Ed joined IE as a Web Applications Developer in 2008 after completing a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, and an MSc in Intelligent Systems Engineering, from the University of Birmingham. He grew into a senior development role, before taking a step away from writing code and towards user experience and technical consultancy. Nowadays – along with leading IE’s digital team – you’ll find Ed delivering discovery and UX workshops, facilitating user testing, crafting innovative new information architectures, and advising clients on how best to leverage and connect different digital tools in a compelling user experience.

Ed has spent the past 11 years immersed in the challenges faced by the charity, health and education sectors – from their aspirational goals and 5-year strategies, to the best technology choices, and right down to the individual lines of code required to deliver an experience that will make a measurable impact on achieving objectives.

Ed manages IE Digital’s project, helpdesk and support teams – and is responsible not just for the initial delivery of high-quality digital experiences, but for the ongoing management, support and improvement of those experiences over time.

Together with keeping his technical and coding skills sharp through various personal projects, outside of work, Ed’s insatiable appetite for real-world problem solving extends to home automation, DIY and interior design. If there’s any time left after that, it’s spent reading science-based non-fiction, astronomy, DSLR photography and playing the occasional video game with friends.
 

With a strong desire to work with values-driven organisations to make a difference through digital and brand, Ollie founded IE in 1994 and still supports IE’s more complex brand consultancy projects.

His notable clients include Vax, World Vision, CSH Surrey, First Community Health, Cranfield University and the Goldman Sachs Foundation.

Having worked in the creative sector for 25 years, Ollie is a regular speaker at CHASE and AGCAS and is an opinion leader in the area of advancing business practices within the creative industries.  An ardent believer of self-improvement and the power of peer networking, Ollie is a graduate of business courses at Aston Business School, London Business School and Cranfield School of Management and, having been awarded a scholarship to study for an MBA at Aston Business School, graduated in 2018 with Distinction. 

Ollie is a Queen’s Small Business Charter Mark business school assessor for the Association of Business Schools and a Visiting Industrial Fellow and Guest Lecturer at Aston University. He recently retired his position as trustee of Trident: Reach The People Charity (a £14m+ social investment charity in the Midlands) to become a founding member of Christian Aid’s Salt Business Network.

Lord Young consulted Ollie whilst gathering thoughts for ‘The Report on Small Firms 2010-2015’ and Lord Heseltine for his report, ‘No Stone Unturned in Pursuit of Growth’. Ollie received an invitation to No. 10 Downing Street and to the Queen’s Garden Party 2015 with Lord Young’s gratitude.

In his free time, he is an avid runner, cook and figurative sculptor. Having raised thousands of pounds running for Midlands charities, he recently completed his first full marathon and strives for a sub 3.5 hour PB before turning 50.

Kate's been with IE for over 15 years and always aims to find ways to improve.

A Chartered Accountant, Kate previously enjoyed working with clients in her role as a Business Services Manager at Grant Thornton.

Her financial expertise partners brilliantly with her passion for precision project management. Kate is PRINCE2 trained and is a fervent exponent of the ‘Agile’ project management philosophy. Partnered with the Consultant, Kate ensures your project is well resourced and presented.

Outside of work, she enjoys boot camp sessions in all weathers.

Jodie began her career as part of Keele University’s Student Support team on all things digital media.

Having discovered a passion for learning about different technologies, she moved into a Digital Producer role at a Birmingham agency. She’s produced websites, apps and ecommerce platforms, working with blue chip clients in fashion, insurance, children's products, education and technology. She has a degree in Business Management and History.

Jodie was attracted to IE’s values driven ethos and the chance to make a difference for charity, health and education clients. She takes great pride in building strong client relationships, believing in transparency and communication as the keys to success. She’s always striving for excellence and looking for ways to improve.

Outside work, Jodie loves to travel, having visited New York, Thailand, Barbados, Finland, Egypt,  Malta, Sweden, Spain, France and Belgium to date.

Kat joined IE as a Helpdesk Analyst to put her varied educational background to good use. 

Her undergraduate degree at was a multimedia BSc that covered a little bit of everything, from photography, filmography and design to programming and industry knowledge. Her interest in web design and development came from using creative forums and making them pretty and user-friendly. For her dissertation, she built a prototype for a web app that creatively displayed story data for authors. She then completed an MA in Creative Writing.

