Content & Commerce

Kate has 15 years of experience in digital, having pioneered optimisation at LateRooms.com ao.com and more recently headed up e-commerce teams at Bensons for Beds, DW Sports and led trading teams at N Brown group and now Forest Holidays.

With a passion for all things customer led and an obsession for great customer experience, Kate has a proven track record of putting the customer first to deliver revenue and profit growth.

Aaron works at The Hut Group, a British-founded eCommerce unicorn in the health and beauty space. Aged 29, he has now taken a role overseeing online sales for the company’s beauty brands in the USA, having originally started with The Hut Group 5 years ago to launch their sports nutrition brand (Myprotein) into Asia. His knowledge is specific, focussed and up-to-date in today’s global eCommerce environment.

Rebecca is the owner and founder of online active wear brand NEUapparel. Since first creating the brand at university 4 years ago to launching in 2016, the brand has grown to sell to over 60 countries with a sell out range and fast growing loyal customer base.

Over the last ten years Stephanie has been heavily involved in the growth of the UK and International websites. Her main focus has been to ensure Graham and Brown offer the best user experience. Stephanie used her consumer experience to run a series of success A/B tests with Monetate, which led to her presenting at the Monetate conference in 2018. Stephanie continues to lead the testing strategy for Graham & Brown which has included introducing AI to this process. Her success as the UX Lead for the Augmented Reality App has seen her taking on more responsibilities as the Product Manager for the long-term roadmap of the App.

With over twenty years’ experience at a senior executive level across multiple sectors, Paul has developed a diverse background. Paul has specialised in working with senior leaders to solve business problems using innovative technologies and creating customer cantered approaches to disrupt with digital technologies.

In his career Paul has implemented a strategic technology roadmap to support the exponential growth at dabs.com, built a successful ecommerce team at Maginus which delivered multi-channel success for Cath Kidston and Fortnum & Mason and managed the implementation of a transformational case management solution at Keoghs LLP as the Programme Director at Slicedbread.

Jonathan Wall began his eCommerce career in September 1999 at dabs.com. As Marketing Director, Jonathan and his team were instrumental to the success of dabs.com and helped it become one of the UK’s first and most successful pure-play retailers. He was responsible for Product Management, eCommerce and Consumer Sales, and as an Executive Director reporting directly to the Founder and CEO.

In September 2008 Jonathan became CEO at Flowersdirect.co.uk - one of the UK’s leading online florists - where he oversaw transformation of the business that included new business and eCommerce systems alongside the overhaul of the product offering.

Jon is the CTO for fast growing e-commerce business In The Style, who specialise in fast-fashion for females 18-35. Prior to that he was CTO at Sofology with a turnover in excess of £200m, 42 retail stores and a best in class omni-channel customer journey, the business was sold to DFS PLC in 2017 with the technology being stated as a major factor in it's purchase. Other roles have been Senior Technology leadership positions in Legal services for 5 years and Motor retail for 9 years. In his personal life Jon is a serial marathon runner and and is a self development junkie who can often be found listening to his favourite podcasts or new audio books.

Matthew started his eCommerce journey with an 8 year stint at AO.com, from post start up to post IPO, successfully doing many roles across the entire eCommerce space. From SEO to Social and was doing CRO before it was even a thing. He then took on a eCommerce Director role at Loveholidays.com which was again just post start up 2 / 3 year old business with a remit to step change a small digital team into a world class digital team capable to take on some of the established players. Matthew has undertaken many advisory roles along the way, mainly for SaaS and agencies businesses. He finally finds himself now in a Digital transformation role for what was a newly VC back direct to consumer bike manufacturer and cycling retailer Ribble Cycles.