Contributors

Sarah Holcombe

Head of Operations • Ridgeway

Sarah joined Ridgeway in 2013 with over 10 years’ experience in the digital sector. With a varied background of design, development, print, email marketing and account management, Sarah now manages the dedicated support team who look after almost 30 clients and over 50 sites day to day. The team manages live solutions and work with...

Matt Bartlett

Head of Design and UX • Ridgeway

Matt Joined Ridgeway in 2010 has over 10 years of professional experience. During his time at Ridgeway he has designed and directed the creative approach for numerous award-winning products for many leading brands. Matt is responsible for leading Ridgeway’s User Experience Team, facilitating collaboration between the Design, UX, and UI Developer skill sets to ensure...

Sheri Riddlesworth

Customer Direct Marketing Manager • Forest Holidays

Sheri’s passion and enthusiasm for marketing helped her lead the eCRM transition for Forest Holidays.  Her strong relationship with dotmailer and key influencers within Forest Holidays helped deliver significant results, with email ROI up 1,029% YOY. Sheri was awarded Email Marketer of the Year 2017 at the annual Dotties awards in London.

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.

Stefan Britton

CCO • Phrasee

Stefan has spent the last 8 years in email marketing as CCO of one of the UK’s largest ESPs. Stefan joined Phrasee as CCO to help continue Phrasee’s incredible growth and to oversee its international expansion. He likes to use long words to make himself look more photosynthesis.

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...