Marcus Williamson


Marcus Williamson is a British writer, journalist, and campaigner. As an obituarist, he has written obituaries of more than 400 subjects, including artists, poets, musicians, actors and inventors for The Independent, The Guardian, The Scotsman and Jewish Chronicle.

Campaigns

Phorm

In 2009, the AIM-listed spyware company Phorm created a website Stopphoulplay.com to attack Williamson and fellow campaigner Alexander Hanff. The company accused Williamson of '...waging a "serial letter writing" campaign to Phorm's potential customers and partners in attempt to discredit the company and Mr Ertugrul.' The site was soon taken down and later described as a "PR disaster".

CEOemail.com

He is the editor of the consumer information website CEOemail.com, which provides the email addresses of many company CEOs. The website is free for non-professional users, with a fee for business users for each email address provided.
In 2010, he revealed that the CEO of the Nationwide Building Society had closed down his email address, rather than face emails from upset customers.

Publications