Meet the Team
We’ve been running these platforms since before most of them had a business model.
Wordsmith Digital was built by people who ran these channels from the inside. Since then, we’ve grown a global community past three million people, run online communications through a UK general election, produced compliant creative for regulated healthcare clients, and spent over a decade advertising pharmacy services to local patients.
The channels change constantly. Search became social, social became video, and now most decisions start with a question sent to an AI assistant.
What doesn’t change is the job beneath it all: where is your customer’s attention, and how do we get you in front of it?
David Angell
Founder & DirectorDigital marketing, SEO and communications since 2004. Award-winning member of the AdWords team at Google’s EMEA headquarters, where he advised advertisers from small businesses to multinationals and launched Google’s UK programmes for Google Grants, Google Earth Outreach, and YouTube non-profits. Ran online communications for the Deputy Prime Minister through the 2010 election.
Ben Stockman
Founder & DirectorAuthor and award-winning web and digital consultant, specialising in community management and online campaigning. Grew AVG Antivirus’s global community past three million people, took the PRCA Best Campaign award while project-managing at Rabbit, and founded the largest UK political Facebook campaign of its time. Trains and consults for national and global agencies.
Amy Stevens
Digital Advertising DirectorExperienced digital advertising strategist, builder and manager working across web, apps, social and email, leading client work from concept to execution to optimisation. Google Ads and Digital Garage certified in Search and Display, with clients across healthcare, events, hospitality and retail.
Jonathan Stewart
Creative & DesignAward-winning writer and graphic designer producing healthcare-compliant visual assets for the National Pharmacy Association, The Health Policy Partnership and the Straumann Group, advising startups on tone of voice, and writing SEO-optimised content across a wide-spanning range of industries.
Alena Jarrett
Social & CommunityPhotographer, videographer and editor, specialising in animation, social content and digital advertising.
Sam Crabbe
Developer & StrategistDigital marketing specialist, website designer and developer, with a background across marketing, hospitality and customer service.