Contributors

Rob Walk

Founding Partner • Digital Innovation Group

Rob has been deeply ingrained in the digital scene since the early 90s and is behind many pioneering initiatives in the UK including starting the first internet recruitment service back in 1996. Since 2009, Rob has been bringing companies together into the Digital Innovation Group, which is now the UK’s leading independent technology and communications...

Sophie Crosby

Leader in Marketing, Data, Technology, Transformation

For over 25 years, Sophie has been involved in Marketing; building digital customer experiences, delivering innovation and growth through data transformation. Sophie’s passion is to help companies unlock business value from their customer data, leveraging  new technologies, focussing on clearly articulated business benefits. A compelling and confident public speaker, she uses the power of storytelling to...

Giovanni Gribaudo

Group Head of Digital Marketing • Nomad Foods Europe

Giovanni is a digital marketing communications professional, with extensive in-house and agency experience. He has developed and successfully led many brand strategy and digital innovation campaigns and programmes. Giovanni is known to be a strategic yet creative thinker, self-starter and strong influencer at senior management level, with commercial acumen and political awareness.

Sam Silverwood-Cope

Co-Founder and CMO • Pi Datametrics

Sam is Co-Founder and CMO of Pi Datametrics a Content Performance platform. He has worked in strategic marketing for 20 years across advertising and digital performance helping global businesses increase their brand visibility. Sam was on the BAFTA judging panel for best use of digital in TV, and is currently on the Editorial Board for...

Sara Gordon

Brand & Creative Director • Bloom & Wild

Sara’s background consists of a combination in psychology, brand planning, technology and digital marketing. Her experience has taught her that understanding customers–how they think, buy, and interact with products and services is one of the most important insights that can guide business strategy. She works to make businesses even more successful, with the help of research,...

Jonathan Pay

Consultant • Holistic Email Marketing

Jonathan is the worlds first second-generation email marketer. 12 years in the industry has given him a huge range of experience, including designing, coding, and delivering campaigns, post-campaign reporting, and review, and project consultation. He has also worked across the industry for an ESP, agencies, an ecommerce SaaS solution, and as a freelance email marketer.

Lauren Spearman

Head of Brand Advocacy • MADE.COM

Lauren has been working in digital advertising and marketing for over 10 years. Starting her career in Manchester working for Sky Media selling TV sponsorship, the lure of London soon pulled Lauren down to the big smoke where she transitioned to the world of digital advertising. After a small stint working for a influencer agency start up, she...

Sophie Moule

Head of Marketing • Pi Datametrics

Sophie Moule is Head of Marketing at Pi Datametrics. Prior to this, her background was in ecommerce, where she held the positions of Acquisition Marketing Manager and Search Manager at Clarks. With expertise across multi-channel marketing and attribution, Sophie enables clients to realise the power of search data for carving a digital strategy which both...

Simon Chapman

Senior Solutions Architect • Acquia

Senior Solutions Architect at Acquia in the UK – Leader in CRM, personalisation, multi-channel marketing and customer experience. Previously delivered successful customer engagement strategies using personalisation, recommendations, and engagement strategies built around commerce for customers such as BMW, Rapha, Sennheiser, The Entertainer and House of Fraser.

Christopher Gee

Managing Director

I believe that every client has a container.  A virtual wall that sets the limits of timescale, budget, reach or other resources. It’s our job to work within this container and push against the walls delivering as much as we can, at the highest quality, so that the container grows. We must be respectful of...

John Brasington

Head of Search • Pi Datametrics

A technical SEO specialist, manager, and strategist in on-site technical optimisation, experienced consultant and campaign runner for international blue chip clients – a Russell Group philosophy graduate – data driven SEO enthusiast – photographer – artist – wannabe political analyst.

Tim Boughton

CTO & Co-Founder

Tim is CTO and co-founder of Mention Me, the refer-a-friend platform he created.  Prior to that he spent nine years at HomeAway Group as European CTO where he led four multi-disciplinary engineering teams across Europe and saw the company grow from 12 to 1,050 employees (the business subsequently IPO’d on the NASDAQ and later sold...

Guy Dowsett

Enterprise Account Manager

Guy is an Enterprise Account Manager at Communicator. IDM Qualified, Guy loves nothing more than understanding his customers objectives and working with them on achieving ground breaking results.

David Angus

Strategy Director • Curated

David has worked agency-side in a number of performance marketing and strategy roles for ten years across a number of verticals. David is now Strategy Director at Curated Digital.