Chris Clarkson

Google+

Role: Marketing Director

After a couple of attempts at Further Education I realised it wasn't for me, I moved onto working for an Instrument Calibration company, which is as interesting as it sounds! In my 20's this let me concentrate on my main passion of playing rugby.

I had a career ending injury in my late 20's and ended up spending a lot of time in front of my computer. Building websites seemed like a better use of my time than playing Championship Manager, so I taught myself how to do just that. After a few months I teamed up with Chris Brown and we spent 6 long months rebuilding holidaywatchdog.com

A few months later we were able to give up our "normal" jobs, working on the website full time. In January 2008 we sold the company that owned HW to Expedia / Tripadvisor.

In my current role at sunshine.co.uk, I'm responsible for marketing the site. As we have a "zero-cost advertising" rule that's kinda fun. My main job is to make sure the site appears in Google search results as high up the page as possible. I also run our affiliate programme and work closely with our PR company to get sunshine.co.uk in the news!