Meet our Salesforce and Marketing Cloud experts
Allow us to introduce the MarCloud team in a little more detail. We’re a fast-growing team of Salesforce and Marketing Cloud specialists, so don’t be surprised to see more faces added here very soon.
Our Experts & Consultants
In 2017, MarCloud started as a team of two. Within just a few years we’ve grown to 24 passionate full-time team members, delivering excellent service for clients day-in, day-out.
Tom Ryan
Founder and CEO
Tom is a Salesforce-certified Pardot and Marketing Cloud consultant with several years of experience in this space, as well as having B2B marketing client-side and agency experience.
Tom wants to see MarCloud as the go-to place for Pardot expertise across the globe and expects all of our work to be nothing short of remarkable.
Fun facts:
- Lived in Lisbon, Copenhagen and Bali while founding MarCloud.
- Step-grandad is from Hong Kong and he taught Tom how to make a great Chinese curry.
- Vegan and absolutely love trying out new foods, mostly Asian food.
Jake Bond
Co-owner and COO
Strength-wise, Jake is all about building personalised customer journeys from the ground up and analysing reports to get the maximum ROI out of every marketing and sales activity. He’s managed a team of over 60 people and won manager of the year awards so doesn’t feel shy about saying he’s a high performer. Show him your KPI’s and he’ll work out how to meet them.
Fun facts:
- Wicked suit-fitter/tailor.
- Huge Motown fan.
- In his lifetime he’s lived in 17 different properties.
James Haney
Client Delivery Manager
James has delivered many projects in the martech space and has worked closely with some huge clients over the years. He enjoys the challenge of working with large-scale operations to optimise their tech stack, but also loves to get smaller businesses up to speed, giving them the best start in their automation journey.
Fun facts:
- Aston Villa’s greatest fan.
- Playstation enthusiast.
- Body is made up of 90% Halloumi.
Anton Minnion
Head of Technical Solutions
A Data Scientist and Software Developer, Anton has extensive experience of successfully delivering Martech and Salestech solutions for a variety of clients both big and small. He now leads Marketing Cloud solutions at MarCloud.
Fun facts:
- Worked on projects in over 25 countries.
- Whilst doing a PhD, he created AI-driven smart maps of the campus.
- Once walked the length of Offas Dyke in under 10 days.
Chloe Prowse
Head of People Operations
A Salesforce-certified Pardot pro with a varied background in product marketing, marketing operations, and enterprise consulting. Chloe’s real passion is building a best-in-class culture at MarCloud—focusing on aligning every touchpoint in the business with our objectives and core values, and on being remarkable both internally and externally.
Fun facts:
- Competitive PC gamer.
- Reads 150+ books a year.
- Has travelled to 15 countries in the past 5 years.
Karen Kalejaiye
Head of Pardot
Karen likes tapping into her right and left brains equally, and marketing automation serves perfectly in exercising both the creative and the analytical! With over eight years in the marketing automation space, she’s very thorough in strategy, troubleshooting, and tailoring systems to support business needs and goals.
Fun facts:
- Loves travelling so much that she had a travel blog (“Travel Speaks”).
- Loves extreme sports! The most extreme was skydiving in Dubai.
- Massive Denzil Washington fan (literally a LEGEND in her eyes!)
Ming
Chief Happiness Officer
Originally from Japan, Ming takes on several roles at the MarCloud office, including office security, motivational speaker and deep thinker.
She’s often found sleeping on the job, eating biscuits and really enjoys trips to the kitchen.
Ming
Chief Happiness Officer
Fun facts:
- Known to have Zoomies daily between 2-3 in the office.
- Loves cuddles and will do anything to get them from the team.
- Favourite toy is a Carrot and Snake.
Georgie Grigore
Project Manager
Georgie has a background in both marketing and engineering. Her goal was to combine both her analytical and creative side into one – that’s when she found her passion for marketing automation. Georgie has a great interest in marketing and technology and loves helping customers to find the best solutions for their needs.
