Who we are

Sophia Livesey

Chief of Staff

The woman with the golden rolodex. Sophia spent many years in Argentina rubbing shoulders with elite sportspeople that we won’t name drop *coughs Lewis Hamilton & Lionel Messi coughs.*

Intimidatingly organised & calmness personified, Sophia is our eyes in the sky. Our air traffic control. She manages everyone’s time & workload. Under Sophia’s watch, the only thing that could possibly go off course is Måns’ career as a rapper, over which she has no control.

Alexi Mccarthy

Creative Director Partner

Spekk’s creative engine assumes form in the shape of Alexi. It was back in the noughties that Alexi’s penchant for graffiti morphed into commercial work – drawing on his love of drawing on walls to create iconic campaigns for Volkswagen, WWF & Oakley.

He now works out of Portugal, where he lives with his family & his enviably impeccable taste. A superb presenter with an infectious personality & a proper team player, everyone loves Alexi. Whether or not he is indeed Banksy, is something we are not – at present – willing to divulge.

Frankie Winsor

Paid Media Manager: Experiences

Frankie heads up our Festival & Experience Department and conducts what new joiners often perceive to be excessive amounts of research into her role outside office hours.

When she’s not neck deep in the rave, Frankie graces us with all the glitz & glam of someone whose client roster used to include Disney & Warner Bros. She’s a doer in the old-fashioned sense – all action, no brakes.

Måns Gårdfeldt

Co-Founder

Serial entrepreneur, failed rapper and Spekk’s self-appointed Head of Bullshit Detection, Måns has started businesses in everything from fireworks to chocolate to sophisticated marketing tech.

Before he built Spekk’s Paid Media offering he was the COO of a tech incubator and started a children’s charity that to date has built 20 schools in Asia. Yet the best use of Måns’ LSE Finance degree is to chase Erik’s Joe & the Juice receipts.

Erik Lehmann

Co-Founder

As a recovering CMO himself, Erik has likely walked several thousand miles in your shoes. From steering the tankers of global mega brands to taking the reins of agile challenger marketing teams, Erik is as well-rounded as an Ikea meatball – if an Ikea meatball had a Master’s Degree from Imperial College and spoke 3 languages.

Stationed at the intersection between Analysis, Strategy & Creative, Erik is the puppet master of our campaigns, and his ambition to make things happen sees no bounds – other than those imposed by Måns’ iron clad budgets.

Julia Fogiel

Graphic Designer

From the canvases of Adobe to the dance floors of Fabric, Julia is our resident shifter of shapes. As our Designer in Chief, we call Julia ‘M3 Sport’ – because she’s efficient, organised, timeless & German. HR are yet to rule on whether or not this is strictly appropriate.

Julia will literally bleed for the aesthetic, having recently gone hiking in Doc Martens, and subsequently coining her own niche genre of design – c’est mountain chic.

Gabriel Arribas

Senior Paid Media Strategist

Gabriel crashed a snowmobile on his first Spekk team trip. His grace in the face of calamity and impressive physical durability made him a literal permanent fixture here.

Clients love Gabriel for his XXL brain & what is frankly an unhinged appetite for success. Gabriel took his finals twice, once for a friend (Mike Ross whaaat!?) & holds the world record for Fastest Blindfolded Excel VLOOKUP. Amidst his dizzying achievements, we’re blessed to have him as one of our Paid Media Leads.

Alfredo Molinet

Team Trip Chef

We first met Alfredo on a team trip to Mallorca. He was employed full time as a chef, but agreed to cook for us for the trip. It was love at first bite. We all bonded with Alfredo like the stickiest of sticky buns.

In truth, including Alfredo here is just another part of our blatant, shameless & increasingly desperate campaign to woo him away from his day job to cook for Spekk full time*. Alfredo, if you’re reading this, Hi King, you up? 🥺😏👑

Ollie Bailey

Media Buyer & Analyst

Bored of science, and of Scotland, Ollie moved to Australia. And became a DJ. Despite these alarming red flags, there is much more to Ollie than meets the ears. While down under, he used his smarts to game Facebook ads, driving up Spotify listens on his own music. Nifty.

On his return to the UK, he joins Spekk, looking after ads for clients who run music festivals – combining the two of things he loves the most – numbers & bangers.

Pedro Casal

Senior Paid Media Strategist

First impressions can be deceiving, but when we accidentally caught Pedro singing to himself on Zoom before his first interview, nothing could have been less deceptive.

Having tangoed his way from Buenos Aires to Europe, the hyperactive, hyper-social Argentine understands Paid Media both as an art & a science. Pedro’s penchant for problem-solving is what gave him his workplace nickname, Pedro-No-Problemo. Which, like some of our other staff nicknames, may also be El Problematico

Stephen Purkess

Head of Paid Media

Brummie, sprightly & undisputed champion of the Spekk aptitude test, Stephen – or Stevo – is addicted to overachieving. Having climbed from intern to partner in little under 4 years, his left brain is probably bigger than your whole brain.

