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Ed Molyneux
CEO, Co-Founder
Ed switched over from the cockpits of military fast-jets to sit at the helm of FreeAgent Central Ltd, via a stint as a technology consultant, in 2006.
He resides at his rural home just south of Edinburgh with his wife and two kids.
Email: ed@freeagent.com
Olly Headey
CTO, Co-Founder
Olly has been programming computers since they came with rubber keys. Once upon a time he wrote the video game classic Super League Pro Rugby which was big in Pontefract. He has been writing software for the web since the late 90s, survived two dot.com booms and now manages all technical aspects of FreeAgent.
He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two children and his surname is pronounced ‘hee dee’.
Email: olly@freeagent.com
Twitter: @lylo-
Roan Lavery
Product Director, Co-Founder
After abandoning scientific academia, Roan spent many years getting his hands dirty at the coal face of modern web design, leading an Edinburgh-based web development agency and freelancing for clients around the world, until starting FreeAgent.
His main focus involves product management, while leading the user experience team.
Email: roan@freeagent.com
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Emily Coltman
Chief Accountant
Emily does her best to prove that being a Chartered Accountant doesn't necessarily make you a stuffed shirt who speaks nothing but accountantese. She has spent nearly all her working life helping small businesses with their accounts and tax, except for a brief stint with Whitbread where she assures us she was never given free beer (hic!).
She lives near Carlisle with her wonderful husband Matthew and spends part of her time working from home and part in the office.
Email: emily@freeagent.com
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Kevin McCallum
Business Development Director
A long time ago Kevin worked in banking, back in the days when it was still socially acceptable to admit it, but for the last 10 years has been involved with business and accounting software, albeit the old-fashioned kind. He’s particularly interested in building partnerships and business relationships with positive and clever people, and firmly believes that technology should make people’s lives easier, not more complicated.
He lives in Perthshire with his wife, 2 kids and a big dog called Cooper.
Email: kevin@freeagent.com
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Rosie Wilson
Marketing Director
A native Scot recently repatriated from central London Rosie joins us having spent the last eleven years working in online - so she's a bit of a digital geriatric! She can remember the first ‘bubble’, the ‘burst’ and such ancient times as when Google first let people buy key words!
Newly relocated, her current ambition is to carve out a genteel life in Edinburgh’s New Town … oh, and to get lots more people using FreeAgent of course!
Email: roseann@freeagent.com
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David Gauld
Partner Manager
We're almost glad that studying theatre didn't make David a great Hollywood superstar actor, because he's now one of the friendly faces of FreeAgent - sitting squarely on the front line of our community support and account management.
Living in Edinburgh with his awesome wife, David is addicted to tea.
Email: david@freeagent.com
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Charissa Gracie
Support Accountant
Charissa has wealth of knowledge of business accounting, having worked for a number of small businesses throughout her career. She believes that accounting can be fun and is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others.
She lives near the Zoo (not in it however debatable that may be!!) with her wonderful husband, fantastic son and 2 gorgeous cats.
Email: charissa@freeagent.com
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Ingrid Savill
Support Accountant
In her former life (in New Zealand), Ingrid gained commercial experience as a creative entrepreneur, working with fashion in the design and publishing worlds. She established her own company working with leading clothing brands and knows first-hand the stress of running a small business and juggling everything.
She now lives (an eco / sustainable lifestyle) outside of Edinburgh with her long term partner and their young daughter.
Email: ingrid@freeagent.com
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Janice Atherton
Support Accountant
Having joined FreeAgent in Spring 2011, Janice brings a broad and vast knowledge of general business accounting and admin systems from her previous career as an Auditor with a leading Bank Invoice Finance Provider for over 10 years. She insists she was a 'friendly' auditor and not at all 'scary!'
She lives a very busy life in Dunfermline with her husband, two great kids, and dogs Roma the Black Labrador, and Abby the Golden Retriever.
Email: janice@freeagent.com
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JB
Senior Engineer
Web developer by day, dad by night, and mathematician by reputation, JB's been building bits of the internet for as long as he can remember. User experience—from the darkest depths of the code test suite to the brightest lights of the shiny user interface—is why he got into this racket, and now he's helping take FreeAgent into the 2010s.