Georgie Grigore
Project Manager
Fun facts:
- Loves eating jam with pickles.
- Salsa & Bachata Dancer in her free time.
- Lover of history documentaries and learning languages for fun.
Chuma Kokayi
Salesforce Project Manager
Chuma has over 7 years’ experience in the Salesforce ecosystem across sales, consultancy, business analysis, and testing—augmented with over 15 years’ experience in QA and Test Management in the financial sector. He believes the key role of a project manager is to ensure customer benefits are realised in addition to managing cost, time, and scope.
Fun facts:
- Enjoys home cooking and is partial to a fine dining experience.
- Practices salsa, bachata, and kizomba ready for Strictly Come Dancing.
- A sci-fi fan whose imagination has taken him beyond our galaxy.
Sam Green
Junior Project Manager
Sam has a background in managing projects and tours for some of the world’s biggest orchestras and performing arts groups. Having taken up learning about marketing automation and Salesforce in his spare time, he is now fully invested in developing marketing skills and ensuring projects run smoothly from start to finish.
Fun facts:
- Massive Liverpool fan and season ticket holder.
- Plays piano and guitar in his spare time.
- Has travelled and worked in the Far East five times.
Ian Hunt
Functional Specialist
Ian has over 30 years’ experience in CRM and data management, in a mixture of commercial and not-for-profit environments and causes, nationally and internationally. He thrives on designing and delivering end-to-end processes to enable sales and marketing teams to achieve success.
Fun facts:
- Keeper of several tropical fish tanks with a variety of different finned friends.
- Transport enthusiast! With particular interests in Great Central Railway.
- A wide and varied love of music, from classics to heavy rock via brass bands.
Carl Mortimer
Functional Consultant
Carl spent 8 years in sales before moving across to consulting in the martech space with Pardot and Marketing Cloud. With this first-hand experience, he’s able to produce solutions with the full lead to revenue cycle in mind. He loves seeing his clients thrive as a result of their work together and this buzz drives him on in every project he delivers.
Fun facts:
- Supported Bon Jovi and Nickelback at Milton Keynes bowl for 2 nights in 2006.
- Worked onboard a cruise ship as a personal trainer.
- Fitness fanatic, training in kettlebell sport 3x a week.
Chris Thompson
Functional Specialist
Chris is an experienced marketer and a strong advocate for marketing automation tools. Having seen both sides of the coin, he’s passionate about improving visibility for clearer marketing attribution and saving valuable time on fact-finding through automation and workflows.
Chris Thompson
Functional Specialist
Fun facts:
- Winner of the prestigious ‘Master Personality’ award from Butlins Holidays 1997.
- Believes heaven is an air fryer.
- Once released a music single on a hot meat sandwich.
Jon Chowdhury
Functional Specialist
Jon has over 20 years of experience in digital marketing, and Pardot for nearly 10 years across the B2B, charity, and education sectors. He’s passionate about creating marketing solutions that exceed expectations and strives to bridge the gap between marketing and sales teams to ensure relationships and solutions are always successful.
Jon Chowdhury
Functional Specialist
Fun facts:
- Loves food—cooking with fire is his new passion.
- Big film nut (all genres and types).
- Huge Liverpool FC fan. YNWA!
Ellie Anderson
Functional Consultant
Ellie is experienced in both sales and marketing through the use of Salesforce and Marketing Cloud, and she thoroughly enjoys creating efficient and cost-effective solutions. Having worked within both spaces, she’s passionate about ensuring marketing and sales teams align their processes to complement each other.
Fun facts:
- Had her 15 minutes of fame going viral on TikTok.
- Obsessed with Friends and The Office (the US one, obviously!)
- Watches videos of pandas when she needs cheering up.
Hollie Fitzpatrick
Technical Consultant
Hollie joins the team with extensive B2B marketing experience. With a keen interest in marketing technologies, Hollie strives to find the best solution to increase the efficiency and quality of marketing campaigns through rigorous testing and data analysis.
