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As the Managing Director at Face, Job helped start the company 5 years ago and brings 12 years research, marketing and innovation experience to his current role having worked on clients such as GSK, News International, Unilever, O2 and Google. As well as driving the business day to day Job is passionate about finding intelligent and creative solutions for our rapidly growing list of clients. Job has also been at the forefront of developing on-line qualitative research methodologies and has personally overseen the launch of both of our web 2.0 research communities’ headbox.com and mindbubble.co.uk. Job is a member of The Marketing Society, the MRS and a member of WOMUK.

Outside of work Job is married with 2 children and whatever spare time he has is now spent cycling around the parks of SW London and watching Liverpool trying to recapture the glory days of the 70/80’sTransport: Bike I never leave home without it

Top 5 Ipod Tracks:

Primal scream – Get your rocks off

Stevie wonder – Superstition

Arcade Fire – Wake Up

Badly Drawn Boy – Something to Talk About

LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great

Having spent time in roles that have varied from a head hunter (the top of the recruitment pyramid, or so he claims), numerous sales & marketing positions and at one point an ice cream man, Daniel joined Face in 2004. During his time at Face he has worked in a number of different roles. He was instrumental in getting co-creation adopted as a preferred process within the Deo department of Unilever and successfully introduced the Face Helix process to Orange, GSK and Coca Cola. He was also fundamental in the creation of Headbox and Mindbubble, which have been critical to the success of Face over the last few years. Working on insight and planning projects with clients like Google, Dr Pepper, Lynx, Comfort, Sure, Fanta, Aquafresh, and Boots have provided Daniel with a wealth of experience in a relatively short period of time and made him a key member of the management team. In his current role as Head of Client Services, Daniel is responsible for delivering projects on time and to the high standards Face expects. He maintains a hands on approach and gets as actively involved in as many projects as possible. With a keen eye for detail, Daniel takes great pride in delivering results and service that ensure clients want to work with Face again.

Travel – Central Line (West to East in under 40 minutes)

Top 5 Ipod Tunes:

The Streets: Has it Come to This?
Groove Armada: Superstylin’
Aim: The Force
Laura Marling: Such a Shame
Digitalism: Pogo

Philip has spent the last 15 years telling people that he works in market research and that, no, he doesn’t stand in the street with a clipboard. Specialising in traditional qualitative research for the first 8 years of his career at Synovate working for clients as varied as Dyson, Abbey, Durex, Walkers, Coke, Orange and British Gas. He then joined Face where he developed particular expertise in terms of online and youth research, focusing particularly on pioneering online qualitative techniques – both focus groups and collaboration communities in both the UK and globally. This means that he doesn’t spend quite as much time on the motorways of Britain any more, leaving more time to think creatively about how to get clients and consumers talking directly to one another and helping to develop Face’s approach to insight, brand strategy and planning.

When he isn’t at work Philip is constantly thinking about ways he can get to the South Pole…. any ideas?

Transport: running shoes

Top 5 ipod tunes:
Hurt (Johnny Cash)
Wichita lineman (Glen Campbell)
Clair la Lune (Claude Debussy)
Scandinavia (Van Morrison)
Brett, you’ve got it going on! (Flight of the Conchords)

Matt is Face’s in house community manager, looking after all of Face’s bespoke client communities. Self christened the community ‘Sheriff’ he thoroughly enjoys taking a group of complete strangers and turning them into a living online community. Since starting at Face, Matt has devised creative & engaging communities for companies such as Google, Coca-Cola, Lynx & Orange.

As part of the Face Social Media planning team Matt is on top of all the latest and emerging web trends, with a keen interest in on-line brand and consumer interaction. Matt also looks after Face’s co-creation community Headbox and is passionate about making it a hive of information for brands and consumers alike.

Away from the world of web Matt is very into football (especially the mighty Spurs), music and film so, if you do manage to find him without his head buried in his laptop do not hesitate to have a chat about things that happen in the real world.

Transport: Train & Tube

Top 5 ipod tunes:

Star Guitar – Chemical Brothers
Check The Rhime – A Tribe Called Quest
La Belle Et Le Bad Boy – MC Solaar
Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeah’s

Lucy joint Face in September 2008 as an Account Executive after completing a degree in Marketing in Glasgow and a year as a student sabbatical. As part of the client services team Lucy has worked with a wealth of brands such as Ribena, Coca-cola, Comfort, Aquafresh, Lynx and really enjoys getting to grips with the interesting insights discovered through co-creation. Outside of work Lucy can be found on the netball court battling to win the North London league!

Transport: taxis (as I’m still a bit of a tourist)

Top 5 ipod tunes:
Whitney Houston – I wanna dance with Somebody
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole – Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Ida Maria – I Like You So Much Better When You’re
Naked Antony & The Johnsons – For today I’m a boy
Mariah Carey – Butterfly

Esther is the latest planner to joins Philip’s Insight team at Face – she’s very quickly become Watson to Philip’s Sherlock Holmes. She thinks people are fascinating, and so loves the huge amounts of time she spends working with them in Face’s online communities and offline workshops. Esther brings 8 years experience from previous research & planning roles at working on clients such as Vodafone, Barclays, Sony, COI and The Army. Since coming to Face she has worked on a range of insight and co-creation projects with brands as diverse as Lynx and Comfort and audiences as diverse as teens and pregnant women and she’s loved every second of it.

When she is not staring off into the distance with her her head locked in deep strategic thought you can find her getting down with the cultural types here in London.

Transport: I never know how I’m going to travel. Sorry about that!

Top 5 Ipod Tunes:

Two Doors Down (Mystery Jets)

Love is Blind (Amy Winehouse)

Rock steady (Aretha franklin)

Talking in your sleep (The Romantics)

Wonderful one (Marvin Gaye)

Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and innovator with a 15 year track record of building successful media and marketing businesses aimed at niche segments. Throughout his career Andrew has pioneered new techniques  and methodologies of working with consumers from peer to peer marketing in the 1990’s to co-creating and crowd sourcing with consumers both on-line and off-line to drive innovation and social media planning in the last few years.  He is passionate about understanding customer audiences, being instrumental in setting up Face’s collaboration communities, Headbox (aimed at youth) and Mindbubble (aimed at women) and how to market with consumers rather than at them. He now brings 15 years of combined experience in brand marketing research and innovation having worked with major companies such as Barclaycard, Unilever, Boots, GSK and Bank of Ireland.

Andrew is a member of the Marketing Society, the MRS and Vice President of  WOM (Word of Mouth) UK Association which is affiliated with WOMMA in America; he is also a regular panel speaker at insight, co-creation and word of mouth conferences and contributes often to the research and marketing press

Top 5 ipod tunes:

Editors – Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors

The Killers – Are we human

Take That – The Greatest Day (of your life)

U2 – With or Without You

Bloc Party – I still remember

The Cure – In between days

Francesco is Research Director and Head of Social Media. He holds a PhD in New Media and Sociology. His research focused on immersive media and the social web.

Over the past ten years he has been involved in social networking, collaborative research and immersive media as a researcher, web strategist and entrepreneur working for research agencies and web startups.

At Face, Francesco focuses on communities, real-time research, crowd-sourcing and mobile social media.

He blogs here and at www.makersofuniverses.com

Transport: Sledging from the top of Muswell Hill

Top 5 Ipod Tunes:

Theme – Still Going
Bloody Hell – The Emperor Machine
Farewell – Aba Shanti I
Handclapping song – The Meters
Money for Fish (and your Chips) – Hellfish