Summary
Marcus Cooke is a technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience shaping user-centric digital products and e-commerce optimisation across agencies and in-house teams. He founded and scaled an agency to £800k annual turnover, leading a 15-person multidisciplinary team that partnered with Adobe, Optimizely and Dot Digital while delivering work for ASOS, LEGOLAND and The Post Office. At HR GO Recruitment he now combines strategic product direction with hands-on delivery, focusing on data-driven UX and biometrics to lift conversion and customer loyalty. Marcus is a sought-after keynote speaker who translates experimental testing and product optimisation research into practical commercial outcomes. His background spans hands-on engineering roles to executive leadership, giving him fluency from code to boardroom. He’s known for blending creative UX design with rigorous measurement—a practice that repeatedly wins industry recognition and media coverage.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Network Technology Programming, BSc (Hons) Computer Network Technology Programming at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English, c#, php, sql, javascript