Jez John, Managing Director
Jeremy founded the company with the company's other director, Louisa Scott, in July 2003. He has twenty years of management experience and has been involved in the creative industries since graduation from Goldsmith College, University of London in 1992. He ensures that as the company grows we retain our ‘family’ business mentality of creating a vibrant and engaging workplace whilst ensuring that our customer satisfaction and retention rate remains high.
Known as: Jez or Jeremy
Couldn't live without: Burgers from The Diner down the road
Tel: 0207 183 0058 x201
Jez [at] webstarsltd.com
Louisa Scott, Director and Copywriter
Louisa is co-director of Webstars Ltd. She moved to the UK in 1990 to study English Lit at UCL and recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at London University. Apart from copy-writing duties for Webstars Ltd, she manages bands, writes lyrics and keeps hoping her half-written novel will finish itself while she isn't looking.
Known as: Louisa
Couldn't live without: coffee, books and the Internet
louisa [at] webstarsltd.com
James Brown, Head of Project Management
James studied social psychology at cambridge and worked at the British Library before landing at Webstars. Although he knows enough about the techy stuff, his real interests are user experience, graphic design and the smart use of language. He hails from York but after 6 years down south he's only gone and lost his accent.
Known as: JB, or anything that avoids referencing that singer..
Couldn't live without: My iPhone and my camera (obvious but true..)
Tel: 0207 183 0058 x209
james [at] webstarsltd.com
Joanna Chwiejczak, Project Manager
Once upon a time, at a crazy tea-party back in Poland, Joanna decided to throw her stable life away and move to London. After she arrived in Dover, reality bit back: nobody could speak Polish (it's all changed now), so she learned English and survived. After a few stormy years she's still here, enjoying work for Webstars and planning her next holiday trip.
Known as: Jo (not to be confused with the other Jo, below!) or Aśka (pronounced "Ashka")
Couldn't live without: bank holidays...
Tel: 0207 183 0058 x204
joanna [at] webstarsltd.com
Adam House, Project Manger
Having completed an MSc in philosophy of mental health at Warwick, Adam decided to utilise his well-developed knowledge for its greatest application, the digital industry. He is passionate about many things digital and has designed a very attractive blog, unfortunately the content has since been pending...lovely looking blog though.
Known as: Adam
Couldn't live without: Chinese food and my guitar
Tel: 0207 183 0058 x203
adam [at] webstarsltd.com
Susan Allen, Project Manager
Susan tries to steer clear of summing herself up in small paragraphs but feels it would be decidedly un-sporting of her were she to refuse, so... Having gained a degree in History of Art at York, it suddenly struck her that, actually, the way forward was...the future (there was blinding light and choir-song and everything), thus, she went to get her hands dirty with some creations of her own at University of the Arts, London. Striving forth into the digital age, these days she's pre-occupied with all things internet, dabbling in a spot of web writing and freelance design as well as project managing at Webstars.
Known as: Susan, Suz/Suse, Sue (to middle-aged men, weirdly...)
Couldn't live without: doing spontaneous stuff
Tel: 0207 183 0058 x210
susan [at] webstarsltd.com
Ben Leonard, Senior Designer
Ben is one of our senior designers. He hails from Hastings, a nice seaside town with lots of noisy seagulls. He started working for Webstars while still at university studying Multimedia, way back in 2002. He quickly discovered that you learn a lot more working on creative projects than you ever do at uni, and he has been with us ever since.
Known as: Ben
Couldn't live without: a nice cuppa tea and a biscuit for dunking
ben [at] webstarsltd.com
Philip John, Senior Analyst & Systems Programmer
Phil is our senior systems architect and also takes on the role of senior developer, leading and overseeing all work on large projects. He has 8 years commercial experience, and is an expert in both common open source and proprietary technologies. He is well-versed in many cutting edge web technologies including Web Services, AJAX, all things XML, linked data and more, having leveraged them all in countless large projects. Phil has also spent time in the past writing low-level server software for companies that required very specific solutions.
Known as: Phil
Couldn't live without: His wife and son
Tel: 0207 183 0058 x205
phil [at] webstarsltd.com
Stefan "Izzy" Isarie, Developer and Accessibility Consultant
Stefan is our senior client-side developer. He is very comfortable with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. He is an amateur photographer in his spare time and he enjoys sci-fi movies! "Do you think this is air you breathe?" He has been working, happily, at Webstars since December 2005.
Known as: Stefan, Izzy
Couldn't live without: his lovely wife, his beautiful daughter, Nikon, LOTR and Matrix
stefan [at] webstarsltd.com
Emil Muthu, Programming Project Manager
Emil is manager of Webstars' Romanian office, with 6 years of hands-on programming project management experience, in medium and large-scale deployments. He's appreciated by both the team and their clients for keeping spirits high, and the pace up, however tight the deadline, or difficult the challenge.
Known as: Emil
Couldn't live without: Swimming
Tel: 0207 183 0058 x207
emil [at] webstarsltd.com
Octavian Spoiala, Programming Project Manager
Octavian still hasn't written his profile as he is too busy delivering clients' work. (Or at least that is his excuse) He is Emil's right hand man in our Bucharest office.
Known as: Octavian
octavian [at] webstarsltd.com
Sam Peczek, Administrator
Chances are the reassuringly dazed voice you’ll catch answering the Webstars hotline belongs to Sam. Our sources reveal that her oft bemused expression may or may not indicate that she’s mulling over something decidedly un-mathematical, but she maintains that this only accounts for 28% of her day. During more purposeful interludes, Sam gets her thrills editing twisty new lit mag 'Spilt Milk' and littering various corners of the interweb with irreverent scribblings that waver between vaguely enlightening and gloriously pointless.
Known as: Sam
Tel: 0207 183 0058 x200
sam [at] webstarsltd.com