Welcome to Freshview thoughts, a place for our ideas and ramblings about building and supporting a popular web application from Sydney.

Stay in the loop

Dig into a category

• Buzz or Press
• Freshview News
• Our Software
• Random Thoughts

Search all posts

Our products

The easiest way for designers to send email newsletters for themselves and their clients.

Freshview company update

Posted by Mathew Patterson on September 15, 2008 11:14 AM

When you are a web based software company, your customers don't necessarily know a whole lot about you. Many people don't realise we are an Australian company, or that we are relatively small. There is advantages and disadvantages to that, but the Freshview blog is the place to come if you want to find out all about who we are, and what we get up to.

It has been a long time since we introduced you all to a new Freshview team member (in fact, my own introduction back in January 2007 was the last). So today I want to introduce you to all the guys and girls behind Campaign Monitor and MailBuild.

In chronological order, we have:

Dave Greiner, Founder

Dave is the design half of the founding partnership with his mate of many years, Ben. Dave is responsible for the UI of our products, and when he is not obsessing about form layouts obsesses about over-hit backhand slices instead.

Ben Richardson, Founder

As the founder and original developer for Freshview, Ben has a lot of knowledge in his head. Fortunately, frequent table tennis victories have expanded it slightly! Ben also surfs at every opportunity.

Jason Hickey, Developer

As Freshview's first actual employee and core developer, Jason has made huge contributions to both Campaign Monitor and MailBuild. His aggressive table tennis tactics have the rest of the team ducking for cover.

Mathew Patterson, Community Manager

I look after all of you guys through the support system, and do a lot of the blogging, speaking and other out reach activities. 'Creative' uses of the office whiteboards fills in my spare time.

Ken Nguyen, Developer

Arriving to take the load off Jason and Ben, Ken has been involved throughout our applications, and also been crucial in organising the weekly grocery shopping, thereby avoiding the Coke running out and development coming to a standstill.

Bob Carey, Quality Assurance Engineer

We brought Bob all the way from Canada, and when not expounding on incomprehensible details about hockey, he puts in a lot of effort to make sure that Campaign Monitor and MailBuild do the job they were designed for.

Toby Brain, Developer

After coming through our intern program in 2007, Toby has joined the team permanently and has already built some excellent features into our products. Toby claims to have already heard all the 'Pinky and the Brain' jokes theoretically possible, but we'll keep trying.

Phil Gilmore, Developer

Whether you want some .Net development work done, a mountain climbed, a road trip companion, or a law of nature explained, Phil is your man. His first big project was the crucial Lunch 1.0 release.

Diana Potter, Community support (USA)

As our very first US based team member, Diana has very quickly become known to a lot of you! Some say she answers emails so fast that sometimes people have received replies before they have sent in their question...or before they even knew they had a question to ask. Spooky!

Travis Bell, Community support

Our second Canadian import, Travis brings a lot of support, scripting and design experience to the team. Combined with that is an uncanny ability to comprehend Bob's hockey talk, and an abiding love for all things Apple.

Karen Clark, Office Manager

It's no use having sweet offices if they are filled with disorganised chaos. Karen's arrival to handle everything required in keeping things running smoothly has given us all, especially Dave and Ben, more time to focus on the things we do well. Never leave Karen!

Davida Fernandez, Community support (USA)

Our second USA based team member, Davida will soon be challenging Diana as "Queen of all Campaign Monitor and MailBuild Knowledge". It's not a catchy title, but the benefits are pretty good. When you need support during US business hours, you'll appreciate Davida and Diana as much as we do.

Scott Randall, System Administrator

The newest member of our team, Scott is that 'right person' we've been hunting down for a long time. Scott will be responsible for keeping everything running, and for setting our future technical direction to make sure we can handle all the emails you can send!

So now you've got an idea who we are, we'd love to meet you too. So if you are attending a conference like Web Directions or Web Design World that we attend, come up and say hi! We don't bite (well, except for Jason, and he's on special tablets ;)

6 comments so far