our team.

Who you work with matters. Behind every great campaign are people who take the time to understand your business and who genuinely care about its success. We make a point of always being present and available to help. From the very first, our team is ready to become a natural extension of your team.
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Strategy

Strategy is where it all starts. We get to know your brand, market, and goals, then build a tailored marketing strategy using the full power of our in-house services.

  • Harry Makins
    Harry Makins Head of Strategy

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Harry Makins

Paid Media

Our Paid team covers PPC and Paid Social, running high-performing campaigns driven by sharp insight, rapid optimisation, and meticulous attention to detail.

  • Denise Facca
    Denise Facca Head of Paid Media

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    Denise is Head of Paid Media at Bamboo Nine, overseeing the agency’s PPC and Paid Social teams and accounts. With 13 years’ experience in digital marketing, she has worked with businesses ranging from global brands to SMEs across both B2B and B2C, with extensive experience in ecommerce and lead generation. Denise combines paid media expertise with a strong focus on team development, ensuring the team has the support, processes and guidance needed to deliver consistently high standards for clients while creating a positive and enjoyable working environment. Outside of work, Denise loves keeping active, spending time with friends and family, and has a particular weakness for chocolate.

  • Aimee Bird
    Aimee Bird Senior Paid Media Manager

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    With over 10 years' experience in PPC and digital advertising, Aimee is the Senior Paid Media Manager at Bamboo Nine, where she leads a team of paid media analysts and helps businesses grow through data-driven, performance-focused marketing strategies. Having spent the last eight years in agency, she began her career specialising in Meta advertising before expanding into Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, LinkedIn and TikTok, driven by a passion for exploring new and innovative ways to connect businesses with their audiences through paid media.

    Outside of work, Aimee enjoys exploring the coast on her motorbike, travelling and discovering new Asian restaurants.

  • Thom Wilson
    Thom Wilson Paid Media Manager

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  • Aisling Horrigan
    Aisling Horrigan Paid Social Manager

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    Aisling is the Paid Social Manager at Bamboo Nine, bringing over eight and a half years of experience creating and managing high-performing paid social campaigns. Specialising in platforms including Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat, X, Reddit and Pinterest, they develop data-driven strategies that help clients grow their brands and achieve measurable results.

    Outside of work, Aisling makes her own disco balls and art, in fact she made her own disco ball DJ booth for her wedding. She also loves cooking plant based meals for her friends, singing and going thrifting in Brighton, collecting mid-century jems.

  • Joe Stansfield
    Joe Stansfield Senior Paid Media Analyst

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    Joe is a Senior Paid Media Analyst with over 10 years of ecommerce experience. His background across both in-house and agency roles gives him a strong understanding of the commercial realities behind paid media and how it can support wider business goals.

    His approach goes beyond platform metrics, with a focus on profitability, lead quality, conversion tracking and the wider customer journey. Joe has worked extensively with call tracking and speech analytics to identify which campaigns are driving the strongest leads and sales, and turn those insights into better optimisation decisions.

    In his spare time, Joe loves to immerse himself in the vibrant Brighton comedy scene, sings in a local folk group and sculpts weird and wonderful miniatures.

  • Paula Awad Gutierrez
    Paula Awad Gutierrez Senior Paid Media Analyst

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    Paula is a Senior Paid Media Analyst at Bamboo Nine, with extensive experience working across multinational agencies and clients of all sizes, from multi-million-pound accounts to smaller growing businesses. Specialising in PPC and Paid Social, she has delivered campaigns across eCommerce, lead generation and B2B, adapting strategies to different industries, markets and business goals to drive measurable results.

    Outside of work, Paula enjoys getting out into the countryside, being around animals and discovering new music.

  • Rikki Erlanger
    Rikki Erlanger Senior Paid Media Analyst

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  • Joe O’Donnell
    Joe O’Donnell Paid Media Analyst

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Denise Facca

Organic

Made up of SEO, Content, Social, and Digital PR, our Organic team delivers cross-channel strategies that boost visibility, engagement, and conversions across B2B, ecommerce, and beyond.

  • Dave Colgate
    Dave Colgate Head of Organic Media

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    Dave leads Organic Media at Bamboo Nine, overseeing the agency's SEO, Content, Digital PR, and Social Media disciplines. With 20 years' experience in SEO and a decade spent building and leading high-performing teams, he combines deep technical expertise with a strategic, commercially-minded approach to organic growth. Dave is focused on delivering measurable impact for clients while developing the people and processes that drive long-term performance.

