About > The Team

Alistair Adams

Sales & Account Support
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/mediumrare

I’ve jumped into Adam’s shoes, so now I make sure the sales guys and account managers don’t get snowed under.

Loves: Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, banter in the workplace, following England around the world, Ralph Lauren, the ‘aleheads’ and Flumps.

Favourite Quote: “We didn’t underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought.” – Sir Bobby Robson

 

Luke Alexander

Senior Systems Administrator
Luke Alexander
/cornishblue

I pull strings with puppet to try and make our servers run fast, efficient and fat-free…

Loves: Eating & drinking with friends and family, cycling, puppet.

Favourite Tweet: @neilhimself “Clues you’re twittering too much : during an interesting dream, you think “I must twitter this”, and start looking in dream for your phone.” or @AlanCarr “Regretting eating that extra portion of tenderstem broccoli, got awful wind. Nearly blew out my scented candle”

 

Luciano Correa Andrade

General Manager – Brasil
Luciano-Andrade
/hotmustard

Empowering clients with relevant information from social media and  generating insights that help brands and businesses stay in tune with their customers.

Loves: Videogames, puzzles, digital culture.

Favourite tweet: @fractal “Fun fun fun.. in the sun sun sun: “ERROR root Exception while rendering an error message – Adriano Petrich.”

 

Jose Baena

Java Software Developer
Jose Baena
/dollarbill

I do Java development.

Loves: Jiu Jitsu, surf, music, startups and travel.

Favourite Tweet: @mortalezz “I’m gonna get a tattoo that says ‘Helvetica’, written in Arial. When a woman corrects me on it, I will marry her”.

 

Ben Campion

Developer
Ben Campion
/neptune

I’m involved in backend development and providing technical support.

Loves: Cycling, music, functional programming and ice cream.

Favourite Link: www.bikehike.co.uk

 

Luis Capel

Software Developer
Luis Capel
/chocolateorange

I turn coffee beans into wonderful software.

Loves: Fine dining, technology, design, football, gaming and sci-fi.

Favourite Link: http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/

 

Jonathan Chrisp

Software Tester
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/oxidised

Coordinating closely with the development team I help improve the quality of the Brandwatch application.

Loves: Travelling, Fig Rolls, his MacBook Pro and the Mentalist!

Favourite Link: http://www.9to5mac.com

 

Gemma Cooper

Project Coordinator
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/quince

I support client requests for query creation, mark up, data validation and other projects.

Loves:Floristry, playing guitar and mashed potato.

Favourite Link: http://dysonology.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/56-bestworst-similes-used-in-high-school-exams/

 

Charlotte Cumming

Marketing Manager
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/peacockplume

Here to run our marketing efforts and make sure the world knows how brilliant Brandwatch is.

Loves:Sunsets, photography, spa days, fresh sea air and red wine.

Favourite Link: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com

 

Julius Dietz

Lead User Interface Designer
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/disco

… as well as heading up the German office.

Loves: Brighton, Lake Constance and Kässpätzle
Favourite tweet: @caverntweet: @eppy I said we were bigger than WHO? http://bit.ly/6EFlZs

 

Arif Driessen

Project Co-ordinator
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/malachite

I co-ordinate with our freelance analysts to perform any front end changes or deliver requests from clients or colleagues that aren’t handled by our tech team.

Loves:Jazz and Opera, Fitness, Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy. I think it is important to challenge the status quo.

Favourite Tweet: @Little_Esther“Is there a morning after pill for eating six donuts?”

 

Dennis Dryden

Systems Administrator
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/schooljumper

I help keep the magic flowing through the Brandwatch systems.

Loves: Games, music, smell of wet grass
Favourite tweet: @(Shaquille O’Neal) “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind”.

 

Aude Eberlin

Lead Project Manager
Aude Eberlin
/parmaviolet

I try to make my team’s life as easy as possible and make sure that we deliver good quality queries, dashboards, information and solutions to our clients for their projects!

Loves: Sport in general, to travel, food!, my family and friends
Favourite Tweet: @badbanana “Personally, I’m glad the saber tooth tiger is extinct. I’ve got enough staff to worry about this week”

 

Adam Edwards

Sales Executive
Adam Edwards
/casino

I’m the new guy in the sales team.

Loves: Anything with the word Football. Anything shiny and gadgety. Coming last in pub quizzes.

Favourite Link: For those obvious times: www.lmgtfy.com

 

Hannah Emanuel

PR/Community Manager
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/lipstick

I take care of Brandwatch’s social media and media relations.

