Meet Avantrasara

The Management Team

Steven Reeves – Director – is a veteran of the computer and consulting industries with a 25 year track record in business development through strategic partnerships, marketing and sales. He’s held senior positions in Nixdorf Computer, Pyramid Technology, CSC Computer Sciences and Systems Software Associates carrying responsibilities for country level marketing and sales and global account management for major FMCG businesses such as Glaxo, Smithkline and Unilever. During a two year engagement as Account Director for management consultants, Peter Chadwick, he led projects in acute hospitals in Worthing, Colchester and London. Since 2001 Steven has provided strategic business development consulting to help a number of businesses build new partnerships and channels. In one of these roles and on behalf of an SME he led a proposal for grant under FP7 for the Avert-IT project and since January 2008 has worked as Exploitation Manager and Exploitation Board Chairman for that project, introducing an innovative model for bootstrapping the commercialisation of results in self supporting phases. Steven is also an Internet pioneer providing consulting and services to businesses building new services based on Internet technologies.

Jackie Reeves – Director and Head of Marketing – focuses on Inbound Marketing, using Internet technologies and philosophies to attract and engage customers and partners. Her detailed understanding of blog technologies, social media technologies, principles and practices, and Search Engine Optimisation enables businesses to extend their reach to the global audience and exploit the new social web for business development. Jackie also has particular skills in designing user experience, related to page presentation and workflow for hosted services.

Marc Jeanson- Head of Technologies – provides the technology platforms for our web based services. Marc is a recognised expert in the new Internet technologies including dynamic languages – such as Java and Ruby on Rails, communications technologies, operating system tools such as Linux and Apache, and database management systems including MySQL.