Catherine Parker

Catherine is a writer and digital marketer. With a background in search marketing, she worked at agencies in Cape Town, London and San Francisco before returning to South Africa to start an SEO consulting business. She co-founded content agency Black Mountain in 2012, working with brands across finance, insurance, healthcare, travel, retail and more.

She’s the author of 301 Ways to Use Social Media To Boost Your Marketing (McGraw Hill, 2010), and has written for publications including The Sunday Times, Entrepreneur magazine, Women24 and Men’s Health. She’s written two client SEO courses, and has been a course convenor and writer for digital education company GetSmarter. She has a Business Science degree (Honours in Information Systems) from the University of Cape Town. In her spare time she loves fiction writing, exploring small South African towns and road running.