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Our vision is to empower customers to deliver great digital experiences and improve results.

We have over 20 years of experience in transforming digital experiences, with a team to define and execute your digital strategy.

Our working closer approach

Closer to your objectives

Closer to your objectives

  • Technology road map
  • Setting KPI’s and targets
  • Ongoing results reviews and recommendations

Closer to your objectives

Closer to you

Closer to you

  • Collaborative workshops to define scope and requirements
  • Specialists in your office
  • Knowledge transfer and coaching

Closer to you

Closer to your systems

Closer to your systems

  • Highly experienced with data capture & systems integration
  • Collaborative development methodologies
  • Shared development systems for infrastructure & version control
  • Solution on boarding and support SLAs

Closer to your systems

Closer to your launch

Closer to your launch

  • Phased project approach to deliver projects sooner
  • Iterative development prioritising features and functionality
  • Designing smaller pilots to demonstrate value and results

Closer to your launch

Careers at Appius

Current vacancies

We are always on the lookout for the best talent to compliment our growing team

Digital Project Manager

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.Net Developer

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Senior Frontend Developer

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Digital Marketing Lead

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Account Director

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Product Manager

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Our size & shape

We are a 50+ employee independent digital agency, with a growing turnover of over 3m last year

We are structured into 3 specialist teams, each led by a highly experienced Head of Competency. The equal balance of Digital Results, Experience & Engagement and Technology enables us to transform every aspect of your digital experience.

Each team member works to an agreed Empowerment Plan, our unique process promoting continuous learning and development. At our size, skill sets are easily duplicated to reduce risk and Heads of Competency can focus on quality across all team work.

Team flow diagram - Digital results Team, Experience and Engagement Team and Technology Team

Our CEO and Digital Transformation Director

Simon Annicchiarico - CEO & Digital Transformation Director

Welcome to Appius

I created Appius as an agency in 1997 with a passion for the digital channel and its potential to get results for organisations, and really transform them. Focus on digital results and genuine digital transformation has been part of our DNA right from the start, when I worked with fellow director Greg Pike in my grandparent's loft.

We now have a turnover of over 3 million and a broad spectrum over services covering everything digital for a UK and global client base. In spite of this, we remain independently owned by a set of owner directors who work 5 days a week in the business with client facing roles. We like to be fully in control of our own destiny, flexible and client focused. In addition to me in my client facing role as Digital Transformation Director, may I introduce to you the full leadership team, below.

Simon Annicchiarico

CEO & Digital Transformation Director

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Working closer to you

I head up the Digital Results Team here at Appius, and my role is focused on helping our customers to get better results. I work with the team of account managers to truly understand our customers business needs and objectives and turn these into digital strategies designed to increase performance. I also lead the business development side of Appius and I’m always excited to talk any aspect of digital, so if you have a challenge or new idea that you would like to get some input on then please get in touch!

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Sarah Woolven

Digital Results Director

Sarah Woolven - Digital Marketing and Account Director

Leadership team

Stuart Lane

Experience & Engagement Director

  • Day-to-day responsibility for UX and Creative output
  • Digital marketing and marketing automation
  • Hands on experience with UX testing
  • Manages Experience Team and company culture

Stuart Lane
Experience & Engagement Director

Greg Pike

Program Director

  • Responsible for company project delivery
  • Project and release management
  • Co-ordinates production and deployments
  • Day-to-day role on key projects and accounts

Greg Pike
Program Director

Alex Campbell

Technical Director

  • Heads up the Development Team
  • Technical architecture and solutions
  • Detailed technical release management
  • Supports new business and technical offerings development
  • Tech partnerships & co-creation

Alex Campbell
Technical Director

Phil Hazelton

Solutions Director

  • Heads up the Solutions Team
  • Business analysis and solutions architecture
  • Quality management and test automation
  • Supports new business and offerings development

Phil Hazelton
Solutions Director

Why Bournemouth?

Fastest growing digital hub

Ahead of London and major cities confirmed by Tech Nation 2015 and 2017. The fastest growing digital economy in the UK in 2015 and no.1 for high growth digital businesses in 2017. In 2017 more than 15000 people were employed in digital, all with free access to the biggest collection of devices in Europe at the Open Device Lab.

Fastest growing digital hub

Digital graduate talent

From Bournemouth University and Arts University, a constant fountain of talent is produced in the area by this long-term innovator in computing and digital courses and highly renowned hotbed of creative talent. Did you know that 32 animators for movies Avatar and Gravity were educated here?

Digital graduate talent

Digital events and networks

MeetDraw, Silicon Beach, Making Waves, Digital Horizon UX Bmth. It all started with MeetDraw which was created to bring together digital people with the greater aim of promoting the industry in the area, and has grown to include some of the leading digital networks, events and conferences in the country.

Digital events and networks

Stable teams, lower costs

Stable teams with lower costs. Who wouldn’t consider living alongside 7 kilometres of golden sand in one of the most fun and diverse tourist towns in the UK? So the most talented digital people stay put once they have arrived, making lower people costs to go with lower office, transport and living costs.

Stable teams, lower costs

A truly fantastic experience

At Blue Chip, we recognise that client interactions are far more important than a hard sell. Developing great relationships comes first: our customers want to be listened to, not just "sold" to. We now have a fantastic new website and digital platform in place, that enables us to update content on the fly, personalise and optimally analyse the performance of all our campaigns

Anthony Green - Blue Chip Sales & Marketing Director