Patrick is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds based full service digital agency specialising in search engine optimisation and social media marketing as well as building and designing websites and applications.
A full time SEO consultant since 2002 Patrick writes about SEO and social media for the popular E-Consultancy ...
Lyndon Antcliff is a social media marketing specialist, who concentrates on creating viral content to build links. With a background based in creative writing and over 11 years experience in web marketing, Antcliff offers website marketers training and consultancy in the dark art of seducing links out of websites.
When ...
Luke Ashworth started Netbasic in 2003 and has driven their spectacular growth ever since – including being listed 3rd place in the Sunday Times Tech Track.
Netbasic Ltd is one of the UK’s leading lead generation companies. Our portfolio includes websites such as Protected.co.uk, Trapped.co.uk and ...
Sanjit Atwal is a Publisher Development Manager at TradeDoubler, Europe’s largest affiliate network. Originally from a film and television background, Sanjit now sits in the UK Client Services department working to effectively drive results for key advertisers such as Dell, British Gas, Kelkoo, Nike and The Body Shop.
Nadeem is founder and CEO of Azam Marketing, an award-winning digital marketing and design agency and super affiliate which launched in 1997.
Born and bred in Yorkshire, Nadeem has been an acclaimed programmer on computers such as the Commodore 64 since the mid-1980s. In the 1990s Nadeem worked as a ...
Matt Bailey is the newly appointed Chair of the IAB Affilliate Council, responsible for setting the Council’s objectives for developing best practice initiatives and guidelines within the Affiliate industry.
Matt has been working in online marketing since 2004, initially as a recruitment consultant specialising in the online field. He ...
Richard Baxter is an SEO Consultant in London and has 7 years market specialist SEO experience for small, medium and enterprise level websites.
Richard brings expertise in large site architecture SEO, link building, strategic keyword research, SEO team building and training – all key factors that impact the success of ...
Ralph Tegtmeier (fantomaster) graduated as master of arts from the University of Bonn, Germany, in 1981. He has gained website development and web marketing experience since the fall of 1994. He is the co-founder and principal of fantomaster.com GmbH (Belgium), a company specializing in webmaster software development, industrial-strength cloaking, and ...
Karl is a former rocket scientist, with a PhD from Cambridge University, England. He co-founded Conversion Rate Experts to show businesses how they can profit by applying scientific techniques to web marketing.
Conversion Rate Experts is an international consultancy that inspires and helps website owners compete in highly competitive markets ...
With nearly eight years online marketing experience Michelle is currently Client Strategist at Affiliate Window, working on numerous projects to ensure the network continues to excel in the service provided to merchants, agencies and affiliates, as well as helping to establish new tools, conduct research and advise both internally and ...
Naomi is the Online Marketing Manager for Firebox.com, and has been managing their very successful affiliate marketing programme for over 3 years. Before that she worked for an IT company, which was a lot less fun. She is a self-confessed complete geek who has a desk covered in Star Wars ...
Joanna Butler has been immersed in the online world for over 11 years and specifically in search and analytics for more than 3 years. Joanna blames her obsession with SEO and analytics on working as a web designer and developer within the competitive ecommerce sector of mobile phones; an industry ...
Trine Buus is heading Online Lead Generation at ad pepper media International, one of Europe’s largest online advertising performance networks. Trine Buus was part of the original team developing the iLead platform back in year 2000 and adding almost 10 years of experience with data collection, performance marketing and product ...
Christoph C. Cemper has been building links and affiliate sites since 2003 and is a well respected guru in the SEO industry, especially when it comes to getting real juicy links on trusted domains.
Before starting his own business CEMPER.COM in the online marketing industry he’s been building large ...
Nick Chapman is the founder of the UK Lead Point operation and since launch has been responsible for all aspects of the business. Key to the success to date has been promoting a flexible and hard working culture and putting in place a team of people that care passionately about ...
Will Critchlow is co-founder and director of Distilled, the London-based search agency and SEOmoz Global Associate. He is an editor of SEMJ, writes at distilled.co.uk/blog and seomoz.org/blog, speaks regularly at industry events and appears frequently in national media.
