The Team
“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Digital Ascent
A proudly small digital marketing agency
We bring large full-service agency expertise and experience to Small to Medium Sized Businesses throughout the UK. Simply put, we enable your business to flourish online.
We have worked alongside SME’s for nearly 2 decades now in the digital world and have an inherent understanding of their online marketing needs, the challenges they face and how to help them get the very best results from their online marketing and website.
Jon Withers
Director
Jon is our director and founder, creating Digital Ascent in 2016. Fast approaching 2 decades of experience in the digital marketing world for SME’s, witnessing it’s very inception when the telephone directories (Yellow Pages and The Thomson Local – remember those?!) started selling their wares online in 2006! I was there! Even though I don’t look it! (Ha!)
Away from the world of acronym overload (SEO, PPC and FTP!), Jon is a true Petrolhead, an exasperated Everton fan and a ‘Pep Guardiola wannabe’ when coaching his son’s football team!
Phillipa James
Digital Marketing Manager
Phillipa, our marketing strategist at Digital Ascent, excels in steering SEO and ad campaigns to new heights. With 15+ years experience in European marketing, she’s adept at handling large-scale projects and fuelling startup growth. Outside work, Phillipa’s passions lie in music, playing bass and singing in a band, and giving back through charity work.
Her mantra? ‘Strategic thinking, impactful execution.’
Carla Harris
Web Designer & SEO Engineer
Carla has been working closely with Digital Ascent for over 5 years now, both of us having worked at the same agency – the brilliant RocketMill in Brighton – and is now an integral part of our team, with an extensive background both in-house and agency side.
Creating truly superb websites on the WordPress platform and delivering exceptional SEO campaigns are her areas of speciality, we’re privileged to work together on so many projects in these areas with some truly outstanding results and feedback from our wonderful clients.
Outside of digital marketing, Carla is a keen oil painter, mushroom forager and scuba diver (even in the English channel in October)!
Mathew Williams
PPC Engineer
Mat, our Head of Paid Search, is fast approaching 15 years of experience as a digital marketer in the complex/ever evolving world of Paid Search – it’s a whole lot more than just Google AdWords now! A previous winner of “30 under 30” and “Rising Star”, as well as multiple other awards for his marketing campaigns, he’s also been a Head Chef and worked at a Michelin Star Restaurant in West Sussex.
‘He’s also forgiven for a being a Chelsea fan!’ Jon
Mat has run marketing campaigns for the likes of National Geographic, Kimberly Clark and Hitachi amongst many other well known brands across the UK, and his core skill set is performance-based marketing, converting search, social and display advertising into new clients.
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We’re passionate about your business’s digital experience, getting you seen and making your business stand out from the crowd. With our expertise, we bring it all together into one seamless experience. If you want to find out more, fill in this form to get started.