Suzannah Baker, Commercial Director
Sooze is Commercial Director and the figurehead of iPlatform. Sooze has extensive knowledge on the most effective ways for brands to utilise the Facebook platform and has worked with a variety of blue chip brands and major agencies to help design, deliver and manage marketing campaigns based around social platforms.
Previous experience includes:
Ad operations at Bebo
Account manager at The Guardian
Swimming and gymnastics
Leighton James, Technical Director
Leighton has vast experience in building different types of web apps using a variety of technologies and is a recent adopter of Python and Django. Leighton has direct experience in providing technical support, and enjoys the client facing aspect of the role.
Eamonn Gahan, Senior Developer
Eamonn is interested in all things related to science and technology (particularly Python and Django these days). He likes to swim, play video games and eat food that he has not cooked himself.
Darren Jones, Developer
Darren is our caffeine fuelled Apple fan boy with an interest in Python and Django as well as front end technologies. Before joining the company in 2010, Darren was a freelance web geek with a background in e-commerce and user interface design.
Alex Brown, Junior Developer
Alex is our resident gadgeteer, with a huge passion for modern technology, programming and all things electronic. In his free time he likes to stay active in the gym, eat plenty of food and travel.
Dan Lester, Co-founder
Dan is a highly experienced developer and technical architect, with a double first in maths from Oxford and five years experience developing software in the finance industry before leaving to work on his own projects. He was living in San Francisco when the first social network application platforms launched in 2007, where he built Open Socket, an Open Social container for Facebook, before moving back to London to found iPlatform with Josh.
Joshua March, Co-founder
Josh is an entrepreneur and specialist in the online and social media industry. He's been involved in the social network application space since Facebook first launched their application platform in 2007, and is Chairman of the Facebook Developer Garage London, a monthly non-profit event for social network developers sponsored by Facebook and Sun Microsystems.
What we do
iPlatform is a technology company that specialises in building social applications for the Facebook and Facebook Connect Platforms, as well as campaign management technology for fan pages and conversation based marketing.
Launched in early 2008, iPlatform works with some of the biggest agencies and brands in the UK and Europe, delivering multiple major Facebook based brand campaigns every month. Their team are experienced in planning, designing, building and maintaining social applications, from simple quizzes to large interactive flash games.
iPlatform have their own proprietary competition platform, allowing brands to run full UGC competitions inside their Facebook fan pages, with media upload (including integration with Facebook photos), voting, comments and leaderboards. A bespoke admin website for each client allows the platform to be used to run either large single competitions, or to run continual daily or weekly giveaways.
For fan page management, iPlatform have a number of tools to assist in management & moderation, content distribution and reporting, built to help agencies and large brands run their social campaigns more effectively.
You can read Josh’s blog here, follow his random thoughts and links on twitter here, and follow Dan here.