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A stable, experienced team with a range of skills and disciplines

We have a unique team of people with different cultural backgrounds, nationalities and experience ranging from software development, management, design, information management to communications. Hence, we look at the needs of organisations from many different angles finding what works best for you.

If you feel you have the talent to design and build next generation social software then send us your CV / resumé and tell us why.

Management Team

  • Lee Bryant co-founded Headshift in 2002 to focus on the emerging area of social software and social networking. He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, and has a strong belief in the empowering potential of the internet. He is also a board member of a social enterprise, Involve, and a trustee of the Foundation for Science Technology and Culture.

  • Livio Hughes co-founded Headshift with Lee, as well as the TMG web agency, which they set up and ran during the Web 1.0 era. Livio first got excited by the internet when, as a PhD student, he saw its potential for direct communication and bypassing traditional media. He is interested in using social software tools for online co-creation and participation in a range of internal and external communication settings. Livio is also an associate professor of Communication & Awareness in Social Media at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, and is fluent in Italian.

  • Stuart Barr Stuart Barr is Head of Operations at Headshift and has nearly 10 years experience and proven track record in web and e-business development, strategy and management. Stuart joined Headshift from leading international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was Online Services Manager and responsible for the firm's various online activities. Prior to that, he held a similar position at Hays plc. Stuart has a business degree from Cardiff University and a keen interest in web 2.0 and technology in general and particularly how it can be implemented in the enterprise to enhance communication and collaboration. In his spare time he likes photography, playing his guitar, music, cooking and blogging about gadgets and Macs!

  • Lars Plougmann is a Senior Consultant at Headshift. With a decade of professional services experience, Lars is at home in the tertiary sector of the economy. As an independent collaboration strategy consultant he was working with Headshift on two projects but decided to join when it became apparent how much fun and talent was shared at Headshift. Lars is fluent in Swedish and Danish (native).

    • Core team

  • Olivier Amprimo is a consultant at Headshift, currently based in Paris. He has been working on international network and community management, designing and implementing CRM, reporting and community tools. He also advised the founder of Laneo, a web community primarily targeting people who are engaged in outdoor sports and are sensitive to the protection of the environment. Olivier holds a PhD in Management and is passionate about knowledge management, communities of practice, enterprise 2.0 and corporate governance in a knowledge economy. He blogs @ VeniVidiLuxi. When not working, he can be found back-packing mostly in Latin America and Asia. Olivier is fluent in French (native) and Spanish.

  • Tom Armitage makes things for the web out of Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and highly accessible XHTML/CSS. He balances his coding skills with a firm interest in the more thoughtful and strategic aspects of designing social web applications and their interactions, and has spoken on matters social, playful, and technological at conferences including ETech, Reboot, and RailsConf Europe. A blogger since early 2001, Tom currently writes at Infovore. When not at work, Tom can be found cooking, reading, and making photographs.

  • Imran Aziz is in charge of keeping the company's network running smoothly, as well as providing development for client projects. Before coming to Headshift he was the creator and lead developer of a hosting automation tool which is still a market leader. Imran's Blog, Information 4 Technology

  • Riccardo Cambiassi has spent the last ten years designing and developing groupware and cooperative web tools for the Italian market, and in the last few years he's been focusing on social interaction through the web, giving a number of expert presentations at local and nationwide internet related events on exploiting Web 2.0 technologies. He has very popular blogs in English and Italian.

  • Kate Crawshaw is a consultant at Headshift and has a background in marketing, communications and knowledge management with a focus on new media. She is passionate about making people feel more connected and inspired both in and outside the office. When Kate's outside the office, she is focused on the three 'ts' - talking, tap dancing and tapas.

  • Tim Duckett is a senior technical consultant with experience of running projects building systems in sectors ranging from legal to retail to government by way of telecoms. He specialises in translating business requirements into technical specifications, which is another way of saying he speaks both management and geek fluently and brings sense to acronym soups. Given the choice, he's a fan of open-source software, but he's equally at home with the technology of corporate environments. He has an MBA, is a certified project manager and when he's not working he takes photographs and plays with gadgets.

  • Penny Edwards is a consultant. Having practiced for six years as a commercial solicitor (in NZ and the UK), Penny’s interest in technology and business systems spurred her towards IT consultancy with a company developing information management systems for the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. During her MBA in Technology Management, she studied management processes related to the adoption of wikis in businesses and their subsequent effect on organisational learning. She blogs about her work at ThinkMuch. She loves travelling, fine wine and (super) spicy food!

