about eskimosoup

Rachel was born in Hull, in 1982, making her only one year off turning 30; scary stuff! She has never moved away. She has never actually driven herself out of Yorkshire; "I daren't go that far". In fact she has only just started driving on the M62 motorway after taking 9 attempts to pass her driving test.

Rachel once came second in a competition on the Big Breakfast. Chris Evans read her name out on air for designing the Big Breakfast football strip. "I should have won really" she remarks.

Rachel just likes to be organised and things have to run as smoothly as possible. As well as organisation Rachel just wants everyone to be to be nice to each other and to be happy. Rachel is genuinely one of those people who likes to work and loves dealing with her clients. She enjoys it when everything is delivered on time, and she likes positive feedback.

Stephanie is a Hull girl born and bred. She is our new addition to the Client Care team and has proven to be a great asset within the team and clients alike.

Hailing from Warwickshire (no Hull accent here) Emma is our awesome telephone client care type person. Has she spoken to you already? Emma has been working with marketing teams for over 15 years and she loves the daily challenges and the continuing changing landscape.

Living not too far from Warwick Castle Emma dreams of a knight in shining armour to sweep her off her feet.

After a day at the office Emma loves nothing more than to take her dogs for a long walk.

Managing Director and self confessed champion of sticking his nose into everything, Chris does his very best to drive the business forward in a way that makes eskimosoup better every day. As a postgraduate in Human Resource Management, Chris knows people are at the very heart of eskimosoup. At the top of his agenda are the team and all of our clients and he does his best to make sure the company supports all the team members and makes the client journey as enjoyable as possible.

Chris claims to have met some of the worlds most famous and influential people including; Bob Hoskins (gave him a dirty look on the red carpet), The Queen (waved at him as she drove past), Keith Chegwin (touched his bread roll), and Tony Blair (press Chris and he will admit it might not have been him).

As a boy growing up in East Hull, John dreamt of running his own adventure theme park. Although Gilbertland has not (yet) materialised, he does get his fix of building big fun stuff by driving some of eskimosoup's more creative projects. He runs the highly successful Hull Comedy Festival as well as driving social marketing projects for the NHS.

As marketing director of a marketing team he really should know his marketing! Luckily for John, he has a Masters in Marketing (ahem... with distinction) and is the second youngest person in the UK to be awarded Chartered Marketer status.

John lists his hobbies as playing football, squash and entertaining his sons Dom and Zac. His skills include developing powerful marketing campaigns, with special interests in social marketing and anything that helps show Hull and the East Riding in a more positive light.

Rich was under the impression he was traveling to the North Pole to deliver Soup to the Eskimo population and to create a souper event incorporating igloos, fish and polar bears. However, he completely misunderstood the proposal and turned up at the offices here at eskimosoup.

He is a seasoned sportsman and has his fingers in a lot of sports pies. His proudest moment was increasing the overall GCSE mark by 5 points in basketball, for every student who was being graded! That specific event triggered a little thought in Rich's head and this is when he knew his true quality; helping others to deliver great things and assisting them in gaining souper results!

He has a mind that wonders far and wide (just to the outskirts of Hull to be exact), which lends nicely to the ability to be souper creative with marketing strategies. He has the skill and knowledge to produce and deliver events, which will enable clients to be put on the map!

Rich spent his childhood in East Hull falling out of trees, getting covered in nettle stings and crashing his BMX into walls. Oh, and getting grounded for all of these things. He then studied History with Art History at Hull University and has worked in marketing for a bookshop and a theatre, receiving countless paper cuts and breaking the fourth wall respectively.

Working closely with clients, Rich understands that it’s the tiny details that mix together to deliver a big impact. As eskimosoup’s copywriter, he loves making sure that the language is harmonised with the design… then pens a sonnet about the experience and shouts it from the rooftop.

Rich is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry and has a randomly named website to prove it: bananapenguin.com

Phill was born in Hull and bred in Bolton. He constantly drew on the walls as a child and needed more space to express himself so his family kindly up rooted and obliged. He decided early on that he was going to be either a postman or a graphic designer. Phill weighed up the amount of possible paper cut related injuries he may have suffered and made his decision. We know he made the right choice.

