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 interests and training in neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusivity, he leads our work in these areas.

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.

Greig was an accomplished contemporary dancer originating many roles; we are all in awe of his role in Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man.

Having retrained as a full stack web developer alongside his performance career, he now has decades of experience creating exceptional websites with creative people, including many with the Cog team.

He still teaches and is a member of the Chichester university faculty.

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.

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 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.

Maryna (Марина) is Ukrainian, she worked for more than a decade, for digital agencies across eastern Europe.

When Russia invaded her homeland she moved to the UK, retraining with She Codes to hone her skills.

She has worked on our highest profile sites, crafting the code and sprinkling developer magic.

A designer by training Michael founded Cog in 1991 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 and hosts our monthly Breakfast Briefings with leading figures from the cultural sector.

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 oversees our project managers and website delivery team.
He’s the main point of liaison for ensuring the best possible levels of service to our ever growing roster of exceptional cultural sector clients.

With a degree in acting, Nick found a love of ticketing via a training roles at ATG and Spektrix. He was also Arts Council England’s Tech Champion for ticketing and CRMs at their Digital Culture Network before joining us in 2021.

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