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.

Aaron Summers

Aaron is one of our Head of Development and the glue that holds projects together. He may be a coding obsessive, but you won’t find him holed up alone in the office corner. He’s an integral part of our digital design team, and Make websites are so effective because of the way he collaborates with Tom, Alice, Camilla and George.

In case you want the full list, here’s where his expertise lies: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, WebGL, MySQL, Python, Swift, Objective-C, Sitecore, Magento and WordPress. And during his time at Make, our clients have benefited from all these languages and content management systems.

To view his beautiful handiwork, check out projects we’ve done for Translate Plus, RSL Awards and Britains Best Guides.

Camila Talavera

Camila has almost 10 years’ experience in graphic design and is one of those rare and valuable specialists equally strong in print and digital. When you see Camilla work, you’re struck by her talent for seizing the smallest kernel of an idea and transforming it into powerful and cohesive concepts.

And her talents don’t end there. Camila has a background in PR, which means she intuitively understands how to use creativity to gain traction and generate buzz.

Camila is particularly skilled at designing for luxury brands, and her portfolio at Make includes Thameen and De Beers.

George Trinick

George joins us from the in-house design team at Crystal Palace. He’s our resident sports design expert and heads up our Racing Post account.

On a typical day, you’ll find him moving between Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects and Cinema 4D to create compelling designs. He’s also a skilled illustrator, which gives his work inimitable flair.

Alberto Marín

Alberto is one of our in-house developers and enjoys exploring a variety of digital mediums including, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, WebGL, MySQL, Python, Swift, Objective-C, Sitecore, Magento and WordPress.

He also has years of experience working as an agency developer, involved with all aspects of building, launching and maintaining a website.

Alberto enjoys being creative, whether creating stunning web page designs or building effective application logic. He prides himself on building websites with clean code, using the latest technologies, and optimising across devices.

Shani Higgs

After spending 5 years in the insurance industry in the city, Shani combined her love for digital and food and created digital magazine, First Scoop in her spare time.

This encouraged her to leave the financial industry to pursue her passion for the digital world and join Make as our account manager.

Dan Witcherley

Dan joins the team from London-based creative agency, Modula, where he was a key member of the creative team with account management and client relationships sitting at the heart of his role.

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.

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.

Anna Gunning

It’s all well and good wanting to say something, but you have to say it in a way that attracts and persuades your audience – and gives them reasons to choose you.

That’s Anna’s speciality. Whether it’s defining your proposition and key messaging, structuring your website information, writing your web copy or creating blogs and emails – she turns the merest hint of an idea into engaging, informative content that achieves commercial goals.

Anna works across sectors, with a portfolio that ranges from Fortuny lamps to neurological rehabilitation technology. She’s certified by HubSpot and has 10 years’ digital copywriting experience.

Hannah Beveridge

Our in-house content writer, Hannah is a key player in our creative team.

Hannah not only develops creative key messaging for brands and campaigns, she also creates great content strategies in line with client objectives.

Her work can be found in our recent case studies including Just Ask Estates and Lloyds Pharmacy.

Could this be you?

We’re always on the lookout for bright digital minds, creative superstars, coding gurus and razorsharp client partners to add their own brand of digital brilliance to our heady mix.