  • Juan Bau Garcia works alongside project managers and consultants. His background in E-Commerce and Interactive Media gives him an overall view on web applications design, development and implementation. Juan is also our personal Spanish tutor and is always willing to provide insightful information to anyone of us when setting our sails towards Spain.

  • Amit Kothari is a web developer and concept creator. He's an eccentric believer in the expression of feelings on the web. He launched a startup called QuotationsBook at The Future of Web Apps conference in February 2007, and he's working on other ventures like BollywoodChutney and Moonri.se which are listed on his website. Prior to this, Amit spent a couple of years doing large public-sector projects with a systems integration firm. He's published a poetry book and has a passion for adventurous travel. He sometimes draws on the office whiteboard. Nobody has yet understood what he draws and why.

  • Dave Knapik joined us from Chicago, happily defecting from America. He has extensive experience as a developer, particularly with regards to ColdFusion. Having worked in various industries in the US, he complements the team with his broad expertise in the educational and medical sectors. Dave likes blogging about music, travelling around the world and eating all of Headshift's Hobnobs.

  • Hemma Kocher is a consultant. Hemma has previously worked in PR, communications and teaching and is passionate about all aspects of organisational communication and behaviour as well as training. During her MA in Corporate Communications, she worked on new media and its impact on corporations. Interviewing corporate bloggers, she wrote her MA thesis about corporate internal blogs and internal communication. If she is not working, she reads, skis, reads more or thinks about communication. German is Hemma's native language.

  • Serena Mc Hugh is a consultant. Serena has a background in Film and Television specialising in documentary direction and editing. She completed an MA in Interactive Media her final thesis was about developing high risk decision support systems from naturalistic decision models. She is interested in knowledge management and the effect of technology on our cognitive process. She likes to travel and her favourite possession is her trampoline.

  • Ana Neves is a consultant at Headshift. She has previously been Knowledge Manager, Cultural Change Manager and IT Consultant in some public and private organisations. She has a Computer Science degree and is passionate about people, how they work and how they behave. She maintains portal KMOL, an online publication on knowledge management and organisational learning which features articles, interviews, book reviews, case studies, etc. She loves reading, surfing the web, travelling, and talking about her country - Portugal.

  • Sigrun Bjork Olafsdottir, as Headshift office manager, is the welcoming face and voice our visitors first encounter, and she looks after us all and ensures we look up from our screens from time to time. Sigrun is also an accomplished writer and ambassador for Icelandic cuisine, sagas, mythology and culture. Sigrun is also fluent in Swedish.

  • Ana Roji has been working in Spain as a web and graphic designer. With a background on communications and film, she has joined us after doing an MA in Interactive Media in London. Her interests go from the lifelong learning process of aging population online to the creation of an iconography of smells in multimedia. Her final project was an interactive installation aimed at improving the experience of urban dwellers in pedestrian underpasses. She really enjoys the orange Headshift’s espresso coffee machine everyday.

  • Christoph Schmaltz holds a master in International Information Management and spent considerable time studying, working and traveling abroad. His last assignment took him to the United Nations, where he supported internal communication processes and knowledge sharing. Christoph has a genuine interest in intercultural diversity and its ramifications on communication and collaboration facilitated through social software. Christoph is fluent in Dutch, while German is his native language.

  • Tom Taylor is a developer, writing mostly in Ruby on Rails, but also hacking away in anything that presents itself. He has a masters degree in Systems Engineering, and has worked in the third sector on health and development projects. He likes open APIs, munging data together and experimenting with the results. In his spare time he plays guitars, flies kites, and tries not to fall off his bike. He blogs at tomtaylor.co.uk.

  • Jessica Wittebort is an interaction and experience designer. Prior to Headshift, she was an art director for advertising in NYC and Kentucky for 7 years. She earned her MA in interaction design and focused on the online interactions that encourage engagment with offline spaces. She started Raising Heartrates in NYC – a project that raised funds for challenged athletes through the sale of a, 'racy' calendar that she shot, an Underwear Run in NYC's Central Park and launch parties. Jess used to be a professional classical and modern dancer, yet remains to be one of the clumsier people at Headshift. During the off-hours, she takes pictures, builds stuff, walks the hound and insists on learning the Tango.