Meet Your Specialists, Experts and Creatives

Happy Team, Happy Clients

The Solve team’s happiness levels are super important. If they are happy, they work well and you get better results. And we like working with happy clients too. We conduct regular in-house surveys to ask our team if they are satisfied, engaged and if they have any suggestions. Here is the team feedback here.

Now, let’s introduce them…

Lawrence Harmer
Founder, Director, SEO & Web Design Expert

The Solve story began with Lawrence (or Lol as he’s more fondly known). He’s our founder, director and the original SEO-loving, web design geek. With over 20 years’ experience in the business, he’s made a name for himself in the industry by always putting his clients first and gauging his success by their happiness. Not afraid to get stuck in, Lawrence personally applies his wealth of knowledge and creative expertise to turn the spark of your ideas, into fireworks. With positivity and the greater good at the forefront of his ethos, Lawrence’s ethical approach to business and management consistently delivers exceptional results for all of our clients.

Nadine Harmer
Director

Unstoppable, dedicated and our very own Superwoman! Nadine makes sure this well-oiled machine works as it should. Bringing a diverse range of skills from HR and accounting to personal well-being and development, Nadine is a vital member of the team. She looks after the management of the business and the team too, so you can relax knowing your business is in good hands.

Lucy’s sharp eyes and excellent teamwork skills keep the projects on track and running smoothly. Previously working on an ESF and Big Lottery funded project, Lucy has 3 years experience of project support to bring to Solve, jumping straight in with an eagerness to learn and get involved!

Outside of the office, she escapes to the beach for walks, swims and paddleboarding.

Nicole Berry
Admin & Accounting Coodinator

With almost a decade of finance and accounting experience between both practice and industry, Nicole has found that her detail-orientated skillset is best utilised in supporting the business with day-today bookkeeping, monitoring budgets and assisting clients with billing queries. She also loves to provide support in all other areas of administration and HR, with her passion being ensuring all are happy.

When not in work, Nicole can usually be found with a coffee in hand, walking one of the local beaches with Casper, her dog. 

Sophie Palmer
Account Manager

Sophie has 10 years of sales experience, including 8 years in the media industry, where she has expertly managed a diverse range of key client accounts, from SMEs to multi-million pound contracts, strategising effective media and marketing campaigns, collaborating with businesses and key stakeholders, pitching innovative ideas and industry-leading content, building strong customer relationships and even producing the world’s largest 3D out-of-home campaign with her clients!

Outside of work, Sophie enjoys adrenaline activities and outdoor adventures by the sea, trying new beers, and creating ocean themed art. A fun fact about Sophie is that she represented England in Ballroom & Latin Dancing!

Bringing over three years of experience in crafting, optimising, and scaling with a mix of SEO and Paid Search campaigns that generate leads, boost conversions, and fuel business growth. Anna’s driving force is her commitment to perpetual learning and curiosity to drive progress while possessing a unique blend of technical expertise and creativity.

A prankster extraordinaire by day, after office hours Anna enjoys the fruits of the sea, whether it’s surfing, swimming or gig rowing.

Alice Budd
SEO Specialist

With eight years of digital marketing experience across the full mix, Alice’s holistic approach allows her to build a resilient SEO growth strategy that compliments your other channels. Having worked as SEO Editor for the Evening Standard, Content Marketing Manager for a leading B Corp travel company and at a global media agency, she has a proven track record of developing industry-leading content that delivers results.

When she’s not scheming up her next strategy, you can find Alice out trail running on the cliffs, jumping in the sea or adventuring in the mountains!

Lily Taylor
SEO and Paid Specialist

Armed with a degree in Business and Digital Marketing and a passion for analytics and social media, Lily found her calling in crafting engaging paid media campaigns on platforms such as Meta, Google, and Bing that help deliver tangible & measurable results for clients.

Outside of work, Lily finds solace and joy in baking delicious sweet treats!