Ewan is Affiliate Director at Neo@Ogilvy and works with Kodak across Europe and British Airways globally where his team manages programmes on 8 networks in ten markets including UK, Germany, France, China and Australia.
Ewan has been working the media and research industries since 1988 and was previously at Affiliate ...
Alain Desmier has been Head of Corporate Development at LeadPoint UK since October 2007 and has helped drive dramatic growth in the UK office. LeadPoint UK was recently ranked as the 4th Fastest growing European Digital Media Company and now trades over 4000 leads a day in a number of ...
As Managing Director of LinkShare UK, Liane is responsible for the growth and development of the LinkShare UK Network and for overall day-to-day operations. Her organization provides both Advertiser Client Services and UK Publisher Support. With a strong background in product management, Six Sigma quality, e-commerce and corporate finance, Liane ...
Paul has a long and established background in market research, working in Australasia, the Americas, EMEA and the UK with clients that included Microsoft, the International Herald Tribune, O2, Tourism Australia and Virgin Money, to name a few. Prior to joining The iD Factor, Paul worked as the client services ...
Kieron Donoghue has been involved in Affiliate Marketing for the last 9 years and is the Director of UK Offer Media. As well as operating a network of affiliate sites ranging from sectors as diverse as bingo to broadband and patio heaters to poker, he is the winner of the ...
Robert co-founded FusePump with the aim of helping merchants improve data distribution for the affiliate channel, through intelligent use of data feeds. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University (England), where he specialised in web data extraction and price comparison technology.
Robert has been developing web applications ...
Kevin's background originated in journalism, working within local press and moving online to provide editorial content for a financial communications company. This led to writing for a human edited online directory for US search company LookSmart and progression into a commercial position creating and optimising search campaigns within MSN.
The ...
Paul has been working for Perfiliate Technologies Limited since March 2000 and was one of the founders of the buy.at affiliate network. He brings a wealth of experience to the company having been involved in the technical and commercial sides of internet and affiliate marketing since 1996.
Paul's roles at ...
As the Global Sales Director at Spotify, Jonathan Forster is responsible for building advertising teams through international markets. Prior to joining Spotify, Jonathan spent 8 years at digital marketing solutions company Valueclick in a number of positions including UK Country Manager at Commission Junction.
Aside from being a long suffering ...
Scott advises and invests organisations in the digital & media space, working with blue chips, and start ups, to help them fast track their business. His career has spanned software development, agency management, acquisition and integration ...(Read full bio)of businesses and marketing. Most recently he was a Marketing Director for ...
Chris Garrett is a professional blogger, Internet Marketing Consultant, new media industry commentator, writer, coach, speaker, trainer and web geek. He was also a founding member of Performancing. You might know him from his past writing for such sites as ASPToday, ASPAlliance, Threadwatch, or more recently, ProBlogger, The Blog Herald, ...
Prior to Newtonmore, Pamir co-founded Flytxt and pioneered the development of mobile marketing technology and services in Asia, Europe and the US. At Flytxt, Pamir drove the company's marketing and business development effort. Prior to Flytxt, Pamir worked at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in London, where he analysed and structured ...
Robert co-founded Webgains together with Peter Dunham, Webgains Technical Director, in 2004. Robert’s primary responsibilities include the day-to-day management of Webgains in the UK, and the strategic direction of the Webgains business across Europe and North America. In addition, Robert has been charged with developing Webgains into a sizeable pan-European ...
Angela joined Red Letter Days in October 2006 after relocating from Sydney where she ran her own online marketing consultancy business with projects including redevelopment of Tourism New South Wales’ website and coordination of an online climate change action campaign for a consortium of environment groups including WWF and Greenpeace. ...
James Hamlin is the Online Marketing Director of Seatwave.com. Since launching in February of 2007, Seatwave has helped to build a thriving category for fans to buy and sell tickets online. With sites in 6 markets Seatwave.com is Europes largest secondary ticketing platform.
One of the initial employees, James heads ...
