Shopping BasketRichard Prout – Managing Director
Richard has a degree in Computing from Manchester (UK) and a long history of founding and executing successful entrepreneurial ventures. In his mid twenties, Richard had become a director of Kinesis Computing, which was sold to Price Waterhouse Coopers for $25m, and by the age of 30 he had founded another company, the precursor to today's social networks, which sold within four years from startup for $150m. More about Richard Prout ...
Dan Khan – Technical Director
Dan’s passion for writing software began in the early 80s creating text-based adventures and sprite-based games for his friends. This naturally influenced Dan’s education through the University of Sheffield culminating in a first class Master's Degree in Software Engineering; The Mappin Medal for Best Software Engineering Graduate; The Hollowbrook prize for Best Software Engineering Thesis; and a nomination for Graduate of the Year at the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering. More about Dan Khan ...
Alice Herald – Product Manager
Alice's career started at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London, UK, with a BA Honours Degree in Jewellery Design. One of the great places in the world to study jewellery, her education provided fantastic opportunities to collaborate with top designers and prestigious companies such as Goldsmiths, De Beers and Cartier. More about Alice Herald ...
Dianne Khan – Customer Services Manager
Dianne has always had a passion for providing good service. Whether helping the world's youth hostellers find the nearest watering hole or providing multinational companies with top notch property services, she has always aimed to give her best. Dianne has a BA Honours Degree in American Studies from Sheffield University and a Postgraduate Degree in Teaching English from Oxford Brookes. More about Dianne Khan ...
Robb Armstrong – Software Engineer
With over ten years’ experience in Web design and development including PhotoShop web graphic design, e-learning, e-commerce, content management systems, and programming in PHP, ASP and JavaScript, Robb is an absolute asset to the IT department. Robb has a Masters in Applied Linguistics from Melbourne's Monash University and a Degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. More about Robb Armstrong ...
Jenny Prout – Accounts Manager
Jenny’s working life began as a direct extension of her student life, with a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Oxford, UK, following on from a BA Honours degree and a PhD both from the Department of Zoology in Oxford. Her research topic was how the degree of relatedness in animals affects their choice of mates. More about Jenny Prout ...
Kinika Taise-Amadi - Software Engineer
In the early 90s, Kinika's parents in Nigeria sent him to a school teaching a new technology - computing. There, he studied hard, and the resulting certificate showed excellent grades. Kinika later earned a first class Honours degree in Electronic, Communications and Computer Engineering from the University of Bradford, UK. He then decided to focus on computing and gained a Doctorate degree in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), now University of Manchester, UK. His thesis was concerned with the automated verification of possibly concurrent systems designed in the object-oriented language UML using formal methods (CSP). More about Kinika Taise-Amadi ...
