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Get to know our council and committee members and find out what they do.
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Email Marketing Council

The Email Marketing Council seeks to champion email as an essential part of the greater marketing mix and an effective direct marketing channel by producing and disseminating best practice guidance, research, case studies, data-driven reports and organising events for the membership.

If you’d like to find out more about the council’s work or the sector please email email@dma.org.uk

List of Members

Chair  
Richard Gibson Richard Gibson, Return Path As channel relationship manager, Richard works with channel partners, predominately email technology providers. He is a long-standing member of the Email Marketing Council, with a passion for research, metrics and measurement. Prior to joining Return Path, he was commercial director for RSA Direct and has many years’ direct and interactive marketing experience.



Vice-chair
Skip Fidura

Skip Fidura, dotAgency Managing director of dotAgency and group digital director to the dotDigital Group, Skip has been in marketing for over 15 years. He has worked in contact centres, direct marketing, customer analysis, and digital marketing. Most recently Skip was Email Partner at OgilvyOne London and prior to that he was the director of European operations for Acxiom Digital.

Members  
 

 

James Bunting, The Communicator Corporation Ltd Director of Strategy and Research at The Communicator Corporation James is also Chair of the Councils Benchmarking hub. 

 

 

Lucy Hudson, Teredata eCircle Having worked for an ESP for almost seven years, Lucy is passionate about all things email. She is an active member of the Councils Best Practice Hub where she authored the DMA Data Security Whitepaper. Lucy was elected to the Council in 2013.

Simon Hill

Simon Hill, Extravision Ltd Co-founder of Extravision, a privately owned ESP based in Manchester, Simon has been involved in email marketing for over 10 years. Today, his current focus is moving more towards looking at how emails are delivered as well as growing the business and investigating new technologies. Simon joined the council's best practice and legal hub in May 2010.

Riaz Kanani

Riaz Kanani, Profusion Riaz is the Operations Director at Profusion, formally to this he held roles as operations director at Alchemy Worx and the alliances director at Lyris. Riaz was also the founder of Digital Oxygen, the digital marketing services company that translated sophisticated offline DM techniques to email. You can find Riaz’s writing on his marketing blog and his Twitter account (@riazkanani)

 

Guillaume Lache, MailPerformance UK With over six years experience as a deliverability analyst for a major ESP, Guillaume has an educated analysis of the problematics. A proud member of the DMA Email Marketing Councils best practice hub, he was elected to the Council in 2013.  

 

Kath Pay, Plan to Engage Kath is the principal strategic email & digital marketing consultant at Plan to Engage. Key issues for Kath are email deliverability, creative, lifecycle marketing and email marketing best practices. Kath is a regular blogger on EmailExpert.org and she is also the editor of the council's newsletter Infobox, which has over 9,000 subscribers.

Fiona Robson

Fiona Robson, Rocketseed As managing director of Rocketseed, Fiona works with customers to ensure they are not wasting marketing opportunities via email. The focus is not just on their email newsletters but also on their everyday business communications. Fiona has over 15 years experience in sales & marketing plus ecommerce roles. Prior to joining Rocketseed, Fiona worked for Hilton Hotels and Walt Disney.

 

Timothy Roe, RedEye As head of deliverability and data segmentation, Tim’s current focus is the development and use of online engagement segmentation to optimise and improve clients ROI from email. Tim has spoken at a number of seminars and industry events such as the IDMF and Ad Tec. He joined the council's best practice and legal hub in March 2010.

 

Phillip Singh, Epsilon International A business leader who has supported numerous market leading organisations with their multi-channel marketing strategies. Phil has been involved with email marketing since its inception in senior global roles at Experian, Emailvision and Epsilon.


Tim Watson

Tim Watson, Zettasphere Ltd Email marketing consultant, Tim works with brand marketers providing strategic guidance, advising how to increase return from the email marketing channel. He chairs the Legal & Best Practice hub, responsible for the DMA's email marketing white paper and best practice publications. Tim is a regular blogger and speaker on emerging trends in email marketing and expert commentator on the smart insights websites.

 

Sara Watts, Data Media & Research Over the last 12 years, Sara has played an integral role in the growth and development of Carsource Ltd. Following Sara’s launch of the data side of the business the business was re named, Data, Media & Retail Ltd. Sara has worked at DMRi since it was founded and has seen the business grow form a small privately owned business to a large data company which was purchased by DMGT in Jan 2006.


Anthony Wilkey, Emailvision (UK) Ltd Anthony has worked in the fields of CRM and marketing intelligence for over 10 years, spending the last two and a half years with Emailvision following time spent with Experian, Sage and Frost & Sullivan. He has extensive experience of working on collaborative digital ventures and a range of often multi-national client projects and is currently part of the core product marketing team.

Working party members  
 

Tink Taylor, dotMailer Tink is a director of dotMailer. Tink has extensive experience in introducing the concepts of email marketing to companies new to the field. Previously a member of the council for many years Tink represented the council on the DMA Awards Committee. 

 

Marcus Appleton, Email Ladder Director of Email Ladder, a specialist email marketing agency, Marcus advises clients, providing consulting & training/coaching in email marketing strategy, tactics & implementation. Marcus is involved in the DMA Email Marketing Council's client hub. Marcus runs a range of webinars, face to face training events and one-to-one surgeries.

Sian Brookes

Sian Brookes Sian is a digital and direct account manager who has been a member of the email marketing council for several years. Sian's previous experience includes the role of account manager at agency, ReyoldsBusbyLee and digital and direct account manager at integrated marketing. and technology firm, SapientNitro.

 

Lexi Clarke, Teradata eCircle Lexi leads the creative services team at Teradata eCircle; Europe’s leading email service provider, by inspiring excellence in her creative team, crafting end to end online marketing communications for big brands.


 

Stefan Elliot, Six Serving Men A business and marketing professional with over 20 years of experience across a range of industry sectors. This has involved both on line and off line marketing experience in the UK, Mainland Europe, US A business and marketing professional with over 20 years of experience across a range of industry sectors. This has involved both on line and off line marketing experience in the UK, Mainland Europe, US and the Far East. 



Luke Griffiths, e-Dialog General manager UK for e-Dialog, Luke joined the company in 2008. He is responsible for the strategic growth of e-Dialog and service delivery to clients across Europe. Luke previously served as vice president of European Client Services with responsibility for expanding the organisation’s client portfolio and leading strategic e-mail and CRM programmes for clients. Prior to joining e-Dialog, Luke held the position of head of e-commerce at RCI Europe.

 

Komal Helyer, Profusion Head of Strategic Consultancy at Profusion, Komal has been involved in the DMA Email Marketing Council for many years. 


 

Louise Roberts, tbch Louise has over five years integrated marketing experience working in both the B2B and B2C space. 

 

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