Director

Mark Williams-Cook

Mark Williams-Cook smiling at the camera. He is wearing a Dungeons and Dragons t shirt.

With over 20 years experience in search, working with clients such as Expedia, SEMrush and FatFace, Mark heads up the research and strategy at Candour.

He is a keynote speaker at the largest search conferences all over the world, including BrightonSEO, SERPConf, AthenSEO, International Search Summit, Tech SEO Summit Hamburg, Belgrade SEO, SearchDay Denmark, and many more. His research into Google and AI has been featured both mainstream media such as the Wall Street Journal and BBC News, as well as industry publications at Search Engine Land, Hubspot and Ahrefs.

He runs the Core Updates newsletter at Candour, and founded the popular Search with Candour podcast in 2019.

Mark is the founder of SaaS tool AlsoAsked which is used by 100,000+ people at companies including TripAdvisor, Lego, Deloitte, Gymshark, IKEA and Oracle.

Away from screens he is a competitive amateur boxing and technical scuba diving (former PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer).

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Mark Williams-Cook (holding Snoop the dog) and Jack Chambers-Ward standing together, smiling. Jack is wearing an Opeth t-shirt. They are a cool Scandinavian metal band, apparently.