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73a Hulme Hall Road,
Cheadle Hulme, Stockport,
Greater Manchester,
SK8 6JZ
Meet the team
Creative Agency
Outshining your competition
Designers, developers, brand strategists, animators and more. We believe you should always have access to the person doing the work, not a middle-man. So, get to know the faces of the creatives that work on your projects.
Meet the team
Dave O’Hearns
Managing Director
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Karen Harwood
Operations Director
Oli Furze
Design Director
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Craig Farrall
Digital Director
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Will Tarpey
Digital Design Lead
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Wayne Peacock
Senior Developer
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Amy Gleave
Marketing Manager
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Henry Crompton
Designer
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Alice Milner
Designer
LinkedInDave O’Hearns
Managing Director
Dave is our founder and managing director, and has worked within the creative industry for 25 years.
Starting as a graphic designer following his graduation from Newcastle University, Dave went on to start up his first creative agency in 2006. Following multiple successes with the likes of Bentley Motors, Adidas and Swiis Foster Care, he founded Dawn in 2014.
Aside from running the agency, Dave does a lot of actual running too.
Karen Harwood
Operations Director
Karen, the Operations Director at Dawn, is the ultimate multitasker. She’s all about paying invoices on time and keeping projects on track. She’s a force to be reckoned with when it comes to managing the team’s workflow and the overall capacity of the studio.
But, that’s not all – Karen is also the hero behind all our work socials and horizon days. And if you catch her running around the office, it’s probably because she’s training for her next 10k race – she’s another one of our resident runners.
Oli Furze
Design Director
Oli, our design director, leads the design team.
He has been at Dawn since… the Dawn, really. Specialising in branding projects, Oli will ensure your web design is aligned with your overall brand, and if it’s not, he’ll take you on a journey to make sure it is.
Oli believes web design should be simple. Over-complication won’t convert your customers. After all, people leave a poorly designed website within a few seconds.
Craig Farrall
Digital Director
Craig is our digital director, heading up the web team.
Craig specialises in Bespoke WordPress builds – this could be anything from a small brochure website, to an eCommerce website, to a custom plugin development. He crafts pixel perfect websites that are compliant, easily readable for other developers to work on and providing clients the full edit-ability that they require.
His favourite kind of web project to work on is something that contains a very technical bit of functionality such as a calculator or a quoting system. He says “I really enjoy having to problem solve a development issue to try and reach a solution”.
Will Tarpey
Digital Design Lead
Will is our Digital Design lead, and focusses on all things web design.
A couple of his greatest achievements in his career so far have been designing the logo for the sponsor of Bradford City FC, and seeing it on FIFA. He also designed the BBC knockout tournament tables for the Qatar World Cup in 2022, which was used by over 5 million people in a month.
He’s been designing websites for years, and is also a self-taught animator. In his spare time, Will loves hiking, travelling and drone photography. He can also solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 60 seconds!
Wayne Peacock
Senior Developer
Wayne has been a web developer at Dawn since 2017, having worked in a variety of sectors across B2B and B2C.
Before Dawn, he led a web team for one of the UK’s largest software providers within the travel industry.
Over the past 25 years, Wayne has been empowered to make a difference, creating successful responsive websites that are fast, easy-to-use, and built with best practice using modern front end development. Whether it’s a custom built website in WordPress or bespoke, the attention to detail is always at the forefront.
Amy Gleave
Marketing Manager
Amy is our Digital Marketing Manager.
Her day to day includes writing blogs for Dawn, developing and activating our marketing strategy, including planning social media, content, and PR activity.
Amy loves travelling, having lived in Australia for two years, and reading. Currently on her TBR list is Moby Dick, Meditations, and In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat.
Henry Crompton
Designer
This is Henry, one of our designers specialising in motion graphics.
Motion and animation is an important part of web design that many don’t consider. It gives a website that edge that puts you ahead of the next competitor. When nearly every brand touchpoint is through a screen of some kind, it makes sense to take advantage of the digital experience, and make it move.
Henry has created animations for Apadmi, Zen Internet, DMFA and more, helping our clients showcase what they do through the power of motion.
Outside of the 9-5, Henry loves cooking, hanging out with his niece, and travelling the world.
Alice Milner
Designer
Alice is one of our designers here at Dawn. She joined the team in 2022, previously having worked for Pretty Little Thing and The Hut Group.
When asked what she liked most about her role here, she said: “Being creative daily and my work being something I genuinely enjoy doing, it’s exciting seeing ideas come to life and being surrounded by creatives that love doing the same. Dawn is also very different to places I have previously worked so I am always learning new things so it is exciting to see what is next!”