Fun facts:
- Artist in her free time.
- Somehow, she has never broken a bone.
- Carer to a cat named Nova.
Kumar Gurrampalli
Technical Consultant
Kumar’s working day involves end-to-end Salesforce marketing cloud implementations & API integrations, including requirement gathering, solution design, testing, implementation, and overseeing the development. He’s quality-focused and always gives best-in-class solutions to clients.
Kumar Gurrampalli
Technical Consultant
Fun facts:
- Mad Cricket lover, does everything for cricket.
- Loves eating rice with mixed curries and pickles.
- Always troubles his wife when she cooks.
Corina Gorodetchi
Developer
With a background in UI/UX Design and Development, Corina is focused on customer satisfaction. Her goal is to help build better and more meaningful products and she makes use of iterative hands-on processes with a human-centric design approach. Her work ranges from strategic planning and rough prototyping, to creating a strong visual design language.
Fun facts:
- Loves manifesting emotions through a camera lens.
- Her #1 fan and model is her moody cat Lili.
- The Big Lebowski’s biggest fan.
Bradley Bayley
Development Assistant
Brad is a self-taught software developer with a passion for UI/UX design, focused on user accessibility and experience. He is now an apprentice software developer at MarCloud, designing and implementing efficient and accessible solutions for his clients. He is committed to learning new things to help him advance his coding skills.
Fun facts:
- Has a degree in Physical Geography.
- Self-taught developer from scratch.
- Huge Marvel fan and loves superheroes.
Saleem Dahshan
Development Assistant
Sal first became interested in software development at college, where he built his first computer; then at university, he focused on learning Java, PHP, and HTML and CSS. His day-to-day at MarCloud now includes design, building interactive solutions for clients, and getting involved in larger projects within the technical team.
Fun facts:
- Huge anime and mangaka fan.
- Loves trying new things (especially food!)
- Managed multiple shops for his family business.
Gülbiz Croasdale
Technical Specialist
Gülbiz has experience working in a B2B environment focusing on creating various emails and campaigns on Salesforce and Pardot. She has a great interest in marketing automation and is very enthusiastic to build full customer journeys.
Fun facts:
- Favourite TV show is Friends.
- Can’t stand the sound of the noise someone makes when they eat.
- As a kid she was always creating characters and making friends act with her.
Hannah Telford
Technical Specialist
Hannah has a background in B2B marketing with a focus on delivering automated marketing campaigns
through Pardot. Combining both IT skills and marketing knowledge, she strives to provide support to customers with powerful and effective solutions.
Fun facts:
- Dog obsessed
- Travelled Vietnam on a motorbike without sustaining a single injury
- Will only eat cheese if it’s on a pizza
Delphine Tsiranana
Solutions Architect
Technical marketer by trade in the industry for 15 years, super-using Salesforce for 10, Pardot for 5, and Marketing Cloud for 1. Having seen all sides from enterprise clients to independent consulting, Delphine builds end-to-end marketing and revenue ops solutions spanning CRM, automation, integrations with 3rd parties, web, and everything else.
Fun facts:
- Born with a hereditary missing tooth. Thanks Grandma!
- A living encyclopedia on world rugby (of the past 30 years).
- Lived in 5 countries so far and am eager to extend that list. Where to next?
Richard Whiting
Commercial Sales Manager
Richard has worked in a number of digital marketing leadership positions within high tech and manufacturing industries for over 15 years, before moving into consulting where he became certified and then moved into sales. He enjoys meeting people, sharing his knowledge of marketing automation, and helping match customers with the right solutions.
Fun facts:
- Season ticket holder for West Ham United (COYI).
- Likes to go carp fishing with his son.
- Spends most weekends as a taxi driver for his kids’ clubs.
Want to join the MarCloud team?
We’re always on the hunt for experts in Marketing Cloud, including Account Engagement (Pardot) and Salesforce. Visit our careers page to learn more about the roles we have available, our hiring process, company benefits and our team culture.
