Meet the Team

As a team we enjoy a genuine understanding of the marketing and media environment, with hands on experience gained in a variety of senior roles within media and sponsorship rights owners, client side marketing and media agencies.

Here is a bit more about the team...

Pete Davis, Managing Director: With a degree in PR and 9 years commercial experience at Nestle UK, Pete is the founder of Getmemedia.com. He has worked both as a client, within Sales and Brand Management, and in the service side acting in both a PR, Sponsorship and Media Controller role. During his time with Nestle, Pete worked on over 100 brand campaigns. He also saw the good the bad and the ugly of media owner presentations!

E-mail: pete@getmemedia.com


	Richard Ardley, Training and Insight Manager: Richard has over 12 years experience of marketing and advertising, starting as an account handler in a full service agency and then working as a Media Planner Buyer for 7 years. For the past four and a half years he has run an experiential marketing agency Grapefruit, where he was a managing partner. He has worked in a variety of sectors from Fashion and Retail through to Financial and FMCG. Email: richard@getmemedia.com


	Neil McKinnon, Marketing Manager: Neil is responsible for all communications with clients, both media owners and advertisers, as well as ensuring the website is up-to-date and is user-friendly. He has a number of years experience working in the publishing industry, has worked with Centaur Media and Progressive Digital Media, and on titles such as Marketing Week, World Pharma and The Lawyer. Email: neil@getmemedia.com

Francesca Goodwin, Marketing Executive: Francesca is responsible for creating all marketing and communication materials for Getmemedia.com. She also assists with the content management of the website, manages all social media activity and events that Getmemedia.com sponsor. Francesca has completed internships in outdoor advertising both in London and Madrid and in international marketing in Paris, and is a modern languages graduate.

E-mail: francesca@getmemedia.com

Richard Butt, Business Development Manager: Richard has a degree in history from the University of Reading and, since graduating in 2006, has gained over 5 years business development and account management experience in the media industry. Most recently this included a stint at market research and media monitoring experts Kantar Media whilst prior to that he worked for 3.5 years at Ebiquity (formerly Xtreme Information) selling their portfolio of sales tools into media owners, agencies and marketing services providers.

E-mail: richard.butt@getmemedia.com


	Nik Davies, New Business Manager: Nik has a degree in Marketing from the University of Glamorgan, and over 10 years experience in media sales and business development. Starting out at RAPP Media, he then went on to work for leading publishing houses in London including Cedar and Redwood before moving to North America to help build publishing sales divisions in New York and Vancouver. When not developing new media owner relationships for Getmemedia.com, Nik can be found either playing or watching rugby, or following his beloved Dallas Cowboys. Email: nik@getmemedia.com


	Josh Sacofsky, New Business Executive: Josh graduated with a business studies degree from Leeds Metropolitan University. He joined Getmemedia.com having worked in employee benefits for 2 years. Josh is responsible for new business, specifically media owners and is eager to build a long and successful career at Getmemedia.com. E-mail: josh@getmemedia.com

Laura Hughes, Media Owner Account Manager: Laura joined Getmemedia having completed a degree in media. She liaises with our media owner and sponsorship clients. Laura is responsible for developing the idea and case study content on the site.

E-mail: laura@getmemedia.com


	Hannah Bowers, Customer Relationship Manager. Hannah has recently moved into the role of Customer Relations Manager, after entering the company as Commercial Intern in 2010 following the completion of her English Language and Communication degree at Kingston University. With the key responsibility of developing the idea and case study content on the site Hannah is the first port of call for anybody encountering any website based problems. E-mail: hannah@getmemedia.com


	Louise Quan, Executive Assistant to the MD and Credit Control Manager: Louise graduated in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in Media Studies: Journalism, having gained media work experience in publishing and PR such as Cosmopolitan, A&C Black Publishers, Hodder Education, and beauty PR. E-mail: louise@getmemedia.com


	Andrew Harrison, Consultant: Recent General Manager for Muller Dairy UK and Marketing Society Marketer of the year (2003). Andrew has extensive knowledge of the communications market place and is passionate about brands embracing new ideas. He has been involved in the business since its inception.


	Sam Ellison, Consultant: A co-founder with Pete, Sam now works as a consultant for Getmemedia.com. Having worked in a variety of senior marketing roles both at Cadbury and Marks and Spencer, and latterly at Nestle Rowntree, she has a deep understanding of the challenges facing today's brands.