About Guy Bucknall
An experienced company director, Guy has been in business for over 20 years, and held directorships including Sales, Marketing and Managing.
For the last 14 years Guy has concentrated in the digital marketing sector. In 1998 he founded one of the first dedicated digital signage operators in the UK and grew it into a multi million pound business with clients including David Lloyd, Virgin Active. For the last two years he has spotlighted Online and Digital Marketing as the natural progression to his existing career experience.
Guy started his career in the early 1990s in London. He worked as an account handler for major Advertising and Marketing agencies, specializing in Direct Marketing and Sales Promotion. His CV includes agency names such as McCann Erickson, Claydon Healey International and Ammirati Puris Lintas. His brand experience covers everything from Business Machines (Panasonic, Gestetner, Rex Rotary, Ricoh), through Health and Wellbeing (Pharmaton) to Travel and Leisure (Forte Leisure Breaks, British Airways, BA Travel Shops).
About Ruan O Tiarnaigh
An experienced director since founding EZ-DSP in 2000, Ruan has held directorships in a number of organisations with various responsibilities including IT, Operations and overall management. Ruan has managed the development of products in the areas of Aerospace/Military, TV, Digital Signage and Online and Digital Marketing, as well as numerous systems for the internal management of organisations. Ruan’s experience also includes negotiation with corporate organisations and securing Venture Capital funding.
Prior to founding Guru Networks and WSI Online Guru, Ruan was responsible for the specification and development of software systems to manage the display of content on over 900 Digital Out of Home (DOOH) TV channels, the delivery and distribution of over 2TB of data per week to networks throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe. Also responsible for support and service teams as well as technical and hardware infrastructures.
Ruan holds a BSc in Computing and Mathematics and a MSc in High Performance Computing. Whilst a Research Officer and reading for a PhD in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Electronic Engineering, Ruan founded EZ-DSP Limited. EZ-DSP developed software tools used in the Medical, Aerospace and Military hardware fields. As Operations Director Ruan had responsibility for the specification and development of these tools as well as being heavily involved in the sales process. Customers included NASA, BAe Systems, Philips Medical and Analog Devices.
Ruan is an experienced public speaker and has lectured at degree level in Computer Science.
About Michael Thompson
When he’s not behind a computer Mike can be found hill walking or designing elaborate ways to promote his rabbit’s Facebook page. Which kind of says it all really.
Annika Nestius-Brown
Annika co-ordinates the projects within WSI Online Guru and brings a wealth of experience in administration management.
Her previous work includes a variety of training, communications and marketing positions in the private, public and voluntary sector in Belfast, as well as in London and internationally.
Annika enjoys understanding and using new technology as part of the increasingly competitive marketing and public relations discipline, and believes that ICT, and most recently social media, fundamentally alters the way organisations, businesses and individuals exchange ideas and transact.
