NameThom Poole
Job TitleInternet Marketing Director
OrganisationeBay International Marketing GmbH
Member LevelSilver
Member Since19 Jul 2004
Areas of ExpertiseMobile, Multichannel Marketing, Search Marketing - Organic/Natural (SEO), Strategy and Planning, Web Project Management
Contact Details Telephone: 08455 440929

About Me

A digital marketing pioneer who started in the dawn of the Internet. I have also been involved at the start of the mobile web and now work with smaller companies to help them fulfil their potential by use of integrated marketing activities. Companies on my CV (for whom I worked, or advised) include: Hilti, Black & Decker, O2, British Airways, Barclays, General Motors, Microsoft, London Business School, CIM, etc.

Now Internet Marketing Director for eBay International Marketing GmbH - looking after digital Growth Initiatives. Heavily involved in mobile marketing and in display advertising - especially driving the integration and refinement of Real-Time Bidding (RTB).

Also involved with the paid search and social media marketing aspects of the European business, and helping develop the in-house training programme for all European staff.

My Links

Jack Marketing Solutions
Jack Marketing Solutions has been my main consultancy brand for the last 10 years, assisting hundreds of companies in that time. We specialise in Digital Marketing, but are well versed in more traditional techniques too.

DDA Audit
DDA Audit was set up to provide an independent service to evaluate a website's compliance with the disability legislation. Having undertaken audits for many well known names, this brand continues to grow.

Thom Poole on LinkedIn
This is my profile on LinkedIn.

Career History

Head of Portals Customer Interaction at O2 plc

I took charge of the customer journeys through the O2 website (>1 million UV's/day), WAP/Mobile site (>400K/day) and the Intranet. This involved DDA compliance registration, ecommerce and design issues. Also involved in analytics tracking for all the sites.

Education and Qualifications

BA in International Marketing Management

MSc in Marketing

The CIM Post-graduate Diploma in Marketing

I developed the first MSc in Digital Marketing, run by a London Business School

Visiting Professor of Marketing at the University of London (to 2008) and University of Grenoble.

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