About

My life has not always been easy but I think I can appreciate that now. I have watched a lot of beautiful businesses both fail and succeed and it has helped shape who I have become. I was born May 9th 1986 in London and am the third out of four children.

Not long after starting school I switched off and started in my own direction. At age 12, I picked up a Macromedia Flash 3 demo disk. After searching the internet for help and tutorials, I soon became adept at it. Firstly making crude animations and then quickly learning it for commercial usage. It was the age of bulletin boards and I found a web design community called PixelJunction. I met my then soon-to-be business partner David Hope. We ran a company called Reality Art Studios for a total of 6 years before we decided that we both started to want different things and wanted to grow in a different environment.

Around 2002, while I was learning PHP, my travels I met my then future partners and close friends Bryan Veloso and Faruk Ateş. Two people who my respect for has only grown. In 2005, we briefly started a company called LT3media with Cindy Li, Hayo Bethlehem and Victoria Rendell. It was not to be, all 6 of us trying to fit our schedules together did not work and we parted ways.

Fast forward to 2005 and I leave for Asia to be with a girl (who eventually became my fiancée, then my ex.) A while later she tells me that she has to move to America, and so I tell her I will follow her. I do and spend 2 years in Galesburg, Illinois. At that point Obie Fernandez offered a job at Hashrocket where I spend 90% of that time leading a vital project. I got to enjoy far too much Patrón and hot tubbing with great friends and watch the company grow. 7 months later I decide that I need to be my own boss again.

Now, as of last year I have started London Made.

Since an early age I watched my father while he worked in the movie industry. He is a fountain of fun stories that include hanging out with Rod Stewart in hotel rooms, his help in creating the original Clash Of The Titans and so on. He also was one of the chartered accountants that worked on the Rolls Royce receivership and ran a successful pub for many years. My mother was much the same and is an MBA who used work as a Stock Trader, etc. I think it gave my parents equal parts joy and frustration that I was the only one of their 4 children to become an entrepreneur.

I do want to be a millionaire, but not so that I can pack up my job and retire, so that I can build more businesses, help other people with their dreams and build some charities. That has always been my dream.

I really enjoy helping people with their dreams and passion and am a true believer of the pay it forward concept. I spend about 35% of my day helping people; be it life or work. Truthfully, I am more than happy to do it. If I help one person and it changes their life for the better, chances are they will help at least one person and so on.

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