Joe Whatnall is an experienced digital performance and brand marketing leader with over 14 years of expertise in SEO, paid search, paid social, and programmatic. He has worked in top media agencies, transforming global structures and capabilities in paid social and paid search, saving clients half a billion dollars in media efficiency, and establishing standards that were rolled out across all global agencies. Whatnall specializes in building high-performing search, social, programmatic, and SEO functions, motivating teams of up to 100 and providing innovative, market-leading digital planning and buying strategies. He has acquired a versatile leadership skill set and a track record of pioneering ground-breaking digital media advertising strategies, systems, metrics, and solutions, with a core focus on helping businesses to drive profitable, sustainable results. He is adept at interpreting complex concepts for non-specialist audiences and defining data-driven analytical strategies to overcome logistical and commercial challenges.

Whatnall is a graduate of the University of Lincoln with a BA Hons in Marketing and holds a post-graduate diploma in Managing Digital Media, Digital Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is currently a Senior Marketing Manager at Amazon and has previously worked as a Freelance Digital Consultant at Eight Nineteen Limited, Head of FAST (Digital Planning and Activation) at Mindshare, Head of Search - UK & EMEA at Performics, Marketing Manager - BallisticBlue.com at The Energy Cell, and Service Organiser at Special Needs Integration Projects.