Ken Ozdemir
Ken graduated from Macquarie University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Commerce, Marketing and Media.
Having always had a keen interest in the marketing and growth of law firms, Ken started full-time employment straight out of school with Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, and remained there from July 2017 until June 2021. At that point, Dominic poached him, and legend has it that his colleagues at MBL actually cried (that is not defamatory, and we remind MBL that we do have class action experience).
Ken joined the Green & Associates Solicitors team in mid-2021 on a full-time basis, to help with some major planned overhauls and upgrades. They include the total restructure and redesign of our website, including switching us to “big-kid” code (although we are still suspicious that was a scam as we don’t know what it means). He is also responsible for a lot of the look, feel and artwork in our blog and social media posts, although Dominic still claims copyright over the dad jokes and pun titles in the articles.
Eventually, Ken’s jobs were almost done, and he loved his job so much that he had to go and spread his wings in order to specialise in digital marketing and content. The first thing he did was go to a specialist digital marketing agency and, within only a year, help them win Agency of the Year and ten other global industry awards. He has since co-founded his own agency, morphed into a solo agency, taken secondment positions elsewhere, and become a specialist in digital marketing, social media, website development, search engine optimisation, and paid advertising; still focussing on law firms. Working for himself, he has the freedom to consume as many protein shakes as he likes, consistently deadlift throughout the day, and measures his trapezius muscles during work hours with nobody looking.
During Ken’s absence, we made a few wrong moves with external agencies, which ultimately lead to the famous ransom of our website in 2024. Unsurprisingly, Dominic refused to negotiate with the terrorists, and so he and Ken became self-taught experts in domain name registrations and transfers to begin with. They eventually took the matter to the verge of a final hearing, which Dominic was happy to run because he was sailing into unchartered waters and hopefully going to set a new precedent for intangible property / intellectual property (websites, domain names, hosting accounts and back-ups) in the context of equitable liens vs detinue, the Australian Consumer Law, and criminal law (classic selfish Dominic). While Ken was annoyed half the time for the effort required of him, he was scared senseless the other half, because he added expert witness to his resume, but Dominic luckily kept him out of the witness box, procuring a surrender from the other side at the eleventh hour.
While he was always a team member, Ken is now back under the fold, and working part-time on marketing, communications, and e-commerce billing solutions. He is a highly valued and recommended, honest, digital marketing specialist, and available for private work, as long as it does not conflict with our requirements or the gym.