Angus Hanton runs giraffe.co.uk a specialist domain name company which develops generic domain names. The Giraffe business has been operating since 1997 and as well as developing websites it has sold many high-value names including three.co.uk , egg.co.uk and ink.co.uk . Angus's ...
Jamie Harwood is the Managing Director of UK Web Media, one of the leading online affiliate marketing and pay per click (PPC) management groups in the UK. Jamie started his online career back in 2001, and has since then gone on to work with some of the biggest and most ...
Thomas is the CEO and Co-Founder of zanox, responsible for leading the company’s marketing and sales strategy.
Dom Hodgson is not a super affiliate, he’s not made a million pounds and he doesn’t look good in Speedo’s but he does try and be funny (and he’s pretty good at Mario Kart) and has a habit of doing silly things for a laugh with his friend Tim.
Chris leads eBay’s European Publisher Development Team. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, this team is responsible for the growth of all eBay’s Affiliate programmes across Europe. Prior to joining the Publisher Development team, Chris led eBay’s Paid Search team in the UK since joining the company in 2003.
Nick Hynes has been a pioneer in the Internet space since 1995. Nick is Chairman and investor in ReviewCentre.com, the UK’s second biggest site of user generated product reviews with over 4.5million unique visitors every month. He is also MD and Founder of Somoagency.com; a recently launched mobile media agency ...
Speaker biography to follow.
Duncan is a seasoned Internet entrepreneur and affiliate marketing expert. He sold his first internet company at the age of 21 and has gone on to build up popular media properties such as Travel Library which was acquired by TripAdvisor, an operating company of Expedia, Inc and welovelocal.com which was ...
A veteran internet marketing specialist, and speaker at web conferences, Ben has generated tens of millions of dollars for clients in the US, UK and Japan.
Ben co-founded Conversion Rate Experts after implementing almost every web marketing strategy, and concluding that conversion rate optimization is by far the biggest opportunity ...
Dixon set up his first affiliate program for his .com start-up - Murder Mystery Games LTD - in 1998 and Receptional Internet Marketing in 1999 which is one of the leading consultancies in the UK on Search Marketing.
Dixon Jones is a regular speaker on the world stage, including last ...
Known for her boundless energy and inspirational leadership, as a CJ and Valueclick veteran, Tina has both Affiliate & Search running through her veins. Winner of this year's a4uAward for top Travel & Leisure Affiliate, Tina's Artemis 8 team are fast becoming recognised for their sharp and fresh delivery of ...
Mel is White Label Dating’s very own self confessed web geek. She’s responsible for the social media strategy, which suits her down to the ground given her passion for communities - focused on feature development and connecting users effectively.
The web comes as second nature to Mel given her vast ...
Judith Lewis has been haunting ‘teh internets’ since she took her first programming course in 1985 and learned about telnet, alt.net and BBSes. She went on to spend the vast bulk of the next generation online which eventually led her to her current job at a west-end digital media company. ...
Gavin Male is responsible for multi-divisional sales within Progressive Digital Media Group Plc as well as supervising the marketing of the group and its divisions. Gavin has worked for the Group since April 2002 and during his career he has worked his way from a sales account manager, to Sales ...
Ben is Director for TradeDoubler’s affiliate product and is responsible for product development, financial performance and staff best practice across 18 markets.
He was the 5th member of the UK TradeDoubler team when he joined in 2000 and was part of the management team that grew the business from ...
Gillian Muessig is the president and co-founder of SEOmoz, the world's leader in search marketing tools, resources, and community for the SEO community. With more than 20 years of success as the owner of marketing/search marketing companies, Gillian shares her in-the-trenches experience and insider tips in the affiliate and rev-share ...
Lisa D Myers has eight years' experience in Marketing of which 4 1/2 years in Search. After working for Base One as Head of Search for 4 years she decided to set up her own search venture. Lisa founded Verve Search in February 2009.
Lisa won the "B2B Newcomer ...
Jon has worked in search marketing for 11 years. Involved in SEO for years and paid search (PPC) since its inception in the U.K and Europe, he is recognised for his unparalleled experience and knowledge within search engine marketing in the U.K and Europe.
