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Ned Wells - Director

Dan O'Hara - SEO Intern

Barrie Giles - Advisor

Ned Wells - Director

I've worked in digital since 2000 when I left PwC to head-up strategy consulting at top-50 web agency Domino Systems (now part of Business & Decision). From 2005 I worked across a number of small businesses owned by an Angel Investor and in 2009 I founded Cicada.

I'm particularly interested in helping organisations of every hue make better sense of the web through good process and clear thinking.

Outside of work I lead a busy social and family life. I play squash to keep fit and go fly-fishing to reflect. I get creative pleasure from cooking and I love anything that involves a wet-suit.

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Dan O'Hara - SEO Intern

I work on a range of SEO tasks to help our clients do better online. And that's helping me to learn a lot about digital marketing. I've just finished my Marketing MSc at Exeter University where the course was pretty broad; I specialised in the relationship between consumption and identity.

When I'm not working or studying, I enjoy playing rugby or reading thrillers and historical fiction. I'm also a bit of a crossword fan!

Barrie Giles - Advisor

I'm responsible for helping Ned achieve his ambitions for the business and I'm MD of Cicada’s longest standing client First Line Support.

First Line has grown by 30% year-on-year and digital marketing has played an important part in our success. Before First Line I ran a number of private and public sector organisations and before that, I was with GEC Group and Mars Electronics.

Outside of work I spend as much time as I can at my house in Brittany, supporting Watford FC and more recently, hanging out with my new grandson.