Meet the Bright Team
Every member of the team is passionate about what they do, driven to deliver the best results for our clients, and keen to keep on learning.
Zoe Merchant Managing Director
Bright’s Founder, passionate about combining data driven marketing and agile delivery to drive results and business outcomes. Also a massive foodie and huge fan of cheese!
Lydia Kirby Client Services Director
Client Services Director, passionate about driving marketing and business alignment and forming great client partnerships. Loves a large glass of white and putting the world to rights over a delicious meal.
Sian Heaphy Senior Director
Director using agile to ensure that our creative, content and digital execution drive business outcomes. Can be found mostly in her active wear.
Alex Jefferies Comms and Content Director
Alex is passionate about telling your company story, whether that’s to internal or external audiences. Also, loves a good G&T and needs coffee to function.
Natalie Cannatella Content and Comms Strategist
Our content and comms specialist works with clients to develop messaging and strategies that build engagement with their key audiences. Enjoys yoga and pilates and has recently taken up strength training!
Alaina Roberts Head of Bright Marketing
An experienced B2B marketer, Alaina enjoys both developing the strategy and getting hands-on with marketing implementation to help build Bright’s brand and develop relationships. She loves musicals, Disney World and taking her Yorkshire terrier Mickey on country walks.
Hannah Siva Senior Marketing Manager
Dynamic, curious and dedicated, Hannah enjoys helping businesses achieve their goals with a passion for creativity and developing effective marketing strategies. Hannah enjoys reading, cooking and gaming in her spare time.
Tamara Roberts Senior Marketing Manager
With extensive experience in B2B SaaS marketing, Tamara excels at crafting strategies that drive engagement and business growth. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling and exploring new places.
Chris Tolfree Senior Digital & Demand Manager
Chris is a marketer and digital lead with a wealth of experience in the fields of publishing, technology, professional bodies and B2B for over 10 years. In this time, he's developed his skills including creating marketing strategies, launching paid media campaigns, site launches, and creating virtual events. He likes to understand how things work and look to drive collaboration and innovation to deliver success for clients
Jen Gudka Agile Marketing Project Lead
Jen specialises in driving efficiency and collaboration through the implementation of Scrum and Kanban frameworks. She enjoys travelling, exploring different restaurants, and diving into a good crime thriller book.
Antoinette Orr Agile Marketing Project Lead
AO is a certified Scrum Master with a background in creative and technical delivery through agile processes. She enjoys festivals, travelling and F1 on a Sunday.
Liz Stephens Marketing Manager
With over 10 years’ experience in copywriting and over 5 years’ marketing experience, Liz is a creative individual who uses her skills combined with her project/account management to help create and optimise impactful campaigns within B2B. In her spare time, she loves to read, write and co-host her award nominated podcast.
Tom Greer Senior Marketing Executive
Tom supports clients on a broad range of social, digital and event-focused campaigns. He's an enthusiastic and creative marketer who, when he isn't working, kayaks up and down Brighton beach.
Tamanna Bhatia RevOps Analyst
Tamanna thrives on tackling complex challenges and crafting straightforward, impactful solutions. Her inherent curiosity fuels a drive to apply data analytics to create meaningful change in various spheres.
Toni Fasulo Graphic Designer
Experienced designer, illustrator and animator with over ten years experience in the industry. Toni uses his skills to tell your campaign stories. Toni is big fan of 80s/90s TV shows and films, with the tattoos to prove it, as well as being huge a metal head and an avid reader of sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Christine French Operations Manager
Operations Manager who is passionate about the detail and being organised. In between juggling the administration work I am usually found in my gym gear running on the Common or training at the gym.
Mark Breslin Strategic Advisor
Mark helps organisations to solve hard problems. A natural change agent, he delivers strategic change to clients in different sectors. He is a partaker of many sports and a definite master of none; velodrome track racer and mountaineer.
Danny Turnbull Strategic Advisor
Danny is a veteran agency leader, who having hung up his MD boots in 2020 now works for Cactus helping ambitious agencies to grow and thrive.
Mark Probert Strategic Advisor
Co-founder of Agencynomics and a board adviser to agencies across the UK, he can be found number crunching in his Scottish bolt-hole whilst listening to soothing classical music.
Niki Giordanelli Strategic Advisor Data & AI
An expert in all things data with many years of transformation leadership experience, Niki advises Bright on how to use data and AI to support measurable customer-centric growth and deliver performance insights. In his spare time he is an enthusiastic Pizzaiolo and barista.
New Brightster Could it be you?
Are you keen to be part of our team? Have a look on our careers page to see our vacancies.