He was one of 10 ...
David Naylor, more commonly known as DaveN, started working in the SEO industry over 12 years ago.
David's main motivational driving force is the belief that there is no point having a site if it doesn't rank No 1. His dedication to giving clients great ROI has lead to ...
Josie Nettle joined Expedia in January 2007, as the head of Affiliates for EMEA she has launched the Expedia and Hotels.com Affiliate programmes across 15 markets. She more recently took on the Global role of Head of Affiliates for Hotels.com.
Having started her online career at First Choice holidays where ...
Kelvin Newman is a search and social media marketer who specialises in producing link-worthy online content. Before joining Site Visibility, Kelvin worked for emap consumer media working across high profile magazine titles including Zoo, Arena & Empire with a period spent blogging on gadgets & technology for Zooweekly.co.uk. In the ...
Julia is part of eBay’s European Publisher Team in Zurich and looks after affiliate account management and recruitment. Before moving to Switzerland, Julia managed eBay’s Affiliate programme in the UK since joining the company in 2007. Prior to working for eBay, Julia was at Procter & Gamble for five years, ...
Ciarán has been working online since getting a job in a Sydney internet cafe in 1999. Upon returning to the real world he initially worked in digital publishing, firstly at Centaur Media and later at RBI, where he was a founder member of the company's first ever search marketing team. ...
Michael Nutley has been a business journalist for 24 years, covering a number of areas including software, telecommunications, construction and leisure. He took over as editor of New Media Age in July 2000, and was promoted to editor-in-chief in 2007. As editor-in-chief he maintains a strategic overview of the entire ...
Joshna Patel joined Red Letter Days in October 2007, where she has built its affiliate activity from humble beginnings to a programme recognised for its excellence at the 2009 a4u awards, including a Highly Commended for best use of affiliate marketing in the Retail sector as well as her personal ...
Duncan began working in online in 2000, after occupying director level positions at both a search engine marketing company and at Affiliate Network DGM he moved to become a full-time affiliate. Three years ago he started Total Search Solutions, a digital acquisition agency focusing on Affiliate Management and Search Engine ...
Daniel joined the UK office as Account Development Manager in 2005 and in May 2007 he progressed to Head of Account Management. In this role, he leads a 15 people strong Account Development Team. Daniel oversees the development and the growth of clients’ accounts in the UK and internationally, and ...
James is the Founder and CEO of GigLocator.com. James is also responsible for the design and development processes of the site and related properties. Prior to founding GigLocator, as a designer and developer he worked with companies such as Coca-Cola and Universal Music creating web presences for some of their ...
Charlie Ranger has been responsible for affiliates at TUI Travel PLC since January 2008. More recently she has been involved in the launch of the First Choice Holidays affiliate programme.
Charlie manages all the other TUI affiliate programmes including Portland Holidays and Simply Travel working with multiple affiliate networks and ...
Grant joined Stream:20 in early 2007 as a Senior Consultant working with a number of key clients including BSkyB & Hiscox. Grant specializes in all acquisition focused marketing including Affiliates, PPC and CPM activity
Prior to joining Stream:20 Grant held senior positions at The Telegraph Media Group & AOL ...
Seth is a leading technologist who has been the driving force behind DC Storm. Seth is an ex-AltaVista Engineer where he helped build a reporting system to report on the web traffic from AltaVista properties which at the time equated to 200M pageviews a day. Seth's business philosophy relies on ...
Andrew is an experienced marketeer with a broad mix of online and offline experience. He worked for several years for AXA Sun Life Direct, one of the largest direct marketing business’s in financial services, as a Business Development Manager for corporate partners and then as Head of the Corporate Partner ...
Peter Rowe is responsible for affilinet UK reporting to the CEO of AdLINK Group. As part of the team that launched affilinet in the UK in late 2005, Peter helped establish affilinet in a highly competitive marketplace and has been integral in recruiting and growing key accounts including Debenhams, Next, ...
Sri Sharma is the Founder and Managing Director of Net Media Planet, an award winning Paid Search Marketing agency. Working on a performance based model across 29 countries and 17 languages, Net Media Planet generates client revenues of over £80 million annually.
