Contributors

Chris Rowett

Performance Director

Chris Rowett is Performance Director at Journey Further, overseeing the agency’s team of PPC, Programmatic, and Paid Social analysts. He has worked in digital his whole career, managing seven-figure digital media budgets for the likes of Matches Fashion, Virgin Holidays, Safestyle, and Allianz. Chris is a regular speaker at industry events with a focus on paid search...

Chris Carey

CEO • Media Insight Consulting

Chris is an entrepreneur, strategist, and data expert. He founded FastForward in 2015 and is founder and CEO of boutique research company, Media Insight Consulting, specialising in Consumer Surveys and Big Data Analytics, with a focus on the music industry. Clients include Spotify, Sony Music, The O2, and BMG Music. He previously worked as Global...

Greg West

Head of Programmatic • Global Media and Entertainment

Greg is the Head of Programmatic at Global Media and Entertainment. Initially launching and managing programmatic across the Global websites and apps, he has also overseen programmatic across Global’s Digital Audio Exchange, DAX, from launch. DAX is now the largest programmatic audio platform in the world with over 160 million Uniques Globally and offices in...

Jamie Jalleh

Designer

Jamie is a designer at Communicator, responsible for designing, building, and testing emails for Communicator and its customers, including Adidas, The Co-op, Makro, and SSE. With over 10 years in the software and design industry, he also has experience in a variety of other aspects of design, including video editing and animation, as well as...

Ankur Chadha

Strategy Director • Croud

Ankur heads up Croud’s strategy department, helping clients to define and deliver effective cross-channel strategies. Prior to Croud, he was at Blue 449, where he led successful digital marketing strategies for clients including Mandarin Oriental and Vision Express.

Reneé Doegar

Head of Marketing • London Review of Books

Reneé is the Head of Marketing for the London Review of Books and has been with the LRB for seven years. She is responsible for the magazine’s acquisition and retention strategy. She is particularly passionate about A/B testing and the importance of data-driven decisions.

Kristian Bannister

Senior Marketing Manager • Pure360

Kristian is Senior Marketing Manager at Pure360, a personalisation and email marketing platform used by 1000s of UK brands. He draws from over 10 years experience working agency and client-side and has spent the last four years working in SaaS.

Laura Crimmons

Founder • Silverthorn

Laura is the founder of Silverthorn, a PR, social, and content marketing agency that sparks conversations and engagement. Laura is a regular speaker at industry events such as INBOUND2017, Learn Inbound, UnGagged Vegas, Yoastcon, and BrightonSEO, where she deliveres link building and digital PR training. She won PR Moment’s Young Professional of the Year 2017,...

Jon Greenhalgh

Director of Paid Media

Jon is Edit’s Paid Media Director, having over 10 years of experience in the field. He has a strong track record of developing market leading digital products and growing agencies digital revenues. He has a real passion for developing the right digital strategy to help Edit’s clients grow and to deliver best in class activation.

Andrew Parker

Head of SEO

Andrew is Head of SEO at Branded3, deploying creative search strategies aligned with the client’s other marketing activity to provide robust campaigns in fiercely competitive niches such as retail and insurance. Andrew’s strong skillset in data, analytics and trend-spotting in search makes him a key influence when the team are identifying changes in Google’s algorithm,...

Grant Coleman

EVP • Emarsys

Grant Coleman is VP and Market Director, UK, SC, MEA at Emarsys. In his role, Grant is responsible for operations in the UK as well as supporting clients in the Nordics, Middle East, and Africa. Grant has a wealth of experience in ecommerce and digital marketing, consistently delivering high quality support for clients across the end-to-end customer...

Coris Leachman

Business Director and Partner

With over 15 years of industry expertise – working primarily across FMCG brands and names such as Lindt Chocolate, BBC, Jacobs Creek, and Chivas Regal – Coris Leachman now helps to lead and run Impero, an independently owned creative agency started in 2009. Impero is an agency with ambitious growth plans and a solid offering,...

Simon Hoe

Global Head of Digital Marketing and eCommerce • Cruise1st

Experienced Co-Founder with a demonstrated history and wide industry experience. Skilled in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Digital Strategy, Customer  Acquisition, Integrated Marketing, and Advertising. Strong entrepreneurship professional graduated from Squared Online.

Veronika Starell

Account Director/eCommerce Director • House of Kaizen

Having started in this industry eight years ago, Veronika Starell now manages House of Kaizen’s first pure-performance account for the antivirus software company McAfee as an eCommerce Director. Veronika leads a team that spans across research, CRO, design, content, media and BI, with responsibility for strategy, performance growth and profit. Her aim is to remove...

Maria Flores Portillo

General Manager UK • Persado

Maria Flores Portillo is currently Persado’s General Manager in the UK, coming from a wealth of experience in the digital industry, where she’s spent most of her career. Prior to joining Persado, Maria was Strategic Partnerships Manager at Google and built a Programmatic Advertising business for Ooyala – leaving the business as VP of Business Development,...