Chris Cooke (Creative Director) Chris founded No Sugar almost 10 years ago, designing and producing websites, interactive content and print work. After gaining a degree in Advertising, and a postgrad in Experimental Typography at the London College of Communication, Chris played a key role in the development of a variety of creative, arts and media organisations, including Art Direction for Mixmag and The Word. Chris’ skills range from creative direction (managing and producing clean, contemporary design), Flash (animation and actionscripting), typography and web development through to information architecture and user centred design (developing sitemaps and page wireframes that are sympathetic to the users goals).

As Creative Director at Tilt Chris has built a reputation for creating exquisite on and off line brand experiences for our clients. Chris always looks for better ways to communicate through design.  In every case its Chris’s blend of design experience honed over 15 years in the industry and his knowledge of the latest design trends and tools that ensures our creative work is appropriate and achieves the desired results.

Dan Evans (Creative Director) Dan founded and has headed up Brighton digital agency Chinook for over 10 years, specialising in interactive production, animation, viral and motion design. Dan studied at art school under Brenden Neiland (the future Keeper of the Royal Academy), but soon gravitated towards the creative application of visual and music technology. As Art Director for London e-learning pioneers Knowledge=Power, he gained expertise in all aspects of innovative and award winning interactive design.  Dan loves to push the boundaries and expectations, drawing on and mixing up a wide palette of creative skills.

As Creative Director for motion graphics and animation he has a huge amount of creative flair and technical expertise.  Dan loves to create compelling experiences and ideas that bring our clients vision to life.

Jon Malyon (Technical Director) Jon has been working within web and interactive design for over eight years, and has been developing sites ranging from simple brochure sites right through to fully content managed e-commerce systems. In his previous life Jon worked with a range of clients most notably within the travel sector with brands such as Hayes & Jarvis, Sovereign, Meon Villas and Citalia (TUI Travel Group) and the entertainment sector working with Disney on multiple Pan European digital campaigns in support of movie releases.

As Technical Director Jon’s role is to code beautifully crafted websites that utilise all of the latest technologies, whilst ensuring that older technologies are still catered for. In addition to this, his knowledge of server side scripting languages and database management has enabled us to create bespoke content management systems, e-commerce sites and much more. Ultimately Jon’s focus is on delivering robust solutions to the highest standards and which provide a seamless experience for the end user.

Gabrielle Gregory (Commerical Manager) Gabrielle’s background is in client management within marketing communications and Customer Relationship Marketing with clients such as The Coca Cola Company, Guinness, Grand Met Retailing, Bass, The Volkswagen Group UK, Boots the Chemist plus many more. She has a wealth of experience in developing creative and CRM solutions whilst leading teams to deliver projects successfully, on time and to budget. She has held senior management positions for a number of years where she has been instrumental in helping organizations she has worked for in achieving their business aims.

Gabrielle takes a hands-on role in the life-cycle of our projects to ensure we have the best resource in place for our projects and the right processes to deliver our work successfully.

Jacques Strauss (Digital Strategist) After graduating with a MA in philosophy from the University of Auckland, Jacques started work as a Digital Copywriter on a literacy project for the New Zealand Government. Thereafter he went freelance working for a number of companies in New Zealand and Australia including Vodafone and Royal & SunAlliance. In 2005, Jacques moved to London and joined LINE Communications. His clients included Ford of Europe, Ford of Britain, BMW, Novartis, BP, Department for Work and Pensions, Home Office, Anglo American, Barclays, Leonard Cheshire, Tetra Pak, PwC, L’Oreal and Jaguar Land Rover. When not working digital projects, Jacques is a keen writer. His debut novel ‘The Dubious Salvation of Jack V’ is published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and FSG in the US.

As a digital strategist for tilt Jacques specializes in working with clients on larger projects to devise digital strategies with a particular focus on internal communications, change management and learning & development.

Sarah Stevens (Lead Developer) Sarah has been interested in developing websites for as long as she can remember. She built her first website for a business when she was fifteen. With her degree in Computer Science from the University of Brighton and a previous position as a Java developer, she has a strong understanding of programming fundamentals. This understanding allows her to easily turn her hand to varied programming and scripting languages.

With a keen interest in emerging technologies and with an active web presence Sarah is an invaluable member of the Tilt team.

Jez Rider (Lead Designer) Jez studied Graphic Design at Coventry University. Since then he has worked as a designer for agencies such as, TAMBA, Codemasters, Cimex, Fish in a bottle and STANDOUT. In 6 years Jez has worked with worldwide clients such as BBC, Channel 4, Sony Games, Sony BMG, Nick Jr, Codemasters, EA Games, Disney, Universal, Endemol, Fremantle Media, Waterstones, etc. Jez has worked on awarding winning games such as the Battle of Britain 303 Squadron (for Channel 4) which won Best On Screen Game at the 2010 Royal Television Society awards, plus he’s worked on Growing for life game which won Best Viral Campaign at the Y Design Awards 2006.

Jez joined the growing Tilt team as a Lead Designer during 2011 and has already proved himself as an invaluable member of the team.

Stig Coldham (Lead Animator) Stig has worked in animation for over five years at all stages of motion graphics production from concept and branding, to animating, editing and grading. He has produced work for a large and varying client base including Lotus Renault, Nickelodeon, Pillsner Urquelle, Lenovo and Nikon. Stigs skills range from simple editing and animation to 3d tracking and compositing.

Stig joined Tilt in 2011 and is leading the team in the continually expanding motion department.