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Meet the team

HelenHelen – Director

Helen founded Ascendancy in 2004; she has worked in the digital media industry since 1999 and her particular interests are search engine marketing, usability and conversion optimisation. Or in English, bringing traffic to your website and making sure that visitors can use the site, maximising the chances of them making a purchase or enquiry. Helen happens to also be a qualified teacher, which is why Ascendancy also runs internet marketing training courses. Helen is a Visiting Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London, and is a regular public speaker on internet marketing and web related topics. If you’re interested in booking Helen to speak at an event, you can read more on the Helen Culshaw website.

GeoffGeoff – Operations Manager

Geoff is an experienced search engine optimisation professional, having joined Ascendancy in 2006. As well as being our key search engine optimisation specialist, he oversees the running of our internet marketing operation on a day-to-day basis.  Prior to joining Ascendancy Geoff had gained years of business experience in managerial positions across a wide range of sectors.

JamesJames – Pay Per Click Executive

James is a Qualified Google Advertising Professional, with a wealth of pay per click advertising experience. He joined Ascendancy in 2008 and manages pay per click accounts on behalf of our clients across all the main pay per click platforms (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn). He is first point of contact for our pay per click clients.

AlexAlex – Web Designer

Alex joined the team full time in 2011 but had worked for us on and off for several years on a part time basis, while studying for his honours degree in Multimedia Computing at Staffordshire University. Alex is the first point of contact for our web design and development clients. He designs and maintains fantastic, easy to use websites, and works with our team of developers to meet clients’ requirements.

Partners

Ascendancy also works closely with a range of other professionals – web developers, marketers, designers, and other internet marketing specialists, according to the requirements of the project. If you are interested in partnering with us, we would be glad to hear from you – please get in touch.