Contributors

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.

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...

Suzy Carter-Kent

Customer Success Manager

Suzy has over six years digital marketing experience, now specialising in email. Suzy is dedicated to helping clients achieve their marketing goals and empowering clients to realise the full potential of the Adestra platform and their wider marketing technology ecosystem.

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.

Stacey Golding

Marketing Director • The Telegraph Group

Stacey has 14 years marketing experience in the B2C world and has worked for Telegraph Media Group for five years in a variety of strategic partnership and marketing roles. The Telegraph has set the pace for change within the UK newspaper industry and has evolved into a multi-platform digital operation. Stacey’s primary focus is to...

Sandra McDill

Managing Partner • Convertr

Sandra is a self-confessed digital marketing geek, with over 12 years experience in the industry across performance marketing, media planning and data analytics. Currently Managing Partner for Demand Generation platform Convertr she has previously worked as Chief Digital officer at 7thingsmedia, Managing Partner at iProspect and Global Sales and Client Success for Tagman. She has...

Sanjeevan Bala

Head of Data Planning and Analytics • Channel 4

Sanjeevan Bala is responsible for transforming the broadcaster by leveraging the value of data combined with data science to deliver benefits across Marketing, Online, Viewer Relationship Management, Ad Sales, Scheduling and Commissioning Teams.  Under Sanjeevan’s leadership, Channel 4 is the first UK broadcaster to harness viewer data for commercial and creative benefit.  Deeply understanding the...

Steve Kato-Spyrou

Customer Experience Manager • John Lewis

Steve is helping develop (and enabling the development of) a content strategy that will utilize John Lewis’s USP’s. He has also designed the components for the componentization the John Lewis and Sky.com sites, in order to create a consistent customer experience and drive production efficiencies. Steve’s current passion and focus is creating ways to facilitate...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...