executive team

Bernard Holcroft - Chairman
A professional investor and corporate advisor, Bernard is currently CEO of Peter Hambro Limited and director of a number of other companies. Previously, Bernard founded Rupert Hambro & Partners with Rupert Hambro. Prior to that, he was UK Finance Director for Pioneer International (now HeidelbergerCement) and before that he held several senior finance positions within the Beecham Group (now GlaxoSmithKline) in the UK, Germany and Belgium. He holds a BA in Economics and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Irfon Watkins – CEO and Founder
With 25 years working in blue chip IT and services companies, Irfon enjoys extensive commercial experience across high-tech multinationals. He has held senior management positions at Dell Computers, Computacenter – and more recently CommerceQuest, where he was executive vice president of EMEA. Irfon is also currently chairing the IAB Video Council.

Dean Taylor – CTO and Founder
A true entrepreneur and technology expert, Dean has been designing and delivering software and technology infrastructure solutions for more than ten years. He is a co-founder of Coull and leads the development team responsible for Coull’s interactive video platform. Dean is also the founder Coull’s Labs and manages all current R&D projects.

Hitesh Bhatt - Commercial Director
Hitesh has spent the last three years at MSN UK, joining as a sales account manager and acting as head of agency sales over the last 10 months. He joined MSN from Yahoo! where he was part of the Strategic Agency Sales team, evangelising online to agency media planning departments. Hitesh has also worked at several media agencies; as a sales manager at MTV UK; and at EMAP advertising, where he was part of the team that launched Cross Media sales at EMAP in 2001.

Claudia Giovannoni - Marketing Director
Claudia began her work in the new media sector in 1998, working on the launch of the first US web-based guide-selling application. She offers more than ten years of strategic marketing, digital marketing and product management experience. Previous senior marketing positions include a number of global companies such as Hardware.com, VeriSign and Dun & Bradstreet. Claudia holds an MA in Political Science from Stanford University.