Contributors

Graeme Ashworth

Head of Marketing and Client Services • Ridgeway

Graeme joined in 2014, and is responsible for leading the sales, marketing, account and consulting team at Ridgeway. With reams of prior experience in the digital space, Graeme is a key asset to the agency, having built strong stakeholder relationships and coordinating operations of the business.  His pro-active, enthusiastic and collaborative approach encourages creative yet...

Alessandro De Stasio

Head Of Marketing • Gioco Digitale

Alessandro built his experience in one of the most, if not the most, competitive fields of online marketing: gaming. After a two year experience in a Digital and Creative agency, where he worked on accounts such as Jeep, Luxottica, Unilever and others, he accepted the challenge to lead the marketing department of a declining brand...

Phil Dance

Director of Enterprise Sales • Datorama

Phil has worked in marketing tech for over 10 years at companies such as Google and Adobe. He now works with Datorama’s largest clients within retail, FMCG, entertainment and other industries, helping them gain valuable insight for further marketing spend and performance optimisation.  

Simon Cole

Founder and Managing Director • Ridgeway

Simon is a founding member and the Managing Director of Ridgeway, setting up the digital agency in 2010. He is responsible for the strategic leadership and management of a talented team of experts developing solutions for clients such as Twining’s, HMV and The Silver Spoon Company.  Testimony to this success has been the agency’s growth...

Matt Everett

UK Manager • Sports Alliance

Matt is a Sports Marketing specialist with a huge passion for sport and over ten years’ experience in the sports industry across ticketing, commercial sales, marketing, online branding, CRM and database management. Having previously worked for the likes of Oxford United FC, Matt specialises in increasing supporter engagement for clubs of all sizes.

Alix Charles

PPC Specialist and Digital Marketing Consultant

Alix is a PPC Specialist and Digital Marketing Consultant at Liberty, a digital marketing agency based in Cardiff. Her role at Liberty rotates between creating and delivering bespoke PPC strategies for a number of Liberty’s biggest clients and also delivering consultancy.

Rob Pellow

Head of Digital Design

Rob has had over 10 years’ experience of working in User Experience for global brands such as Dyson, Oxfam and Lloyds Bank as a designer and web developer. He has spent the last 3 years obsessing over email and the unique opportunities it brings for user engagement (and trying to forgive it for the hoops...

Dan Bulman

Head of Digital Marketing • Sports Direct

Dan Bulman is a digital marketing strategist specialising in omnichannel retail projects. He is experienced in managing multi-million pound budgets across the full range of digital marketing channels and an expert in delivering digital marketing strategies – from small startups to FTSE 100 businesses.

David Kelly

Enterprise Account Manager

David is an Enterprise Account Manager at Communicator. Communicator are an Email Service provider and are experts in email. David works with a number of ambitious brands to deliver results that they can’t get anywhere else. David offers strategic advice to his customers and is supported in taking his customers on a journey towards email...

Andy Cockburn

CEO & Co-founder

Andy is the CEO of Mention Me, Europe’s leading referral and retention marketing platform which he co-founded in 2013.  He’s passionate about helping brands use the power of trust to enhance their marketing – a trend which is of vital importance now more than ever. Prior to Mention Me, Andy had extensive experience of leading...

Michael Scantlebury

Founder and Creative Director

In 2009 Michael founded award winning agency Impero as an innovative, risk taking, digital and creative agency. Originally from New Zealand he created his first online start up as a teenager; New Zealand’s largest online dining guide ‘Menus’ and later Australasia’s most visited movie publication ‘Flicks’ , both of which were acquired before Michael set up Impero....

Edward Relf

Co-Founder & CEO • Laundrapp

Ed Relf is an award winning digital entrepreneur and self-confessed ‘digital disruptor’ with over 15 years’ experience scaling some of the world’s most successful disruptive digital start-ups. Having built a successful career through his metric driven marketing approach and lean start up philosophy to tech innovation, Ed now focuses his time on his latest venture...

Ian Kerrigan

Strategic Partner • Blackbook London

Ian has worked with global brands and agencies to help them succeed and innovate in the digital space. Ian has a strong track record of moving digital thinking and strategy to the top of a company’s agenda, helping them achieve creative and strategic recognition in the process.

Russ Powell

Head of Marketing • Red Hot Penny

A vastly experienced marketer, Russ initially built his career across a variety of client-side side B2B roles. He has previously been a Comms Manager at Fujitsu, Data wrangler for Microsoft, Events Co-ordinator at Dell, Online Manager for Symantec, and Marketing Manager at Atos and as such Russ knows a whole lot about a whole range...