Loves: Sebastian Teller, The Inbetweeners and Fanta in a waxy cup.
Favourite tweet: “If the pope really was God’s representative on earth you’d think he’d have a car that didn’t look like the result of a Top Gear challenge.” @TheDollSays

 

Nadia Eslami

Sales and Account Management
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/rosycheek

There’s nothing better than taking a client problem and offering a solution that helps them move their business forward.

Nadia Loves: Ron my dreamy cat, scuba diving, Badminton and travelling the world, preferably bare foot.
Favourite Tweet: @ceoMarkZuck “It’s not official until it’s Facebook Official.”

 

Katja Garrood

Design Director
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/favouriteduvet

Mostly I’m concerned with making sure our back end has a meaningful, usable and good looking front end!

Loves: My bambina Rosa, hot tea, a twinkle in the eye and -that fabulous feeling of happiness, when it penetrates your soul unexpectedly.
Favourite tweet: I’m with Matt. I like the blackbird.

 

Hannah Godfrey

Sales & Account Manager
Hannah Godfrey
/lullaby

I am the Spanish and Portuguese speaking member of the Sales Team.

Loves: Latin America, Wakeboarding and Sherbet Dib Dabs.
Favourite Tweet: StewieGriffin @briangriffin Hi Brian, have you got any Cool wHip?

 

Jessica Gould

Account Director
Jessica Gould
/luna

To work with the team and our clients to show them the possibilities of our technology and how it can affect their businesses, their markets, their consumers and communities.

Loves: My family, skiing, our camper van, camping (not as much) and gardening – when it grows.

Favourite Tweet: The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

 

Gareth Ham

Report Writer
Gareth-Ham
/wetsand

I create insightful reports with lovely data.

Loves: Test cricket, single malt, Hitchcock and the former Yugoslavia.

Favourite Link: http://www.frombaghdadtobrooklyn.com

 

Ronnie Hazel

1st Line Support Analyst
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/wasabi

I am the first port of call for customer support. I try to ease the workload of the developers so they can focus on making Brandwatch better.

Loves:Friends & family, music, playing guitar, kickboxing, digital art, reading & stand-up comedy.

Favourite Link: http://procatinator.com/

 

Sebastian Hempstead

VP North America
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/tangerinedream

I get to lead a great team of people that are helping grow ours and our clients’ businesses.

Loves: Challenges, my motorbike and travel.
Favourite tweet: “There is little success where there is little laughter.” – Andrew Carnegie @tinybuddha

 

Steve Hunt

Systems Manager
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/beaujolais

I am responsible for system infrastructure, non-Brandwatch tech support and keeping Brandwatch running through the long dark nights.

Loves: My family, moving slowly/getting hit over the head repeatedly, funky ways of seeing things, bad puns.
Favourite Tweet: Anything with chocolate (Montezuma’s buttons are the current favourite).

 

Sebastian Lazar

User Interface Developer
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/pirategold

I specify, design, implement and test the interface related parts of brandwatch.

Loves: Basketball, biking, sitcoms and pizza
Favourite Tweet @BorowitzReport: “If cavemen had free wifi we would still not have fire.”

 

Andy Lemin

Network Administrator
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/brandybutter

I make sure that all the network packets get to the right places really fast and don’t just end up all over the floor.

Loves:Music, Rock Climbing, Walking, and of course my friends and family.

Favourite Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z31ldK2_XQ

 

Vicky Luke

Account Manager
Vicky Luke
/swimmingpool

I’m a people person focused on transforming our technical jargon and social media wizardry into manageable bite sized chunks of advice that help our clients make the most of their brand.

Loves: My horse (Moe), travelling the world , the feeling of success and chocolate peanuts (I refuse to share them).

Favourite Tweet: Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you’re up to.

 

Lee McGeever

Test Manager
Lee Mcgeever
/mulberrypie

Here to ensure that the application is as free from defects and bugs as possible, (sorry if I occasionally miss some – will try harder!)

Loves: Gina, Mitch, Erin, NZ Wine, Curry, Running, Cycling and Playing the Drums (badly).
Favourite tweet: simonpegg http://i.imgur.com/ETYYF.jpg via my buddy @camposova

 

Steve Mason

JavaScript Developer
Steve Mason
/butternut

I work on the front-end team, making what you see and interact with better.

Loves: All things Dev, Music, Getting out of the house
Favourite Link: http://soundcloud.com/

 

Jon Miles

User Interface Developer
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/seamist

I work on the bits of Brandwatch users interact with.

