Ahmed Amer
Co-Founder & CEO
As Co-Founder, and CEO, Ahmed has somewhat of an omnipresent role at Tevent. Straddling the various departments, and working collaboratively with them all, is his modus operandi. From product roadmaps, to marketing copy and outreach work – there is very little he doesn’t do.
From an early age, Ahmed demonstrated enormous potential, taking multiple examinations years early. He achieved three consecutive Gold awards in the UKMT Math. Challenge (awarded to the top 6%) and straight A* grades in his high-school exams, then a First in BSc Physics. He gained a prestigious Institute of Physics scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge. There, he performed with the famed ‘Footlights’ comedy troupe.
Ahmed runs events, organising a stand-up comedy night at tenured venue The Albany, host to comedy events since the 80s. He has hosted high-profile UK comics including the current Edinburgh Award winner – comedy’s biggest award globally. He is involved in private pre-university Physics tuition, partnering a not-for-profit organisation benefiting disadvantaged students.
Alex Dobson
Co-Founder & CPO
As Co-Founder, and CPO, Alex is responsible for all frontend design and implementation, and works across departments to keep Tevent aesthetics consistent with the platform, and brand, itself. His keen eye for graphic design makes him a real oracle when it comes to visual assets.
Alex has always shown an excitement for innovation. While at UoM, Alex developed a revolutionary design for a robotic prosthetic limb - chosen for publication in a peer reviewed journal before he’d even graduated. For his master’s degree, Alex led a team of post-graduates to international success by becoming the winners in a design innovation competition for their creation of a bionic prosthetic hand. Following university, Alex maintained his haste for success, joining Rolls-Royce as a graduate engineer, and moving through roles as an analyst, researcher and finally a design engineer for future gas turbines.
Alex has extensive knowledge and experience in C#, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Blazor, .NET5, Python and MATLAB through his education and pastime programming and designing mobile applications and games.
On the rare occasion that Alex isn’t working, he is a keen winter sportsman – who can be found snowboarding, usually, somewhere far away from his hometown of Manchester.
Andrew Milne
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Andrew is a member of the Tevent development team whose role it is to make sure all those 1s and 0s play nicely together and provide both Tevent's rich features as well as its stability.
With 18 years of software development experience Andrew is a keen promoter of modern agile development utilising DevOps practices and continuous deployment to maximise the value that users get from their software. His market experience ranges from financial and recruitment software to domain names and app development.
When not at work, Andrew enjoys music, record collecting, walking and helping local breweries through the global pandemic.
Ilya Ilford
Creative Design Lead
As a Creative Design Lead, Ilya is passionate about crafting authentic, high-level brand stories that resonate with audiences on an emotional level.
He works closely with Tevent's CMO and CPO to align marketing and product strategy through trailblazing campaigns & bold creative assets. Ilya is dedicated to building a happy and healthy design team based on trust, empathy and kindness.
Previously, Ilya worked as a Design Lead at Skyscanner, where he was creating engaging brand experiences for 15 million travellers in 30 markets. Before that, he wore many hats as a growth hacker with strong expertise in content, social media, SEO, paid advertising and analytics. His most notable clients include Microsoft, Philips, Yota and Skyscanner.
Aside from design, Ilya loves making portraits of strangers on his Rolleiflex 6×6 camera and engaging in awkward conversations with people he meets on the street. His series about Leith Walk was featured by the BBC News, Radio Scotland and the analogue photography festival ‘Revela-T’ in Barcelona.
Prasanna
CMO
Prasanna coordinates Tevent's marketing efforts with the aim of creating fulfilling customer experiences while developing and scaling Tevent's unique brand. His extensive experience with data-driven marketing will help develop and execute strategies for Tevent, spanning product, data and marketing.
Having pursued mechanical engineering and mathematics at BITS Pilani Hyderbad, Prasanna developed a deep interest in marketing early in his career. Since then, he has worked in various capacities in environments ranging from startups to multinational corporations. Before pursuing his MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management in 2020, Prasanna worked with Ashoka, a global non-profit.
Prasanna recently realised a lifelong dream of moving to North London to support Arsenal FC. He is an ardent traveler with ever-evolving plans on the next destination. Do ask him about his last name.
Sonja Schmidt
CGO
Sonja develops Tevent’s growth strategies and plans, constantly monitoring and analysing the market, customer needs and trends. She sits strategically across product and marketing to ensure continuous product-market fit, customer acquisition and success. With a strong background in business and brand strategy, Sonja also ensures that brand and product are in harmony, and reinforce each other, for a significant and strong presence on the market.
Before joining Tevent, Sonja was a Growth and Innovation Consultant at Ogilvy Consulting and held various other management consulting roles, including at the Bank of England. Sonja has a multicultural background and is fluent in French, German and English. She has graduated from the University of Geneva and the London School of Economics in International Relations. During her academic career, Sonja specialised in Social Theories and International Law.
When not at work, Sonja can be found enjoying wine and cheese, likely somewhere around the Mediterranean.
Tim Jones
CTO
As CTO, Tim is obsessed with coding with the SOLID principles, and is eager to spot design patterns. His love of lateral thinking in architecture and platform design, afford Tevent both scalability and speed. He’s selected Blazor as the cutting-edge technology of choice to power Tevent’s frontend, and a plethora of Azure services to power the backend, whilst his C# expertise allow him to work across the entire forward-thinking stack.
Before Tevent, Tim worked for several years as tech lead, developing forensic video retrieval and processing solutions, before founding his own software company that he continues to oversee.
When not at work, or spending time with border collie Dexter, Tim is a keen cyclist who has cycled 1000 miles across Europe twice for charity.
