Our Team

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 is currently the President of PHP London.

Ciarán also leads the team on music tastes and is often found singing the wrong words to songs, on the offbeat. He takes his lunch when everyone else in England is taking tea and enjoys falling down a mountain while attached to a snowboard.

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.

Previously co-founder and CEO of Atma Links, Chris is now part of Team Skimlinks bringing his entrepreneurial experience and technical skills to the table as a senior developer.

Chris graduated from Penn State, tried on the hedge fund game for size, but in 2009, decided he was better off building his own tech start-up, tackling online content monetization, building a sophisticated technology that caught our eye!

Chris' favourite colours are purple, yellow and plaid, and he loves Canadian cartoons from 1981 featuring the vocal stylings of John Candy.

Chris also plays the electric guitar and his style crush is Ralph Lauren.

Erik co-founded Atma Links, taking the technical helm as CTO, but has now joined the Skimlinks crew as a senior developer, putting his knowledge to work on our products.

Erik was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, which he left in 2005 to study computer science at Stanford University. He has since moved to New York City, where he spent the last two years building the Atma technology with Chris.

Erik loves to experiment with his hair, and unleashed his sweet moustache on society after working on it in stealth under the guise of a full beard. His favourite movie is Karate Kid.

Imogen joined us from Cape Town, after a stint as a developer for the Amazon Web Services sector of Amazon.com.

Born in game farm country in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, Imogen loves nothing better than a dose of big sky and silence. When not hunched over a keyboard, she straps on running shoes and pretends that Hampstead Heath is on the slopes of Table Mountain - and then immediately ruins the good work by indulging her obsession for chocolate.

With degrees in Theoretical Physics and Computer Science and an (embarrassingly) encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Tolkien and Joss Whedon, Imogen's the geekiest woman she knows and proud of it. And, while her playlists do include such upbeat artists as Pearl Jam, Leonard Cohen, Nirvana and Radiohead, she's still somehow annoyingly cheerful most of the time.

Orla has joined us from Dublin to take up the role of QA Manager - and that means that everything has to go by her watchful eye before it is given the OK!

Before moving to London Orla was working as a QA Engineer for an Irish company after completing a BA in Computer Science.

Orla can be heard in the office confirming or disproving the "Irish things" that Ciaran has been telling the office for the last couple of years.

She is loving her new London life but has one issue with the fact that "R" is pronounced "arr" here and not "or", nearly a deal breaker but she's decided to tough it out!

Tom’s work as a web developer means that his interest in new technologies and keeping ahead of the curve are of great value. This, and his previous work in small businesses, means that he is well suited to his role as web developer here at Skimlinks.

He spends his time learning new things and reading and writing blogs. He also keeps busy by contributing to open source code projects; he is a big WordPress fan and develops for the platform in his spare time.

However it can't all be work, work, work, and to show he is a rounded individual he has a large collection of colourful, but ultimately pointless soaps.

Andras is Skimlinks' second Hungarian, and joins the team following his work on Hungary's largest social networking site, iwiw.

He loves coding chatbots and his dream is to do the Turing test. He also loves nature, but more often than not, you'll find him in front of his computer or checking in on FourSquare.

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 enjoys a Diet Fanta at 4pm every day. He's also teaches the rest of the team about the magic of pivot (Pivard) tables, and manages to juggle the start-up life along with being a new dad to little ‘SkimBaby’!

As Operations Analyst, Catherine is responsible for ensuring merchants and networks are working with the Skimlinks technology as smoothly as possible. A mixologist at heart, Catherine seeks to combine the disparate chunks of tracking URLs during the day, while avoiding unrefined ingredients of a more liquid variety at night.

Hailing from London, Catherine is the only member of the cockney contigent at Skimlinks, although she usually manages to hide it well. She loves detective novels, classical literature, spaghetti westerns and theatre, amongst many other things.

