Grand Parade

Beejay has over 10 years of experience in web development and interactive media. He has worked on sites ranging from Online Learning to major online Social Networking hubs. Beejay came to Grand Parade from one of the world’s top Social Networking platforms, ONEsite, Inc., where he worked on projects for properties such as American Idol, WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), and Fox. He brings to Grand Parade enterprise-level software experience and tools to help bring in the next generation of interactive Web technologies.

Ian is responsible for the high level design of GP projects. He served as the art director on a number of top consumer magazines, such as Elle, FHM and The New York Post’s Page 6 magazine; in 2008 he redesigned Italian Vanity Fair for Conde Nast. Ian has extensive experience designing for sports publications in the USA and has designed both ICON and Close Up, the Ladbrokes quarterly. Ian adds aesthetic and brand overview to our online campaigns and major site launches.

Ruud is a digital marketing expert schooled extensively in the conversion and acquisition ethos of the online bookmakers. Prior to joining GP, Ruud was responsible for online customer acquisition at Betfair; before that he exceled in various digital marketing roles during 5 years at Unibet, one of the largest online gaming companies in continental Europe. Ruud was nominated for the eGaming Review online marketing campaign of the year award two years in a row—Unibet’s Euro 2008 campaign and in 2009 with Betfair’s Ashes campaign.

Andrew has a truly integrated approach to art direction acquired from his 11 years as a design professional. Developing his career in both design agencies (Arris, Ouno) and publishing houses (Bauer, Dennis), he has created award winning online magazines (iGizmo) and adverts, art directed photo shoots, launched iPad magazines and designed websites, corporate print and branding. If he gets time he also mucks in with some illustration.

Nilesh started out as a Junior Designer for eBXP, creating interactive web applications, banner campaign concepts, logo identity and page layouts for print. Looking to up the ante, he moved in at Grand Parade. Since 2007 he has been adding his creative flair to interactive sports betting widgets and applications, banner campaigns, web page design and different elements of print design.

Andreu is a sports publishing specialist. He started out as a researcher and editor for sports and entertainment giants IMG World. Since 2006 he has been the deputy editor of the award-winning Close Up magazine produced by Grand Parade for Ladbrokes and manages news.ladbrokes.com.

Ben started his career as a video editor and producer. Before joining Grand Parade as a digital PM, he was project manager for Premier League Productions responsible for the setup, production and distribution of video packages to Premier League partners worldwide as well as Yahoo and ESPN Mobile.

Tomek is a mobile specialist and is the driving force behind Grand Parade’s Cracow office where the code that runs our products gets formulated and refined. In his youth, Tomek programmed for technology giants such as Ricoh, OKI and Siemens. More recently he developed a sync system for mobile phones, implemented in the biggest Polish mobile carrier—Plus GSM—before taking the reins of Grand Parade Sp. z. o. o.

Michał is a creative digital developer based in GP’s Cracow office. His youth belies his six years experience in highly skilled front-end web development. He is a PHP and XML expert, which allows him not only to build websites, but also to drive them.

Michał has worked as a sysadmin for 11 years now, first at small Polish companies, then at the DRQ software house (now part of Asseco). After that he spent five years in the R&D division at Fujitsu Kyushu Systems, and for two years before joining Grand Parade had been leading a NetOps team at iLoop Mobile Inc. He specialises in operating systems, security and virtualisation (first container-based then VMware, Xen and finally cloud). He is also a big Land Rover fan and proud owner of a Disco Series 1, and enjoys travelling and “tons of other stuff.”

After starting out as a network admin in his high school, Luk went on to graduate from Cracow University of Science and Technology, where he was also in charge of the network admin. He joined Grand Parade in July 2010 having worked as a programmer in Softwarelab Sp. z o.o. He loves low-level programming and is an expert at the maintenance and optimization of old applications.

Adam is currently studying at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, where he was network administrator for two years in his dormitory. He has a number of years’ experience in web-development as a freelancer and is a Linux and computer hardware enthusiast. He officially joined Grand Parade in June 2011.

Beniamin is a PHP programmer with over five years experience with PHP and web technologies. Before joining Grand Parade he worked for Onet.pl, Poland’s biggest web portal, as well as on on mobile internet projects and mass sale systems. He also studies IT at university in Cracow, with an interest in low level programming languages. In his spare time, he likes new technologies, travelling, music and socionics, a theory of information processing and personality type.

Konrad has several years experience in PHP and JavaScript, and before joining Grand Parade was a programmer with the interactive agencies Optart and Opcom, working on various technologies such as Zend, Codeigniter and WordPress. He is also lead programmer on Socjum.pl - a social website generator. Konrad is a computer science graduate from Cracow’s AGH University of Science and Technology. ”I love to observe how the web and web technologies evolve,” he says. “Learning these new technologies gives me a lot of satisfaction.” In his free time he plays board games and enjoys trekking in the Beskidy mountains.