The Team
Luis Buenaventura II, Co-Founder and Social Architect
Luis is a web architect based in South East Asia, and is the creator of highfiber.org, oKs.ph, gibbity.com and filmcrowd.com. Before co-founding syndeo::media, Luis was a freelance designer for 5 years, and dabbled in everything from book layout to web games development to music video direction to magazine writing. His clients during that period included Ayala Land, Red Ribbon, MyAyala, National Bookstore, Manual Magazine, and SM Investments. He maintains a personal blog at guttervomit.com. When not building social software, Luis likes to listen to indie rock, criticize bad movies and dream about flying.
Hunter Nield, Co-Founder and User Experience Director
Hunter Nield is a user experience guru, entrepreneur and technologist who has been working with the Web since 1994. His experience and skill sets extend from creative user experience to technical high-level strategy. Prior to co-founding syndeo::media, Hunter began interfacelounge and worked at Zed Tycho and Pandora Squared. Past clients have included News Corporation, the University of Technology, Sydney and the Victorian Government. Hunter headed up design for AOL Australia for 4 years, where he was responsible for the visual design direction of the local AOL Software and Service. Hunter resides in Sydney, speaks Japanese and is a passionate photographer.
Hans A. Koch, Co-Founder and Search Architect
Hans has 7 years experience as Web and a Search Engine Marketing Expert. He participated in a BBC report for his work on Click Fraud and his efforts for Who's Clicking Who have been mentioned in Wired Magazine. Hans' experience includes web design, Search Engine Optimization and increasing ROI on Pay-Per-Click campaigns. Prior to re-creating much of the software behind Who's Clicking Who, Hans founded a design and search marketing consultancy in San Jose, CA, specializing in Internet marketing. Hans manages syndeo::media marketing efforts and in his free time, reads avidly and loves playing tenor sax.
Tom W. Lee, Advisor for Marketing, Sales and Strategic Partnerships
Raymond Brown, Financial Advisor
Kaye Inigo, Social Media Marketing and Public Relations
Kaye has more than seven years of experience in web publishing, training design and facilitation, web accounts management, e-learning, documentation and web marketing. She has been avidly blogging about literature, film & television, urban living and the web since 2002. Her passion for history got her started with book editing, while outside work she moderates an online badminton community that she founded with friends. The rest of her busy calendar is spent on reading, "hanging out" at social networks, playing badminton, swimming, drinking copious amounts of coffee, cooking, listening to music, and going out with her circles of friends.