The Wired Sussex Board

Alex Morrison (Chair) - Managing Director, Cogapp

Alex Morrison is Chair of Wired Sussex's Board and Founder and Managing Director of digital innovators Cogapp. He has been working on large-scale digital media and user experience projects since the late 1980s and his client list includes nine national museums, LOCOG, Microsoft, Apple, the BBC, HSBC, Manchester United and Number Ten Downing Street. Alex has been involved with Wired Sussex since 2002. In 2007, Alex and his fellow directors took Wired Sussex out of its relationship with Sussex Enterprise to create a truly independent business-focused agency.

Holger Bollman - Director, WPM Internet

Holger Bollmann is a Founder and Director of WPM Internet and WPM Education.

Holger has over fourteen years' experience in the online sector; specialising in providing e-commerce strategy, development services, hosting and online marketing services to commercial and public sector clients.

Holger has been an influential force in changing the mindset of the higher and further education sectors and bringing universities and colleges in line with the commercial offering for e-commerce and online payments. This has led WPM Education to establish itself as both the market and thought leader within the sector with over ninety clients.

Holger is a Founder Member of Wired Sussex and believes very strongly in the benefits organisations can get from engaging with it.

Lars Hyland - Commercial Director, Epic

Lars Hyland has over 20 years experience in digital media and has played an active role in the development and growth of the e-learning sector in Brighton and the South Coast. As the Strategic Development Director at Epic, he works with a wide range of public and private sector organisations to consult, design and deliver innovative learning and performance solutions that yield real business benefits. Epic, since 1986, has developed over 5,000 hours of e-learning and won over 60 industry awards.

Lars is passionate about radically improving the learning experience both in education and in the workplace, and blogs and tweets on the growing impact of mobile learning, social media, simulation, and neuroscience. Lars is also Founder of the innovative learning reinforcement service, Retenda.

Mark Bedser - Director, Madgex

Mark Bedser is an experienced software development consultant with over 20 years of experience in developing software for the financial, pharmaceutical and publishing sectors in particular.

He is a director and co-founder of Madgex, a Brighton based company which has grown into the UK’s market leader in the provision of Job Board software services to a blue chip client list that includes The Guardian, Reed Business Information, Emap, Centaur and Haymarket.

He is passionate about developing software that supports new and better ways to do things and has recently also founded a small software R&D company called Tech75 to further pursue this passion outside of the job board arena. He has degrees from Oxford and Sussex Universities and spends his spare time listening to music, cycling on the South Downs and cooking and eating good food.

Andrew Eades - CEO, Relentless Software

After reading Computer Science at the University of Bristol, Andrew graduated in 1991 and started developing videogames at Oxford Softworks working on such titles as Chess 2175 and Omar Sharif’s Bridge.

Stints at DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and Virgin Interactive Entertainment followed working on titles such as Lemmings and Viva Football. In 2000, Andrew joined SurfCast, a dot-com start-up, and subsequently worked during the start-up phase of 3, the mobile phone network.

In 2003, Andrew founded Relentless Software with David Amor and has overseen the growth of Relentless from a 11-person outfit to become one of the leading UK independent games developers, consistently ranking in the Develop 100 list as one of the world’s most successful game studios. Andrew has worked with business partner David Amor to create a highly accoladed and successful games developer, winning a prestigious BAFTA in 2006 for Best Casual and Social Game.

Andrew is an active supporter of the UK games industry and has served on the board of TIGA, the industry trade association and been a trustee of GamesAid, an industry charity.

Paul Doleman - CEO, iCrossing UK

As CEO of iCrossing U.K., Paul Doleman is responsible for the day-to-day growth and operations of iCrossing's U.K. business. Formerly, Doleman served as CTO for iCrossing U.K., where he led the development of innovative brand monitoring and mapping technology. Doleman has more than 20 years of experience in executive and technology management, and international management experience gained in the U.S. and Europe. He has used the company's innovative toolset to develop search marketing strategies for major brands including GSK, HBOS, Toyota and MoreThan. Doleman chairs SEMPO Europe, is a member of IPA Search Group, IOD and WiredSussex and is an advisor to SEEDA. He has a degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Management, and lives with his wife and family in Kent.

Phil Jones - Managing Director, Wired Sussex

Phil Jones is currently Managing Director of Wired Sussex. In this capacity he advises a wide number of digital media companies and oversees the agency’s various projects and initiatives. He sits on the advisory group of The Economic Partnership (which develops the economic strategies for Brighton) and is currently Chair of the South East Media Network Skills Group.

Phil graduated from the University of Sussex in the mid 80’s and started his media career with the COI delivering media content for government departments. Phil has been a strategic content producer for Newscorp in Hong Kong, he set up and built a media company with Bob Geldof, created a series of TV channels for East European markets, was an MTV board member and worked for 6 years for Liberty Global, including a long spell as worldwide MD of Extreme Media, a TV, web and music company.

He was part of the European Union Media Content Group and in that capacity oversaw the world’s first live tri-media (TV, Radio, and web) event.

Will McInnes - Managing Director, NixonMcinnes

Will McInnes is Managing Director of NixonMcInnes, a consultancy that helps major brands create better relationships with their consumers, staff and the world at large by harnessing the social web. Current clients include Channel 4, Barclaycard, Coca-Cola, HSBC, TUI, WWF UK and many of the largest Government departments.

Will's responsibilities include guiding the strategic direction of the business, supporting client relationships, developing the company's talented people and public speaking.

Will grew up in Brighton & Hove, and is passionate about the ability of the digital community in the city to grow and thrive on an international stage. Outside of work Will spends time with his bonkers young family and rides bicycles.

Jeremy Spiller - Managing Director, White Hat

Jeremy has worked with the internet since 1990 and with the web since 1994. In 2003 Jeremy founded award winning web search marketing and development agency White Hat Media with business partner Kevin Elliott. White Hat Media’s clients include Toshiba, Coty, Centaur Publishing, Yardley, and HR Owen. Jeremy has specialised in search marketing for the last six years and is an expert in web marketing and in particular natural Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), PPC and Social Media Marketing.

He regularly writes articles, runs workshops and speaks at conferences on the subject for organisations such as Sussex Enterprise, The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), ProfitNet, Econsultancy, and McCann Erickson.

Recently, Jeremy has been quoted in or written articles for The Sunday Times, .net magazine, New Media Age, The Essential Business Guide, Business Growth magazine and others. Jeremy now confesses to being obsessed with natural Search Engine Optimisation and strongly believes practising ethical techniques known in the sector as ‘White Hat’ for successful long term results.

Jason Woodford - CEO, SiteVisibility

Jason is CEO and Co-owner of SiteVisibility which is one of the UK’s top search marketing agencies. The business was founded in 2002 and has gone on to win awards for Search and Digital Marketing, Social Responsibility and Business Growth including reaching the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for the 3rd time in 2009. He secured an international round of Angel investment in 2008 which enabled the business to build the team and service offering required to sustain leadership in the rapidly evolving digital marketing sector. Jason is passionate about working with ambitious entrepreneurs and businesses to achieve their goals online and was voted into the Courvoisier Future 500 in 2008.

Prior to SiteVisibility, Jason’s career has included roles in corporate strategy, corporate communications, financial and sustainability reporting and M&A activity with Carillion, Tarmac and George Wimpey culminating in dotcom excitement with BuildOnline.com which raised £45m from international VCs in 2001.