Our highly experienced team each have sector knowledge and are focused on their area of expertise.
Martin is our hands on MD, with over 30 years’ senior Board level experience in the marketing arena. Martin’s business philosophy is rooted in delivering excellent solutions underpinned by unrivalled client service, unfettered creative thinking, cutting edge yet robust technology and high levels of quality control.
Darron’s career started in graphic design, sitting firmly in the creative area of Breathe’s business. He has built on his in depth understanding of the production process and ultimately delivering great solutions on time and on brief, to become our Head of Production With client service sitting front and centre in Breathe’s business model, it’s Darron’s job to make sure we meet and manage our clients expectations and ensure they are delighted by their interactions with our team.
Jessica manages some of our most challenging projects, combining her creativity with in-depth technical knowledge and understanding; her skill is getting the best outcomes from our multi-disciplinary team. When managing projects, Jessica’s focus is keeping her eye on the “prize”, she knows it’s easy to let the technology or the creativity dominate the process and what’s actually most important is to deliver the solution.
Genna is a technically led digital project manager with broad experience managing digital projects both agile and waterfall. Genna is highly detail conscious and leads the Breathe team when it comes to QA and the “go live” phase of any project. Originally from Cape Town, Genna now lives close to our office in Bedfordshire UK.
Rute is our most senior designer, her start point is firstly creative and secondly digital, ensuring that our technical solutions are engaging and ensure target users get to our clients desired destination via an experience that is both enjoyable and intuitive. Rute has broad experience with clients ranging from household FMCG brands through to public sector organisations and educational establishments.
Shaqiel is an experienced web developer with a broad knowledge of many programming languages, CMS platforms, payment gateways and reporting tools . As a technical lead at Breathe, he is heavily involved in developing solutions and troubleshooting issues. Shaqiel is part of our Cape Town team but very much involved in all our web led projects.
Aravind has close on 20 years of digital media experience and has a deep understanding of technologies in the Digital Media space including display advertising, email marketing, PPC and Programmatic ad ops, he also oversees our paid search and social media activities. Prior to joining our team, he worked as a Solution Services Consultant for Google’s DoubleClick products in the Asia-Pacific region.
Paul is another Breathe veteran, having joined our studio as a graphic designer many years ago, he had a desire to move into a dev role. With our support and his hard work and ambition he has developed from graphics into HTML banners and now as a great Umbraco (.NET) developer with all the other skills if we need them. Paul also works at the speed of light!
Nantha is the WordPress lead in our dev team and comes with many years of experience working on that platform and many other related plugins and integrations. Having worked globally Nantha also has experience in a number of other web frameworks, especially related to eCommerce. His wider knowledge includes Shopify, Magento and Woocommerce, additionally he is no stranger to payment gateways, shopping carts, delivery systems and many other transaction related systems.
Our business is built on Service, get that foundation right and our clients will be happy and when that happens our business will thrive - that's our ethos!