Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew is a web developer, writer, speaker and one half of edgeofmyseat.com - the company behind the CMS Perch. She has been working on the web since the late 90s and running her own company since 2001.

When not working on her own product, Rachel enjoys helping other people transition from consultancy and client services to profitable product businesses - without needing to seek investment or risk everything by “doing a startup”.

Robin Hawkes

Robin thrives on solving problems through code. He's a Digital Tinkerer, Head of Developer Relations at Pusher, former Technical Evangelist at Mozilla, and book author. In his spare time he experiments with new technology and data visualisation, often at the same time.

Gavin Strange

Gavin Strange is a creative berk, a jack of all trades and a master of flip all; Senior Designer for Bristol's Aardman Animations by day, and a creative-type going under the alias 'JamFactory' by night. Working in the field of graphic design but dabbling in illustration, toy design, photography and film making, Gavin should really name drop some big clients here to convince you he’s a pro but really, who cares! A firm believer in not being able to make fun unless you're having fun, let Gavin bend your ear for bit to convince you to stop talking about stuff, and just go and DOthe stuff, regardless of whether you have the skills to do so. If this flipping plumb can bumble his way through a career, then imagine what YOU can do!

Frank West

15 years ago Frank was manually updating hundreds of HTML files in notepad before discovering frames and Dreamweaver. He loves cats and making the web more enjoyable for people through great experiences and refined interfaces. Frank has just left the agency world to work with startups to concentrate on creating fast responding streamlined experiences.

Matt Jukes

Matt is Head of Digital for a ‘non-ministerial department‘ in the UK.The majority of his 15 year career has been spent managing digital teams in the space where research and government meet. This has included being the first Web Manager at the Economic and Social Research Council, responsibility for digital at Jisc, working with the Higher Education Funding Council for England, time at the Medical Research Council overhauling their online offerings and most recently joining the ONS to undertake the ambitious project of trying to retrieve the reputation of their website.

Richard Healy

Before co-founding BaseKit, Richard cut his developer teeth as the director for a Wales-based company producing custom website designs for small and medium businesses. Fast forward 8 years, (we won't ask him his age!) and after winning Seedcamp 2008, Rich now uses his knowledge and passion for front end technologies and template building to head up the design, tech and community teams at BaseKit.