Driven by a desire to stand alongside values driven organisations and to make a difference through the power of brand and digital, Ollie founded IE in 1994 and continues to support IE’s more complex brand consultancy projects.

Notable not-for-profit clients include Christian Aid, Teach First, FPA (Family Planning Association), pfeg (now Young Money), Career Ready, Charity Job, Goldman Sachs Foundation, Cranfield University, University of Cambridge, and the universities of Aberdeen, Aston, Birmingham, Bristol, Imperial College London, Liverpool, Plymouth Marjon, Queen Mary UoL, Reading, Warwick and York. 

A regular speaker at CHASE, CASE and AGCAS, Ollie has worked in the creative sector for 25 years and is an opinion leader on the subject of optimising business practices within the creative industries. A passionate advocate of self-improvement and the power of peer networks, Ollie is a graduate of business school programmes at Cranfield School of Management, London Business School and Aston Business School. 

Ollie was awarded a Goldman Sachs Foundation small business leader scholarship to study toward an Executive MBA at Aston Business School. His Final Project entitled "Assessing the value of the CBIRM (Corporate Brand Identity and Reputation Matrix) framework to an international charity seeking to re-articulate its corporate brand" utilises the charity Open Doors International as a case study. In 2018, he graduated with Distinction. 

He is a Visiting Industrial Fellow and Guest Lecturer at Aston University, a BSEEN business mentor, a volunteer for the Ahead Partnership and a Queen’s Small Business Charter Mark business school assessor for the Association of Business Schools. Ollie recently retired as a trustee of Trident: Reach The People Charity (a £14m+ social investment charity in the Midlands) to become a founder member of Christian Aid's Salt Business Network.

Ollie was consulted by Lord Young as he gathered insights for ‘The Report on Small Firms’ and Lord Heseltine for his report ‘No Stone Unturned in Pursuit of Growth’. Lord Young’s office expressed thanks with an invitation to No.10 Downing Street and the Queen’s Garden Party.

Outside of work he’s a keen runner, cook and figurative sculptor. He has raised thousands of pounds running for Midlands charities, and is aiming to achieve a sub 3.5hr marathon by the end of his 50th year.

With 17 years of industry experience under his belt, Dave serves as IE’s Creative Director – leading IE’s brand offering and award winning design team, as well as working as a Brand Consultant.

Beginning his career as a Graphic Designer and making a gentle transition to consultancy, Dave combines his agency experience – which has seen him work with clients across almost every sector – with his love of design, writing and filmmaking.

Dave can often be found knee deep in research for a brand project, locked away in a room writing key messaging, art directing a visual identity project, on location for a campaign film, or bringing clients up to speed and running workshops.

Under Dave's direction, IE Brand won two Golds at the Transform Awards Europe 2017, for Best Visual Identity from the Education sector and for Best Brand Architecture Solution. Dave has spent his life and career obsessed with the power of brand, and helping clients to connect with their audiences by standing out from the crowd, and telling their story to the world.

Over the last few years, he’s been thoroughly immersed in the worlds of charity, health and education – and before that worked with a number of blue chip clients, including investment banks and building societies, record labels, TV production companies and retail.

Dave and his wife are the proud parents of two young daughters, who take up the majority of his time outside of work. However, he tries to find time to indulge his passion for playing piano, and creative writing – he is often to be found working on speculative screenplays, and is a published non-fiction author.

Ed holds an MSc in Intelligent Systems Engineering from the University of Birmingham and joined IE as a Web Applications Developer in 2008.

He naturally outgrew his development role and became our first Digital Consultant. Ed is the best bet for technical consultancy with web builds or integrations. His insight is invaluable on a myriad of projects from e-learning content and videos to user experience design and market research exercises.

Ed brings his excellent problem solving skills and 10 years of experience working as a developer, consultant and director at IE to bear on each project he leads through the studio.

