion that...

Michael Le

Associate Director of Strategy, Media & Technology • Movable Ink

Michael has over a decade of CRM experience working across multiple areas of subscription media and technology companies. He joined Movable Ink from Amazon Music, where he led both acquisition and win-back strategies across Europe. Prior to Amazon Music, Michael spearheaded the CRM team at ESI Media, focusing on a 1:1 personalized experience in all...

Kate Barrett

Founder & Director • eFocus Marketing

Kate Barrett is the founder of eFocus Marketing, providing specialist email marketing consultancy, management and training services to companies around the world. With a proven track record and over 16 years’ experience, Kate’s expertise and passion has helped a large range of companies (including Ann Summers, Ordinance Survey, Nissan, Marks & Spencer, Argos and Ted...

Matthew Gaunt

Chief Marketing Officer • MGA

Matthew is an accomplished multi-channel CMO, CCO and Digital Marketing Director who is now helping customers as a Fractional CMO | NED, Consultant and Advisor. Having gained hands on experience in delivering future-focused business change within dynamic omnichannel environments such as Majestic Wine, Wickes, Hamleys, Tesco and Waitrose. His innate digital and analytical bias has...

Alex Tait

Founder • Entropy

Entropy MMM is a hybrid business consultancy and agency specialising in Marketing Mix Modelling / econometrics. Immediately before setting it up Alex was the Media & Marketing Services Director for Unilever UK. He has also worked client-side in a variety of senior digital and ecommerce leadership roles including at American Express and Kellogg’s.

Rob Kerry

Commercial Director • Re:signal

Rob is the Commercial Director at Re:signal, a specialist Ecommerce SEO agency helping brands including ASICS, Under Armour, B&Q, Lucy & Yak and FatFace. The agency has won over 50 awards for its client campaigns, more than any other SEO agency worldwide. Before joining Re:signal, Rob was the Head of Ecommerce Projects at Kingfisher Group (Screwfix,...

Chris Walsh

Commercial Director • WMG

A digital marketeer, specialising in performance marketing channels (SEM and paid media), with over decade of experience developing campaigns for clients from local SMEs to global organisations. Specialities include SEO, PPC, Conversion Rate Optimisation, Display Marketing, and Social Advertising

Emma Grinter

Senior Demand Generation Manager • Rail Delivery Group. National Rail

Emma has held a range of diverse roles in direct and digital marketing & eCommerce for many hundreds of years. For the last 6, she has been the lead for customer acquisition and retention for National Rail. During this time she has directed the railway’s multi-channel, paid media campaigns Let’s Get Back on Track and...

Jack Clay

Head of Customer Success • Spotler

As the Head of Customer Success at Spotler UK, Jack brings over a decade of experience in lifecycle marketing. Leading a team of dedicated professionals, he focuses on empowering customers to maximize the benefits of our software and achieve their strategic goals

Andrew Bloch

Founder • Click Train

With years of experience in Digital Marketing and Agency scaling across Africa, Andrew is passionate about driving innovation in the Paid Media industry globally. He aims to bridge the gap between Agencies and Brands by offering top-of-the-line AdTech solutions that drive success, understanding the challenges CMOs and CEOs face in Digital procurement, empowering companies to...

Clara Toombs

Email Marketing Consultant • Clara Toombs Consulting

Clara has been in email marketing for well over a decade working for Fortune 500 companies such as The Expedia Group, Hotels.com, Monsoon Accessorize and MoneySuperMarket. She is hugely passionate about email marketing strategies as a way to build authentic connections with audiences. She regularly speaks on the topic of email marketing, customer journeys and...

Pavan Konanur

CMO • Phantom

Pavan has been a CMO for numerous tech companies with over 15 years of experience in marketing, where he’s managed P&Ls ranging from first revenues to over $100M. Pavan has worked for multi-national corporations (Amazon, Unilever), scale-ups (Peakon, BlaBlaCar) and start-ups (Zen Educate, Birdie, Net Purpose). With experience spanning geographies, he has worked, volunteered and...

Imogen Judd

Senior Strategist • Team Eleven

Imogen is the ever curious switched on strategic thinker, perma wondering what makes people tick, idea distillation obsessive, creating work that works, crafter of beautiful thoughts Senior Strategist you want on your team. With almost a decade of agency experience, she works closely with clients to produce hard-working, revenue generating strategy. From FMCG to financial...