Loves: This American Life, Fudge, Salsa.
Favourite tweet: @badbanana “People who live in ivory towers must really hate elephants”.

 

Christian Morris

Creative Artworker
Chris Morris
/dryerfluff

I’m responsible for the progression of concepts, design and artwork across the range of Brandwatch marketing collateral.

Loves: Gardening, Theatre, Photography, Morris Minors, Ferrets & Doctor Who

Favourite Link: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

 

Dan Neame

JavaScript Engineer
Dan Neame
/creamoftomato

I build the front end of the website; the part that everyone gets to play with.

Loves: Games, music, animals
Favourite Tweet: I just like watching Kanye and Bieber’s relationship blossom: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/kanye-west-justin-bieber-bffs

 

Caroline O’Donoghue

Account Manager
Caroline O'Donoghue
/lilacwine

I help clients use Brandwatch and get the most out of it.

Loves: Catching up with friends, pottering about my lovely little flat, hot drinks on cold days
Favourite link: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com

 

(Dr) Tim Owen

Software Developer
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/austinallegro

I look after the code that crawls the web, analyses the pages and stores them away.

Loves: Bud Powell, Breaking Bad, Kauai
Favourite tweet: @notstevenwright  “I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast at any time”. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance”.

 

Giles Palmer

CEO
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/purplerain

My job is to find the best people, put them in the right seat, give them really interesting and challenging work to do and make sure we don’t run out of money before we create amazing products.

Loves: people (especially my family and friends), simple pleasures like beautiful music, swimming in the sea and staring at the stars, building things – software, sandcastles and maybe one day a school.
Favourite tweet: @oosocial “I like Jesus but he loves me …. so it’s awkward”

 

Vincent Petry

User Interface Developer
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/groundnutmeg

Design and implement nice UI features, fix nasty bugs, write beautiful code.

Loves: Cool tech, Open Source Software and electronic music

Favourite Tweet: You can’t motivate others to do things. The best you can hope for is to inspire them with your actions.

 

(Dr) Fabrice Retkowsky

CTO
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/sunshine

I look after all the tech stuff.

Loves: Songul, Stephane and blaming the english and religion
Favourite tweet: @bengoldacre “Lego printer: this is truly heroic http://dlvr.it/1RCZj

 

Simon Riley

Developer
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/bluemoon

I perform backend java development.
Loves: Music, good food, long walks on the beach, Steven Seagal.
Favourite link: http://www.stevenseagal.com/merchandise.html

 

Matt Roberts

Analyst Programmer
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/posh

I take new feature requests, turn them into detailed requirements, then design and implement the business logic; that’s the invisible stuff that sits behind the beautiful UI. Occasionally I make tea and bad jokes.

Loves: Climbing, surfing and aging Volkswagens
Favourite tweet: Probably the Song Thrush’s though Blackbird’s sound nice too.

 

Alena Ruprecht

Social Media Analyst
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/holidays

I organise classifier mark-up, write reports in German & French and write queries.

Loves: surfing, my friends and above all travelling
Favourite tweet: @randomisms “I don’t call it lying down, I call it landscape mode.”

 

Graham Scott

Javascript Developer
Graham Scott
/crownprince

I work on Brandwatch’s User Interface, helping to build the parts you see and click and to make sure they’re intuitive.

Loves: Music! From folky psychedelic dream pop to post-industrial and back again, via Fever Ray, Crystal Castles and Kate Bush. Kittens and zombies are pretty good too.
Favourite Link: http://xkcd.com/123/

 

James Sewell

Developer
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/matchpoint

I design and implement new features in brandwatch.

Loves: Beer, computer games, tennis!
Favourite Tweet: @shitmydadsays ” Nervous? In 5 billion years the sun will burn out and nothing you did will matter. Feel better?”

 

Dominick Soar

Website Manager
Dominick Soar
/rustybike

I aim to make our website easy to find and interesting to visit. You’ve found it, and you must be interested by now.

Loves: Creative technology, unqualified theorising, and a band called Let’s Wrestle.
Favourite tweet: “Phone rings. I pick it up. Strange voice at other end says “Dad?”. Thank god it was a wrong number.” (@jonnymartyr)

 

(Dr) James Stanier

Developer
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/mauvetaupe

I write interesting back-end code.

Loves: Cycling, badminton, computing, moose.

Favourite Link: http://nyan.cat

 

Rob Stanley

Developer
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/pet-rabbit

I do backend java development

Loves: bad movies, red wine, and summer before it gets too hot
Favourite tweet:@gruber “Once we empty Gitmo, can we refill it with the people running these double-underscore mouse-hover web page ads?”

