One of Soak's co-founders, Jake heads up our client services team and has extensive experience in digital project management, producing commercially successful solutions across a broad range of market sectors including Financial Services, Publishing, Leisure & Tourism, Automotive, FMCG, Electronics and Telecoms. Involved in all aspects of Soak's business, Jake brings solid strategic and creative insight to the team having been involved with design, digital and marketing since the mid 90s.
One of Soak's founding partners Jim has over 12 years agency experience producing many award-winning projects for clients including; Nissan, Proton, Fujifilm, ntl, Swinton and Morley Fund Management.
Jim truly understands the whole marketing mix and works closely with the team on business development and integrated marketing strategies for both new and existing clients.
One of Soak's founding directors the majority of Adam's time is spent working on client-side development and day to day operations. Adam has over nine years of commercial experience working mainly with front-end technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. More recently Adam has been spending lots of time working with Liferay and Wordpress integration. Previously a director of another digital agency before starting Soak, Adam's skills extend beyond those of just a client-side developer.
Eugene is analytical to the core, the resident number cruncher! His ability to analyse numbers and processes and transfer findings into solutions is really confidence inspiring. His experience spans both Microsoft and Linux technologies having previously worked in the development department of a highly respected national construction firm. Eugene has experience in mobile technologies, image processing, e-commerce systems and booking engines among others.
Chris is an experienced member of our creative team with a bank of talents at his disposal; he works hard to evolve our creative possibilities. Originally studying at Norwich School of Art & Design, Chris went on to gain a degree in Architecture at Lincoln School of Architecture. Since switching back to a more traditional graphic design focus a few years ago, he has worked on a wide range of projects for public and private sector clients. Chris has been responsible for numerous design projects, from album artwork to websites, architectural master-plans to heritage restoration schemes.
A passionate digital marketer, Emily has over 6 years agency experience and a strong background in client services. She directed high profile affiliate campaigns for a number of the UK's leading financial brands and developed extremely successful strategies for increasing her clients' presence across leading independent websites, aggregators and social media platforms. Emily has a wealth of experience and expertise in social media, product marketing, developing strategic relationships, research and intelligence gathering, and campaign management.
Ronan is one of our dedicated client-side specialists with an exceptional eye for detail and a confidence inspiring approach to development. He's been responsible for implementing many Web 2.0 features from AJAX-driven postcode lookups to Google map-driven route plotting and mobile sites. Ronan has experience working on an array of different projects and, to boot, has extremely valuable server-side experience making him an ideal candidate for HTML5 to CMS integration work
David has joined the team as a server-side developer and brings a wealth of knowledge. Having studied a MEng in Computer Science at Warwick University, David's logical and pragmatic approach to programming helps to boost the team's ability to develop flawless technical solutions.
Julian is an integral part of our growing client services team. With an exceptional eye for detail, Julian is meticulous in his approach to project delivery and has already notched up some impressive results, delivering a range of successful projects for a number of our key clients.
Joining from one of the UK's leading holiday providers, Julian's background is in online marketing having worked across a variety of campaign types including HTML Email, Pay-Per-Click, Display Advertising and Affiliates.
Julie is our office manager and brings a wealth of experience and financial know how to the agency having worked for HM Revenue and Customs for many years. Not only good with numbers Julie also has an MA and BA in English Literature and will no doubt be picking us up on our poor grammar and spelling mistakes.