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Luke is the Founder and CEO of Our Social Times, the specialist social media agency, whose clients include Pfizer, Adecco, Solidworks, DairyCo and Elektron Technology. He is a specialist in social media measurement, enterprise social technology and social customer service. Having worked with global brands and celebrities, Luke is a popular commentator on how social media is changing the world of business.

With over 15 years solid experience in operational management alongside digital communication and production, Tori was instrumental in successfully growing a Digital start up from its beginnings, through purchase and developing it into one the most successful departments of a very large, privately-held, global PR company.

Her organisational, managerial and communication skills led to her role as a Director in the Digital team, over-seeing or leading on all pure play Digital pieces whilst keeping a key focus on operational aspects for the business. This included financial management, organisational planning, business planning, people management, business growth development and team leadership alongside client-focussed work.

A highly experienced marketer, Tamsin spends her time is travelling around the UK delivering the free marketing education and training for small businesses. She is a Small Business Evangelist for Constant Contact, the all-in-one online marketing platform for small businesses that supports more than 600,000 customers worldwide.

Tamsin Fox-Davies is Constant Contact’s educational marketing expert in the UK. Tamsin has more than 10 years experience supporting small business, with a background in small business marketing and development. She is a published author, and also writes for the Constant Contact blog, Women Unlimited, NBWN, and other national and regional outlets. She sits on the board of the Association of UK Business Mentors, and founded the Entrepreneurs’ Finishing School.

Tamsin draws from this experience to be a valuable resource to UK small businesses, not-for-profits, and associations. She has educated more than 4,000 small businesses on behalf of Constant Contact since joining the team in March 2012, and has presented at The British Library, Entrepreneur Country, Social Media Week London, Our Social Times, and the Social Media Strategies Summit.

Prior to Constant Contact, Tamsin ran her own business, supporting, mentoring, and training other small businesses in practical marketing. She built her business using face-to-face networking, and online marketing, and now shares that experience with other business owners.

Tamsin has an MA (Joint-hons.) from the University of Glasgow.

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Amanda is the owner and MD of Alchemis, a specialist business development agency helping marketing, digital, creative, communications and research agencies win new clients. Her role as Managing Director primarily involves helping agencies develop a business development strategy that’s robust enough to take to market. This includes defining/developing the proposition/s, determining who the best prospects are to target, helping to build relevant collateral and coaching the meeting attendees how to maximise opportunities.

Prior to Alchemis, Amanda spent 5 years in HR at a major retailer, 9 years in IT recruitment and 3 years in media sales.

An entrepreneur at heart, Tom founded NixonMcInnes in 2000. It become one of Europe’s first social business consultancies, working with clients like Barclays, Coca-Cola and WWF. Tom left the business in 2011 and travelled the world before returning two years later. In 2015, NixonMcInnes completed a radical transformation, decentralising into an ecosystem of independent initiatives. This gave Tom space to move away from digital consultancy and follow his passion working with other founders to bring impactful ideas to reality.