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I work full time as CEO of my company Egg Co. This involves developing and managing internal projects, giving talks at conferences on development, metrics and online marketing, and avoiding using swear-words in my youtube videos.

I'm a jack-of-all trades type of person - equally comfortable with programming, designing, defining business strategy and making tea.

History

• 1980 — Born in the UK.
• 1996 — Made my first website in Geocities. It was about Doraemon.
• 1998 — Played Counterstrike solidly for about 4 years.
• 2002 — Got a degree in Accounting & Finance.
• 2004 — Realised that I preferred computers over calculators.
• 2005 — Came to Tokyo to work for IMG SRC as an engineer.
• 2007 — Worked in analytics at Dentsu Razorfish.
• 2007 — Went independent. Built Open Source Food, a recipe social network.
• 2008 — Built an open source lifestreaming platform called Sweetcron.
• 2008 — Open Source Food got into TIME magazine's 50 best websites list.
• 2009 — Open Source Food was acquired by Tsavo Media. Renamed Nibbledish.
• 2009 — Keynote speaker at Blogout! '09 in Singapore.
• 2009 — Formed Egg Co., working on Peashoot, our first piece of software.

Personal

I'm half British, half Singaporean and live in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. I speak Japanese, play drums in a band called Sex for Candy and like to go swimming. I play the violin and have performed in the Royal Albert Hall leading the Surrey Heath Youth Orchestra and have performed The Nutcracker with the Kumamoto Symphony Orchestra. For a while, I was writing my own music too.

Contact

You can ask me things on Twitter or Facebook.