About

Alex oversees and implements our technology solutions. From selecting systems to honing our hosting.

Like many of the best technologists, Alex has a musical background. He has an MA in Composition.

With training in neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusivity, he leads our work in these areas. Outside the studio he’s a trustee at Drake Music – leaders in music, disability and technology.

Emi’s talents extend across all areas of web development. He handles much of our complex database integration work and he has developed many of our tools for integrating CRM platforms, ticketing systems and collection management software. His base is a studio near Rome.

Emma is a specialist in user experience and user interaction design with a background at some of the UK’s most notable cultural design agencies.

As our design lead she manages many of our creative projects, often overseeing the output of our other designers, and working alongside our project managers and developers throughout the process.

With years of experience in full-stack development, Jerome is perfectly placed to follow his passion for clean, efficient code and the most effective website solutions.

He came to us after years at an agency where he led on some of the most forward thinking approaches to accessibility and sustainability.

Jo came to us with impressive creative credentials and a track-record as an accomplished designer with particular expertise across user experience and website interaction design.

She has a personal passion for sustainability which is demonstrated through her recent completion of the PGCert Material Futures course at Central Saint Martins.

After studying English Literature and then Film, Justin worked in a range of roles for some of London’s most compelling museums and heritage destinations before sparking an interest in all things digital.

At Cog, Justin’s remit covers a wide range of tasks with a focus on ongoing client relationships and looking after the websites we have built.

With a background in planning and delivering marketing campaigns in the cultural and charity sectors, Laura joined us with a brief to overhaul our systems and processes.

She ensures that we have the right people, in the right place at the right time.

With ten years experience, Laura is passionate about writing elegant code for efficient websites. A designer by training, she brings an aesthetic sensibility to all her screen-based development work, and a pragmatic approach to every project.

Lily is our brilliant Studio Manager. She calmly and quietly manages the environment that helps us all thrive – from sorting the IT to making sure we have well stocked kitchen cupboards.

She also oversees our bookkeeping, manages our invoices, coordinates monthly cultural outings and oversees our daily photographic competition – Everyday Cog.

We’d long admired Luke’s work on web projects with clients such as National Portrait Gallery so we were delighted when he agreed to join us in 2022.

His focus is on user interaction and visual designs for many of our high-profile website projects (and he sneaks in a bit of coding too).

Mark’s career centred around design and print before he took the plunge to become a full time developer. He’s never looked back although his understanding of layout and type hierarchy is a huge asset.

At Cog Mark’s specialism is front-end development and translating designs across complex website builds. Mark lives and work in Taunton, Somerset.

Marwin was born in Venezuela and studied in Poland before settling in the UK. He brings those diverse influences and interesting perspectives to every project.

As an experienced PHP developer he builds robust, well-crafted, meaningful back-ends to our websites.

A designer by training Michael founded Cog and has moulded the company around a belief in the power of culture to shape people’s lives.

He’s a regular commentator and speaker on design, empathy and sustainability. He is a Fellow at the RSA, a mentor with several universities and a trustee with the kindness charity, People United.

Nazma is a busy bee from Manchester. She co-curated the new South Asia Gallery at Manchester Museum, is a Trustee at Z-arts and a People’s Forum Member at MIF/Factory International.

She liked working with us so much, whilst being our main client contact at HOME, she decided to join us.

At Cog she provides consultancy, advocacy and hands-on implementation of analytics, SEO and digital strategy for our clients.

Nick expertly guides websites from initial briefings through to launch and beyond.

He is tenacious and detail focused to ensure that our sites are delivered on time and in budget, and are still stunning, effective and unique.

With a degree in acting, Nick found a love of ticketing via a training roles at ATG and Spektrix.  More recently Nick was Arts Council’s Tech Champion for ticketing and CRMs in their innovative Digital Culture Network. 

Razvan is an experienced web developer, working across many CMS platforms. He manages many of our website builds and ticketing integrations including our TNEW, Spektrix. He also takes the lead on much of our back end and server-based development work. He is based in Bucharest, Romania.