Meet The Team

Mike Jacobson

Managing Director / CEO

After escaping the stark confines of Canberra and then Sydney, MJ -as he hates to be known- made it to Europe in 1999. He has extensive experience in fine dining and wine sampling as well as stints in...

Mike Nott

Director of Operations

Contrary to popular belief, Mike was not an SEO geek as a child. "Growing up, my life was purely music, music, music! Besides, search engines hadn't yet been invented...".

Richard Game

Director of Services

Richard hails from the world of business consultancy, he worked in IT system installations through the 90s before moving to the web, "I have always bridged the gap between technical and business teams"...

Rob Kerry

Director of Search

Rob was 14 years old when he started his first internet business and made his initial foray into SEO. Since then he has started a second solo web business, worked as Head of SEO for a renowned digital...

Carl Hendy

SEO Consultant (London)

Carl has tried his hand at many jobs over the years, including financial trading, investment banking, and service support, but SEO was always his passion. Carl became interested in the web back when...

Jane Copland

SEO Consultant (London)

Born and raised in New Zealand until the age of 18 when she moved to the United States to take up a swimming scholarship at Washington State University, Jane has always loved computers. "I remember the...

Sam Gipson

SEO Consultant (London)

An Essex boy from Brentwood, Sam first had access to the internet at secondary school and hasn't looked away from his Mac since. After school, Sam took an apprenticeship in business administration and...

Tony Spencer

SEO Consultant (Raleigh)

Brandon Millard

SEO Consultant (Raleigh)

David Burgess

SEO Consultant (New York)

Originally hailing from Malvern, home of the famous spring water, Dave has worked in SEO since 1999. With a spring in his step, he applied for a job at Ayima because, "we have tools and data that are...

Dean Chew

SEO Consultant (Asia)

Joining Ayima in 2008, Dean had previously managed to combine years of meticulous self-hair styling with over a decade of top rank SEO experience and web development. Before working at Ayima, he worked...

Tim Webb

Director of Technology

Although Tim programmed his dad's Commodore 64 at the age of 3, it was only in his final year at university that he really became heavily involved in real computers. Tim also moved into SEO by accident...

Ekrum Ashgar

HR Manager

Hailing from the World Heritage and site of the Olympiad “bleedin’” Stratford, Ekky is a dyed-in-the-wool East Ender. Since leaving university he has worked in a variety of marketing roles, eventually...

Nikhil Patwardhan

Head of Domains

Born in India, Nikhil lived and worked there for the first twenty-three years of his life before moving over to the UK with a group of fellow PartyGaming employees, who were helping get the London office off the ground...

Jon Pritchard-Barrett

Head of Content

Ever since having his first poem published in the school magazine aged eight, words and letters have boggled Jon’s mind. He took his first course in HTML 3.2 (which is quite a long time ago in internet...