That last sentence also makes him feel really old.
Email: jb@freeagent.com
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Graeme Mathieson
Senior Engineer
Graeme variously refers to himself as a software engineer, software craftsman, systems administrator or entrepreneur depending upon his mood. Before joining the team, he spent 4 years running his own business, using FreeAgent to manage the books, so he likes to think he knows a thing or two about the product from a user's perspective.
He manages to escape the office, sometimes for days at a time, to spend time with his wife and son.
Email: graeme@freeagent.com
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Thomas Haggett
Head of Engineering Operations
Thomas enjoys playing with all the technology he can get his hands on. He has at one time or another been immersed in realtime 3D, broadcast graphics, web development, iPhone app development, systems administration and the scary world of social media. All that, and he's a proud father of two.
He currently lives and works from Cambridge, visiting Edinburgh from time to time.
Email: thomas@freeagent.com
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Graeme Boyd
Senior Engineer
Graeme joined FreeAgent after spending 6 months doing voluntary work in Thailand. He got his first computer aged 5 and started programming soon after. A physicist by training, he's commercialised microscopes, worked in medical research and run his own business well as developed software for several internet startups.
He's hoping to make accounting a bit less like rocket science.
Email: graeme.boyd@freeagent.com
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Ryan Stenhouse
Ruby Engineer
Ryan has been working with Ruby exclusively for the past four years, but writing web applications since 2004. In a past life he was one of the first 100 Zend Certified PHP Engineers and a teacher of English as a second language.
He is a language tourist in the programming sense and a real-life polyglot. He loves reading the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett and has a guilty enjoyment of the Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series of children's' books.
Email: ryan@freeagent.com
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Robbie Manson
Interface Designer
As FreeAgent's resident typography nut, form freak and CSS-formatting fetishist, Robbie fights the good fight on the design front with Roan. Keen to put his passion for user experience, interface design and carefully-crafted code to better use, Robbie joined FreeAgent from one of Scotland's leading digital agencies in May 2010.
He likes to take care of the details, because he's a good man. And thorough.
Twitter: @rougebert
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Mihai Anca
Ruby Engineer
Mihai is one of the young faces at FreeAgent, joining in June 2010 as a developer intern. He started programming when he was 11 and instantly felt in love with Ruby the minute he discovered it. He's also keen on dabbling with any new technology.
Currently he's studying Distributed Computing at The University of Manchester.
Twitter: @ropiku
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Ben Brinckerhoff
Senior Engineer
Ben is a programmer, entrepreneur, and amateur designer. He is happiest when he is working across disciplines to build delightful features as quickly as possible, but no quicker.
When not in the office, he enjoys hiking, rock climbing, and exploring cities near and far.
Twitter: @bbrinck
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T.J. Sheehy
Senior Engineer
T.J. started programming on a C64 when a broken datasette meant he'd be spending whole days typing in games. He has played with lots of different programming languages snice then and was very happy when he discovered Ruby in 2008. He thinks that the technology is the least important aspect to creating software for humans. He joined FreeAgent in 2012.
He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and son.
Twitter: @tjsheehy
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Paul Smith
Senior Engineer
Paul has been messing about with computer programming since the age of 5, when his parents brought home their first family computer. His formative years included far too much time spent in front of a variety of keyboards and screens, making them beep and flash in new and interesting ways. The early 90s was spent running up large phone bills connected to BBSes, before discovering the web whilst at university and returning home to run up even larger phone bills connected to that instead.
Eventually he decided to stop messing about and try to make a career of it, which so far seems to be going quite well. Prior to joining FreeAgent, Paul has worked for small digital agencies & corporate multinationals developing ecommerce platforms and other web applications.
If he wasn't doing this then he'd probably quite like to be a chef.
Twitter: @elandesign
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John Siladie
Senior Engineer
John started programming text-based RPGs on a TI-81 when he was still in grade school. He went to college to study Computer Engineering and later co-founded the startup 60mo.com. He has worked on basically every aspect of a web application, but admittedly loves working with Javascript and front-end shininess.
He enjoys snowboarding, music, and spending time with his wife and kids.
Twitter: @johnsiladie