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Booking Angel was started in Australia in 2004 as a side project for Dean McEvoy and David Watson.
It has since grown organically with the help of our customers and partners until recently when some external
investors ADI and information city came on board. This allowed us to explore the US market where we have
opened offices and were recently voted in the top 100 private companies in the US at the
Always On conference.
Team:
Dean McEvoy CEO & Founder
David Watson Senior Developer
Gerry Tan Senior Developer
Advisors:
Marc Barach
Marc Phillips
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Angel - Founder
I started the angel team with the belief that a wing and
a prayer is not the only thing you need to be blessed
in business.
I'm the hardest working employee at Booking Angel but
I wouldn't have it any other way.
Each day I strive to have people the world over experience
the sensation of being touched by an angel by making the
daily grind of booking a delicious dining experience just
that little bit easier.
In my spare time I like to preen my wings, nothing cuter
than an angel in good shape. I'm also a massive fan of
my iPod "must be talking to an angel" is amongst my favourite
songs... I love people and my friends and like all girls
in my generation I spend a fair bit of time meeting little
devils on Facebook.
Quote:We are each of us angels with only one
wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another
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Dean McEvoy - CEO & Founder
Dean grew up in the southern beaches of Sydney. From an
early age he told his parents that he wanted to be an
inventor. His wild imagination resulted in the destruction
of many household appliances and the creation of some
interesting contraptions and even once a rescue attempt
from the fire brigade. Dean has worked as a marketing
consultant with Diana
Eilert (ex AT Kearney)at the advertising agency Frontline.
The company responsible for launching Microsoft in Australia.
He learnt about Internet development and online marketing
from Hothouse
Interactive one of Australia's leading web developers
and worked with startups and some of Australias biggest
brands. He was also part owner and the driving force behind
the development and successful sale of his own bar and
restaurant called The
Roxbury.
Quote: Behold the turtle...He only makes progress
when he sticks his neck out
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David Watson
- Lead Developer
The tendency to pull things apart as a child was shared
by Dave... However he hasn't grown out of it. Whether it
is assembling a powerful computer server or rebuilding his
treasured car from scratch he likes to know what makes things
tick and more importantly how to make them work better.
Dave has worked in numerous fields in the IT industry such
as network administration, system administration, application
development and web development. Employed by companies such
as One.Tel, Hothouse
Interactive and Unwired.
He was also an integral part of the team that developed
a unique patented software system used by the Australian
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Gerry Tan
- Technical Guru
Growing up in sunny Queensland, Gerry spent his early days either out fishing or skateboarding with his friends.
After studying information technology at the University of Queensland, Gerry moved to Sydney in 1997 to pursue
his career in IT. After a number of different roles in various fields of the IT industry covering technologies
such as ASP, Ruby, Java, PHP and Perl he eventually took on the job as platform manager in
BigPond.com, Australia's largest ISP and then moved on to a role as the development manager at
Unwired Australia. Gerry also worked with David
and Dean at Australia's largest web developer Hothouse
Interactive. He then left and travelled extensively around South East Asia before coming on board with
Booking Angel. Gerry is an excellent pool player and utilizes his childhood fishing skills by catching out the
sharks in the local 9 ball competitions.
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Marc Barach
Marc is an expert and well known figure in the local search industry he served as CMO of Ingenio, Inc. (acquired by
AT&T in 2007) where he launched its innovative paid search product, Pay Per Call®. Marc has also held the positions of
President & CEO of I-Impact, a business analytics company and CMO of InsWeb; the first online insurance marketplace
which he helped propel to a $100 million IPO in 1999.
Earlier in his career, Marc served as Vice President, Marketing and Advertising at Charles Schwab & Co., co-founder and
principal officer of First Nationwide Bank's investment subsidiary and has held a variety of marketing management positions
at top 10 banks. Marc is a graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his MBA from State University of New York
at Albany.
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Marc Phillips
Marc Philips is the Founder & CEO of Search Forecast which provides search engine optimization tools and professional
solutions for websites and website publishing technologies.
Marc is the Publishers of the world's largest Ad Sense Publishers Directory - listing over 350,000 websites within
the Ad Sense Content Network. With over 12 years experience in online analytics, online advertising and search engine
techniques, Marc oversees the management of global clients. Marc's previous online research company, APT Strategies
was founded in 1993 and sold to Jupiter Research (NASDAQ: JUPM) in 1999.
Marc was a founding shareholder of Australia's leading affiliate company - Commission Monster and initial shareholder
of Viva9, acquired by Blue Freeway Ltd in 2007. Marc holds a Bachelor of Commerce (University of Melbourne), has
authored 8 books and is an authorized representative to provide financial advice on securities and managed funds.
Marc continues his studies in Internet Technology & Policy at Stanford University, California and was first involved
with Booking Angel when he was a judge for the Yellow Pages Business Ideas Grants in 2004.
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