CEO Alicia Navarro is one of the few female tech entrepreneurs in London, having launched Skimbit.com in Australia before heading over to Europe to immerse herself in the world of tech startups, where she adapted her business quickly to launch Skimlinks.com.

Alicia's vision for Skimlinks is to see online publishers rewarded for the role they play in informing purchase decisions, by removing the technical and administrative complexities that hamper would-be affiliates. This, she believes, will help evolve affiliate marketing into a mainstream ubiquitous revenue model.

Alicia worked for over 10 years in internet applications, designing and launching mobile and internet-based applications in Australia and the UK. She has a Bachelor of Information Technology and the University Medal for Computing Sciences from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Alicia's ideal food adventure would be blue cheese & champagne in France, oysters in her Sydney home, and paella in the Balearics. At the office, Alicia enjoys teaching the team unusual words like 'ruminate' and 'gesticulate', and she can't function without at least 50 firefox tabs open at any given time! Follow @alicianavarro on Twitter.

Joe co-founded Skimlinks with Alicia after joining the original Skimbit back in Feb 2008 (they are old friends from university in Sydney). Joe looks after business development, sales and marketing: growing and improving our publisher base, and generally works with Alicia to lead the Skimlinks team.

Joe previously founded SiteRefinery, which acquires under-performing websites/domains and turns them around in terms of traffic, functionality and monetisation. He built up these three skills over years of running his own websites as an internet marketeer and affiliate. Prior to that Joe was Head of New Media at Finger Lickin' Records, an independent electronic music label, also worked at Cisco Systems both in EMEA and Asiapac (i.e. UK and Australia)

Joe's ultimate mashup would be made up of music, food and technology. He mixes a mean lychee martini, loves to start crafty ideas on the Internet and wants to be the new David Thompson. Joe was quite dubious of, but now recently very fond of twitter: @digijoe

Matthieu's role as COO means he is truly the backbone of the Skimlinks operation. From speccing new products, to managing the roadmap, keeping the payroll in order, to paying publisher commissions he looks after it all.

Matthieu and Alicia met in Sydney, in a job interview. Alicia was going on a 6 week holiday and had a week to train someone to take over her job of running the entire ad management platform for Fairfax, one of Australia's largest online publishers. Matthieu stepped up to the plate, and not only learnt everything in a week, but by the time Alicia came back from holidays, found herself wonderfully redundant.

When Alicia heard that Matthieu was leaving Sydney to return to Europe, she snapped him up. He now runs Skimlinks, keeps everyone in line, and religiously has a Diet Coke at 4pm every day. He's also teaching us the French words for an amazing variety of stationery products.

Ciarán's role as Skimlinks CTO is to lead the technical innovation for Skimlinks' products and the platform's infrastructure. Ciarán relishes this opportunity to develop technologies that enable exceptional experiences for clients and end-users of the Skimlinks technology.

Before joining Skimlinks, Ciarán worked in his native Ireland as Head of IT at one of the country's largest mobile communications companies. He has worked as a freelance developer before establishing Weeno Ltd, a web application and design company.

Ciarán also leads the development team on the hair front, but insists that he can't cut the 'fro. He takes his lunch when everyone else in England is taking tea and enjoys elegantly falling down a mountain while attached to a snowboard.

Ciarán can be found on twitter here: @CiaranR

Mark is the Account Director at Skimlinks. He takes care of all the account management duties, looking after all the lovely Skimlinks publishers, and promoting our thousands of merchants in the best possible way. Mark also liaises with all 22+ affiliate networks that we work with and can regularly be found chin-wagging at London's affiliate industry events.

Previously, Mark worked at another web startup, Swoopo, running innovative online auctions and prior to that, had fun living in the States performing brain scanning research. If you ever want to know what role the fusiform gyrus has in familiar face perception, just ask!