Ed’s passions outside of work include astronomy, photography and above all – snowboarding!

Kate has been with IE for 15 years and is always striving for ways to do things better.

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Grant Thornton, Kate enjoyed working with clients as a Business Services Manager. Her understanding of finance informs her passion for excellent project management.

Kate is PRINCE2 trained and is an enthusiastic exponent of the ‘Agile’ project management philosophy. Together with the Consultant, Kate will ensure that your project is well resourced and delivered.

Outside of work she enjoys boot camp sessions in all weathers.

This is snow joke. Balthazar will be joining the team on a 1 month placement throughout December, in his role as IE's Seasonal Merriment Manager.

We made initial contact with Balthazar in late October, and after a really successful first interview, things just snowballed.

A bit more about IE’s new recruit…

Hobbies include: Long walks in the air, listening to the Arctic Monkeys and cycling to work on his by icicle.

Favourite food: Brrrr-itos

Gym nickname: the Abdominal Snowman

Family: One wife and three chill-dren

Favourite joke: What do you call ten Arctic hares hopping backwards through the snow together? A receding hare line.

Emma is a positive, proactive, people focused Project Manager. Focusing on client and internal team members' needs to bring a project of value to all involved.

Inquisitive by nature and with a background in quality, Emma will always strive to improve efficiency. Her previous experience of project managing corporate communications, both in digital and in print, has given her the skills to multitask and deliver to tight, high pressured deadlines.

Emma has also managed community projects and events, locally and overseas for the third sector and has strong focus to work on projects with purpose.

When she’s not creating lists, spreadsheets and organising calendars, Emma enjoys the theatre, singing along to Disney and getting involved in sponsored challenges, whether it be mud runs or abseils, she’ll dive right in! She is also fluent in British Sign Language.

Following her first class English Language degree and a range of eclectic A-levels, Jen joined a digital agency, where she managed digital projects and content for healthcare clients such as Glasgow Local Medical Committee and Coventry University Medical Centre.

She then moved client-side, first in marketing operations for a medical device manufacturer, and then became PRINCE II qualified and moved into their product management team. After another in-house marketing role, Jen decided she missed agency life, which brought her to IE Digital. She runs on sugar, and has earned a reputation as the 'positivity fairy'.

When she’s not managing digital projects for IE’s values-driven clients, Jen loves a wide range of sports. She’s competed at national level in gymnastics, coached football and is a qualified trampolining instructor. As well as taking annual snowboarding trips, she has an ambition to travel to as many different parts of the world as she can.

Josie joined IE from a London branding agency, where she cut her teeth on a range of clients – from blue chips, luxury hotels and pharmaceutical brands to charities and art museums.

For Josie, design is all about having fun and she aims to produce beautifully crafted work that is always rooted in a strong idea that tells a story and provokes an emotion. She believes in pushing her ideas to the limit, then reigning them back in. She's particularly passionate about designing for print but enjoys developing brands across all media. She has a first in Graphic Design from Falmouth University. 

Outside the studio, she's been experimenting with making colour concrete plant pots, which she one day hopes to sell. She teaches swimming to children and enjoys running and yoga.

Justin is an internationally experienced, senior creative designer with a proven track record for delivering exceptional multi-channel brand communications.

For over 20 years he’s built brands and campaigns for prestigious commercial clients in London, Hong Kong, Dubai and Dublin.

Justin’s journey is a little unconventional. He started out selling duvets in a South London street market but a fascination for colour, type and music drove him to discover London’s design scene, and onto art school. Little did he know that this adventure would take him up through the advertising and design agency ranks - and around the world and back.

Interested in everything, Justin is hooked on helping shape the future of brands, big or small, by employing creativity and business strategy to fulfil their potential as game changers – for the good. Outside of the studio Justin likes to spend most of his time with his wife and young son.

Denise has worked in a variety of B2B marketing roles for over 15 years, particularly in professional services.

