Marcus Williamson


Marcus Williamson is a British writer, journalist and campaigner.
As an obituarist for The Independent he has written obituaries of more than 200 subjects, including artists, poets, actors and inventors.

Campaigns

GM Food

Williamson has been involved in campaigning against genetically modified food from 1999 to the present day and ran a website on the subject from 1999 to 2005.

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.
He advocates contacting company chief executives as a means of resolving customer service issues and of conducting campaigns. The site was featured in the LifeHacker article "CEOEmail.com Helps You Take Your Issue to the Top When Other Avenues Fail".
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.