Gavin Elliott

Gavin is the Marketing and Creative guy at Codeworks (@gavinelliott), he’s a designer, writer and creative strategist. He writes regularly at gavinelliott.co.uk about design, creativity and the design industry. A social media freak and founder of validationicons.com he’s the guy behind the @dibiconf twitter account and generally the voice of DIBI.

Ellie Silson

Ellie has been working at Codeworks for the last 6 months and is currently responsible for producing the monthly Think and a Drink events. Think and a Drink events are monthly networking events for the digital media industry and generate over 150 attendees.

Ellie loves Events. Simples.

Julie Moore

Julie has been working at Codeworks for four years and is currently responsible for delivering a number of support services to over 300 digital companies within the North East. Julie is also responsible for delivering Think & A Drink events each month and manages the Marketing & Events Executive and Business Development Manager within Codeworks.

Prior to working at Codeworks, Julie worked at O2’s Head Office in Slough for four years within the marketing department working on customer acquisition campaigns, she doesn’t know much about web design and development, knows far too much about event management and has an un-healthy obsession with crisps.

Chris Stainthorpe

He is an Associate Director at bgroup, a creative agency based in Newcastle- upon-Tyne and works with the web to help people get more out of websites, and to help computers be kinder to people.

Oli Wood

Oli Wood joined Wishli.st in March 2010 as CTO, having previously spent 2 years at thebgroup.co.uk heading up all of the digital side of the marketing agency. He worked for Accenture for three years on several large government projects after leaving Durham University with a Masters in Computer Science. Whilst there he worked behind a bar, ran a market stall selling olives and built community websites. Before university he built websites for a glass company in the late 90’s. He was born and raised in Cumbria, and outside of work can normally be found listening to Radio 4 in the kitchen.