Council Experts

Specialists, not generalists.

Every Council member represents a specific discipline and is selected for depth of experience in that field. You should be able to see exactly who audited your business and why they were qualified to do it.

Selection

What qualifies someone for the Council

Demonstrated Expertise

Deep professional experience within a defined specialist discipline.

Published Thinking

Research, writing, frameworks, case studies or other contributions that demonstrate original expertise.

External Recognition

Evidence that the specialist's work is recognised, referenced, cited or relied upon within their field.

Independent Judgment

The ability to produce evidence-based conclusions without being influenced by another Council member's recommendations.

Executive Communication

The ability to explain complex findings in terms leadership can understand and act upon.

HM

Dr. Helena Marchetti

Principal, Search Architecture, Marchetti Research

Technical SEO
AnalyticsOrganic Search

Twenty-one years auditing enterprise search infrastructure for global retail and SaaS organisations, with a focus on rendering economics and crawl budget at scale.

Council Director, Technical Standards
TR

Tobias Rees

Founder, Generative Retrieval Lab, GRL

AI Search
GEO / AEOContent Authority

Studies how generative systems select, retrieve and attribute sources, with an emphasis on measurable prompt-level brand representation.

Council Member
AO

Amara Osei

Entity Strategist, Osei Knowledge Partners

Entity Optimization
Digital PRCompetitive Intelligence

Works on organisation, executive and product entity reconciliation across knowledge graphs and open data sources.

Council Member
JL

Jonas Lindqvist

Head of Editorial Strategy, Lindqvist & Co.

Content Authority
Organic SearchGEO / AEO

Focused on information gain, topical depth and the commercial content structures that survive generative summarisation.

Council Member
PR

Priya Raghunathan

Director of Digital Authority, Raghunathan Advisory

Digital PR
ReputationSocial Discovery

Designs earned-authority programmes targeting the specific publications that search and AI systems retrieve most often.

Council Member
DW

Daniel Whitfield

Community Discovery Lead, Whitfield Signals

Community Discovery
Social DiscoveryReputation

Analyses how community platforms shape category perception and how disproportionately generative systems cite them.

Council Member

Council membership

The Council works with recognised specialists.

Members contribute independent analysis to selected corporate engagements and may participate in executive presentations, research, standards development and specialist working groups.