UffindellWest takes on Digital Director to expand online offer

UffindellWest, an independent brand and communications consultancy, has hired seasoned web expert, Robert Newham, as Digital Director. Robert has the remit to expand and develop UffindellWest’s digital offer, complementing the consultancy’s expertise in brand communications, customer experience and employee engagement. 

“Whether the brief is to create an on-brand online customer experience or an engaging recruitment extranet, we need someone who thinks first and foremost about the user,” says UffindellWest’s Managing Director, Sholto Lindsay-Smith. “Robert has a history of delivering inventive digital solutions backed up by a firm grounding in user experience.”

Robert joins from salterbaxter, and has over 12 years’ experience in web design and development. He has worked in senior roles, both agency and client side, and created websites for a number of high profile clients including RAC and the British Library. After a website consultancy role for a dotcom in New York in 2000 he started his own web design business working with clients such as Orange and Honda, specialising in Rich Media creation and advising on usability and accessibility issues.
 
Robert says, “UffindellWest is a fast growing independent consultancy with a strong product portfolio and an exceptional stable of clients, and I’m very happy to be joining the company at this exciting time.”