Ray Anderson – CEO and Founder
Ray is Chief Executive of Bango, the business that uniquely enables content providers to market, deliver and sell their products and services directly to mobile phone users on all networks world-wide.
He co-founded Bango in 1999 after realizing that the convergence of the internet with the ubiquity of mobile phones could open up huge opportunities for content and service providers. Ray positioned the company to benefit from the opening up of the operator portals in 2004, and the transition of the mobile content business from a messaging model to a customer friendly browse and buy Internet model.
In 2005, Ray led the successful floatation of the company, and continues to build and steer the Bango team forward in to one of the most exciting markets in history.
In 1988, Ray established IXI which created the industry standard network GUI - X.desktop. IXI was an early leader in the creation of the web. It sponsored the first ever WWW conference at CERN and shipped the world's first commercial web browser. In 1993 the company merged with SCO and then floated on NASDAQ. Ray held senior executive roles in SCO, including general manager, senior VP Marketing, and senior VP of New Ventures. He played a key role in transforming SCO from being a small "PC Unix" company to it becoming the industry standard Intel Unix provider.
Before IXI Ray was a co-founder of Torch Computers which he sold to CATSCO in 1984. Before that he worked for Acorn Computers, The General Electric Company and Sinclair Research.
Ray is an entrepreneur, innovator and investor with 20 years experience. He was named "Technology Entrepreneur of the Year" in February 2006 and in September 2006 at the ME Awards was given a special award for outstanding contribution to the mobile entertainment industry. A member of "The Cambridge Angels", Ray was a founding investor in a variety of growing companies including TeamStudio, Tenison Technology, Electronic Share Information (sold to E*Trade), Aspective, Trigenix (sold to Qualcomm), RE5ULT (82ASK), Shortfuze, Midentity and other technology businesses. He holds a 1st Class Degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University. He is a keen pilot.
Anil Malhotra, SVP Alliances & Marketing and Founder
As Co-founder and SVP of Alliances & Marketing, Anil Malhotra is focused on building long-term relationships with mobile operators and other infrastructure players such as billing providers and handset manufacturers. Anil is a highly experienced, senior marketing and business development manager, with 15 years experience in building entrepreneurial, fast-growth start-up businesses, in the Internet, software publishing and technology sectors.
Formerly with IXI, Anil won worldwide deals with US, Japanese and European industry giants including IBM, Digital and Sun Microsystems. During his time with the company, he also oversaw valuable licensing agreements with blue chip corporations. After IXI's merger with SCO, Anil became VP marketing for the user products division.
After two years he left to join the board of CyberLife Technology in 1995 as Business Development Director. There, he secured licensing agreements with Sony, Hasbro, Mindscape Entertainment and Warner Interactive. He left in 1999 to found Bango. He holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Wales and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Essex University.
Peter Saxton, CFO
Peter provides the financial leadership, direction and policy guidance to the company as it continues to grow rapidly. He is also responsible for ensuring the company's operational efficiencies are maintained as its global roll-out gathers pace. Peter has over 20 years experience in all financial disciplines including accounting, fund-raising and acquisitions.
After achieving a BSc (Hons.) in Management Sciences from UMIST, Peter Saxton qualified as a chartered accountant in 1981. He joined Sinclair Research as Financial Controller, then as Finance Director at Nexus Payment Systems which provided services to clients in the LINK ATM network. He was part of the three-man management buy-out that led to a successful European expansion and subsequent disposal to Sligos, a leading French payment system business
From 1996 to 2001 he was Finance Director at PayPoint, the UK’s leading branded utility bill payment company. From start-up, Peter was responsible for all finance activity and enabled the company to profitably process more than £2 billion of payments per year.
Martin Harris, SVP Strategic Accounts
As SVP Strategic Accounts, Martin is responsible for managing the long term relationships with Bango's key customers in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Working with global app stores, online publishers and network operators his role covers business planning and strategic sales. His 11 years experience in the mobile industry and wealth of knowledge in the mobile content and payments space means he often speaks at industry events.
