Contributors

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,...

John Dugdale

Head of eCommerce & Digital Marketing • Red Letter Days

James Leech

Head of Digital Product • Sainsbury’s

Before joining Sainsbury’s in 2019, James worked his way up through the various management positions at Argos. He then made the move into Head Office to lead the development of customer service within stores, during which time he became involved in creating the current strategic road map for Argos, specifically around multi-channel customer service. James...

James Erskine

Managing Director • The Big Shot

James Erskine has worked in the arena of ‘content’, ‘advertorials’ and ‘advertiser funded programming’ since he joined OMD UK as media planner/buyer in 2000. Since then he has worked with a number of brands and organisations including Vodafone, The British Army, Penguin Random House, the ATP, Dubai Tourism and Harper Collins to engage their target...

John Drinkwater

Digital Marketing Manager • NFU Mutual

John is an experienced digital marketer with 22 years in the industry. As Digital Marketing Manager for NFU Mutual, John heads up the development and implementation of their Digital Strategy and is the leader and management of their Digital marketing, user experience, design/optimisation and development.

Jon Cagle

Regional Sales Director, Northern Europe

Jon is a highly experienced enterprise sales director with over 15 years experience providing premium marketing technologies to large organisations including video, email, PPC and public relations solutions. He has strong marketing knowledge gained from his long career which has included management roles at McKesson, StrongMail, Gorkana, eSearch Vision, and Vocus both in the USA...

Jasper van de Luijtgaarden

CEO

Jasper joined as CEO in August 2014 to spearhead Building Blocks’ ambitious, international growth plans. With over twenty years’ experience in digital technology, Jasper has held senior positions at global organisations based in his native Netherlands and North America.

Jill Brittlebank

Senior Director, Strategy & Analytics

Jill and her team are responsible for helping clients to plan, measure and optimise performance of their digital CRM activity. The team’s expertise comprises communication planning for customer development and retention, creative design and copywriting, and programme performance analysis. Their current client engagements include Shop Direct, Ikea, the Aurora Group and British Gas. Jill has...

Jon Wade

Content Manager • FSE Online Ltd

John Fleming

Marketing Director EMEA

John Fleming runs the EMEA and APAC marketing organisation for Webtrends and is a seasoned multi-faceted marketing director. He is responsible for devising marketing strategies for the region, delivering marketing campaigns to generate revenue as well helping to develop the Webtrends vision. John is a technologist as well as a marketer, with a keen interest...

John Bernard

Director, Global Marketing • Mozilla

John Bernard is the Global Marketing Director at Mozilla leading the strategy and Go-to-Market activity for Firefox OS. Firefox OS launched in 2013 as a competitor to Android and iOS as a mobile phone operating system. In his current role, John is responsible for launching Firefox OS with Operators and mobile phone manufacturers globally, which...

Jonathan O'Brien

Social Media & Blog Manager • Waterstones

When working on the shopfloor of Waterstones on Oxford Street, Jonathan O’Brien created @WstonesOxfordSt which quickly grew into one of the most popular corporate Twitter accounts in the country. He is now the Waterstones Social Media and Blog Manager. He has worked as a freelance Twitter writer for ITV and Channel 4 and spent a...

Justis Saayman

Strategic Marketing Consultant • IBM Watson Marketing

As a Managing Consultant at IBM Watson Marketing, Justis assists clients with the planning and execution of advanced marketing strategies or the management of integration projects to maximise marketing output. Essentially, he assimilates the marketing strategies of his clients to advise on strategically sound campaigns and hypothesis driven testing programs to achieve statistically significant results....