She enjoys nothing more than working with talented experts in their subjects and promoting that expertise to clients, be it through thought leadership, events, social media or high quality proposals.

By joining IE Design, Denise is fulfilling a long-held ambition to work with values-driven clients in the charity sector, having spent many years with commercial clients, particularly in banking.

Outside work, she is a keen amateur photographer and enjoys regular trips to the cinema, theatre, music and comedy gigs. She also volunteers with her local branch of Cats Protection (North Birmingham), combining her marketing skills with her love of animals. She lives with her husband and their two rescue cats.

Joëlle joined IE shortly after graduating on a six-month internship, before coming on board permanently as IE’s first female developer.

She'd previously graduated with a first class honours degree in Sound Engineering. The programming modules on the course led her to explore web development, and she started to teach herself HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. 

Joëlle grew up in France and moved to Birmingham for university. She enjoys composing, teaching, and performing on the piano, as well as learning other instruments. She also has a passion for dance, and will jump straight to a game of table football if the opportunity ever arises!

Kat has a winning combination of technical knowledge and top notch communication skills, which she's putting to good use as IE's Helpdesk Analyst. 

She took a BSc in Multimedia from Birmingham City University, covering everything from photography, filmography and design to programming and industry knowledge. In her spare time she was writing creatively, and her urge to make online forums prettier and more and user-friendly led her to explore web design and development. She built a prototype web app for her dissertation to creatively display story data for authors, before completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.

Kat's work life took her to become first a developer, then a copywriter for a small company, so being the face of customer support at IE Digital is the ideal marriage of these key skills. 

Outside work you'll find Kat entertaining her young son, crying over her novels-in-progress, watching terrible TV, playing video games, and talking about astrology.

James joined the IE team in 2012 as a Digital Consultant.

He brings his experience and knowledge of user experience to a diverse set of IE's clients – specialising in those projects that demand a detailed understanding of audience.

James has a BA Interior Architecture and an MA in Design Management, and has worked designing, building and managing internet sites, intranets and mobile platforms for the last 15 years in some of the UK's biggest and best known FTSE companies. He has also worked as a Wine Shop manager and Furniture salesman.

Outside of work he bakes bread, drives a VW Camper and is a Governor at one of Birmingham's best primary schools.

A Digital Consultant with experience as a producer of websites, apps and ecommerce platforms, Jodie has a passion for new technologies and is constantly learning. 

A business management graduate, Jodie's primary focus is always on nurturing strong relationships with her clients, built on two-way communication and transparency. She strives for excellence, and is constantly seeking process improvements. 

She began her career at Keele University’ as part of the Student Support team, focusing on digital. She then moved to a digital agency, in a production role for big brands in fashion/retail, technology and insurance. She jumped at the chance to transfer her experience to IE's clients in charity, health and education.

When she's not working, Jodie loves to travel whenever she gets the chance. So far her wanderlust has taken her to the US, Thailand, Barbados, Egypt, and throughout Europe.

Having dabbled in a bit of self-taught Java and Ruby from a young age, Dan jumped at the chance to take up an apprenticeship with a local web development agency.

In his 4.5 years there he delivered bespoke WordPress sites and custom Laravel applications for a range of clients, from a nationwide childcare company, to the McDonalds Maintenance & Repair Department.

A life-long member of the Scouting community, first as a Scout and now as a leader, IE’s focus on values-driven organisations appealed to Dan. As our newest recruit, he’s building on his existing skills to quickly get to grips with projects in Drupal 8, CiviCRM and SOAP integration, as well as continuing to work on our WordPress sites. 

When not coding, Dan can usually be found hanging off the nearest climbing wall, strumming his guitar, or exploring a good open world RPG.

A keen programmer since the age of 10, Eli started out creating simple Flash-based games and has worked his way up to developing complex native applications on iOS and Android devices.