Since launching in 2004, Net Media Planet ...
Mark is a career long evangelist for online and interactive channels in business with extensive knowledge of the market having worked in the industry for 13 years in a variety of commercial roles.
At Maxymiser Mark has helped leading brands such as ASDA, Alliance and Leicester, Guardian, National Express, The ...
Andrew Slack is the Managing Director and co-owner of MoreNiche Ltd.
Andrew has been involved in affiliate marketing either as an affiliate, merchant or network for the last 10 years and now runs one of the most innovative affiliate networks online.
Helen has been working in affiliate marketing for over 7 years. At dgm she was responsible for the affiliate channel and in earlier years worked in both affiliate and account management. Her new role starting in September is at BSkyB where she will be taking on the role of Senior ...
Michael Steckler joined AOL UK in July 2007 as Interim Managing Director of AOL UK and Vice President of Interactive Marketing, responsible for overseeing the growth of AOL's UK advertising business.
In September 2007 he was appointed Managing Director of AOL UK, reporting directly to Dana Dunne, CEO AOL Europe.
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Julia Stent is Affiliate Channel Manager for the UK at Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile network. She has led the development of Vodafone's campaign over the last year to make affiliates central to their UK online marketing, and is now exporting key strategies and partners to Vodafone's territories across Europe. ...
Kaspar joined Google in 2006 and works as a search quality strategist supporting search quality efforts across European languages. He is also the Google guide for the German and the Polish Webmaster help group. Kas has a degree in information science from the Stuttgart Media University in Germany.
Marcus Tandler, more commonly known as the Mediadonis, is the CEO of German-based SEO company Creativity in Action, which has a strong focus on SEO services for large companies and websites looking to improve their rankings within the Google guidelines. He started working in the SEO industry over nine years ...
Dan Thut is the Client Services Director of QuaMedia UK, an online agency specialising in search marketing. In this role, Dan manages a sales, operations and account management function for the UK arm of QuaMedia, focusing on search affiliate marketing in particular for such brands as Dell, LastMinute.com, Thomas Cook, ...
Matthew/Chewy has been working at Google for 4 years, give or take a week. He's a developer advocate, which is a long way of saying he tries to explain technical things to non technical people. Before Google, he spent 10 years stuck behind a computer, dealing with the boring bits ...
Bas van den Beld is a web/search consultant and the (part-)owner and Chief Editor of Searchcowboys.com, one of the leading websites on search marketing subjects in Europe. As Chief Editor he is responsible for the content of the website and one of the most active writers. Bas is well informed ...
Francesco Votta is responsible for the conception of the zanox Application Store and assuring the quality of third-party apps continuously added to the store. He has vast experience on leveraging partners best-practice, revenue-share models and application trends.
Pete joined Quidco as Head of Business Development in 2007, he is responsible for developing strong relationships with Quidco’s retail partners and media agencies. Previously Pete worked as Sales and Recruitment Manager for the Freedom Travel Group, where he was responsible for securing new business opportunities
Fili joined Google in 2005 and works as a search quality analyst supporting search quality efforts across the European languages. He is also the Google guide for the Dutch Webmaster help group. Fili has a degree in information services and management from the Hanze University in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Philip Wilkinson is best known as a founder of Shopgenie and later of internet heavyweight Kelkoo UK. He originally worked as a commercial manager for Telewest's blueyonder broadband internet division, launching the UK's first wireless broadband product in the home. Recently he co-founded the e-commerce outdoor gear retailer Webtogs.co.uk and ...
Matthew graduated from Bristol in 2001 and after travelling through Asia opted out of the corporate .com world and incorporated Existem Ltd, of which he remains Managing Director.
Matthew has built a strong team of talented developers, designers and marketing professionals based at the Paintworks in Bristol who wireframe, develop ...
With over 10 years experience in Affiliate Marketing, Paul has been involved with the Affiliate industry since its early conception. Initially earning his trade as an affiliate whist studying at University he soon progressed to management and strategy both client side and then for media agencies where he's spent the ...
