A young diverse team of digital experts

Anthony Purkiss

Anthony heads up new business and client services. He has more than 10 years’ digital marketing experience and is at the forefront of trends that help clients capitalise on new, multichannel opportunities.

Your relationship with Make starts with Anthony, and he oversees your project at every stage to make sure you get the best output on time and within budget.

Anthony lived and worked in China and has worked with multiple overseas businesses, developing a thorough understanding of international markets and needs.

Tom Witcherley

Tom’s in-depth understanding of digital design and functionality is the driving force behind all our work.

He starts by gaining a detailed understanding of your business and audiences and then directs a strategy that leverages digital innovation to achieve your commercial goals.

You see his work in everything we do at Make (including this website). He’s been designing websites for 15 years and has particular expertise in sport, luxury brands and technology.

Camila Talavera

Share with us a little bit about your role:

I am Make’s senior designer, which means I oversee every aspect of design within the agency to make sure it’s in perfect condition before it’s sent to the client.

What are your core skills?

I’m a Jack-of-all trades (and don’t worry, a master at them all too) when it comes to design. My skills lie in a bit of everything: web, print, brand and illustration.

Share with us some of your interests:

It might sound like a cliche Hinge profile but my interests are illustration, music, travel when allowed and a delicious meal featuring red wine.

Do you have any pets?

I don’t have any pets or kids but I have lots of houseplants instead!

Dan Witcherley

Day-to-day, you will find Dan on-boarding new accounts, joining creative workshops and working closely with clients to continue building strong relationships. Dan guides clients through the whole process and with a solid design background, is full of new and creative ideas.

Paul Wilson

Share with us a little bit about your role:

I’m a senior digital project manager with over 7 years’ experience in technical project management. I’m a bridge between client and delivery team, providing detailed technical specifications, scoping projects from start to finish, working with developers, working with designers, and internal processes for efficient project delivery.

What are your core skills?

My core skills are communication, organisation and working with technical specs and developers.

Share with us some of your interests:

My hobbies mainly involve sport. So that means both playing and watching football, baseball and golf.

Do you have any pets?

My partner and I have a Red Miniature Dachshund named Bruno Kalashnikov Joyce-Wilson. His top abilities are: speed, guilting people into food, cuddling and mischief.

Alistair Reyland

Share with us a little bit about your role:

I’m the first and best digital project manager here at Make (sorry Paul and Sarah). My day-to-day includes encouraging communication between all arms of the business, fleshing out project requirements, and making sure those requirements are executed correctly.

What are your core skills?

My core skills are communication, meeting deadlines and making an amazing cuppa.

Share with us some of your interests:

If you’re looking for a curated Spotify playlist, I’m your guy. When I’m not curating bangin’ playlists, I’m probably doing a 7-step skincare routine which some YouTuber has told me to do.

Do you have any pets?

Me and my partner, Stef, have a gorg adopted cat called Kiume. She’s 30% mad, 20% always hungry, and 50% sassy. Pretty much the same as me.

Instagram feed:

@AJReyland

Chris Hirst

Chris creates marketing that matters. Effective marketing strategies begin with no preconceptions, just customer and commercial insight from human and data sources. He then combine innovation with imagination to make significant impact to your customers buying behaviour and your bottom line.

Pete Wackett

Share with us a little bit about your role:

I’m Make’s Senior account manager. I’m here to manage campaigns and make sure we get the best results for our clients alongside the team we have at Make.

What are your core skills?

I have a background in digital marketing, design and web development. This means I understand how components of a campaign fit together and what goes into each step to deliver effective marketing.

Share with us some of your interests:

I love live music and festivals, video games, going to the cinema and nights out in London — although in lockdown I’ve been mostly binging on Netflix like the rest of the country!

Yasmin Muman

Share with us a little bit about your role:

I'm a digital project manager with a keen eye for detail and a relentless 'fixer'. My normal day involves bridging the gaps between our clients and the wider business to ensure their marketing needs are met strategically and creatively.

What are your core skills?

Communicating, coupling creativity with numbers and getting stuff done.

Share with us some of your interests:

Quickest routes to my Christmas card list are: murder/crime docs (paranormal included), Magic FM and overnight oats.

Do you have any pets?

My Yin and Yang, Ozzy and Frank. Ozzy is a Prince of Darkness. He's a really unfortunate looking Pug, but that's okay, he has heaps of personality. Frank, Señor Zooms. A massive Ginger Cat and the best thing to come out of Lockdown.

Instagram feed:

@yazzymu

Selina Cresswell

Share with us a little bit about your role:

As one of Make’s Digital Account Managers, my role involves communicating with clients to ensure their ideas can turn into a reality. Whether it is building a social media content plan or building a set of ads, I am here to ensure everything runs smoothly. Anything marketing related can come my way: ads, social media or a brand new idea! 

