People

Dr. Chris Martin

Managing Director. Chris earned a 1st Class honours degree and a PhD in computing science at Imperial College, London. Before coming to Ecube, he was a director at a leading developer of museum asset management systems. His areas of specialization have been in scripting language design and implementation, including optimisation techniques, portability, usability and integration of a scripting language into existing applications.

He has led award-winning teams, developing multi-media and text database system, including optimisation of disk storage, optimising search and retrieval strategies, implementing a client/server architecture, API design for various languages, user interface design, web-server design and implementation. He and his teams have won a number of British Computer Society medals.

Rusty Ashman

Business Development Director . A chartered accountant by profession, he has held a number of senior posts in commerce, industry and financial services businesses. He is a director of Stockcube plc.

Dr. David Snowdon

Director. Dave earned a 1st Class honours degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Manchester. Originally specialising in distributed multi-user virtual reality systems and applications he later spent seven years working at Xerox's European research centre focusing on information retrieval, human-computer interaction, machine learning and mobile computing. After leaving Xerox he worked as an independent Internet & software consultant for a number of years with clients such as Pete Townshend (of The Who). Dave has edited two books related to collaborative virtual environments and has published over thirty scientific papers. He joined Ecube in January 2007.

Catherine Porter

Lead Developer. Catherine develops the core charting and financial analysis engines and provides web based interfaces for both update and easy retrieval. Cath developed the interactive chart interface in Investors Intelligence. Cath has a Masters Degree in Astro and Particle Physics from Oxford University and 10 years experience in software development.

Xabier Burgos

Xabier earned a 2:1 BSc honours in Computer Science from the University of Wales (Aberystwyth). He has been working with Java and J2EE related technologies for the last three years including Struts, Hibernate and Velocity; his passion for all things web lead him to also gain extensive experience with Javascript and XML. Xabier joined eCube in December 2009.

Philip Anderson

Philip joined eCube in April 2010