Contributors

Katy Shaw

Digital Consultant

With a focus on digital marketing  Katy has worked across both B2C and B2B disciplines with brands including TopShop, Thomas Cook, Virgin Money, Brother and Hull Trains to name a few.  Since working at Code, Katy has focused on content as a speciality and has since produced content campaigns for ESF, Brother and more recently...

Stephen Cohen

Senior Consultant

A rising star in British eCommerce, Stephen Cohen is a digital marketing enthusiast and Senior Consultant for dotmailer, the UK’s leading marketing automation platform. His successful philosophy enables brands to grow through a blend of knowledge and simplicity. Stephen’s approach is to fully understand your business, customer base and marketplace. Working with the marketers at Micro...

Siji Onabanjo

Growth Director

Siji is Growth Director at Cyber-Duck, an agency that solves clients’ digital challenges using a mix of creative, technology, branding, and marketing expertise. Alongside helping Cyber-Duck’s clients achieve a real ROI on their relationship with Cyber-Duck, Siji has also achieved a number of individual accolades including Account Handler of the Year at Wirehive awards, and...

Lewis Lenssen

SVP - Strategic Initiatives • Rakuten

As Rakuten Marketing’s SVP of Strategic Initiatives, Lewis has global responsibility for developing new product and service propositions based on Rakuten Marketing’s unique combination of high performance media and customer service excellence.  He joined the company as Commercial Director in 2010 and masterminded the company’s growth strategy, until its purchase by Rakuten Marketing in 2014....

Adam Warburton

Head of Product - Membership • Co-op

Adam has worked in the mobile industry throughout his career, starting out at Telefonica O2 in their Product Design team and previously worked at Travelex for over a year as Head of Mobile, leading their efforts on all things mobile, before now moving to lead the product team at The-Coop. He is fascinated by technology...

Carl Hallam

Head of SEO & Content • eHarmony

As Head of SEO & Content, Carl is responsible for SEO, Content and Social media strategy and activation across UK and Ireland. Having recently played a big role in eHarmony’s ‘love captured’ campaign, Carl will share some of the key learnings that have impacted their social and content strategy.

Sam Fay

Senior Vice President, Global Brand Strategy • Guinness World Records

Sam is responsible for Guinness World Records’ global brand and digital strategies, product creation and development and strategic partnerships. Her overall objective is to take one of the world’s best known brands to new, record breaking heights. Sam joined Guinness World Records a decade ago, managing the sales, marketing and licensing programmes before moving to New...

Miles Lewis

Senior Vice President, Shazam for Brands. International • Shazam

Miles has been at the forefront of the unprecedented digital shift since 2001 having held positions at AOL, Yahoo! and fm. He Joined Shazam in 2012. The further change sweeping the world as consumers shift their lives to mobile has been extraordinary and Shazam having recently passed it’s billionth download is at the centre of...

Albert Hogan

Marketing Director • Penguin Random House

Holding senior roles at Penguin Random House and Universal, Albert as worked on some of the most recognisable publishing, film and music properties of recent years – engaging audiences in the hundreds of millions.

Lisa De Bonis

Executive Digital Director • Havas

Lisa De Bonis was born in the US, raised in Italy, and educated in the UK. In 2007 she took the plunge and joined digital creative start up Work Club as Strategy Partner. Over the following 8 years, Lisa was instrumental in driving the agency’s growth and creative reputation by working closely with clients ranging from...

Jessica Stephens

Chief Marketing Officer • SmartFocus

Jess brings an invaluable breadth of marketing and leadership experience to SmartFocus. With an unashamedly enthusiastic approach to data, she knows all about the huge impact disruptive technology has in bringing brands closer to their consumers. As the Chief Marketing Officer, Jess is responsible for bringing SmartFocus’ brand to life and telling our unique story...

Dave Ward

Creative Director • Private: CreateFuture

Dave has made it snow in Disneyland, raced with the Stig, beamed up Trekkies and built fighting robots. He has made the incredibly complex, incredibly simple for the biggest financial brands in the world. Brought tens of thousands of people together to watch the game, to the cinema, to travel across America and to their...

Nathan Fulwood

Strategy Director • Private: CreateFuture

Nathan’s 18-year career in digital started with the Press Association & Orange, developing new products and campaigns for the nascent digital economy. After nearly 10 years as Business Development & Marketing Technology Director with digital agency Realise, he joined brand agency Tayburn as Innovation Director, before co-founding CreateFuture in 2016. CreateFuture is a strategic, creative consultancy,...

Sam Roberts

Digital Marketing Consultant

Sam is a Digital Marketing Consultant and Lead Trainer at Cardiff based Liberty Marketing.  Sam splits his time between providing consultancy to SMEs on the Welsh Government’s Accelerated Growth Program, running cutting edge training courses and managing analytics aspects of Liberty’s core client base.