GAVIN STARKS - BSc MMus FRSA

Gavin has been combining Business, Technology, Science and Media for more than a decade.

As the 5th employee at Richard Branson’s "Virgin Net" ISP he helped shape parts of the UK internet and the streaming media industry - co-founding the International Webcasting Association in Europe. In 1999 he created the award-winning cross-media company, Tornado Productions, and sold it to a larger media group in 2003.

Having led projects with clients as diverse as; UK Government, Google, BBC, Rolls Royce, Tate Modern, EMI, Shell and Christian Aid, he has broad and deep knowledge of how worlds collide.

Gavin is Founding Director of d::gen and AMEE, Managing Director of CI and non-exec Director of DRDC. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, contributes to Nesta/PAL workshops, the AmbientTV collective and Acoustic Space Lab in Latvia – exploring links between technology, science and the arts.

He holds a BSc in Astronomy: working in Radio Astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory; and a Master’s in Computer-Music - he created and lectured new IEEE courses in Electronics and Music at Glasgow University.

ANDREW CONWAY - BSc PhD FRAS

Andrew has worked with organisations as diverse as the Open University, NASA and ESA on subjects such as planet detection and predicting solar activity using artificial intelligence. His awards include an "Outstanding contribution to data analysis" by NASA for his work on the RHESSI satellite, and the Faraday medal from Glasgow University.

In addition to publishing over 20 research papers and lecturing, Andrew and his team have developed eductional software that is used in schools across the country.

He is a co-author of the popular children's book "A Beginner's Guide to the Universe" (2002 CUP) and "Astrobiology" (2003 CUP).

ANNA CLAYTON - BA

Anna has over 15 years experience in the creative industries, bringing together multi-disciplinary teams to produce a range of strong visual communications using print, web, film & video to all forms of interactive media.

She has produced over 80 live & on demand webcasts, including the Award winning "Best use of Broadband" for Glastonbury's Live Webcasts, the Oxfam “Big Noise” Fairtrade video campaign and the official Sony Radio Academy Awards 2003-5.

She has also led projects such as screen graphics and animations for director Fernando Meirelles' “The Constant Gardener”, and Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella's “Breaking and Entering”, TV Commercials, Youth Internet TV broadcasts and design of limited edition art books. Previously Anna studied Social Anthropology at Sussex University and pursued fields trips to India, Burma and Bangladesh. She continues to develop silver-smith techniques and contributes to the Hidden Art Open Studio events in and around East London.

MARCUS BOINTON - BSc MSc

With over 2 decades of programming experience, Marcus is an expert in PHP, Linux, OpenBSD and MacOS X. He has plentiful experience in system administration, database design and normalisation, SQL, version control, algorithms, design patterns, acceleration, tuning, distributed caching, database replication, scalability, failover, web services, javascript, etc. He regularly reports bugs in PHP, MySQL and related projects, and has contributed code to PHP5. He's a regular attendee and occasional speaker at PHP London gatherings.

At the moment his time is consumed with mailing lists, continuous project development for d::gen, a new baby, and as much skiing as possible.

ADRIAN PHILPOTT - BA MA

After a 1st from CSM followed by an MA at the RCA, Adrian received the acclaimed nomination for the Creative Future of the Year 1994. He has worked with Tomato; Diesel; Howell Henry Chaldecott & Lury; Arts Council of England, Foote Cone & Belding; Four Communications; and Armando Testa. He was art director for the Lancia pan-European TV commercial.

With Vaughan Oliver he has art directed video/tv graphics for Madonna, Converse, and the World-Cup Coca-Cola 'eat football, sleep football, drink Coca-Cola' TV campaign. Print based work includes a limited edition book; the 'Death to the Pixies' box set; and overall concept for the singles, album, and merchandising for the largest selling album in the USA - 'Razorblade Suitcase' by Bush.

ANDREW NEWSAM - BSC PHD

Andy is a Lecturer and Reader in Astronomy Education at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the lead scientist responsible for the National Schools Observatory - the worlds largest robotic telescope - getting school children using professional astronomical telescopes from their classrooms.

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Some of our team prefer not to be represented online or as 'for hire'.

They range from software architects with more than 10 years practical experience in building some of the largest websites on the planet, to systems administrators who manage massive networks, to creative directors, producers, designers and artists.

d::gen network brings specialist teams together to do exceptional work.