Previously, as Sales Director at iii.co.uk (Interactive Investor International plc) Martin helped drive the company to a leading market position and through a subsequent IPO in February 2000. Martin spent 12 months with AT&T Labs, heading global new technology sales. Before that, he was at Sun Microsystems for 10 years in sales and sales management positions where he was one of Sun's most successful European salesmen. He has also held senior roles at NCR and Torch Computers in the USA and Canada.
Elaine Bramley, SVP Customer Services
Elaine has over 10 years experience in managing professional and customer services in Internet and Electronic Commerce. Elaine is responsible for supporting all Bango customers and managing special projects, including Java.com. She has extensive knowledge in setting up customer service operations, project management and Internet technologies.
Prior to working at Bango Elaine was head of Customer Services for an EDI/XML Electronic Commerce company. This involved working with large corporate customers including British Airways, Colgate Palmolive, Anheuser Busch. Elaine has a degree in Business Management.
Glenn Walker, SVP Development
Glenn is responsible for the technical development and delivery of products at Bango, working with Product Marketing and Sales to create and enhance the company's product proposition. He leads the management of the development team at Bango.
Glenn has been at Bango since 2005 and was key in the creation of the Bango Analytics product, enabling customer's to analyse their mobile sites in real-time, leveraging the in-depth data and relationships Bango has in the mobile space.
Prior to working at Bango, Glenn was Head of Development at Moneyfacts Group plc. Moneyfacts were the innovators of financial product comparison sites, compiling national data from all of the UK's Banks and Building Societies on credit cards, mortgages, personal loans, savings and more. He was involved in key projects such as Mortgage Comparison software, which was used in every UK branch of HSBC, as well as supplying data and analysis services to Virgin Money.
He is also a keen private pilot, and owns his own aircraft based at Old Buckenham, Norfolk.
Andy Bovingdon, VP Product Marketing
Andy is responsible for the interface between the Bango products and markets; considering product requirements, positioning and promotion. He leads the company's product proposition and strategy.
Andy has over 12 years experience within the global internet market, working for both start-ups and established brands. He has been active with the World Wide Web from its inception and was involved in the first web conference, at CERN in 1994. Andy integrated a wide range of web technologies into the X-desktop product range for IXI Ltd; he introduced the world to the Web-based Desktop (Webtop) at SCO; and designed the first web-based remote application access solutions for Tarantella Inc., allowing remote and mobile workforces to use mission critical applications from centrally located Unix, Linux and Windows servers over the Internet. Before joining Bango, Andy was Head of Marketing and Product Management for ANT plc, the leading supplier of web-based user interface platforms for the IPTV market. Prior to that, he was responsible for world-wide marketing at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Andy holds a BSc in Computer Science from Staffordshire University.
Tim Moss, Chief Data Officer
Tim is an expert in the field of high volume, database backed content management systems as used by mobile operators and news portals, with many years of experience in internet businesses offering Internet based services and products. Tim's primary role is to lead the team that ensures Bango's datacentres and databases provide high levels of availability and performance for all our customers, according to our service level agreements. He is also responsible directly to the CEO for safeguarding the privacy and integrity of all customer and end user data, and for ensuring the implementation of Bango privacy and security policies.
Prior to working at Bango, Tim was Chief Technical Architect at Sportal International, who ran Europe's leading and award winning sports news portal, where he helped them take traffic from 1m pages per month to 1.5m pages per hour, from over 2.5m unique sports fans. Tim previously developed the systems underpinning financial products used by Tier 1 investment banks, where high systems availability, security and auditability was crucial.
Tim has a background in software product development and systems administration and architecture, holding positions at blue-chip organisations such as IBM, O2 and SCO and has a degree in Software Engineering from Edinburgh University.
Karen Oakley, VP Operations
As VP Operations Karen is responsible for the strategic management and support of internal systems; operator billing including integration, launch, post-launch activities and financial reporting and analysis, and legal and regulatory compliance.
Karen has over 20 years experience in managing operations in the High-Tech sector. Formerly with IXI, Karen managed the finance and operations from start up to $11m. After IXI's merger with SCO, she was responsible for human resources, operations, financial control and management accounting for two SCO development sites. She has an MBA, a post graduate diploma in Management and is AAT qualified.