Despite this overdeveloped frontal cortex, sharpened at the esteemed Oxford University, Stephen still manages to lose 87% of the things he takes out with him. Living proof that one cannot indeed have it all.

Niamh Martin-McGarrigle

Paid Media Analyst

There’s a thin line between admiration and envy. People like Niamh test the narrowness of said line. With a First Class Degree in French & Linguistics, Niamh was helping businesses improve their resilience during COVID – while she was still at uni. Having spectacularly outperformed her contemporaries, she went on to spend some time at EY before joining Spekk.

When Niamh isn’t making us feel like useless layabouts, she somehow manages to find the time to be a fine chef, a keen guitarist and on her way to becoming a qualified nail technician – proving that she isn’t just well rounded, but more or less perfectly spherical.

Jamie Bland

Paid Media Analyst

French Mauritian Jamie Bland (in name only) can make ads go live blindfolded, and could create a client weekly report in a straitjacket. He – deep breath – built a web scraping tool with no coding experience that attracted 5000 leads, has degrees in Anthropology & Sociology, diplomas in statistics & financial modelling and once optimised a global tax SOP that saved $25 million of tax for several top 500 companies. For now, he’ll be analysing your paid media. The world would likely be a thousand years in the future with more Jamie’s in it.

Jonas Larsson

Head of Paid Search

Get yourself a Paid Search Specialist who’s a Pro Swing Dancer and DJ. The one and only Jonas is all glitter and solid gold. He may have spent 2500 hours of the past five years in meditation, but having brought himself to a state of wakefulness, consistently proves himself a master of Paid Search – as well as the inner workings of his own mind. And when he’s not enjoying the stillness of quiet contemplation, Jonas hosts educational sessions on search & analytics, managing six figure monthly budgets and repeatedly going viral on YouTube.

Edmalyn Pacanor

Data Analyst

Making sense of campaign performance data is an art, which makes Data Analyst, Ed our artist in residence. Optimistically self-describing her role as “the sexiest job in the 21st century”, Ed creates reports and dashboards visualising campaign results – proving ‘sexiness’ truly is subjective. With a Masters in Data Science and an Electronics & Communication Engineering degree, your nitty-gritty is Ed’s easy-peasy. When she’s not preparing data in delectable, digestible chunks, Ed is a keen crocheter and karaoke-r – sometimes even concurrently.

Kritika K

Media Buyer & Analyst

Badminton player, Bollywood fanatic and ex Intelligence Officer to the Indian MI5, Kritika helps set up ads for our clients and offers a wildly useful extra pair of hands on Spekk’s deck. With a tonne of experience managing high-budget international campaigns – including a six figure monthly budget for Scuderia Ferrari – Kritika has a proven track record of improving ROAS and reducing CPL quicker than you can say WTF. And, just when you thought Kritika’s life couldn’t be any more like a movie, everything she does is to music.

Kevin McLaughlin

Tracking Expert

Working out of a rock climbing gym is unorthodox, but only underlines Kevin’s knack for scaling lofty heights; he built the #1 Google Analytics Integration in Shopify’s App store and has helped thousands of SMEs track and analyse their data better than most big companies – all with free (or nearly free) tools. Kevin has one of the highest viewed GA4 Shopify channels on YouTube – which he assures us mortals is wildly impressive. With a Degree in Film and a Masters in Electrical Engineering, Kevin is an absolute rock star – in every department.

Saga Klaening

Media Buyer & Analyst

Singer, pianist & ex-employee of the month at a liquor store, Saga’s life rings true to her name. She joins our Start-Up Department with a Masters in Business Administration & a new pottery hobby to fund. We’re as lucky to have Saga as Saga is in life; she once won a trip to Paris courtesy of a coffee shop she worked at. And having launched an ad for cat insurance to critical acclaim, she’s perfectly suited to helping our start-up clients sell & scale their complex offerings – after all, there is no psyche more complex than that of a cat owner.

George Golden

Media Buyer & Analyst

Up until age 8, George thought old photos were black & white as colour hadn’t yet been invented. As an adult, ironically he has impeccable vision. Joining our Experience Department, George is a specialist in event marketing strategy – mostly for businesses with very few vowels – breaking sales records for Sŵn Festival and Clwb Ifor Bach in a post lockdown drive in which he helped them surpass pre-pandemic attendance. Despite a dizzyingly impressive CV, George stays humble. Success doesn’t go to his head. We’ve coined it the ‘Godden’ Complex.