Contributors

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...

Bruna Gil

Programmatic Lead, EMEA • LinkedIn

Bruna leads sales and operations at European level for LinkedIn’s most recent advertising offer – programmatic. Bruna set the foundations and continues to develop the solid operating model that has sustained this growing business for LinkedIn. With a background in media and tech companies, Bruna has a decade of experience in both advertising and project...

Conner Josey

Head of Digital Production (Delivery) • BT

Conner Josey is a senior digital leader with experience in large blue chip organisations as well as agency/consultancy side in building and delivering against a digital transformation agenda in. Having recently joined BT as Head of Digital Production (Delivery), he has taken on the digital delivery accountability for Business & Public Sector parts of the...

Mark Dugdale

Digital & CRM Director • L’Occitane en Provence

Mark Dugdale is an entrepreneurial, multi-channel consumer marketer with over 15 years experience within retail and leisure. He has extensive experience leading multi-disciplined, consumer focused teams with a particular focus on CRM, customer experience and online customer acquisition (UK & international). Throughout his career, Mark has worked for both privately owned and VC backed organisations.

Rumyana Miteva

Head of Search • Secret Escapes

As Head of Search at Secret Escapes, Rumyana has a deep understanding of the current Paid and Organic search ecosystem. With over 7 years of experience in the Digital Marketing she has worked for various international brands and managed a portfolio of over a billion keywords. She decided to pursue a career in Performance Marketing...

Ben Cordle

Marketing Director • New Scientist

Ben Cordle, Marketing Director at New Scientist, is a key figure overseeing the development of the magazine’s brand and content offering, which lies far from its humble beginnings in the fifties. With a combined global audience of over five million highly engaged readers, the publication brings to its diverse and learned audience the latest cutting-edge...

James Brotherhood

Marketing Director • YMCA

James is a passionate advocate of digital marketing with 20 years’ experience ranging in start-up companies, blue chips and the third sector. James believes that businesses should learn from charities not just charities from businesses. Today consumers want brands to demonstrate positive impact, moving away from transactional relationships in favour of experiences. Charities have been...

Monica Karpinski

Director & Head of Content

Monica Karpinski is the Director & Head of Content for Curated Digital, as well as the founder and editor of The Femedic, the first website in Curated’s new publishing arm. In her time at Curated she has developed a signature audience research methodology that has contributed to much of the company’s growth since joining and...

Jonathan McCauley-Oliver

Digital Revenue Manager • National Rail

Olly has spent the last 18 years in and around the digital advertising business, with spells at Excite, Mirror.co.uk and Nationalrail.co.uk. He’s been witness to all the industry’s ups and downs and tried to follow the trends; programmatic being the latest. For someone for whom technological wizardry doesn’t come easily Olly is always trying not...

Anthony Leung

Social Media Manager • Pret A Manger

Anthony is responsible for Pret a Manger’s social media presence in the UK, creating content that excites customers while encouraging an honest conversation that influences the brand’s food and innovation. With nearly 10 years experience in digital marketing, Anthony now focuses on content creation and strategy and has managed social media for brands in various...

Liz Smith

Head of Marketing and Partnerships

Liz is an experienced Digital Marketer with nearly 20 years in Technology Marketing, starting out in 1997 working on the launch of Europe’s first mass-market mobile phone, the Motorola Startac and advising on the emerging trend of ecommerce three years pre dotcom crash! Liz now Heads up Partnerships and Marketing for Adestra, working to extend...

Meghan Burton

Director of SEO

Meghan is Director of SEO at Epiphany, responsible for developing the agency’s approach to SEO and heading up an incredibly smart, innovative SEO team. Epiphany takes pride in its forward-thinking, user-focused approach to SEO, with in-house abilities to create creative and engaging campaigns alongside skills in technical SEO and content strategy.