Team
More background on RadFactory's radical team below:
Jeroen Seghers
Chief Executive Officer
Jeroen obtained his Bachelor Degree with a distinction in Computer Science from Hogeschool Gent, specializing in software engineering, and took a Master Class in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. Growing up around artistic people shaped his feeling for aesthetics, which evolved through the branding and marketing work he did on various projects.
From the age of 15, Jeroen has founded several websites and early on teamed up with Jonathan Beddoes. Together with Christopher Cain they founded StartNow International Ltd, and consulted Neoteric Ltd (Warez.com & Warez P2P), iPhox Ltd and P2P Innovative Ltd.
Jonathan Beddoes
Chief Operational Officer
Jonathan obtained his bachelor degree of Computer Science at Manchester University in three short years with honors. Following his childhood passion for computers, Jonathan started building websites aged 13, learning various programming languages early on. By 17, Jon started his first business, Flying Hosts Ltd - a web-hosting services company which was later sold.
Following his early successes, Jon began to work with similar entrepreneurial minds, namely Chris and Jeroen. Showing determination and enthusiasm, Jon quickly established the importance of shifting roles from programmer and designer to manager and business developer.
Mark S. Hirschfield LLB
Non Executive Chairman
Mark joined RadFactory in February 2007 in order to oversee all corporate affairs and business development matters. Since studying his law degree at The University of Birmingham in 1997, Mark has been involved in a wide range of internet companies.
Mark is a qualified corporate lawyer with 6 years experience practicing law at leading law firms Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP and more recently Mishcon de Reya (where he now remains a Business Consultant). During Mark's legal career, he developed a unique reputation for being a well regarded entrepreneurial internet lawyer and was instrumental in advising a wide range of highly successful internet companies on their legal affairs, ranging from general corporate to AIM listings and M&A deals.
Following his national award of Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999, Mark has been appointed with a variety of other directorships in the internet, property and retail sectors including Net Mazel Limited, The A H Field Group of Companies, Haverstock Hill Management Company Limited and The Salad Factory Limited. He has also recently been appointed the Chief Executive of the UK Operations of Spin 3 Ltd (part of the Spiral Group), which is the world's largest full mobile gaming technology solutions provider.
Markus Kern
Chief Technical Officer
Having started programming computers at the age of 12, Markus has over 13 years of experience in writing software in various languages and on different platforms. After starting a web-design company while still being in school he continued to work on Open Source projects and as a consultant while studying physics. Markus is currently doing research for his diploma thesis at a German university.
Matthew Gertner
Development Consultant
Until recently Matthew was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of AllPeers. Matthew is also a contributor to Mozilla Prism and actively involved in development of Mozilla related products and services. He likes playing golf, backgammon and piano, cooking, thinking and writing about technology, mastering foreign languages.
Enrique Martin
Development Consultant
Enrique has 9 years of experience developing P2P systems and over 20 years of experience in the IT field. During this time Enrique has worked as programmer, project manager and consultant for large multinational companies. Since 1996, Enrique is fully involved in Internet projects and technologies. Enrique graduated at the University of Deusto doing post-graduate studies in Artificial Intelligence, he has been a lecturer in International congresses and published many articles in technical magazines.
Charlie Beddoes
Media and Editorial Consultant
Charlie is a bass player and singer with 15 years experience in the music industry. She has been signed to major and independent labels as a songwriter with her own bands, and has also worked as a session musician, co-producer, manager and music journalist. Since 2005, Charlie has acted as a consultant specialising in media and entertainment for a variety of Internet companies.
Oana Teodorescu
Administrative Consultant
With a great deal of experience in sales and financial accounting, Oana joined the team in December 2007 as an administrative consultant. Her main duty is to analyze the structure of projects and to recommend changes to help the corporation streamline its workflow. Her creativity, self-discipline, and persistent hard work make her a valuable piece of any puzzle.
Sergey Zozulya
Project Manager & Development Team Leader
Zozulya is a veteran web developer and team leader, with over 13 years of total IT experience, including 10 years of client-side and server-side programming in Delphi, C#, and many other languages. "Zozo" also has over 8 years of Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL databases modeling experience and 8 years of projects analysis and management experience. Building on top of his impressive technical background, Zozulya primary specialisation is project management, with further experience in system analysis and modeling (including database modeling) and client-side, server-side and web programming.
Danil Yasnyuk
Senior Web Developer
Dan graduated with honors from National Aerospace university with master's degree in Computer Science. Since 2005, Dan has worked at RadFactory on a multitude of diverse and challenging web-projects. Interested in front-end engineering and hi-performance web sites, Danil is an exceptional programmer and versatile team-worker.
Andrew Lebedenko
Web Developer
Graduated from National Technical University Kharkov Politechnical Institute as an electronic engineer, emphasis in microelectronic and microprocessor control and information devices, in February 2002. Since January 2006 working with web development. Programming with PHP, javascript. Experienced in HTML, XML, CSS, AJAX. Design and control databases based on Oracle and MySQL. Working with *nix operation systems.
Sergei Kovalenko
Database Administrator
Sergei obtained his specialist degree in Electronic Science at Radioelectronic Kharkov University. He has mastered various programming languages and have strong knowledge at RDBS. Sergei has been involved in a wide range of internet projects as programmer. Showing flexibility and enthusiasm, Serg successfully has been solving tasks.
Alexey Kuznetsov
QA Engineer
Alexey Kuznetsov graduated from National University of Radioelectronics with master's degree in Information Communication networks. Has over 7 years of IT experience, has worked as a computer hardware expert, system administrator, and since 2006 as a test manager at Rad Factory. Interested in automated testing of web-applications.