Jo's role as Skimlinks' Product Manager means she gets to work closely with every member of the Skimlinks family, colleagues & partners alike. Having started at Skimlinks as an Account Manager & then our first Business Analyst, her current role allows her to shape how we develop our technology & tools to best suit our client's needs, from ideas generation to delivery of final products.

Jo joined Skimlinks after working as a freelance web manager, while simultaneously completing an MSc in Computer Science at UCL. With a first degree in Photography, she is the Skimlinks photographer-in-residence. Jo grew up in Texas but is British-born and her distinctive take on the English language keeps everyone guessing exactly where she is from.

With a love of all things free in London (and a strange fascination with the color green), you will often find Jo browsing the books at the British Library and getting involved in late nights at the V&A and Science Museum.

Barbara is the first designer at Skimlinks, and she's here to help us design the best experiences for our users. Before joining Skimlinks she was a Graphic Designer with a steer towards Digital Interaction Design.

Since FOTB'07, Barbara is a fangirl of ActionScript and spends her weekends finding bugs in her messy code. She realized recently that snowboarding is much more fun than surfing, but she still wants to be a surfer chick.

Skimlinks' Swedish financial whiz, Sofia joins us as Financial Controller, with several years experience in finance and accounting and an MSc in Economics. Sofia is our numbers gal and the invisible hand to make sure the office runs smoothly. An avid Formula One fan, Sofia also loves travelling, lived in San Francisco for two and a half years, and has been in London now for ten.

She's addicted to Hello Kitty handbags and stationery and loves gadgets too, including her Chumby and Roomba.

Mark is the Account Director at Skimlinks, responsible for account management: looking after all the lovely Skimlinks publishers and promoting our thousands of merchants in the best possible way. Mark is based out of our San Francisco office and manages partnerships for our most important North American partners.

Previously, Mark worked at another web startup, Swoopo, running innovative online auctions and prior to that, had fun living in Philadelphia 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.

Previously a Senior Account Manager, Hardip's role has evolved to Customer Systems Analyst, which uses her experience in account management to improve all of our customer touch points and optimize the customer experience.

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

Hardip enjoys eating halloumi, ham sandwiches, sushi (in fact, all eating in general!), festivals, staying up all night, turning off the air-con and exploring London on her bike. Hardip wants to travel the world one day and has an awesome collection of hairy jackets.

John has taken a spot on the Skimlinks team as an Account Manager, helping to keep things running smoothly for our publishers.

London born and raised, John worked in the Middle East as a writer before starting a career in IT Support leading into his role at Skimlinks.

Johnny is an old man at heart, happiest in the middle of a good game of chess with a nice cup of tea. He enjoys philosophising over a good book or film and every now and again he hears the call of the wild and sets off on another adventure to see a new part of the world.

Jenny is a San Francisco native working in the London office and has shown her range of ability with Skimlinks, starting out managing Social Media before moving on to Business Development and now, she's focused on merchants as Merchant Manager.

A start-up junkie, Jenny previously worked for a health website in Boston while studying at Boston University and an independent natural pet food company in Los Angeles before leaping across the pond. She loves decorating her passport. If you ever want to know where to eat or what deal you can get, just ask Jenny. Her insatiable and curious appetite constantly guides her to new places and, if there's a discount to get, she is on it.

Geoff is part of the Business Development team at Skimlinks, spreading the wonderful word of what we do and helping to bring some great clients on board. Prior to Skimlinks, Geoff worked for an international IT recruitment firm in the Square Mile, learning the tricks of the trade, before starting his own recruitment agency, with two friends, in Mayfair.

With a degree in Sculpture under his belt, Geoff loves anything and everything creative, whether it's building a tasty sandwich or a giant ice sculpture, and he often likes to share with the team what's happening in the world of modern art!

Jamie joins us following an internship and is the youngest member of the Skimlinks team. Having previously worked as Sales and Project manager for a multinational ERP and web design firm, Jamie joins us as a Business Development Manager, helping to bring new and exciting clients to Skimlinks.

His hobbies include catching, acquiring and selling domain names, playing tennis and he was also a keen lacrosse player at university while gaining a Bsc in Economics.