Among other things, Mark likes french music blogs, the two-foot high dinosaur that lives on his desk, and pretending to train for triathlons. His favourite sandwich filling is Coronation Chicken. You can find Mark on Twitter here: @markofmac

Angus Bankes was founder and CTO of Moreover Technologies where he was recognised in the industry as a leader in the area of XML. At Moreover, Angus was one of the main advocates and driving force for the mass adoption of RSS feeds.

In 2005 Moreover Technologies was acquired by Verisign (NASD: VRSN) where Angus ran the technology for both moreover.com and weblogs.com. He has now joined the Skimlinks team to cover the area of technology strategy and architecture.

Angus gives regular talks to publishers and enterprises on such topics as the future of internet publishing, new distribution methods, social media and OpenID and enjoys forcing his colleagues to watch videos of himself appearing on 90s TV quiz shows.

As our Web Developer, Tamás has built all the prettiest bits of the Skimlinks interface, as well as numerous other products with his lightning fast coding skills. He's built tools for every part of the Skimlinks operation and is the only member of the team to insist on using the Opera web browser.

Before joining the team, Tamás built various sites back in Hungary and still surprises us with incredible weekend coding projects.

Arguably, he has the best dreadlocks in tech, Tamás also drinks enough Redbull to win a sponsorship deal and can solve a Rubik's cube faster than anyone we know. Find Tamas on Twitter @le_punk

Skimlinks' one-person Kiwi contingent, Hannah Keys is the broadly-titled Communications Manager - taking on everything from press releases and client communications, organising events, award entries, and publisher promotions, to networking at every available opportunity.

Hannah is a relative web-newbie, and has undergone a baptism of fire since joining the Skimlinks team. Back in New Zealand, she was a newspaper columnist, radio ad copywriter, and a print journalist - now she has enough Twitter accounts to fill a whole Tweetdeck. Catch her at @hannahrohiki.

Hannah's goal for Skimlinks is to elevate the brand to a whole new level, especially within social media, and to continue to build solid relationships with key existing clients to help them make the most of the Skimlinks' services.

Hannah has a bit of a fashion fixation, designing and making most of her clothes, but she supports e-commerce armed with a shoe fetish and her credit card. She loves to travel, and is currently ticking off Europe one trip at a time.

Hardip originally joined us as a summer intern, but was far too good to let go, so we took her on as our Product and Accounts Assistant. She supports both the Operations and Account Management teams in keeping everything up and running behind the scenes.

Before joining Skimlinks, Hardip was finishing up her Computing BSc at Portsmouth University.

Hardip enjoys eating cake, ham sandwiches (in fact, all eating in general,) festivals, staying up all night and making lists. Hardip wants to travel the world one day and has an awesome collection of hairy jackets You can find Hardip on twitter here: @hard1p

Alex brings a range of entrepreneurial, media and internet experience matched with institutional and global experience.

In 1999 he co-founded GoIndustry plc in Europe, which he and his partners built from the proverbial napkin into a 17-country global leader in online industrial auctions. Alex and the team took it public in London where it was valued at over $100M. Before that, stints at Disney and McKinsey & Co. gave him a basis in media, strategy, finance and change management. As CEO of Latitude, one of Europe's largest independent digital marketing agencies, Alex and his team deliver PPC, SEO, social media strategies, affiliate marketing and is on the leading edge of the cross channel analytics to make a cohesive campaign effective to household brand names and SMEs alike.

Since 2006 Alex has been encouraged by and encouraging the wave of entrepreneurial inspiration capturing Europe. To this end, Alex has acted as angel investor and mentor in internet-based and consumer projects. These include Seedcamp, home repair marketplace MyBuilder.com, RentMineOnline, Faction Skis, which he co-founded, UserVoice, GoMix as well as Skimbit. Alex is an advisor to private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, which applies venture methods to the social sector, a member of Cambridge Angels. Alex has worked and lived in the UK, Germany, the US and Latin America, speaks the respective languages to varying degrees, and is a pretty average but avid kite surfer. While at undergrad at Stanford and getting his MBA at Harvard, ever the entrepreneur, he co-founded the wine club at both.

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