Contributors

Justin Barrett

Strategic Account Director

Justin is a Strategic Account Director for Brightcove in the Digital Marketing business unit in London. He has a background in e-commerce and customer experience and has helped key brands improve their customer digital experience to improve conversion. He has been with Brightcove for several years and manages key enterprise accounts in EMEA and specialises...

Jane Stiller

Head of Brand and Marketing – Fresh, Health, Brand Events, Digital & International • M&S

Jane has worked in the food industry for nearly 10 years, across brands such as Dolmio, Galaxy Chocolate, innocent and most recently M&S where she is a Head of Brand. Having developed the M&S ‘Adventures in Food’ brand positioning across all channels, Jane is now focused on evaluating and improving the inspiring content created by...

Joshna Patel

Head of eCommerce & Digital Marketing • Red Letter Days

Joshna joined Red Letter Days in 2007 and immediately made an impact by bringing a string of digital successes to the Dragon-owned gift experience company.  By 2011, her growth and development of Red Letter Days’ small affiliate programme had resulted in an industry-wide recognition for its ongoing excellence. She’d significantly increased the company’s high-street presence,...

Kate Owen

VP, Northern Europe • Digital Element

Kate Owen serves as Digital Element’s Vice President, Northern Europe bringing over 10 years of online advertising and technology solutions experience to her role. Prior to Digital Element, Kate spent 12 years living and working in Germany, initially in product management roles for digital publishing brands, and later heading up Business Development for the advertising network ad...

Seb Villien

Head Of E-Commerce • Joe Browns

Seb heads up the e-Commerce team at clothing retailer Joe Browns. His remit covers traffic acquisition, CRM, international expansion, social and PR but here he will focus on site conversion. Having recently implemented an MVT platform to the site, Seb will share the successes he has seen across different channels and devices.

Nicola Tatum

Marketing Controller • HiPP Organic

Nicola has worked in FMCG marketing for over 15 years on hot beverages and now in baby, and has witnessed the ever-increasing importance of digital to food and drinks brands.  Given the depth of mums’ additions to their smartphones, digital is vital for success in the FMCG baby market.

Saima Alibhai

Practice Manager - Professional Services • Bronto

Saima has over 10 years of experience in the marketing technology industry, working alongside clients internationally in the UK, EMEA and LATAM. As Practice Manager – Professional Services at Bronto, Saima helps leading brands, including Vivienne Westwood, notonthehighstreet.com, Björn Borg and Joseph Joseph, optimise their commerce marketing strategy. She is also a member of the DMA...

Toby Shaw

Director of Marketing and PR, UK & Ireland • Celebrity Cruises

Heading up a team of 14 marketing, social media, web and PR professionals, Toby Shaw joined Celebrity Cruises as director of marketing and PR in December 2013.  Shaw is charged with leading innovative and integrated marketing campaigns – across all communications disciplines – for both consumer and travel trade channels.  Prior to joining Celebrity Cruises,...

Wendy Wilson-Bett

Co-Owner and Joint MD • Peter’s Yard

Wendy is Joint MD and Co Founder of Peter’s Yard, an award-winning bakery business that has seen double digit growth since it began 8 years ago. Prior to founding the company with her Co Founder Ian, Wendy worked at Cadbury Schweppes for 21 years, starting as a graduate in the Marketing Department, and growing to...

Richard Myers

Marketing Director • Meantime Brewing Company

There has probably never been a time when a greater number of diverse beer styles have existed; and Richard Myers and his team have been at the forefront of this craft beer revolution. Having been at the helm of the marketing department for almost 5 years, as Marketing Director, Richard has embraced the qualities of...

Zoe Hayward

Head of Brand & Marketing Food • M&S

Zoe has almost 15 years of brand management and customer marketing experience at Unilever, Cobra Beer, Birds Eye Iglo, and M&S where she is now Head of Brand & Marketing. Having developed the M&S ‘Adventures in Food’ brand positioning across all channels, Zoe is now focused on evaluating and improving the inspiring content created by...

Sam Bourke

Marketing Director • The Restaurant Group

Sam is responsible for  Marketing & PR across The Restaurant Group plc, which operates over 400 restaurants. Our principal brands are Frankie & Benny’s, Chiquito, Coast to Coast, Garfunkel’s, Home Counties Pub Restaurants and Brunning & Price. They also operate a Concessions division which trades at over 50 outlets in UK airports.