Contributors

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.

Alan Cooper

Founder • Freestyle

Alan has run his own businesses for over 25 years, initially in video production then moving into the digital world in 1996, when Freestyle was a rare digital startup. Freestyle is a top 100 digital agency working for a range of international B2B and B2C clients, and Alan’s passion is for jargon-free, pragmatic solutions to...

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.

Tom Harris

VP Sales • Emarsys

Tom is a digital marketing professional and an expert on digital marketing technology. As Regional Sales Director at Emarsys, Tom is responsible for sales revenue and profit in the UK.   With over 5 years expertise of working with leading eCommerce and Retail brands in the UK, Tom makes sure that industry leaders find the...

Paul Lucherini

Head of Customer Success

Paul is Head of Customer success at Communicator and passionate about delivering real tangible results for customers. Having worked with some fantastic brands across his career such as Kellogg’s, Adidas, Nestle and The Co-op, Paul is now fully embracing the new Customer Success landscape and is proud to be considered a thought leader within various global...

Gideon Lask

CEO & Founder • Buyapowa

Gideon’s been working in E-commerce for almost 20 years, which is pretty much as long as E-commerce has been a thing! He’s proud to have built and sold E-commerce businesses for the likes of Universal, HMV and LetsBuyIt.com, but right now he’s busy helping other brands and retailers acquire new customers in an altogether smarter...

Jon Earnshaw

CTO & Co-Founder • Pi Datametrics

As CTO of Pi Datametrics, Jon Earnshaw is passionate about the future of search technology and in particular, personalisation and semantic search, which is changing both the way we search, the way we interact with search engines, and the subsequent outcome of a search. Jon is an accomplished speaker and well known within the digital...

Guy Levine

CEO and Founder • Return

Guy Levine is the CEO and Founder of Return, an award-winning agency headquartered in Manchester. Guy founded his first internet business when he was just 17, before exiting one year later during the .com boom. He hasn’t looked back since. Guy founded Return in 2008 with a simple aim: to maximise our clients’ return on...

Martin Tavener

CTO Watson Customer Engagement UK&I • IBM Watson Marketing

Martin joined IBM in March 2000 having previously worked in both technical and management roles in the travel and transport industry. Since joining IBM, Martin has spent most of his time working as software architect with many of IBM’s UK Retail clients advising them on both technical and business strategy. As the UKI CTO for...

Steve Lok

Head Of Martech & Ops, Mass & Digital Acquisition • The Economist

Steve Lok is currently Head of Martech and Ops at The Economist, and has been working in technology and digital transformation for more than 20 years – his team likes to refer to him simply as “The Plumber”. A thought leader in marketing technology, Steve started his career as a web developer in the 90s,...

Tim Jackson

Marketing Director • Enra Group

Tim is the Marketing Director for specialist mortgage business Enra Group, responsible for Enterprise Finance a market-leading master broker of second charge mortgages, complex buy-to-let and bridging loan arrangement, and bridging loan lender West One Loans. Previously, he led external marketing for specialist insurer Unum, including the innovative Back-up Plan campaign to promote Income Protection. Before that,...