Team Songkick

We’re a bunch of live music fans based in East London who want to make it more fun to discover and go to concerts.

Get in touch, email us at support@songkick.com

We’re hiring!

Even if you don’t fit into one of the current vacancies, email us anyway if you love live music and get obsessed with solving interesting problems, we’re always looking for good people.

Ian Hogarth (co-founder, CEO)

Ian got a master’s in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
Pete Smith (co-founder, COO)

Pete threw summer festivals in his backyard between years in his law degree at Cambridge. (He grew up in the middle of nowhere. It was a big backyard.) Thankful to leave law behind, Pete worked at a small tech consultancy selling enterprise software before quitting to start Songkick.
Michelle You (co-founder, Chief Product Officer)

Michelle studied English and philosophy at Columbia before receiving her master’s in English at Cambridge, all of which was training for writing the snappy copy you read on Songkick. She was the managing editor of Theme magazine before starting Songkick.
Dan Crow (CTO)

Dan enjoys watching other people play music. He joined Songkick from Google where he spent five years working on search. He lived in Silicon Valley for 10 years, working at Apple and a bunch of startups including co-founding Blurb. He has a PhD in AI and a degree in Computer Science, both from Leeds University.
Phil Cowans, (Chief Architect)

Phil received a PhD in machine learning from Cambridge and is responsible for Songkick’s technical strategy. He plays bass guitar and helped run Cambridge’s student radio station. Phil was doing postdoctoral research at Cambridge on predictive text entry methods and search algorithms before he quit to join Songkick.
Gideon Bullock (Design Director)

Gideon has been designing since the early 1990’s, across mobile, iTV, and the web. He was lead designer at the BBC, helming their homepage redesign in 2000. Since then, he was at Skype in their early years and started his own T-shirt design website. Gideon also DJs at a night called 99p Records in Shoreditch.
Marc Pacheco (Client-side Architect)

Before joining Songkick, Marc lead the client-side development of the Guardian’s R2 project, which, over the course of 2.5 years, moved the entire website onto a more modern and robust platform. Before that, he worked on a wide variety of standards-compliant websites for the likes of Unilever, BT, Sky, and Halifax.
Graham Bleach

Graham has made a career from fighting with complex computer systems. His previous employers include the Guardian and Hampshire Country Council. When he’s not furiously typing arcane Unix commands into terminal windows, he likes windsurfing, doing press-ups under duress, and drinking ale in a proper English pub.
James Coglan

James taught himself to build websites while studying for a master’s degree in physics at Oxford. He likes making things, taking photos, and pretending he can play guitar. He can’t wait to see Mogwai again.
Niko Felger

Songkick’s very own word nerd holds degrees in computational linguistics and natural language processing from Saarbrücken and Cambridge. His mom says that it wasn’t until he got a Game Boy at age six that he developed an interest in anything. These days, his favorite hobby is eavesdropping on people with funny accents and dialects.
Renaud Guerin

Renaud has been keeping busy web sites running since the late 1990s, and joined Songkick from Facebook. He grew up in France where he received a master’s degree in computer networks from Université de Technologie de Troyes before working for the likes of Free, Orange, and Mappy. He loves old synthesizers, sound engineering, photography, and has more than a few guilty music pleasures he’s afraid to admit to.
Paul Hadfield

Paul joined Songkick from Google where he worked on a variety of mobile products for search, maps, and Android. Previously, he worked at Symbian and Logica after graduating from Cambridge in Engineering. Outside work, Paul plays Dad to two children and sax to anyone who’ll listen. He’s discovered the funk so now has a second family in the horn section of Baron Funkenhausen.
Mike Harkey (US General Manager)

Mike joined Songkick from ImageShack, where he was GM for sites totaling over 60 million monthly visitors. He lives in the Bay Area, which he’s called home for over a decade. Previously, he worked at startups and led the music and books businesses for eBay. He’s authored over 20 academic case studies for Stanford University, where he received his MBA.
Matt Johnson

Matt joined Songkick after building a couple of other music websites, Boomkat and 14tracks. He’s generally too old and grumpy to go to concerts, apart from when he forgets how old and grumpy he is.
Sabrina Leandro

Sabrina left a sunny island in Brazil to do a MSc in software engineering at Queen Mary, University of London. Before that, she worked at Grupos Internet, an e-learning company. Her main reason for moving to London is the live music scene, especially concerts of sweet indiepop sounds. Sabrina goes to more concerts than anyone else at Songkick!
Daniel Lucraft

Dan has a master’s in Mathematics from Durham University, and started a PhD at Imperial College before quitting to join Songkick. He loves writing Ruby and regularly attends the London Ruby User Group, where he’s given talks.
Michael Orland

Michael joined a start-up immediately after graduating university and has been working at start-ups ever since, primarily to keep current with youth culture and avoid direct sunlight. Working for Songkick in London achieves both. His academic background is in Economics and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an MBA as garnish.
Jo Packer

Jo has been designing online and mobile experiences for over 11 years. Prior to joining Songkick, Jo was a user experience designer for Tribal, Cambridge University, and Flow Interactive working on research and design projects for clients like BBC, Samsung, Orange, Sky, and BT. She DJs for fun in her hometown of Cambridge.
Brooke Parrott

Brooke attended Berklee College of Music in Boston on scholarship, studying songwriting and piano. In May 2008, she released her debut album, Another City, on her record label, Ten til Six Records. (Available on iTunes) She plays gigs throughout London, so check out her Songkick artist page.
Amy Phillips

While studying for a degree in Software Engineering, Amy discovered that the skills she’d previously used only to test people’s patience could also be used to test software. Amy has previously been a QA at Yahoo! and The Guardian.
Dan Rogers

Despite starting his career as a healthy Coke-drinking, Snickers-eating developer, Dan was soon enticed into the world of finance. He soon went back to school to get an MBA at London Business School, where he reignited his inner nerd by focusing on tech startups. This lead to a stint as a marketer and product manager at Qype before joining Songkick.
Sheryl Seitz (VP, Communications)

Sheryl began her fascination with music and media as a graveyard-shift DJ on Boston’s WTBU radio station. Prior to a lengthy stint at Apple promoting products from iMac, iPod and iTunes through to iPhone and App Store, she worked with companies including Sony, Warner, Viacom and Yahoo!. She’s drawing her brand-building experience together to live the dream, helping Songkick get fans to more shows and be the home for concerts online.
Emily Sergent (Community Manager)

Emily studied Geography at University College London. After a short stint in marketing, she realized she wasn’t ready for the whole career thing, so she travelled around the world for 5 months. On her return, she studied for a journalism diploma at Harlow college. She reads and responds to our feedback, so if you write to us, you’re in good hands!
Robin Tweedie

Robin grew up in Cape Town and has introduced team Songkick to Die Antwoord—no small achievement. He took trumpet lessons to avoid taking accounting in high school and briefly played in a ska/punk band. After graduating from University of Cape Town with a double-major in Computer Science and Psychology, he moved to London to see more bands.
Joseph Wilk

Joseph has been programming ever since he got his mitts on a ZX Spectrum 48k. He graduated from Imperial College with a first-class master’s degree in Computing. He was the first developer to join the core dev team for Cucumber, and gives talks around the world on testing.