Email Marketing Specialist

An experienced marketing, design & creative professional with 17 years in a variety of senior roles within the graphic & creative fields. A proven self-starter, entrepreneur, equally assured working independently or in mixed-disciplinary teams.

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I am a freelance Email Marketing Specialist, offering a range of services that fall within the scope of sending rich, targeted email to engaged customers and subscribers. I like to operate the levers of large scale email marketing platforms, designing and developing layouts, designing content, planning out operational and strategic programmes, working with analytical services and handling data in various formats. My most recent employer described me as a Marketing Manager, but that was presumably only to save on ink when they printed my business cards.

On my path to this point, I’ve on various occasions been something between a writer, an editor and a graphic designer. My focus and professional interest is on the worlds of graphic design, type, type technology and most design and visual culture in general.

Years ago, I thought that by this stage of my career I’d be designing and laying out fine art photographic monographs, with a sideline in my own large-format cityscape photography. That I’m working for one of the type world’s most dynamic and exciting font retailers, managing a hydra-like email marketing programme that connects with hundreds of thousands of fellow type lovers and design professionals across the globe, is turning out to be one of life‘s surprisingly rewarding detours.

I life in Berlin with my wife Julia and our three little works-in-progress – all wilful bundles of developing personal identities; an interteen (12), a wannabee teen (8) and a very teenie terrible toddler (2).

If those four gave me any free time, I would be busy improving my German, rediscovering the guitar and spending all our discretionary income on camera film and vinyl. Until they do, my spare mental capacity is used to consume books, audiobooks and podcasts on history, philosophy, sci-fi and proper science. I like to run when I can. For some reason, I still follow British sports that the Germans are never likely to understand. (No, not croquet).