With a love of music, he studied Sound Engineering at college - earning a triple distinction – while working as a lighting jockey at a local night club. He then took his degree in Multimedia Technology at Birmingham City University, covering film, photography, web design, animation and programming.

Before joining IE Design, Eli’s projects included developing and building a mobile app to organise online gaming, a heating control app and a flash video player to allow live streaming of Government meetings.

Eli’s hobbies include music, TV and film as well as playing the drums, keeping fit and experimenting with new technology.

Nathan heads the digital development team at IE. He has seven years' experience as a web developer and programmer at various creative agencies, and a Degree in Information Technology and Physics.

His passions include building custom, bespoke digital solutions using cutting edge frameworks and web technologies. Nathan utilises the logical problem- solving approach learnt in his physics modules to build elegant solutions to client problems. He's recently taken the step up to become IE's Head of Development, and qualified as an Acquia Certified Drupal Developer.

Outside of work, Nathan is a gym freak, and enjoys listening to a broad range of music spanning all genres and is an avid gig/concert goer.

With over three years of experience in computing and web development, Nelson is a great addition to the IE team. He’s always on the lookout for new challenges, using his ‘can do’ attitude and trademark smile to find creative solutions to tackling technical problems.

The University of Wolverhampton graduate achieved a First Class Honours in Computing, which is a testament to his inquisitive and driven nature.

His fascination with tech started when he began publishing his suspense-thriller fiction on his self-built website. This fascination ultimately led to him becoming IE’s Customer Service Engineer.

Nelson loves sports, a passion he now shares with his young son, who he enjoys playing football with in his free time. The family orientated Nelson is always happy to share his IT skills by helping others to bring their ideas to life.

Sara provides expert support on key marketing strategy, research and planning projects at IE.

She enjoys the challenges of developing marketing strategies that will enable clients to stand out from the crowd, and identifying new routes for growth that will maximise potential.

She has an impressive track record of high-quality delivery in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors, working with organisations including CMI Strategy, CSH Surrey, and the Amateur Swimming Association.

Sara is dedicated to inspiring insight; she loves to design and deliver research that will make a difference, be it e-surveys, face-to-face or telephone interviews, focus groups or data analysis. She's also an experienced facilitator, working with and inspiring clients and their in-house teams through problem-solving and scenario-planning workshops, team meetings, coaching sessions and more.

Sara has an MBA from Warwick University and is PRINCE2 qualified.

Oliver first started working with IE in 2000 and became a director when IE bought his consultancy business in 2003.

Although no longer hands on with production work, Oliver still loves technology, particularly when it’s applied to solving real world problems. 

He provides hands-on consultancy support to key clients, leading co-creation workshops with stakeholders from the likes of including Public Health England, NHS Digital and West Midlands Fire Service. He recently addressed a delegation of Chinese healthcare executives through Nine Health CIC and presented at the HIMSS Executive Leadership Summit.

Oliver loves to wrestle with the strategic challenges of organisations and to look for interesting digital solutions to those challenges – appropriate for the world we live in today.

Alongside IE's MD Ollie, Oliver graduated from the Business Growth Programme at Cranfield School of Management. 

Outside of work, he has an eclectic range of interests from breeding ducks to hand developing photographic film.

His real passion though is for seeing peoples lives transformed, both here  in the UK and across sub-Saharan Africa. Oliver feeds this by working as an elder of his church (The Forge) and as a supporter and advocate for a South African charity (Hands at Work) working with the poorest of the poor in eight African countries.

Iris has been working in the fundraising sector for nearly 20 years. She is a visionary leader with a heart to develop and inspire people to achieve their goals and grow as individuals.

As well as her consultancy work, Iris works part-time as Director of Programmes and Supporter Engagement for a small international development charity. Her experience ranges from heading up fundraising teams in large organisations such as Oxfam and World Vision, working in international marketing strategy advisory groups to coaching and mentoring teams in small charities to help them bring a step change to their fundraising.