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Tim Tucker
User experience designer and content strategist
(The professional bit): Tim works with stakeholders, designers and developers to ensure that the end product meets users' needs. He helps to define user personas, scenarios, user journeys, information architecture, content strategy... and that's just for starters.
(The personal bit): Tim likes listening to his children's theories, organising music into playlists, long tennis matches, oolong tea and anything made by Apple. -
Alex Langley
Digital Consultant
(The professional bit): A digital consultant, business analyst and senior interim manager with a particular interest in user experience. Alex Langley has conceived, designed, managed and driven delivery of online strategy for a diverse range of start-ups, medium sized companies and public sector organisations.
(The personal bit): Alex likes, a glass of Sauvignon Blanc, Café fry-ups with the family, a quiet Friday in my Brighton office, camping in a woodland glade, cooking and making a mess in the kitchen, probably in that order. -
Bruce Waskett
Digital Consultant
(The professional bit): Digital media consultant with over thirteen years online experience. Bruce specialises in the integration of digital strategy & innovation into overall campaign thinking and production. Bruce has a user experience focus and is adept at managing and improving digital teams and agency processes.
(The personal bit): Living by the sea in sunny Brighton or Down Under. Old Pubs and nice beer gardens. Aussie Rules footie, proper football, rugby and cricket. History type stuff and basically discovering what things once were. Knowing that whatever we are doing right now in the digital world will all change tomorrow. -
Jason DaPonte
Digital Consultant
(The professional bit): Jason DaPonte has over 15 years experience working with media and technology. He founded THE SWARM – a digital creative company – after leaving the BBC where he held a number of senior digital roles. He is a board advisor to both Ravensboure College, Sunday Drive, and Endz2Endz.
(The personal bit): Jason was born in America and has lived in London for over 10 years. When he’s not at the PC he can be found tending his urban roof garden or working on community projects in Brixton, his neighbourhood. -
John Onion
SEM developer specialising in search PPC
(The professional bit): John is an experienced digital marketer and search engine enthusiast and heads a small team specialising in PPC search, Facebook ads and online display. Eager to ensure relevant clicks for his clients, John works closely with clients as well as being very hands-on to ensure effective campaign delivery.
(The personal bit): A few of John’s favourite things: Socialising with good friends, summer camping and sunny mountain walks with his wife Ula, some 5-a-side football, Soccer (Pro-Evo on the x-Box), swimming and Saturday mornings. -
Laith Clark
Digital Planner
(The professional bit): Applies logic and clarity built on understanding customer experience and data working with clients on digital communications planning, an email and mobile specialist.
(The personal bit): Lives in the country, likes walking the dog and riding his Harley (on dry, sunny days only!) -
Dwain Thomas
Senior Consultant
(The professional bit): Dwain has worked with some of the leading financial service and professional service organisations on delivering cutting edge digital marketing strategies. Creating a unique blend of digital marketing, marketing analytics and media management consulting and outsourcing provides the most flexible, scalable, effective way to reach customers, serve them, and maintain their loyalty.
(The personal bit): Dwain began his career in advertising in the United States, working for BBDO in Atlanta on a number of major accounts including Delta Air Lines and Wachovia Bank. Over the next twenty years he gained wide experience on all aspects of marketing communications for major brands. -
Steph Gray
Digital engagement advisor, developer and trainer
(The professional bit): Formerly Head of Digital at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Steph now runs his own consultancy helping public and private sector clients use digital and social media smartly (and often on tight budgets). Steph’s experience includes digital agency Reading Room, the Central Office of Information and Ipsos-MORI.
(The personal bit): Fiddling with lots of things (Steph’s been called ‘a bit of a digital swiss army knife’), running UKGovcamp and other community events for public sector digital folk, enjoying unfashionable music on Spotify, cleaning up after and generally being bossed around by two small boys. -
Mark Bainbridge
Marketing Consultant
(The professional bit): Delivering a step change to the marketing of people businesses. Mark specialises in delivering a step-change in the marketing processes of people organisations, ruthlessly focussed on reducing costs, creating effective business delivery models and harnessing modern technology and best practice. He has an enviable track record in cutting through bureaucracy to achieve outstanding performance and has built his career and reputation as one of the UK's leading people-change and marketing consultants by tackling the most demanding organisational challenges. “Bainbridge is one of the most forward thinking and respected marketers of the past decade” Revolution Magazine.
(The personal bit): Mark lives in the West Country but is a daily commuter to London, when not suffering the services of First Great Western he spends his time shared between family, fly fishing, chauffeuring the Pony Club, playing the guitar (badly), blogging, tweeting, undertaking the odd random expedition, attempting to train his Weimaraner (and largely failing) and tilling the soil on his organic allotment. -
Barry Holloway
Digital Consultant
(The professional bit): As former marketing director of uSwitch and eHarmony I bring a wealth of experience in building successful digital businesses. I’ve been consulting since 2010 on a wide range of projects, including strategic development for established digital businesses, marketing strategy planning & implementation for start-ups and identifying new growth opportunities in overseas markets.