Jadine knows a little bit about a lot! She began her writing career freelancing in the health and well-being niche and has self-published multiple poetry books; she enjoys evoking strong emotions through her creations. She believes variety is the spice of life and likes to have a few projects on the go, including studying web design in her free time.

When she is not at work, you will find her walking the coast path, ecstatic dancing or with her furry, ginger friend, Basil.

Claire Fulton Ray
Content Creator / PR

Claire is a published writer, with a BA honours degree in communication and almost a decade of experience in marketing for a multi-million-pound luxury travel company. She’s got some great industry connections and works tirelessly to secure press articles in major publications, as well as content writing for sites and creating thought-provoking, top-ranking pieces for blogs.

With over 20 years of strategic eCommerce & digital marketing experience. Keith has expertise in paid traffic acquisition, CRO, mobile UX, eCommerce sales funnels, conversion-driven landing page design, CRM and email marketing. As a founding member and subsequently served on the board of 2 highly successful eCommerce businesses, the most recent of which sold for $30,000,000. This experince has given Keith a good understanding of all aspects of running a fast-moving eCommerce company and can bring this valuable experience to the forefront when working with clients.

Recently, with mobile-first driving eCommerce growth, Keith specialises in Mobile Web Optimisation and CRM. It’s vital to maximise the potential of mobile website visitors. He is an expert at creating effective mobile-first strategies that set clients apart from their competition and maximise ROI from mobile website visitors.

Mia Cuff
Head of Vision

Mia is a BA-Qualified Graphic Designer whose fascination with the online world began when her first family computer was set up in the late 90s. Now with 9+ years industry experience specialising in digital UX, Mia bridges the gap between the creativity of design and the technicality of web development.

She uses this expertise to ensure our client websites not only look beautiful but are built for high performance and conversions.

Offline, she loves camping during the summer and snowboarding in the winter.

Perry Hughes
Head of Development

Perry’s 10+ years in design and marketing have seen him in agencies in Cardiff, London and now Cornwall. His confident approach to design and development sees him creating wonderfully sleek and engaging websites. An interesting fact about Perry, he currently holds the world record for most poppadoms eaten in a minute!

Marie has 16 years experience working as a designer, with the last 4 years managing and growing design teams. She is passionate about great design output across the team ensuring creative processes are at their best for our clients and the development of our designers.

Alongside her work at Solve, Marie is training to be a counsellor and is a listening ear and champion of wellbeing in the office. Outside of work, Marie can be found at the beach by day, and swing dancing by night!

Vicki Rafferty
Web Developer/Designer

As a web geek through and through, Vicki is always on the lookout for new development technologies and design techniques, and is excited to make beautiful, unique websites to help local businesses thrive.

When she isn’t working away behind the screen, Vicki can be found eating her weight in cheesecake, shaking up a cocktail or two, scuba-diving (not so elegantly) or relaxing with her pet turtle.

Corey Maslen-Riches
Web Developer/UX

Bringing over a decade of web development expertise to the team, Corey uses thought out user journeys to create great digital experiences. Seamlessly blending creativity with technical expertise to deliver modern, optimised, easy to navigate websites.

In his free time, Corey enjoys playing video games with friends and building Gunpla model kits. When the weathers good, you can find him exploring the beautiful Cornish coast and countryside.

Andrew Sleigh
Web Developer

With a 10+ years digital experience over many countries and a  strong belief in sustainable and environmentally-friendly practices, Andrew strives to integrate eco-conscious principles into modern day user-driven dynamic web tech stacks.

Offline Andrew is usually found in and around the sea or on land growing and harvesting veggies.

Sofie Todal
Junior Graphic Designer

Sofie is a newly graduated graphic designer and is excited to learn and grow in her field. She is always looking to stay on top of design trends and loves exploring unique, colourful and fun design concepts. Her ultimate goal is to create designs that inspire and leave a lasting impact.

As a proud video game geek, Sofie loves spending her evenings immersed in the digital world. She also has a keen interest in interior design and will often enthusiastically throw herself into any DIY project, giving it her best go. You can also find her singing her heart out to any song she knows.