  • Ryan Hooker
    Ryan Hooker Senior SEO Manager

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    Ryan is Senior SEO Manager at Bamboo Nine, leading the agency's SEO team and helping clients achieve sustainable organic growth. With 14 years of experience across technical SEO, on-site optimisation, and SEO strategy, he has worked with B2B and B2C brands in a wide range of industries.

    His approach combines technical expertise with a strong commercial focus, building search strategies that drive measurable revenue and long-term business growth. As search continues to evolve, Ryan helps clients adapt to emerging opportunities in AI-driven search, AI Optimisation (AIO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), ensuring their brands remain visible across both traditional search engines and AI-powered discovery platforms.

    Outside of work, Ryan is a passionate football fan and proudly supports Brighton & Hove Albion.

  • Emma Knott
    Emma Knott Senior PR Manager

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  • Lilla Allahiary
    Lilla Allahiary Senior Organic Social Media Manager

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    Lilla is Senior Organic Social Media Manager at Bamboo Nine, heading up the agency's Organic Social Media team. With 15 years' experience in social media, spanning both in-house and agency-side roles for B2C and B2B clients across Fashion, Luxury Automotive, Pharma, and Retail, she combines broad sector expertise with a sharp eye for what actually builds brand awareness, trust, and community. Lilla's focus is on developing social strategy that goes beyond content for content's sake, alongside hands-on experience delivering influencer campaigns that extend brand reach and credibility.

  • Serena Doherty
    Serena Doherty Social Media Strategist

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    As the Organic Social Media Strategist, Serena builds Social-first campaigns that align with brands, business goals and the target audiences. Deep research goes into every social platform and content plan, every post has purpose. Business-as-usual campaigns are then layered with trend-jacking opportunities that tap into relevant cultural moments and are adapted to the brand's look and feel.

  • Montana Cato-Pellew
    Montana Cato-Pellew Social Media Content Specialist

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  • Chloe Porter
    Chloe Porter Content Manager

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    As Content Strategist at Bamboo Nine, Chloe has spent over five years figuring out what brands should say, how they should say it, and where it needs to work. She helps lead the agency’s organic content offering, with a particular proclivity for shaping tone of voice and messaging strategy. From research-led editorial and DRC landing pages to SEO product copy, brand writing, and creative campaigns, Chloe has written across a huge range of B2B and B2C sectors. She combines creative thinking with the wider commercial picture, because clever copy still has a job to do. Chloe’s previous five years in book publishing taught her rigorous editorial craft; a year satirising the news at The Daily Mash taught her how to find the angle that makes a message stick. She loves cryptic crosswords and puns of an occasionally questionable nature.

  • Hannah Deakin
    Hannah Deakin Content Specialist

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    Hannah is one of the longest-serving Content Specialists, with more than 7 years’ experience writing for a wide variety of client industries, including Healthcare, Construction, and Support Services. This has made her naturally proficient in different tones of voice, while also satisfying her love for researching and writing up the things audiences want and need to know. Emphasis is definitely on what audiences want, as this ties into her careful approach when choosing just the right keywords for a new landing page or blog.

  • Elena Browning
    Elena Browning Senior Content Specialist

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    Elena is our Senior Content Specialist and busies herself with copywriting and strategising for clients in a broad range of industries, including health and beauty, nutrition, and dating. Having started her time at Bamboo Nine in the Paid Media department, then taking a short leap over to the content team in 2022, she enjoys combining the creativity of her role with an analytical approach, as well as working closely with Subject Matter Experts to uncover the unique insights that make content worth reading. Outside of work, Elena can usually be found with her head in a good book, practising yoga, or heading out for a countryside ramble.

  • Piper Berney
    Piper Berney Content Specialist

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    β€˜What story are you telling and why should people have their cups to the door?’

    Fiction writer and trained copyeditor turned Content Specialist, Piper brings a fresh voice and narrative through-line to her clients and content plans. Topic hotspots range from home improvement and landscaping to accessibility and sustainability – leaning into the bones of site structure and on-page experience as the foundation for truly persuasive and impactful copy.

    After all that, if she’s not locked into a new show or game, you’ll probably find her out somewhere green and blustery, with book, pen, and knitting needles packed.

  • Jess Gardner
    Jess Gardner Content Specialist

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    Jess is a content specialist with over five years’ experience in copywriting and editing, with a particular soft spot for social copy, content strategy, planning and figuring out what makes copy actually click with its audience.
    She loves a good research rabbit hole and long-form content, especially when writing about design, fashion and jewellery, or health and beauty. When she's not writing, she’s usually clutching her Kindle or yapping someone’s ear off about horror movies.

