Hayley Williams

Hayley Williams has over 14 years professional marketing and project management experience, and has built up her expertise from a variety of roles and sectors – including marketing campaign management at an international charity, within a UK wide product marketing team, at a technology focused PR agency and as Head of External Relations at a not for profit organisation.

Hayley loves to connect with people and gets a real buzz from seeing the difference that marketing can make. Whether it’s working with businesses that need to create a marketing presence for the first time or those who need additional bolt on marketing services, Hayley loves to get stuck in.

Phil Toms

Phil Toms is a marketing specialist and has spent nearly twenty years in the world of marketing most recently as the Marketing Director at Charles Wells brewery and before that spending twelve years at Nestle cereals. Phil recently took the decision to step off the corporate hamster wheel and has established a Marketing Consultancy named 47 Marketing dedicated to helping brands, business and agencies deliver impactful marketing. Phil is able to help businesses with all aspects of practical marketing from brand thinking, through developing effective plans to freelance and individual project based support. Phil’s wife Rachel is also involved in the business and as trained home economist is able to support on food and drink projects where recipe development, food styling or food expertise are required.

Christian Payne

Christian Payne specialise in creative technology and communications. Working with multimedia creation, social media documenting and amplification. He also consults. Working with large and small businesses, news agencies, charities, NGO’s and the arts and corporate sector.

He likes to travel light and share stories and interactions in realtime and blogs as @Documentally and occasionally writes about technology for The Guardian.

Some of the workshops he delivers focus on documenting and sharing stories with networked devices. From getting to grips with Twitter to Mobile Video Production.

Katherine Hesketh

Katherine Hesketh is a diploma qualified digital marketing specialist. During her career, she has worked both agency and client side, so knows only too well the challenges and opportunities faced by both

After graduation, she began her career in educational publishing before joining a specialist consultancy responsible for producing educational resources for a range of clients. A new adventure took her over to Sydney, Australia where she primarily worked for a global asset management company, in a purely online role. Returning to the UK she joined a specialty insurer and reinsurer in an online communications role.

She has had a love of all things online for her whole career. She prides herself in being able to get her head around the techy stuff, and loves the challenge of being able to translate it into easy-to-understand business solutions. She also believes that the foundations that she learnt in print and offline publishing enables her to truly get to grips with the whole marketing and communications journey.

Steve Todd

Steve Todd has over 15 years experience as a creative within the public, charity and private sectors and has produced design for well known companies both nationally and internationally.

He currently works as a creative and social media officer for government campaigns but has a huge amount of experience in print based design and a specialist knowledge in security artwork generation. He has a real love of marketing and likes nothing more than creating branding packages for new companies or campaigns.

Steve has a secret geeky passion for fonts, he’s a musician by night and is fanatic about coffee and beer.

Rebecca Fordham

Rebecca Fordham is a freelance social media consultant based in St Neots. During her 5 plus years in this field, she has helped big brands reach new customers and increase sales, as well as having managed communities of over 10 million fans.

Rebecca’s skills span from strategy development and implementation, to copywriting, data analysis and advert management. She’s driven to help brands truly understand the importance of social media and support them in unlocking its power.

Outside of social, she can either be found training in the gym or busy in her kitchen creating alternative treats, free from refined sugars, dairy and gluten. Her passion for living healthily has lead to her specialising in helping health and wellbeing brands in particular.

Sian Deciantis

Sian Deciantis currently trains and assesses digital marketing and creative media apprentices, freelances in photography and video work, as well as running her own style blog. Sian likes to keep herself busy and as a creative has a lot of different outlets. Sian have been a creative teacher for almost eight years and is currently spending a lot of time at Channel 4 with her nine apprentices. Not only does she get to teach them but they regularly introduce her to new techniques, software and processes.

Murad Cumhur

Murad Cumhur is a Turkish-born marketing, customer relations and brand management specialist and photographer who has relocated to the UK with his family. Murad has ten year’s experience in digital marketing, international business development and exhibition management. He has two graduate degrees — one in public relations and marketing, and the second in international trade. After finishing university he served as Lieutenant and Section Commander in the Armed Force before leaving to work in the construction and chemicals sectors on business development, building brand awareness and raising company profiles.

Kevin Ferry

Kevin is a dynamic and results-driven professional with extensive experience in launching marketing campaigns, developing strategies, and driving business growth. Proven track record of leading teams to successful outcomes, leveraging market insights and understanding of current trends to improve ROI. Experienced in digital marketing, content creation, and public relations initiatives. Adept at leveraging digital analytics to measure and optimize marketing campaigns.

His style in leadership is collaborative and empathic which draws the best creativity out of people resulting in reaching aggressive KPI’s for the main blow-ribbon accounts he has lead.

His love of ideas is on a par with my love of sport mainly road running and swimming, his PB for a Marathon is currently: 2:48 Paris. World Masters Silver medalist in the 2k sand run and in 2010 won gold in the 2k beach run at the NSW and National State Surf Life Saving Championships. While in Australia he was lifeguard at North Steyne Surf Life Saving Club.

Faye Hatton

Faye is a freelance PR and communications director who founded Straw Hat Communications, a company that specialises in PR for the automotive and motorsport industry. Her client list is for brands including Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin and FIA World Touring Car Championship, she has a passion and understanding for media relations, storytelling, PR strategy and clear messaging.

Alexia Emmerson

Alexia is an experienced marketing consultant and founder of the LEXE Ceramics Brand, which focuses on creating and sharing with the world her new line of ceramics and all natural soy scented candles. As a marketing consultant Alexia has a long history of working in local and international b2b exhibitions, conferences and awards, both in-person and virtual. Her breadth of skills include team management and strategy, campaign management, budgeting, planning and forecasting, digital marketing, lead generation, customer persona build and profiling, event launches, database builds and marketing automation.

Adele Gilpin

Adele Gilpin is has a background in database design and development and recently moved in to the realm of data visualisation and infographic design. At her previous employer, she identified a need to complement their rather hefty annual reports with snippets of data that were easier to access, digestible and visually interesting. While she doesn’t feel like a creative in the traditional sense, she feels that data can enhance everyone’s lives and her mission is to take the numb out of the numbers.