Advisory Board
Social Media Week London wouldn’t be possible without the help, support, guidance and good cheer of our advisory board members who all help make SMW London become a reality.
Advisory Board members:
Andy Bargery
Managing Director, Klaxon
Andy heads up marketing agency Klaxon, providing online and offline marketing strategy and communications services. He has worked in the digital space since 2006 when he started writing a marketing blog. Since then Andy has worked with brands such as lastminute.com and Oracle, delivering social media and blogger engagement campaigns.
Charlotte Beckett
Head of Digital, The Good Agency
With over 11 years digital experience, Charlotte has worked both client and agency side in all sectors, now focusing purely on charity clients. She’s a self confessed nerd about the power of digital for social good, and the role of digital in an integrated world.
Sophie Brendel
Head of Digital Engagement, BBC
Sophie Brendel is the Head of Digital Engagement at the BBC, responsible for leading social media activity across BBC communications, developing the BBC’s overall corporate web presence online, and engaging audiences in new ways around BBC content.
Kathryn Corrick
Digital Media Consultant
Since 2006 Kathryn has worked as an independent communications strategist and trainer working with clients from small start-ups and non-profits to government organisations and multi-nationals. She is non-exec director of In Debate magazine, Journalist in Residence at Kingston University and UK Chair for the Online News Association.
Benjamin Ellis
Joint CEO SocialOptic and Redcatco
A social technologist and serial entrepreneur, Benjamin Ellis has worked in the on-line world since the mid 80’s, including time during the early phases of companies including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. He is CEO and co-founder of redcatco and SocialOptic and co-organiser of TVSMC and Tweetcamp.
Andrew Gerrard
Head of Social Business, Like Minds
Consultant with over 20 years in social and digital media, helping organisations understand and develop their businesses through social media. Head of Social Business for Like Minds, an international community of leaders, thinkers and doers with a commitment to business innovation. I like to work with interesting, creative, and innovative companies and people that share a vision.
Craig Hill
Chairman, Doco
Craig is Chairman of Doco (formerly Digital Outlook), a London and Los Angeles based agency. Doco has a long heritage in social media marketing, first building music fan communities in 2002, and today develops social strategies for clients including XBOX, Lego, Tesco, Procter and Gamble and NBC Universal.
Kate Matlock
Digital Strategist, Ketchum Pleon
Kate is a digital strategist at the international PR agency Ketchum Pleon. As part of the London team of digital specialists, she works across all departments and account teams to deliver strategy, content, insight and app development to be integrated into PR campaigns.
Kate holds a MA in Design Studies from Central Saint Martins where she spent a year researching how digital presence can strengthen trust in offline interactions through the curation of digital narratives. From this, she has developed an ongoing interest in privacy, reputation and online/offline authenticity as it relates to identity, search, and HR/recruiting trends.
Nick Rappolt
Managing Director, Beyond
Nick is one of the founders of Beyond and the managing director of the company’s UK office. Beyond was founded to create digital experiences people want to share. Creative campaign execution is based on insights from its data analytics department. Clients include, Apple, Google, YouTube and GE.
Farhan Rehman
Account Manager, Tempero
Work as a Social Media person, interested in all things engagement, and strategy. Enjoy Creating Order out of Chaos.
Claire Robinson
Digital Development Director, Brass Agency
Claire has worked in digital marketing for Brass for nearly 8 years. Her background is client services, leaning towards digital strategy. Recent work for clients includes creating social media & online PR strategies for global FMCG and Corporate brands, and delivering social media training programmes.
Claire heads up the Brass London office in the middle of Shoreditch Tech City. Her role combines digital consultancy with PR & events for the agency, and she’s working hard on her reputation to be most social person in social.
Katy Woodrow Hill
Head of Social, Wunderman
Katy leads the social media team at Wunderman, delivering full service social media capabilities for clients including Land Rover and P&G. She currently advises clients on social media governance and strategy, consumer insights, community management and social CRM, social enterprise services and social media activation within owned and earned platforms.
Stewart Townsend
Head Client Services, DataSift
Stewart heads up Client Services for DataSift a UK based organisation who deliver real time filtering to social data. He has worked in the corporate space managing a European team delivering sales opportunities through social media engagement, implementing and devising the social media strategy to deliver this.
Stewart holds a MA in Social Media being one of the first people to attain this, he focused on researching the effect twitter has on the reach of a community and how that can influence the perception of physical events in real time and post event.
