Contributors

Jessica Stephens

Chief Marketing Officer • TrustedHousesitters

Tech entrepreneur Stephens sold her first start-up Local Daily Deals to MoneySupermarket, before setting up a mobile marketing platform, which was bought by SmartFocus in a cash and shares deal worth more than 10x revenue. Now CMO at TrustedHousesitters, the world’s largest house- and pet-sitting site, she is accelerating its presence in the US, Canada...

Kurt Pittman

Director Of Marketing • Brentford FC

Kurt has 15 years+ experience as a leader in the sports industry. Originally from New Zealand, his time spans Rugby League, Rugby Union, public sector sport and Football. A commercially driven individual, he’s a strategic marketer and creative problem-solver who combines insight and method to diagnose issues and implement practical business solutions. After a five...

Dan Yeo

Head of Media and Online Relations

Dan is the Head of Media and Online Relations at global digital marketing agency, Search Laboratory. His team is responsible for building lasting relationships with key journalists, bloggers and industry influencers, and pitching them engaging stories for clients, such as Viking, OVO Energy, and giffgaff, as part of their SEO strategies. Dan combines creative content...

Alex Betti

Head of Digital & Content • MS Society

Passionate about innovation and always challenging the status quo through new approaches, technology and digital,  Alex has over 17-year digital and communications experience gained at a number of national and international not-for profit organisations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, Plan International, Tech Partnership and Macmillan Cancer Support. He is currently Head of Digital and Content at the MS...

Matt Jerwood

Head of Digital Fundraising • Oxfam

Matt Jerwood has a vast experience of digital business, via national commercial radio, global magazines and online travel; from social media start-ups to large-scale enterprises. His portfolio includes such roles as Director of Business Development at WAYN.com, Head of Mobile at Dennis Publishing, (titles including Maxim, Auto Express, The Week), and Head of Multi Channels...

Suzy Carter-Kent

Customer Success Manager

Suzy has over six years digital marketing experience, now specialising in email. Suzy is dedicated to helping clients achieve their marketing goals and empowering clients to realise the full potential of the Adestra platform and their wider marketing technology ecosystem.

Nikhil Shah

Co-founder • Mixcloud

Nikhil is Cofounder of online radio platform Mixcloud. Over the past 8 years he has helped lead the growth of the company from a couple of guys in a warehouse in Wembley to the world’s biggest community of DJs and radio talent, reaching over 17 million people a month. Prior to Mixcloud, Nikhil was a...

Michel Koch

CMO - eCommerce M&A Consultant • TIME Inc.

Michel is a digital and e-commerce pioneer. He started as head of new media at Sony Music in the early 90’s, and has since filled several senior executive positions with international B2C and B2B multichannel companies (including Bertelsmann, Manutan, Quelle, Conrad Electronics, Camaïeu). Michel relocated to the UK to join Marks & Spencer to develop...

Rachel Carrell

CEO • Koru Kids

Rachel is the founder and CEO of Koru Kids, a fast-growing tech startup helping parents in London share their nannies. Before starting Koru Kids, Rachel was CEO of www.DrThom.com, the world’s largest online doctor service, which she grew to 1.3m patients in 3 countries. She has also been the Managing Director of a chain of IVF...

Rob O’Donovan

Founder • CharlieHR

Rob O’Donovan, founded ‘start-up studio’ The Eleven at age 17, alongside his best friend from school. From then on, his love affair with creating companies grew, turning the business into a small network of marketing agencies that empowered brands to make sense of a new, digitally savvy and ultra-demanding generation of consumers. The same team...

Dylan Bourguignon

CEO • so-sure

Investor turned entrepreneur, Dylan was in strategy consulting and private equity before he left his job to rethink insurance for the consumers’ benefit. Frustrated by the insurance sector’s focus on profits rather than consumer needs, Dylan launched so-sure to disrupt the stagnant insurance industry. so-sure’s model takes insurance back to its 17th century roots to...

Tom Grinsted

Product Manager • Google

Tom is a Product Manager at Google. He works on the Google Play Console, specialising in insights and guidance for companies and app developers. Before this he was Head of Product for the Guardian, leading their award-winning web and app teams. He’s worked with HMRC, Kew Gardens, the London Olympics, and many others on digitally...

Kate Dale

Head of Brand and Digital Strategy • Sport England

Feminist firebrand and former journalist Kate Dale is responsible for delivering This Girl Can, Sport England’s multi-award winning campaign, which is changing the way millions of people think about exercise and physical activity, and has seen 2.8 million more women get active as a direct result. Prior to this, Kate spent 10 years as a...

Stuart Banbery

Marketing Manager • Orlo

Stuart Banbery is the Marketing Manager at Orlo (perviously SocialSignIn) – a complete social media management platform used by leading brands around the world. Stuart gets to see from behind the scenes how the most forward-thinking organisations are harnessing social media.

Nick Joy

Social Media Manager • LV=

Having worked for LV= for nearly 25 years, including roles in internal communications, assisting in two brand redesigns, and managing website content, Nick Joy is now the Social Media Manager at LV=. He oversees the management of the company’s social media CRM and its use in marketing activity. Nick developed LV=’s social media function from...