Phill can see the creative possibilities in even the most mundane of subject matters and prides himself on making every project the best it can be.

Outside of work he can often be found on the Karaoke microphone doing a mean Ronan Keating impression.

His claim to fame is once being told that he could make a living at it by Joe Cocker. It turned out not to be Joe, but a professional sound alike instead.

Hannah was born in Hull on the 30th of November 1980. From when she received her first set of crayons the creative juices have flowed. This creativity has always come with structure though, Hannah would never...EVER go over the lines. Choosing instead to explore every creative option within the constraints she was given. This is an approach that has ensured Hannah is an expert at pushing the boundaries of web development whilst also delivering accessible and compliant code.

Hannah achieved a first at university and her dissertation project for the "World's only Submarium" ended up with her on the front cover of the local paper.

Hannah also owns her own bowling ball and shoes. She can regularly be seen smashing down the pins for the eskimosoup bowling team.

Shane Cane (middle name is not Wayne), is our Flash and illustrating genius. Self confessing to doodling right through school, his Dad told him to go get a proper job and a proper job he got. As an electrician Shane excelled at electrocuting himself and putting his foot through a number of ceilings. After coming face to face with one too many rats in dingy cellars Shane decided to call it a day and follow his true passion. Since that day Shane has never looked back; winning a number of awards and achieving a distinction in art and design. He is a highly valued member of the team using his skills in illustration and Flash to bring design alive.

Shane has distaste for cheese and chocolate, but has a strong interest in Myleene Klass ever since they touched shoulders.

George was born in Hull at 16:23 on 5th of January 1979. He is the oldest and therefore wisest member of the eskimosoup team.

His first experience of programming was delivering goods with a computer controlled multi-track vehicle (Big Trak) He spent his primary school years being dragged out of classes to fix the two school BBC computers, which was okay as long as it wasn't maths. George continued to be drawn into Maths and Logic based subjects whilst managing to develop his social and teamwork skills through his additional love of sports.

He played football for Yorkshire Schools and also for the same team as future England stars Nick Barmby and Paul Robinson. He stills enjoys all forms of sports and once won an inter schools long jump competition with a broken arm.

He currently heads up the production team using his logical brain and unflappable personality to ensure that all our projects run like clockwork.

Graduating from Cumbria Institute of the Arts in 2005 with a BA Hons degree in Fine Art, Phill soon came back to his Beverley roots, where he currently resides as our internal photographer and all round technical sheriff. His duel role allows him to satisfy both passions for taking photography and helping people out with their technical problems.

Not satisfied with being an all round nice guy and great photographer Phill also travels the lengths and breadths of East Yorkshire entertaining people with his own unique style of one man band. Phill claims to have taught KT Tunstall the looping techniques she used at the Brit awards a few years back and on Jools Holland.

Oh and he surfs.

In 2009 Nick graduated from the University of Hull with a first class masters in computer science, something of a blunder when he originally left his home in the north east to study psychology.

He was immediately recruited by eskimosoup where soon progressed to the role of lead developer and since then has been focusing on delivering high quality websites and searching for the lost city of Atlantis (so far he has conclusively established its not under his desk).

Carl graduated from the University of Leeds back in 2008 with a degree in mathematics. After a brief foray into the world of research mathematics he decided he wanted a real job and so took up a Masters in computer science at the University of Hull. Whilst here he became aware of and later joined the team at eskimosoup bringing his overly enthusiastic knowledge of Linux to the servers whilst working day to day as a Rails developer.

Away from work Carl enjoys cycling and karate, using both as ways of avoiding paying for public transport. On the few days a year when the weather is pleasant enough on weekends he can also be found playing tennis and occasionally when he has enough money is an avid snowboarder.

Adam joined the technical team 3 years ago. In the time he's been with us, he has been responsible for the creation and maintenance of or made contributions to the structure of over 100 websites.

Adam believes that his job title speaks for his personal life as much as it does when he's here in the offices. His other interests lay in reading, gaming and spending (probably too much) time on Twitter.