Team
Sam Barnett
Sam Barnett
CEO and Founder
After graduating with a Distinction from Law School, Sam started his career in law and became involved in internet advertising when he joined the legal department of espotting/MIVA. After deciding to change his career path, Sam joined the business development team of espotting/MIVA and later went on to join the Benchmark/Balderton backed start up AdJug as their first business development employee. Following successful launch and growth of AdJug into the largest transparent ad exchange in Europe, Sam went on to start up Struq. Struq has been shortlisted as one of the top 100 Media and Technology Companies by the Guardian, Microsoft and PWC. Sam has been shortlisted for The Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award by Growing Business, featured in The Courvoisier Future 500 “Rising Stars” and is also a columnist for Real Business. You can read his column here
Andrew Kempe
Andrew Kempe
CTO
Andrew specializes in global enterprise and high transaction volume system architecture using Microsoft technologies. Previous roles (as Global System Architect at espotting/MIVA), involved Management of Pay-Per-Click and performance-based marketing systems and associated core product development delivering billions of impressions monthly across eight multi lingual (and multi currency) territories. Andrew also founded retaggr, the online interactive business card described by Mashable as “blowing Google’s Profile card out of the water”.
Glen Calvert
Glen Calvert
Sales Director
Glen has in excess of 5 years management and sales experience of selling to the leading European advertising agencies. Glen is extremely passionate about online marketing and has in depth knowledge and experience in both the brand space (through roles with leading publishing houses such as Dennis Publishing) and direct response (through roles with the largest performance based marketing companies including TradeDoubler).
Steve Pereira
Steve Pereira
Senior Ad Operations
Steve is an ad operations and marketing specialist with six years experience in the online advertising technical space. Steve is an expert at managing ad products on a day to day basis, has extensive knowledge of 3rd party tracking solutions and integration and coupled with his background in popular ‘graphic creative suites’ he is able to critique and redesign inventory to better achieve targeted delivery. Steve is well versed with existing ad platforms and is intimately acquainted with key players in the online ad space.
The Rest of the Team
Clinton, Jason, Alexis, Rob, Michael – All our team members are experts in their fields and come with prestigious, first-hand online advertising experience and proven track records.
We are proud of the calibre of talented professionals we can attract and retain and who enable us to effectively and efficiently deliver to our customers our vision for Struq.
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