Giles Palmer – Founder & CEO
Giles is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch. He has taken the company from an initial project to build a local search engine for the UK government to a global Social Media Monitoring business. Work started on Brandwatch in November 2004, and really accelerated when the Company raised external capital to develop the system in May 2006.
Giles is responsible for the direction of the company and the commercial team, as well as managing financing and investor relations.
Fabrice Retkowsky – CTO
Fabrice has an Engineering Degree from Ecole Nationale Supèrieure de Télécommunications de Bretagne, and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Sussex University.
He joined Brandwatch in 2000 and was appointed CTO in 2005. He is the software architect behind Brandwatch and manages all aspects of product development.
Bryan Tookey – COO
Bryan has recently joined Brandwatch from Ask Jeeves, where he was their European Operations Director. Before that he held managerial roles at Google and McKinsey, the management consultancy. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Berkan Eskikaya – Head of Research
Berkan has a BSc in Computer and Control Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and has a PhD in Machine Learning from Sussex University. He has papers published on Evolutionary Computation and The Reconstruction Principle of Inductive Reasoning.
He joined Brandwatch in 2005 and heads up the Artificial Intelligence and Research team. He built the Sentiment Analysis and Topic identification frameworks used by Brandwatch.
Mark Heeley – Non-Exec Chairman
A graduate of Durham University, Mark was the founder in 1990 of London advertising agency Claydon Heeley, which was built from scratch to become a significant player in brand advertising. It was subsequently sold to Omnicom in 2001.
Mark was founder in 2000 and Non-Executive Director of Improveline.com, a baby of the dotcom era and heavily subscribed by 1st mover venture capital fever. The model was adapted to clicks and mortar and with the development of an online insurance facilitation model, soon became profitable. Key VCs were Advent and Alta Berkeley. It was sold to its biggest competitor Homeserve plc in December 2005.
Non-executive Director since 2001 of Hometrack, Europe’s most respected AVM (automatic valuation model) property business (www.hometrack.co.uk), Mark joined the Brandwatch board in early 2007.
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Giles Palmer – Founder & CEO
Giles is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch. He has taken the company from an initial project to build a local search engine for the UK government to a global Social Media Monitoring business. Work started on Brandwatch in November 2004, and really accelerated when the Company raised external capital to develop the system in May 2006.
Giles is responsible for the direction of the company and the commercial team, as well as managing financing and investor relations.
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Fabrice Retkowsky – CTO
Fabrice has an Engineering Degree from Ecole Nationale Supèrieure de Télécommunications de Bretagne, and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Sussex University.
He joined Brandwatch in 2000 and was appointed CTO in 2005. He is the software architect behind Brandwatch and manages all aspects of product development.
LinkedIn
twitter.com/fabrice31416
Bryan Tookey – COO
Bryan has recently joined Brandwatch from Ask Jeeves, where he was their European Operations Director. Before that he held managerial roles at Google and McKinsey, the management consultancy. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
LinkedIn
twitter.com/bryantookey
Berkan Eskikaya – Head of Research
Berkan has a BSc in Computer and Control Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and has a PhD in Machine Learning from Sussex University. He has papers published on Evolutionary Computation and The Reconstruction Principle of Inductive Reasoning.
He joined Brandwatch in 2005 and heads up the Artificial Intelligence and Research team. He built the Sentiment Analysis and Topic identification frameworks used by Brandwatch.
Mark Heeley – Non-Exec Chairman
A graduate of Durham University, Mark was the founder in 1990 of London advertising agency Claydon Heeley, which was built from scratch to become a significant player in brand advertising. It was subsequently sold to Omnicom in 2001.
Mark was founder in 2000 and Non-Executive Director of Improveline.com, a baby of the dotcom era and heavily subscribed by 1st mover venture capital fever. The model was adapted to clicks and mortar and with the development of an online insurance facilitation model, soon became profitable. Key VCs were Advent and Alta Berkeley. It was sold to its biggest competitor Homeserve plc in December 2005.
Non-executive Director since 2001 of Hometrack, Europe’s most respected AVM (automatic valuation model) property business (www.hometrack.co.uk), Mark joined the Brandwatch board in early 2007.