  • Amy Djamaluddin
    Amy Djamaluddin Organic Social Strategy

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  • Mohab Mukhtar
    Mohab Mukhtar SEO Specialist

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  • Mellissa Piggott
    Mellissa Piggott SEO Specialist

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    As an SEO Specialist, Mellissa is all about helping businesses get found online. With previous agency experience, she has worked with both B2C and B2B clients across various sectors, including leisure & hospitality, business & HR consulting, insurance, and medical, focusing on sustainable organic growth, strategy, and AI visibility and search. She keeps a close eye on the evolving search landscape and how people, and AI, discover brands.Β 
    Outside of work, you'll find her on the netball court or planning her next trip away.

Dave Colgate

Design & Development

From logos to full websites, our Design and Dev team crafts bold visuals and high-performing sites that capture your brand and drive conversions.

  • Lisa Seymour
    Lisa Seymour Head of Design & Development

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    Lisa leads Bamboo Nine's Creative Department, combining brand strategy, design and digital experiences to deliver measurable commercial results. With more than 20 years' experience, she has helped B2B and B2C organisations grow through strategic creative, while also shaping the personal brands of CEOs, TV personalities and published authors. Lisa believes great creative should do more than look good; it should strengthen brands, solve business problems and drive growth.

    20+ years creating brands and digital experiences that deliver results

    Commercially-led creative combining strategy, design and performance

    Outside of work, Lisa enjoys DIY and interior design projects, experimenting in the kitchen, and long walks along the coast with her two pugs.

  • Sarah Windsor
    Sarah Windsor Project Manager

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    Sarah has 9+ years in Project Management within digital agencies. As the project manager, Sarah ensure design and development projects are delivered on time and on budget whilst maintaining expectional quality. Her skill set is ensuring teams all talk to each other, ensuring everyone is clear on the shared goal as well as breaking down complex requirements into managable tasks. Outside of work Sarah can be found walking her very energetic puppy!

  • Holly Thoms
    Holly Thoms Art Director

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  • Sam Waters
    Sam Waters Senior Graphic Designer

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  • Luther Adams
    Luther Adams Web Developer

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    Luther is a senior WordPress developer with 15+ years of experience specialising in Full Site Editing and custom Gutenberg blocks. He brings both technical depth and pragmatic problem-solving to every project at Bamboo Nine. Based in Brighton, he's passionate about building scalable WordPress solutions that work for clients long-term.

Lisa Seymour

Data & Engineering

Our Data and Engineering team oversee your tracking, reporting, and integrations, making certain your campaigns run on reliable data.

  • Chris Johnson
    Chris Johnson Head of Data & Engineering

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  • Rhian Barber
    Rhian Barber Digital Analytics Implementation Specialist

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Chris Johnson

Operations

Operations comprises our Head of Finance & People, Client Services, Head of Operations and Office Management teams. They keep standards high and the whole business running smoothly.

  • Claire Donaldson
    Claire Donaldson Head of Finance & People

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  • Luke Coleman
    Luke Coleman Head of Digital Operations

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    As Head of Digital Operations, Luke works with Bamboo Nine’s Senior Leadership Team to improve performance, profitability and client success. Having been with the company for over nine years, accompanied by his trusty sidekick and Head of Security, Eva the dog, he brings deep agency knowledge and a calm, data-led approach to complex challenges. Outside work, Luke enjoys travelling and playing Dungeons & Dragons.

  • Miles Torrent
    Miles Torrent Senior Client Services Manager

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  • Kate Waddleton
    Kate Waddleton Account Manager

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    In her role as Account Manager, Kate brings over 15 years' experience in client services, project management, and marketing to help keep our key client accounts on track and our teams working together smoothly. With her collaborative approach and knowledge across a variety of sectors from retail, entertainment and healthcare to B2B, she excels in developing strong client relationships, and ensuring the whole team is focused on supporting commercial and business goals.
    Outside of work, Kate's passions include building her ever-expanding book collection, art & design, Lego and learning Japanese.

  • Amy Rea
    Amy Rea Marketing Manager

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    As Marketing Manager, Amy is guiding the company's growth. Outlining and implementing a comprehensive marketing strategy. She enjoys bringing ideas to life and aligning to how all marketing efforts fit together. Giving the team opportunities and moments to shout about how good they are and bring Bamboo Nine to the forefront. In her own time, she enjoys balancing family life and getting stuck in with home renovations. In both professional and personal life, the phrase I have an idea...' is used a lot.

  • Jane Drew
    Jane Drew Office Manager

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  • Eva
    Eva Head of Security

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Claire Donaldson

C-Suite

Our directors Chris and Ian founded Bamboo Nine in 2014. But it’s all the people above who make our agency the place it is.

  • Chris Rivera
    Chris Rivera COO

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  • Ian Robins
    Ian Robins CSO

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Chris Rivera
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