 

Helen Stewart

Trainer
Helen Stewart
/borage

I train clients and new staff on how to use the Brandwatch app.

Loves: Family, friends, fiction, psychology, walking on the beach, tennis
Favourite Tweet: I’m new to Twitter so don’t have a favourite yet!

 

James Taylor

Lead Report Writer
James Taylor
/purpleheart

I turn data into information.

Loves: Cycling, music, poker and beer (not all at once, usually combinations of two or three).

Favourite Link: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/

 

Bryan Tookey

Chief Operations Officer
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/clearsky

I run all the unglamorous parts of the business.

Loves: my wife and family, solvable mysteries, Victorian novels, cricket, the skeptic movement and obituaries (probably in that order)
Favourite link:
http://bit.ly/bP4YCI

 

Georgia Tregear

Sales and Account Management
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/sexyhex

I am an account manager at Brandwatch – I help clients get the most out of the tool. I also make sure the CCO is well behaved in the office!

Loves: My dog Boo, a good book, sunbathing, photography, fashion, Brighton
Favourite Tweet: @AlanCarr “Piers Morgan slagging me off again? zzzz I refuse to be drawn into an argument with someone whose face resembles a butternut squash”

 

Hannah Tregear

Office Manager & PA to Giles & Seb
Hannah Tregear
/kirsch

I am PA to Giles and Seb and also manage our brand new shiny office and make sure it is a happy place to be.

Loves: Being able to see the sea, red wine, cheese and wearing flip flops
Favourite Tweet: @charltonbrooker “I hate iTunes. I hate it. God I hate it. I HATE IT. It’s like wrestling a spreadsheet to the ground on a windy day.”

 

Naomi Trickey

Sales Director for EMEA
Naomi Trickey
/candyfloss

I organise effort to meet our client and business requirements.

Loves: Family, friends, fiction, trail-running, cooking

Favourite Tweet: Firks by @irkafirka!

 

Xavier Valdayron

Head of Sales & Account Management
Xavier-Valdayron
/sloe

I make sure that our German and French clients get the full Brandwatch experience, and detect in real time the insights that will help grow their business.

Loves: Cooking and enjoying humongous dinners; cocktails; music; watching movies and pompously analysing them.

Favourite Link: http://www.zoetrope.com

 

Rob Walsh

Accountant
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/unripe

I look after the finances of the company and produce the management accounts.

Loves: Adidas Originals, Peanut Butter, Travelling
Favourite Tweet: I’m a tweet Virgin, sorry..

 

(Dr) Xinglong Wang

NLP Reseacher and Developer
Xinglong
/trabbiblue

I carry out research on natural language processing and identify promising NLP techniques for Brandwatch applications.

Loves: Languages, AI, Chinese literature, badminton & (very) hot&spicy food

Favourite Link: http://www.qiushibaike.com/

 

Glenn White

Account Manager
Glenn-White
/setplaster

I work as part of the Account Management team and help our clients get the most out of Brandwatch.

Loves: Football, The Wire, Shepherds pie and shiny new gadgets

Favourite Link: How to steal like an artist and 9 other things nobody told me

 

Luke Whiting

Develeoper
Luke Whiting
/showtime

I do customer support and work on behind the scenes stuff to make Brandwatch faster, smarter and generally better at finding out what people are talking about on the web.

Loves: Good food, good comedy, good films and good times!

Favourite Quote: Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch – Tim Berners-Lee

 

Joel Windels

Community Manager
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/hotstove

These communities aren’t going to manage themselves, so I kindly step in.

Loves: Putting things on dogs.

Favourite Tweet: @amateuradam “Before Twitter was invented, I used to text this sh*t to complete strangers”

 

(Dr) Taras Zagibalov

NLP Researcher and Developer
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/fog

I do research in sentiment analysis.

Loves: Computers, travelling, Chinese food
Favourite tweet: Never use twitter

 

Ester Federica Zanetti

Project Manager
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/pistachio

I write reports, edit queries, allocate mark up and take care of people’s questions in three languages.

Loves: Classical literature, travel, Art
Favourite Tweet: @calipetos “Common sense is not so common. Voltaire”

 

Boo

CCO (Chief Canine Officer)
boo
/grandma

General sniffing and sleeping around the office, barking at the post man.

Loves: Cuddles, treats, walks, pretending to be a human.

Favourite Link: Dogs Make Employees More Productive At Work

 

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/naked

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