Management Team
Vocality is a privately held organisation, whose principle shareholders are Julian Bashford and Martin Saunders.
Julian Bashford, Chief Executive Officer
After a short lived education in Food Technology, and after being an accomplished musician over many years, Julian switched to a career in technology. He began in electronics with a hands-on position as an engineer working with protocol analysers and early laptops. By age 20, he headed a team of 9 installation engineers, running training courses and installation of electronic banking systems for modem and mux supplier, Tricom. Moving to Saber Software (later acquired by McAfee) in his early 20s, he progressed through a number of roles before moving into sales of network management and security software. McAfee was itself acquired by Network Associates in 1995. Julian set up Vocality later that year to market products from the likes of Sosoft and DTM in Germany. A technology enthusiast, Julian never fails to be excited about new technology and capabilities that Vocality will bring to market. Julian has two sons in a house dominated by electronics, Star Wars and Lego. [LinkedIn Profile - Email]
Martin Saunders, Chief Technical Officer
Martin graduated from Imperial College, London (BSc Physics, 1981) with an abiding fascination for electronics and joined Racal-Decca in Surrey as a graduate electronics engineer. Here he gained valuable experience in the field of digital hardware and software systems design, which led to several Queens Awards for innovation and export and promotion to Principal Engineer before leaving to join Qualtech, at age 25, as Senior Designer. From here, he followed two directors who left Qualtech to start their own business, a specialist in the design of voice/data multiplexers. Martin was appointed to lead the design and architecture for their portfolio of products in this new and exciting field. He was responsible for the concepts behind a number of telecoms products which became industry icons, some of which were adopted by Dowty, Case and Black Box as key products in their range. In 1990, he decided to go into business alone, and in 1994, in partnership with Nigel Ottley, formed Sosoft Ltd, a vehicle from which to design and manufacture his own products. Sosoft developed and sold its first hardware solution, Cantata, a single voice codec, in 1995 and achieved its first sales of a statistical multiplexer, Sonata, in 1996 through Vocality.
Vocality International was formed in 1999, when Martin and Julian came together to form Vocality International.
Senior Management Team
In Vocality, the strength of the company comes through the talents of the people it employs. Leading each section of Vocality's organisation are department heads, who form the Senior Management Team. Martin Saunders is the Head of R&D, and the rest of the Senior Management Team are outlined below.
Simon Ascott, Head of Technical Services
Simon leads the technical services group for Vocality International, which is responsible for pre-sales engineering, post sales support, consulting services and training worldwide. Simon joined Vocality in 2003. Prior to Vocality, Simon has worked at Intelsat, Datasat and Global One after leaving the Royal Air Force as a Communications Engineering Officer. Simon has an MBA and also an MSc in Satellite Communications and is a Chartered Engineer with the IET.
Alex Keyse, Head of European Sales
Having spent the last 13 years selling technology communications solutions to Telco's and large Enterprises, Alex joined Vocality in January 2009 with a remit to head up the European sales team. With this mandate, Alex is responsible for growing both new and existing customers, as well as spearheading Vocality's corporate wide services initiative. A key element of this is the development of new, industry specific solutions to enable Vocality to offer portable, secure communications to Government and Military agencies. In his spare time, Alex has a passion for yacht racing and skiing. Alex resides in Newbury with his wife Sam and 6 year old son, Oliver.
Susan Harvey, Head of Finance and Operations
Susan joined Vocality in 2009 as Head of Finance and Operations taking on responsibility for overseeing the whole production and manufacturing operation together with the global financial activities worldwide. Prior to Vocality Susan has worked at Epicor Software, Equant, Qualys, Honeywell and Blue Martini Software, along with several years experience working within an Accounting Practice. Susan is an experienced finance professional who qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 1998.
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<h3 class="bioName">Anthony Casalena</h3>
<span class="position">Founder</span>
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Anthony Casalena has been developing software and user interfaces since the age of 15. Across the past decade, projects solely created, deployed, and designed by Anthony have been actively used by over half a million individuals, and have powered web experiences for over 50 million more. Anthony's projects have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, and the Washington Post. His current organization, Squarespace, launched while Anthony was 20, has grown organically into a thriving, multi-million dollar software company located in the heart of Manhattan. Squarespace systems serve hundreds of millions of hits per month with unprecedented levels of reliability. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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Dane Atkinson started his first company, SenseNet Inc., at the age of 18. The company grew explosively through servicing Fortune 500 companies (WPP, Pfizer, Lucent) to hundreds of employees on three continents. Since then, he's had an extremely successful career as a technology executive and has founded, bought, and sold over a dozen companies including yourday.com, yourstuff.com, estandardsforum.com, iensure.com. His extensive technology and marketing expertise helps us deliver increasingly rich service to our customers. In addition to his position as CEO, Dane also acts as advisor and board member to several leading technology companies.
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<h3 class="bioName">Davin Chew</h3>
<span class="position">Director of Engineering</span>
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Davin Chew is an engineer and entrepreneur who has developed software for startups in New York and Silicon Valley. He was formerly co-founder and VP of Engineering of user-generated publishing startup Blockr, before joining Squarespace as an early employee. Not content with just building virtual products, Davin also co-founded a toy design company in 2005 whose first product, the ScreenSmasher, garnered rave reviews in publications such as the New York Times and PC World. Davin captained the Fencing Team at Harvard University where he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science.
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<h3 class="bioName">Tyler Thompson</h3>
<span class="position">Creative Director</span>
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Tyler Thompson is a natural-born designer. From Web design to packaging design, Tyler has experienced almost every edge of the design world. At the age of 12, he picked up a can of spray paint and was quickly immersed in the urban graffiti scene. Trained as a fine artist and print designer, Tyler built on his design foundation and applied it to the web. His intuitive eye for beautiful design earned him a creative director spot straight out of college. His web and print designs have earned him a steady stream of awards and have garnered international recognition.
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<h3 class="bioName">Rolando Berrios</h3>
<span class="position">Director of Technology</span>
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Rolando Berrios (a SenseNet alumnus) has been a systems engineer and developer working at internet companies for a long time now. His work experience includes several high profile web sites, including TD Ameritrade, the NYTimes.com and Forbes.com where he was responsible for maintaining and improving upon the infrastructure of some of the most visited sites on the internet. Prior to joining Squarespace, he played a major role in developing a stable systems platform for Vidavee, which was subsequently sold to Vignette. Throughout his career he’s been focused on increasing availability, uptime, and scalability, always striving for the perfect night of uninterrupted rest.
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<h3 class="bioName">Krystyn Heide</h3>
<span class="position">Senior Designer</span>
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Krystyn Heide grew up in a family of left and right brainers. Her mixed up genes made her fall hard for web design, and she quickly became a self-proclaimed CSS junkie. Her refined design aesthetic has resulted in an impressive portfolio of sites for major brands, non-profits, celebrities and new media companies.
Krystyn has conducted design workshops, lectured at social media conferences, and has had her work featured in a variety of both online and offline design showcases including Kirtsy's "Best of.." book.
Her business card says Senior Designer, but she's also equal parts user experience advocate and Squarespace evangelist.</p>
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Located at the corner of Broome and Lafayette in the Soho district of lower Manhattan.
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