Kat went first into a developer role, designing and building email templates, before moving into the marketing department as the company’s dedicated copywriter. This combination of tech and writing experience (as well as her love of a good chat) make her well-suited to a being the face of IE Digital's client support desk.

In her spare time she enjoys entertaining her young son, playing video games, watching terrible TV, crying over her novels-in-progress and intimately discussing people’s star signs.

Following her first class English Language degree and a range of eclectic A-levels, Jen joined a digital agency, where she managed digital projects and content for healthcare clients such as Glasgow Local Medical Committee and Coventry University Medical Centre.

She then moved client-side, first in marketing operations for a medical device manufacturer, and then became PRINCE II qualified and moved into their product management team. After another in-house marketing role, Jen decided she missed agency life, which brought her to IE Digital. She runs on sugar, and has earned a reputation as the 'positivity fairy'.

When she’s not managing digital projects for IE’s values-driven clients, Jen loves a wide range of sports. She’s competed at national level in gymnastics, coached football and is a qualified trampolining instructor. As well as taking annual snowboarding trips, she has an ambition to travel to as many different parts of the world as she can.

With 17 years of industry experience under his belt, Dave serves as IE’s Creative Director – leading IE’s brand offering, as well as working as a Brand Consultant.

Beginning his career as a Graphic Designer and making a gentle transition to consultancy, Dave combines his agency experience – which has seen him work with clients across almost every sector – with his love of design, writing and filmmaking.

Dave’s passionate about making sure that ‘the brand experience’ is as effective online as it is offline – helping to create compelling user experiences, and beautifully crafted digital design work. 

Dave can often be found knee deep in research for a brand project, locked away in a room writing key messaging, art directing a visual identity project or website storyboard, on location for a campaign video, or bringing clients up to speed and running workshops.

Dave has spent his life and career obsessed with the power of brand, and helping clients to connect with their audiences by standing out from the crowd, and telling their story to the world.

Over the last few years, he’s been thoroughly immersed in the worlds of charity, health and education – and before that worked on a wide range of brand and digital projects for a number of blue chip clients, including investment banks and building societies, record labels, TV production companies and retail.

Dave and his wife are the proud parents of two young daughters, who take up the majority of his time outside of work. However, he tries to find time to indulge his passion for playing piano, and creative writing – he is often to be found working on speculative screenplays, and is a published non-fiction author.

Senior Digital Consultant, James earned a BA in Interior Architecture and an MA in Design Management and brought his varied experience to IE in 2012 to a diverse group of clients.

Due to his expertise in user experience, he tends to specialise in projects that require a more detailed understanding of audience.

For the last fifteen-plus years, James has designed, built and managed mobile platforms, intranets and internet sites for some of the UK’s most well-known FTSE companies.

When not at work, James drives a VW Camper, bakes bread and volunteers as a Governor at one of Birmingham’s top primary schools.

Nathan joined IE with five years’ experience as a programmer and web developer, working in design agencies. 

He'd already earned a degree in Information Technology and Physics from Loughborough University, which instilled in Nathan a logical approach to problem solving. This helps him build elegantly crafted, bespoke, digital solutions to client problems using state-of-the-art web technologies and frameworks. After just under two years at IE Digital, Nathan has progressed to become our Head of Development, and is an Acquia Certified Drupal Developer

In his free time, Nathan is an avid gym-goer, and loves listening to a wide variety of musical genres, attending concerts and gigs.

As IE's Project Manager, Emma is positive, proactive, and people-focused. She strives to balance the needs of her internal and external clients to deliver projects that add value for all parties.  

Emma is an experienced multi-tasker with a background in corporate communications – digital and print – so she's used to working in a deadline-led environment. Her natural curiosity and drive for quality means that she's always seeking out more effective, efficient ways of working. 

With a strong desire to make a difference, Emma has managed third sector community projects, both at home and abroad. She loves to challenge herself, and has taken on sponsored mud runs and abseils in aid of charity. She's also fluent in British Sign Language.

When she's not organising calendars and lists, Emma loves a night at the theatre, and singing along to Disney. 

