Meet the Student Digital Champions
by Farahnoosh Berahman
Digital Champions are a group of enthusiastic students who are supporting staff and fellow students with new digital products and services.
Get more information about the Digital Champions’ activities by liking the Facebook page
If you are interested in becoming a Digital Champion please feel free to get in touch and join our Facebook group
And check out our video!
Meet the Digital Champions:
George ‘Gigi’ Georgiev
George Georgiev
George has studied MSc Digital Marketing, BSc Management, and went to a Spanish high school.
He is interested in advertising, art, video games, politics, martial arts, media, history, scuba diving, Football (fanatic fan of Barcelona), Italian cuisine lover (but a terrible chef!)
Twitter: @Good_boy113
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/georgigeorgievmarketing
Ivan Melendez
Ivan Melendez
Ivan is a Japanese speaking Mexican who recently graduated from the MSc in Knowledge and Information Systems Management at the University of Southampton. He has been involved in different projects regarding the use of social media in live events and his passions are reading, music and photography
Twitter: @IvanMelendezCh
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinivanmelendez/en
Amir Arya Arjmand
Amir Arya Arjmand
Amir is a graduate in MSc Web Technology from the University of Southampton. He has done his BSc in Information Technology Engineering. His general research interest is on Web Sciences especially Semantic Web and Social Networks. He loves finding new friends, taking photos in nature, and as a technology geek, he enjoys trying out new Web services.
Amir, among other things, refers to himself as a strategic manager precisely, an e-business planner. He has over nine years of work experience and enjoys being Digital Champion.
Twitter: @amir_arya
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amiraria
Personal Website: http://www.amirarya.com/
Katie Spires
Katie Spires
Katie is a Web Science PhD student, looking into the use of mobile technology to help students with dyslexia access higher education. She has a master’s degree in Web Science and a degree in Education.
Katie is currently helping a University in London with their deployment of iPads. She is particularly interested in teaching and helping both students and academics with digital literacy skills and the use of technology in the Classroom specifically higher education.
Twitter: @katieonthetweet
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/pub/katie-spires/5b/75b/391/
Personal Website: katieontheweb.com
Nader Tibi
Nader Tibi
Nader is currently doing an MSc in Digital Marketing. He has a BSc in Marketing with six years of work experience in Healthcare Marketing. Nader likes to keep up with the latest in marketing, technology, and electronic entertainment industries. He is also a fan and a practitioner of sports, music, and photography.
Twitter: @ntibi04
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/pub/nader-tibi/11/910/597
Evi Sopasi
Evi Sopasi
Evi studies MSc Digital Marketing, and is interested in marketing and social media. For Evi joining the Digital Champions is an opportunity to broaden her horizons, gain new experience, and therefore gain more self-confidence concerning the field of her studies and the digital world in general.
Twitter: @ESopasi
LinkedIn: gr.linkedin.com/pub/evi-sopasi/52/682/231
Nikoletta Toumazatou
Nikoletta
Nikoletta studied BSc in Marketing and Advertising. She is currently studying MSc in Digital Marketing at the University of Southampton. Nikoletta is passionate about new technologies, social media and their potentials.
She is interested in sharing data by using interactive forms of communication, and fascinated by online marketing and this ‘brand new’ approach of businesses to interact and communicate with their customers.
Nikoletta is very excited about travelling around the world and to broaden her horizons by getting along with people, understanding their cultures, attitudes, and habits.
Twitter: @speckidea
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/pub/nikoletta-toumazatou/51/b71/398
Florence Broderick
Florence Broderick
Florence studies French, Spanish and European Studies. The European Studies part has allowed her to take modules in a wide range of disciplines including management and politics. During her year abroad period in Madrid, she was fortunate enough to work with two different start-ups (Ditit and Timpik) in an accelerator programme called Start-up Boot camp. In this time she became particularly interested in social media and email marketing. She is a keen cricketer and an absolute foodie.
Twitter: @FloBroderick
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/flobroderic
Nipawan Charoensuksai
Nipawan Charoensuksai
Nipawan is currently studying MSc Digital Marketing with the background in Marketing and interest in social media. She is fascinated by how peoples’ behaviour changes over time and the impact that it poses to business sector. Nipawan believes that the future of marketing is digital marketing and there will be no boundaries between online and offline aspects, and everything is blending together more and more.
Twitter: @NipawanCh
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/pub/nipawan-charoensuksai/34/1bb/b1b
Farahnoosh Berahman
Farahnoosh Berahman
MSc in Human Resource Management, and the dissertation was about the ways in which the popularity of social networking websites has influenced the recruitment strategy of employers.
She is interested in how technology has improved the ways in which people communicate with each other. She believes that Social Media can enable companies build a two-way relationship with their stakeholders and therefore gain a competitive advantage.
Twitter: @farnooshbr
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/farahnooshberahman
Maraim Elbadri
Maraim Elbadri
Maraim is a fourth year MEng computer Science student. Her major interests are social media, specially its impact on people’s behaviour, open education and politics. She has been involved in many societies and projects in web and social developments. Her passions are reading, learning languages, photography, sustainability and exploring other cultures.
Twitter: @maraimmasoud
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/maraim-masoud/16/384/580
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