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.

Anna leads our design team and oversees the day-to-day creative output of the studio.

She manages many of our larger and higher profile projects, working across branding, digital, campaigns and editorial design.

And she curates our cultural calendar, commissioning a bespoke illustration each month.

Emma is a specialist in user experience and user interaction design. She manages the design of many creative projects, working closely with our project managers and developers throughout the process.

She oversees our Everyday Cog selection and manages a lot of our social media posts.

Via a background in fashion and years in social media and detailed data analytics, Emily gained a love of the arts through a role at English National Opera where she quickly progressed to managing the digital team.

At Cog she provides retainer support and project delivery for numerous clients who love her ability to describe complex tasks in everyday language.

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.

Lottie joined us with heaps of experience in social media and analytics, including roles with start-ups and established membership organisations.

At Cog she provide hands-on, practical digital doing and manages many of our ongoing relationships with clients, coordinating between them and our developers and designers.

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).

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.

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. 

Spencer’s early career was in managing content on ATG’s websites and with Digital Theatre+ where he moved on to training, quality assurance and coordinating projects.

He brings all that skill and experience to Cog where he is the pivot point for large-scale website projects, managing the process from discovery to deployment.

His drama degree serves him particularly well when running workshops and bringing joy to our studio.

Yomi worked as a freelance designer and developer for many years before we persuaded him to join our full-time team.

He bring the understanding and sensitivity of having worked directly with clients, ranging from independent charities to West End shows.

Zara’s role is broad but her remit is simple – to provide an environment where our team and clients can thrive and produce the best work together.

She oversees our admin, manages our bookkeeping, books our Cog Nights, takes care of the fish and so much more.

Daniel travels the globe as an arts & culture digital developer. And he calls Tasmania his home. He’s a specialist in CRM integrations, with a focus on work with Tessitura and TNEW. He’s part of the very cool team at Dark Mofo and Mona.

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 a studio near Rome.

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.

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.

Morena is an Italian web developer, based in North London. We’ve been working together for years. She’s adaptable, dependable and tenacious. She’s equally comfortable setting up WordPress installations as she is adding finesse to front-end styling.

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.