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Meet the team

TONY KENT

Managing Director

Tony Kent has over 20 years experience in marketing, starting with Unilever UK and working for major multinationals in Asia, USA and Australia up to Asia Pacific Director level in Ansell. A regular speaker on internet marketing issues, Tony is known for his command of research on how consumers interact with financial services online and his practical expertise.

SHARON NELSON

General Manager

Sharon Nelson is a seasoned online professional with over 20 years of experience working with major organisations such as realestate.com.au, Pacific Magazine and Printing group, Australia Post and Isis Communications. Her career has focussed on delivering strong outcomes and success for clients using direct mail, e-commerce and online marketing strategies. Sharon can help ensure a total end-to-end solution is a key consideration to grow your business, online.

CATHY HOWLEY

Creative Head

Cathy has extensive experience in international advertising and direct marketing agencies in Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indo China. These include Wunderman, Young and Rubicam, DDB, Euro RSCG and George Patterson Bates. Cathy has worked across all business categories, with a strong emphasis on finance, for HSBC, American Express, ANZ and the Air Miles loyalty programme. Her awards include the prestigious Gold Caples for best business-to-business campaign and Silver Echoes for effectiveness.

BRAD SMITH

Technical Manager

Brad brings his programming and technical expertise to Spark Green, enabling us to explore new and inventive ideas. He has experience in developing web sites, dynamic content managers as well as application development. His skills include developing in PHP, Java, ASP, C, C#, MySQL and many others. If there's a way to do it, Brad will work it out.

WILL ONG

Technical Developer

Will joined us from Fairfax Digital, where he was actively involved in the development of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald websites, and a number of other high-profile sites under the Fairfax Digital brand. He graduated from RMIT University in Melbourne and has over five years of commercial experience in Java and PHP web application development. Will has strong expertise in designing software solutions using various Content Management Systems, with a focus on software re-use and maintainability. His experience includes Object Oriented programming, design patterns and industry best practices. Will is fully conversant with all three of the popular databases in use today - Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

LAURA SUMMERS

Creative Designer

Laura brings a fresh eye and a great deal of enthusiasm to the sphere of interactive design. Her experience bridges a myriad of design applications, including software interfaces, flash banners, websites and microsites, EDM campaigns and more. As well as design and creative problem-solving, her core skill-set encompasses front-end development, using languages such as XHTML, CSS, Action script, plus Javascript and PHP. She holds a Master Degree in Multimedia from Monash University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in New York State.

THOMAS PUTT

Web Designer

Tom compliments us with his strong sense of design, concept development and coding skills. His academic background includes a diploma in graphic arts and an advanced diploma in graphic design. He joined Spark Green from high-profile agency Tribal DDB, where he worked on blue-chip clients such as ANZ, Telstra, Yellow Pages and Coles. Some of his talents include graphic design, illustration, logo development, HTML, CSS, Javascript, ActionScript and developing quality user-centered projects.

GRACE CANAZZA

Research Specialist

Grace's background in corporate librarianship brings extensive indepth research experience and a structured approach to the demanding area of Search Engine Research for financial services.