Our Team
Business Management
Responsible for the strategic direction of the business - making sure we are always looking forward and understanding how we can best support our clients. This ranges from technical innovation and R&D to keeping abreast of market and sector developments.
Rick Grundy
An avid technologist, our founder Rick pursues new opportunities with cutting edge hardware and software, feeding knowledge and inspiration into the team.
Chris Rhodes
Chris leads the business by approaching technology as a tool that can be applied to solve problems and create real improvement for our clients.
Linda Cook
The heart of the business, Linda has seen it all. She always knows how to make things work for colleagues, clients and suppliers alike. A real superhero.
Tom Kirby
With vast experience across the digital spectrum, Tom's role is to oversee production throughout the business to ensure standards of excellence are maintained.
Development
Responsible for delivering excellent technical work in support of our client’s vision. Ranging from design and UX to software development, cloud architecture, hardware software integration, and testing. The development team are the heart of everything we do.
Chris Foster
Hugely experienced across web technology, Chris leads our development team from the front. He ensures the right technology choices, with best outcomes for the client are always top priority.
Ben Bater
With over 20 years of commercial experience under his belt, Ben's meticulous approach and ability to both communicate and solve complex problems is a joy.
Myke Cook
Mickey C is a highly skilled front-end engineer. With 20+ years of experience he's able to skilfully unpick the most complex of front-end problems. There's always a way.
Nick Mason
With an uncanny ability to break down, simplify, and solve the most complex of problems, Nick is one of those developers you can set onto anything and get amazing results.
Mike Simmonds
Great at making tech concepts easy to understand, Mike works on the full product life cycle. He brings concepts to production ready, scalable, and user-focused applications.
Simon Fisoye-Kings
An analytical thinker and problem solver, Simon is our most recent dev hire. With a year at The Tech Dept under his belt, he has already delivered some fantastic work.
Client Services
Responsible for understanding our client’s vision and working out how best to help them achieve this. From overseeing projects from inception through to delivery, measuring the impact, and making sure our strategy is always up to date. Our Client Services team make our projects more than the sum of their parts.
Jess Beever
Joining as Project Manager, Jess quickly demonstrated that she is a force to be reckoned with. Now heading up our Client Services team, driving standards all the way.
Sara Weatherby
Our first remote hire, Sara was coincidentally then in Sheffield (our base in the old office days) but now resides in the Scottish Highlands. Currently on maternity leave.
Kenny Ogundijo
A highly experienced digital project manager, Kenny is all over every detail. He prioritises accuracy and efficiency, ensuring deliverables are within scope, timeline, and budget.
Matt Osborn
Emerging from over 600 job applicants, Matt quickly proved to be the right choice. He hit the ground running and is already an indispensable member of the team.