Meet Team Elemental

Denise Dillon has over 16 years experience working within the community and voluntary sector. After graduating in 2001 with a Bsc Hons Business Information Systems she started working in community development, mental health, training and project management working with some of the most marginalised communities in Northern Ireland. Her career to date has seen her work with Old Library Trust Healthy Living Centre (Creggan, Derry), Cancer Research NI, Hands That Talk (Deaf Community) and AWARE.

Serena is an experienced Marketer who has been helping to grow companies in the tech industry for over 10 years. She is a self confessed growth-hacker who specialises in inbound marketing, digital marketing strategy, user experience, conversion optimisation and marketing processes. Serena is a University of Ulster graduate who also lectures with the North West School of Marketing. As Head of Marketing, Serena will spearhead plans to introduce social prescribing to more Housing Associations and NHS organisations throughout the UK.

Currently Head of Public Relations and Public Affairs for a government agency based in Cheshire, Sarah has over 15 years’ experience in strategic communications, public relations and marketing across the public and private sector. Her work includes devising and delivering creative communications strategies and campaigns that create strong brand stories to engage with audiences.

Mark has over 20 years of experience creating scalable, database-centric web applications for both public and private sector clients. Has worked extensively in the field of both Digital Asset Management and health improvement solutions. Mark was a co-founder of Aetopia, a successful digital asset management company, which he successfully exited in 2015. He specialises in full stack development, with core skills include Java, Python, Content and Asset Management, Elasticsearch, WebObjects (Wonder), AWS and Linux.

Clare is an honours graduate in Business and Computing from Ulster University. She has over 4 years experience working within the community and voluntary sector and has held a number of roles in health improvement aiming to reduce health inequalities and improve the health and well-being of the community. Most recently Clare was the Social Prescribing Manager at the Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum, a Healthy Living Centre in Derry City, Northern Ireland.

Liam has over 8 years experience in the field of Admin and Finance, cutting his teeth firstly in the community and voluntary sector where he spent 4 years working in the heart of the community, after this he spent time in the corporate world with Xerox then Fujitsu.

Paul has over 6 years medical technology experience.  This has included a combination of training, implementation and service design. Paul has seen first hand the benefits social activities can have on a persons wellbeing and is passionate about helping communities.

Sonia graduated in Business Information systems starting her career in Quality Systems Management for a Global Aerospace company. The past 17 years, she has managed various systems development and implementation projects.

Sonia has first hand experience working in the community as a Link Worker, therefore, understands the positive impact social prescribing can have on improving peoples health and wellbeing.

Thomas is an economics graduate, with a Masters in professional software development. He has a number of years experience in customer-facing and administrative roles, as well as six years as a senior quality assurance auditor for a global health insurance provider. More recently, he has worked as a consultant implementing cloud-based HR software.

Paul O’Donoghue has over 16 years experience as a software developer across many industries such as telecoms, finance, media, advertising, search and semiconductors. After graduating with a degree in Software Engineering in 2001, Paul has focused on delivering efficient solutions that allow users to focus on their work; such as clean, well-documented APIs or touch/voice/audio based user interfaces. Paul writes code across the full software stack, specialising in java platform solutions which leverage the latest technologies.

Phil is a Public Health, Community Engagement and Young People Portfolio Holder – with a focus on working in disadvantaged communities. He influences policy and practice, and currently sits on the National Child Measurement Programme Board, and The Guys and St Thomas Charity’s Childhood Obesity Programme Board. Phil leads innovation, strategic problem solving, and product and programme design.

Levi’s role involves marketing and promoting the benefits of Elemental and digital social prescribing as a solution for organisations in health, housing, local government, VCSE and the prison sector. Levi has over 10 years experience working with community groups and organistions in the VCSE sector and is an avid cricket fan.