What are your core skills?

My core skills are making sure projects run smoothly and that each element is completed to a high standard. 

Share with us some of your interests:

I love playing sports, currently Netball. If I’m not on the court, I will be cooking up a tasty dish in the kitchen or out with a camera in hand!

Do you have any pets?

I have two beautiful dogs, Alfie and Jerry. Jerry is very chilled and Alfie has a very weird obsession with socks...

Instagram feed

@selinacresswell

Daniel Taylor

Share with us a little bit about your role:
I work on the front end development of mobile ready sites. This involves maintaining, building and launching them, ensuring that they’re all working as smoothly as possible. I work closely with our incredible project managers to plan ahead.

What are your core skills?

My core skills are HTML CSS JavaScript PHP. WordPress. Originally studied art and design so a bit of that.

Share with us some of your interests:
My main interest is music. I love listening to a variety of different sounds and buying records. I even learnt how to play guitar during lockdown.

Matt Horne

Matt is our quiet miracle worker who makes sure all programs and sites run smoothly. Reliable and dependable, he’s the one to go to for all of your website needs. When he’s not at work he’s partial to a good lager and a game or two of classic Mario Kart.

Harry Ray

Share with us a little bit about your role:

I’m a web developer, with a keen interest in building something that’s incredible for both the client and the customer. I like to work closely with our designers to make sure we’re creating something that not only looks great but works well and feels fast.

What are your core skills?

I build sites using HTML5 and SCSS, as well as working with WordPress via PHP - bringing it all to life with some JavaScript. I build in SEO from the ground up, so that our  marketing team can get our clients found by their customers, and I develop with the UX in mind.

Share with us some of your interests:
Outside of work I listen to a lot of podcasts and music and watch a lot of movies, typically bad horror films. I’m also a little bit of a fast-food junkie, so can usually be found with some of the Gregg's vegan range or the ultimate McDonald’s meal: a double quarter pounder with cheese, fries Sprite, nine nuggets and all of the sauces. I play guitar and bass and am trying to improve at both of those!

Billie Schwab Dunn

Share with us a little bit about your role:
I’m Make’s creative copywriter and I’m here to weave your words into something magical. An integral part of my position is understanding what it is you want to communicate and making sure this message stands out amongst the noise. I’m a whiz at creating a variety of copy, such as content for blogs, social media, websites and Google ads for both B2B and B2C.

What are your core skills?

Thanks to previously working as a lifestyle reporter in an international newsroom, I’m extremely talented at working to a tight deadline, communicating effectively and, of course, writing.  

Share with us some of your interests:

In my spare time I write freelance articles for websites like Insider and POPSUGAR. I also like to explore London as much as I can (an Aussie over here) and I won’t say no to a bottomless brunch (or a boogie).

Do you have any pets?

My family dog lives in Sydney with my parents and I miss him incredibly. He’s a gorgeous rescue Staffie x Australian Red Cattle dog and he has the biggest heart in the entire world. Here in London my plants suffice as my babies.

Instagram feed:

@BillieAstrid

Liam Kingswell

As a team we develop marketing strategies across the entire marketing mix.

Any strategy can include a combination of website development, CRO & SEO to owned and paid social advertising across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest and YouTube. Spending thousands on Google search, display, app and shopping advertising, Apple Search, Quora, Reddit, email marketing, offline activity for brand repositioning and concepts and everything in between, we develop plans to help businesses reach their goals.

Alex Rooney

When you want a digital design that captures customers’ attention and makes you stand out from your competitors, you talk to Alex.

His creative concepts are always finessed to reflect the client’s personality and goals, cut through the noise and deliver the best functionality. Unsurprisingly, these sought-after digital skills also translate to striking product and packaging design skills.

Alex's portfolio at Make includes the Racing Post, Urban Chocolatier and Milton Lloyd.

Karen Hubbard

Coming soon

Anna Gunning

Anna help's companies achieve business goals by communicating more effectively with their customers and employees. Her experience spans online and offline channels in sectors including industry, manufacturing, property, professional services and technology.

Anna specialise's in identifying and distilling the key messages that resonate with your audience, and then crafting a content strategy and copy that achieves your objectives - for example, raising awareness, facilitating growth, or engaging employees.

She has the Master Level Content Marketing Certification from Copyblogger and the inbound certification from HubSpot. Anns is also an editor for ProCopywriters, the UK professional association for commercial writers.

Thomas Schmidt

Our Senior Back End Developer, Thomas is a key figure in our development team. Thomas's intensive skills and expertise transform our creative team’s designs and interfaces into complex, integrated digital platforms with a keen passion for API development. He specialises in a range of the latest back-end development technologies, with knowledge extending across design, UX, SEO, and also CMS implementation. Thomas is passionate about keeping up-to-date with trends, ideas and technologies in the development world.

Giuseppe Alagna

Coming soon