Contributors
Georgios Chiotis
Brand & Marketing Director • Scape
Georgios Chiotis is an award-winning Google, IPA & CIM qualified marketing leader and lecturer. He is the Brand & Marketing Director for Scape and has worked across travel and leisure, fashion, publishing, retail, and F&B. He has won several awards for his digital work and is experienced in leading marketing innovation and driving digital campaigns,...
Gareth Boyd
Business Development Manager
Gareth is a Business Development Manager at Communicator who is passionate about helping customers to ease the process of email marketing. Gareth has vast experience helping businesses from a variety of sectors. Gareth has an understanding of the challenges that email marketers face and works in partnership with them to create solutions that result in...
Andrew Howe
Director Of Digital Marketing Services
Andrew Howe, better known as Howie, is Director for Mapp’s Digital Marketing Services which encompasses the programmatic display, paid search and data analytics teams. His career has required him to operate on all sides of the media business, selling on behalf of a media owner, delivering for clients as an agency and working on solutions...
Matt Kwiecinski
Managing Director
Matt Kwiecinski is Managing Director at Journey Further, leading the agency in its mission of delivering clarity at speed for the UK’s leading brands. He previously spent 18 years in the Omnicom Group, where as MD of Agency Republic and Critical Mass he helped many of the UK’s biggest businesses leverage digital innovation.
Jim Bloor
Head of Digital Strategy and Data • Penna
Jim Bloor, Head of Digital Strategy and Data at Penna, first made his way into into the marketing and communications industry was with The Guardian Newspaper within Media Sales. He spent six years there before moving on to spend a further six years with Work Group, first as a Senior Account Manager before choosing to specialise in...
Robin Skidmore
CEO
Robin is CEO of Journey Further. He previously co-founded Epiphany Search, growing the agency organically from 2-160 staff before it was acquired by Jaywing. Robin is also an angel investor and advisor to leading UK tech start-ups, including Everpress and Snaptrip.
Richard Gee
Co-Founder
Richard Gee is Co-Founder of Bristol based Rixxo. He’s known to be wildly creative, passionate, bold, and completely in his element when finding creative uses for digital technologies. He has a broad digital experience and works closely with clients around the world, from SMEs to FTSE and NASDAQ listed multinational companies creating innovative campaigns, products,...
Hema Nagar
Head of Marketing • NCP
Hema Nagar joined NCP in 2013, and is responsible for all aspects of B2B and B2C Marketing. Over the last five years, she has recruited an in house team of marketing specialists focused on the development and delivery of brand, digital and CRM strategy from in car park promotion through to digital platforms including websites...
Simon Dring
COO
Simon Dring is COO at Mention Me, the leading customer advocacy and referral platform. With years of experience in helping businesses from Farfetch to Nutmeg to Ocado to harness the exponential power of their fans, Simon can explain why turning customers into advocates is the very best overall strategy for your business growth.
Frederic Kalinke
Managing Director
Ben Austin
CEO • Absolute Digital Media
Having started his career at Natwest Head Office and driven his own website to search engine success in 2008, Ben Austin has continued to replicate his achievements by starting his own full-service digital marketing agency, Absolute Digital Media, providing the likes of Ladbrokes, 888, the National Autistic Society and the National Childbirth Trust with award-winning...
Emma Travis
Head of CRO
Emma heads up the CRO team at Leeds based search agency Epiphany. After working for one of the countries leading CRO agencies, Emma moved client-side to help Jet2.com galvanise their UX and conversion strategy. With a passion for user behaviour and consumer psychology, Emma is leading the campaign to see brands take CRO seriously as...
James Kliffen
Head of Fundraising • Médecins Sans Frontières
James Kliffen started fundraising by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, in the UK, and has helped launch fundraising for MSF in India, South Africa and Ireland. James previously coordinated appeals for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the British Red Cross. James is a trustee of WeSeeHope and a member of the...
Richard Fullerton
CRM & Referral Sales Lead • giffgaff
Richard leads the CRM team as well as the original (and so he likes to think, the best) giffgaff sales channel – Member-Get-Member. With marketing experience across the Telefónica group, he is now ensuring giffgaff continue to talk to, listen to and grow their member base in the uniquely giffgaff way.