(The personal bit): As a member of a swing band, Sugar Foot Stomp, I play gigs regularly in the UK and Europe. The highlight in 2011 was headlining at the mayors ball in Antwerp to a crowd of 6,000. I’m a green belt kickboxer, keen tennis player and skier. -
David Smith
Web / Mobile Developer / Technologist
(The professional bit): David is passionate about technology and using it in the most appropriate way to design, build and deploy the right solutions for business, a back end coder with experience in multiple languages, SQL and NoSQL databases.
(The personal bit): Family, technology and triathlon are my passions, pretty much in that order, I love technology and what it can do and spend most of my non-work time on my computer or with my family, my big sporting challenge for 2012 is the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon -
Karen Rawlins
Business Consultant
(The professional bit): Karen Rawlins is a highly experienced business consultant with a track record of success in Commerce and Government – her skills and experience encompass change management, usability assessment, requirements management, management development, coaching and stakeholder management. She is also highly experienced in writing user guides and manuals and conducting training sessions.
(The personal bit): I love entertaining as well vistiting restaurants and the theatre. I am a keen walker and often spend weekends walking with friends and my family by the River, in the Royal Parks and local Commons. I practice Yoga, go to the gym and am an avid reader. -
Matt Bee
Front End Developer/Consultant
(The professional bit): Matt is a passionate front end developer, specialising in HTML and CSS with a good helping of JavaScript. A background that includes experience in interface design and back end development adds to a good understanding of the building blocks of any website.
(The personal bit): Matt spends most his spare time at his computer as well as his working day, but when he does get away he works on his classic mini, competes in vintage car motor sport, is a cyclist and triathlete as well as running a Sunday football team. -
Paul Clarke
Digital Strategist
(The professional bit): Paul is experienced in advising public and private sector organisations at their highest levels on the effective use of digital channels and technologies. He has shaped digital propositions between state and citizen, and advised a FTSE 100 company on establishment of a developer platform.
(The personal bit): Paul is a recognised expert in the provision of public services through online channels. He also has personal interests in online identity, privacy, security and the changing relationship between society and technology, on which he actively blogs. He also works professionally as a photographer. -
Susi O'Neill
Digital Marketing Strategy Consultant
(The professional bit): Susi has worked in digital marketing and content strategy roles since 2000, working in media, the arts, pharmaceutical, education and non-profit sectors for clients including Pfizer and the British Council. She specialises in developing measurable business strategies combining data insight with people engagement, working with online content, social media and integrating e-marketing channels.
(The personal bit): Susi is a classically trained musician and is currently one of the UK’s leading players of the theremin, the world’s first electronic musical instrument. She also performs in a music comedy and cabaret duo. See her play at Glastonbury and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has a penchant for fine cakes (taken in the afternoon, with tea). -
Sumith Damodaran
Consultant
(The professional bit): Sumith is a Leading .net consultant, Have lots of experience on banking software projects with clients like HBOS, Barclays, Capital one. Expert in with CMS systems and have extensively implemented around 15 -20 different sitecore solutions.
(The personal bit): Spends time reading, he loves his gadgets and is mostly on his computer or tablet. His hobby is photography, if ever is away from his computer you can find him shooting pictures of anything and everything. -
Bertie Bosrédon
Engagement and social media
(The professional bit): Bertie has over 16 years experience in digital communications (and an indelible French accent). He set up British Heart Foundation's first online team before joining Breast Cancer Care to implement innovative online tools and an influential social media strategy. He helps not-for-profit, healthcare, and government organisations with their digital projects.
(The personal bit): Bertie moved to London at the end of the 90s “for the weather... and the food”. He's a photographer; he met Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Blur and many other artists (he still regrets refusing a dinner with Pulp). Bertie presents Just Like Honey a monthly indie podcast as well as a charity podcast for The Guardian. -
David Bushell
PPC, Conversion & Analytics Consultant
(The professional bit): David specialises in all things paid search, including Adwords, Facebook and online display advertising. Analytics,website optimisation and old fashioned spreadsheets play a large part in his work as he proactively looks for ways to increase conversion rate, lower cost-per-click and improve his clients’ overall paid search ROI.
(The personal bit): David probably spends too much time tinkering with his fantasy football team, playing PS3 and watching TV. In between these rigorous activities, he likes to enjoy the outdoors, do some occasional exercise and visit old fashioned pubs. -
Jonathan Hirsch
User Experience Architect / Consultant
(The professional bit): Jon has worked in the interactive media sector since 1995. His core specialism is what is now termed User Experience Architecture, but this extends outwards to strategic consultancy, business requirements analysis, content strategy and project direction. He helps commissioners identify their requirements and objectives; he helps suppliers understand them; and he helps specialists deliver them.
(The personal bit): In his spare time, Jon is busy bringing to market an electric guitar he designed (www.hirsch-guitar.com) and playing in a band in and around his hometown of Brighton.
