Contributors

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...

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...

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.