Having dabbled in a bit of self-taught Java and Ruby from a young age, Dan jumped at the chance to take up an apprenticeship with a local web development agency.

In his 4.5 years there he delivered bespoke WordPress sites and custom Laravel applications for a range of clients, from a nationwide childcare company, to the McDonalds Maintenance & Repair Department.

A life-long member of the Scouting community, first as a Scout and now as a leader, IE’s focus on values-driven organisations appealed to Dan. As our newest recruit, he’s building on his existing skills to quickly get to grips with projects in Drupal 8, CiviCRM and SOAP integration, as well as continuing to work on our WordPress sites. 

When not coding, Dan can usually be found hanging off the nearest climbing wall, strumming his guitar, or exploring a good open world RPG.

Josie is passionate about telling stories through beautifully crafted designs that inspire an emotional response. 

She has a first in Graphic Design from Falmouth University, plus over four years experience at a top London agency. She's worked in charity, health and the arts, as well as with blue chips, luxury hotels and digital startups. 

Design for print is Josie's first love, but she's equally adept at applying her designs to the digital world too.

She's interested in fitness, enjoying running, yoga, and teaching kids to swim. She also experiments creatively outside of the studio, experimenting with colour concrete plant pots, which she hopes will one day be good enough to sell. 

Sara earned an MBA from the University of Warwick and is also PRINCE2 qualified.

She brings expert support on research, planning projects and marketing strategy to IE. She thrives when given the challenge of developing key marketing strategies to allow clients to shine, often discovering new paths to maximise potential and growth.

Her track record of delivering high-quality projects in both the charity and commercial sectors is nothing short of impressive, having worked with organisations such as the Amateur Swimming Association, CSH Surrey and CMI Strategy.

Committed to inspiring insight, Sara is passionate about crafting and delivering research that truly makes a difference, whether it be e-surveys, interviews and focus groups or analysing data. As an accomplished facilitator, she also works with clients and their in-house teams, running scenario-planning workshops, coaching sessions, problem-solving, team meetings and more.

Graduating with a first class honours degree in Sound Engineering, Joëlle was intrigued by the programming modules on the course and explored web development further on her own.

After graduation, she taught herself PHP, CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Shortly thereafter, she joined IE as an intern before becoming a full-fledged member of the team as our first female developer.

Three years on, she’s now IE’s front end specialist, working closely with our digital designers to ensure designs are technically feasible and meet UX best practice. Always up to date with emerging front-end technologies and frameworks, she creates highly polished user interfaces and interactions.

Having grown up in France, Joëlle moved to back to the UK to study at Birmingham City University. She loves performing, teaching and composing on the piano, in addition to learning other musical instruments. She also enjoys dancing and will happily challenge anyone to a game of table football.

Oliver first started working with IE in 2000 and became a director when IE bought his consultancy business in 2003.

Although no longer hands on with production work, Oliver still loves technology, particularly when it’s applied to solving real world problems. He provides hands-on consultancy support to key clients, leading co-creation workshops with stakeholders from the likes of including Public Health England, NHS Digital and West Midlands Fire Service. He recently addressed a delegation of Chinese healthcare executives through Nine Health CIC and presented at the HIMSS Executive Leadership Summit.

Oliver loves to wrestle with the strategic challenges of organisations and to look for interesting digital solutions to those challenges - appropriate for the world we live in today.

Alongside IE's MD Ollie, Oliver graduated from the Business Growth Programme at Cranfield School of Management. 

Outside of work, he has an eclectic range of interests from breeding ducks to hand developing photographic film.

His real passion though is for seeing peoples lives transformed, both here  in the UK and across sub-Saharan Africa. Oliver feeds this by working as an elder of his church (The Forge) and as a supporter and advocate for a South African charity (Hands at Work) working with the poorest of the poor in eight African countries.

Iris lends her 20 years of experience in the fundraising sector to key IE client projects.

She's led fundraising for a number of large charities including World Vision and Oxfam, worked in an advisory capacity developing international marketing strategies, and mentored small charity fundraising teams to drive up donations. 

She is a visionary leader with a heart to develop and inspire people to achieve their goals and grow as individuals.

Beyond her consultancy practice, Iris is a part-time Director of Programmes and Supporter Engagement for the International Nepal Fellowship, a small international development charity.