Ayima Offices

Meet The Team

Team Picture - London Office 2012


  • Mike
    • 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...

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  • Mike
    • Mike Nott 
    • Group Operations Director
    • 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...".

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  • Hanna
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    • Director of Finance
    • Originally hailing from the island of Öland, off the south east coast of Sweden, Hanna has spent much of her adult life in Stockholm. In 2010 she came to London to take up the position of Group Finance Manager at Ayima.

  • Rob
    • Rob Kerry 
    • Director of R&D
    • 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...

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  • Richard
    • Richard Game 
    • Client Services Director (UK)
    • 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"...

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  • David
    • David Burgess 
    • Client Services Director (US)
    • 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...

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  • Carl
    • Carl Hendy 
    • Global Head of Search
    • 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...

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  • Tony
    • Tony Spencer 
    • Director of Search (US)
    • After studying Computer Engineering at NC State, Tony moved to Silicon Valley "to work with the biggest nerds in the world". In just a few years, he rose to become VP of Engineering at a large blue chip...

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  • Jane
    • 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...

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  • Sam
    • 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...

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  • Brandon
    • Brandon Millard 
    • SEO Consultant (Raleigh)
    • Brandon was 19 when he started his first internet business, a car forum that grew into one of the largest car communities in the United States. This began many years of exploring exactly what makes an internet business shine...

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  • Joe
    • Joe Crowther 
    • SEO Consultant (London)
    • Joe's interest in computers started out when his parents bought him an Amiga 1200 at the age of 7, the ultimate in geek chic! Whilst his adventures into SEO started just after university...

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  • Nick
    • Nick Redding 
    • SEO Consultant (London)
    • Nick's path into SEO began during University via PPC. "I started promoting affiliate products using Google AdWords and realised that getting a website to rank organically would be far more profitable than paying Google"...

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  • Ian
    • Ian Pereira 
    • SEO Consultant (London)
    • Ian's road into SEO has been written in the stars since a young age. Whilst his marketing friends were honing their search skills in the PPC game, Ian picked up the joystick of SEO - it was destiny.

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  • Dean
    • Dean Chew 
    • Head of Operations (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...

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  • Tim
    • 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...

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  • Ekrum
    • Ekrum Ashgar 
    • Group 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...

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  • Jay
    • Jay Galsworthy 
    • Creative Director
    • Jay has been working in the digital industry most of his life, both agency and client side. He first met the founders of Ayima when working in-house at PartyGaming PLC, where Jay headed up the design team.

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  • Dan
    • Dan Smith 
    • Senior Web Developer
    • Dan has always been facinated with technology. From a young age his parents were constantly frustrated at his tendancy to take his toys apart to see how they worked. Once he was old enough to realise what a computer was, he never looked back.

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  • Jon
    • 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...

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