Team
Andrew J Scott, Founder/CEO
A serial entrepreneur, Andrew ran a successful web development company serving blue chip clients through the dot com years, which he sold to CMG plc in 2001; there he developed the world’s first online digital video news archive (British Pathe with 4000 hours of video and 13+ million images) and created the UKs first interactive SMS dating application (DinnerDateAuctions). Andrew later founded a ground breaking interactive personal fitness website with Olympian Dave Morgan (InTraining) and pioneered Europe’s first location based social software (playtxt) in 2002. As an authority in the field of mobile and online communities Andrew speaks at industry events and contributes to trade press.
Andrew also sits on the board of UnLtdWorld, an online platform that connects and empowers Social Entrepreneurs.
www.rummble.com/andrew | www.twitter.com/andrewjscott | blog.urbanhorizon.com
Clive Cox, CTO
Clive developed Rummble’s patent pending trust algorithm. Before moving into the social software sector, he worked for Logica space division. He also worked in R&D for Vocalis, where he applied natural language processing techniques to the field of telephony speech recognition. Clive holds a DPhil in Computational Linguistics from Sussex University and an MPhil in Speech and Language Processing from Cambridge University.
John Rand, Operations
John is no stranger to start-up companies; he has worked with telecom and technology start-ups for over 14 years and has over 28 years experience in the telecoms industry. This includes being responsible for the design of the Cambridge Cable Franchise’s TV/telecom network designs, Acorn Set-top-box interactive TV technology and being the principal developer of the first integrated telecom/GIS application. He has been involved with Rummble from the beginning, in the early days from running all things non technical, and is currently responsible for the business operations and administration. He predominantly lives in the South of France, and frequently visits the Rummble London office. He holds an MBA and has published several papers.
Alex Housley
Alex is a passionate hands-on developer of new technology.. he loves getting involved in every part of the technical and entrepreneurial journey to help people and computers communicate and do ‘cool things’, to hopefully make the world a better place! Alex is the co-founder of Total Hotspots, a London-based information and communications company that helps people find wireless hotspots all over the world. With his current work endeavors and combined skill-set, Alex has been a major contributing team member on Rummble’s web and mobile 2.0 strategies including his current work on the Rummble for Windows app to be launched very soon!
www.rummble.com/ahousley | www.twitter.com/ahousley | http://housley.me/
Damir Davletov, Mobile Developer
Damir is a mobile developer and joined Rummble in June to make it truly mobile and available on all handheld devices (except calculators of course!). He has been working as a mobile software engineer for about 5 years and was working on several exciting projects such as mobile video streaming applications, instant messaging, push email, social networking and content sharing applications mostly for Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones. He has been working hard to constantly improve and upgrade the Rummble for iphone app!
Claudio Weeraratne, Web Developer
Claudio was born in Naples and grew up in Bologna, moving to London last year. He received his Bsc and Msc in Computer Science at University of Bologna, and wrote his Master Thesis project on recommender systems and social networks at University College London. He also completed a research internship on the same topic at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo. His past work experience includes 4 years for an IT company in Bologna. Claudio has recently joined Rummble based on his passion for working with new technologies in a challenging and dynamic environment, and in particular to give a practical dimension to his research interests.
www.rummble.com/lampone | www.twitter.com/lampone | www.linkedin.com/claudioweeraratne
Paolo Di Paola, Java Web & Android Developer
Paolo was born in Italy and received his Bachelor’s degree in Automation and Computer Engineering. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer. His past work experience includes software development and an analyst programmer at Data Processing for S.p.A. He is currently working full-force as Rummble’s Java Android developer for the Rummble for Android app and loves being part of a small but passionate team working on a wide range of developing technologies.
Akshay Dashrath, Android Developer
Akshay Dashrath is one of the resident Android Developers here at Rummble. He recently completed his Master’s degree in Information Technology from the University of York, his thesis involved outlining the “Best Practices of Programming on the Android Platform”. Akshay Dashrath is also the founder of the Android Developer Meetup Group in Bangalore, India.
Caitlin Roberts, Marketing
Cait decided to make the big move to from New York to London in Dec. of 2008 after receiving her Bachelor’s degree. From political campaigning, media sales, & marketing management – she has had a wide-range of ‘life-changing’ experiences in the advertising and promotions world, with the hopes of many more to come… Currently obtaining her MA in Marketing Communications at WBS, she’s very excited to be an addition to the Rummble team.
www.rummble.com/crob0302 | www.twitter.com/cait_tierney
John Paterson, non-exec Chairman
John is a seasoned global operator in the Information Technology sector. John was one of the original team at Systems Union Group, the authors of the SunSystem accounting and business software package. He was then CEO of a succession of VC backed turnarounds including Oxygen Solutions and Zeus Technology. John is also a Chartered Accountant. His main project now is CEO of Really Simple Systems, www.reallysimplesysystems.com, the largest UK vendor of hosted CRM systems.
Peter Larsen, non-exec Director
Peter is a non executive advisor for Rummble and Director of Digital at Amazon. Prior to that he was the CEO of Enpocket, a global leader in mobile advertising; that provided technology and services for mobile advertising campaigns around the world. Enpocket was bought by Nokia last year.
Helen Keegan, non-exec Director
A marketing and communications professional with over 20 years work experience, Helen has specialised in mobile marketing, advertising and media for the past 8 years. Helen was Head of Customer Experience at ZagMe, the location based mobile marketing pioneer. Helen runs her own mobile marketing, advertising and media consultancy, BeepMarketing, developing mobile strategies. Clients include NewsCorp, Sony Ericsson and Danone.
She runs the popular mobile networking event, Swedish Beers and also organises the Mobile Monday London events. She is a founder member of the Women in Mobile Data Association and blogs about mobile marketing and media over at Technokitten. Helen was recently voted in as one of the top 50 women in mobile content globally for Mobile Entertainment Magazine.
Professor Audun Jøsang, Technical Advisor
Audun is the inventor of Subjective Logic and works in Trust and Reputation Managament, which contributes to powering the Rummble algorithm. Going forward Audun will be helping guide the research and development which will ensure Rummble retains its position as the leading provider of trust networking technology and Trust API platform.
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Rummbler, our adopted Magellanic Penguin
Rummbler is our adopted penguin. She lives in Chile with the rest of her growing family. You can read a bit more on her here.
