Martin Wilson
Martin has a background in marketing, business development and strategy, and has been involved in digital media for over 14 years, during which he has gained a wealth of experience in the fixed line and mobile Internet arenas. As the mobile channel began to emerge, some 10 years ago, Martin increasingly focused his attention towards this channel. Having supported some of the world’s large media owners in developing and marketing mobile services his track record of delivery speaks for itself. Martin is a true expert in mobile who really understands how to open the mobile environment in an effective and often complementary way for the organisations for which he works.
Prior to the Mobileweb Company, Martin headed leading independent mobile consultancy, Indigo102, which has gone on to support the development and launch of mass market mobile services in six countries.
Before he spent almost 12 years at Yell, one of the world’s leading directory publishers. At Yell he held the role of Head of mobile and was responsible for developing mobile and media channel strategies and service propositions. During this time Martin was instrumental in the development of all of Yell’s mobile strategy and activity.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Wolverhampton.
Martin is a co-founder of the Mobileweb Company.
Damian Stafford
Damian has a background working in and managing technology strategy and teams in various sectors, and has worked with web-facing software applications since the early nineties when he worked in electronic publishing, adopting very early many of the web-based tools that businesses take for granted across the enterprise today. From 1996 Damian’s work involved managing databases, data migration, data integration and the web-enabling of data-centric applications, after which he built an internet design and development company before joining Yell in 2001 as Head of Technical Development for yell.com, yellmobile.com and yelldirect.com.
At Yell Damian was responsible for implementing and continuously improving a sustainable, resilient and scalable technology strategy and architecture that served over 80 million page impressions per month.
Subsequently he joined vielife as CTO specifically both to refresh the technology platform that provides their product portfolio, and to represent the company’s technology to clients and to potential investors. After he implemented the necessary technological changes and helped take the company through an intensive investment round that lasted for much of the year, vielife was bought by CIGNA, a large, US-based healthcare provider, at the end of 2006.
Since then Damian has worked as Group Technology Director for agencies Five By Five and Headstream, and in various consulting roles.
He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in history from the University of Leeds.
Damian is a co-founder of the Mobileweb Company.