About Us
Swanbay is an international media and technology company that wholly owns its proprietary video content delivery platform.
The company enables video rights holders to monetise their content on its multi-currency, multi-channel billing and payment platform, for delivery to the end user online and on mobiles worldwide, at no cost to the content providers.
The service offering is attractive to mobile network operators looking to reduce churn and improve loyalty, with the provision of free content to their subscribers.
International and national advertisers are proving keen to market to interest specific consumers in all territories by embedding video and banner ads into content, and Swanbay provides the end to end solution that allows them to do so.
Management
Duncan McIntyre Chairman of Advisory Board
An entrepreneurial, committed and dynamic business leader with 12 years experience as a Chief Executive,
including 10 years of a quoted company, and a passion for building businesses.
Early career with Price Waterhouse, as a Chartered Accountant, followed by joining Morse in 1994 and organized its initial management buy-out in 1995. Took the business with a turnover in total of £24m and 60 employees, to a peak of £500m and 1500 employees in June 2001. Led a secondary management buy-out and also listed the company on the London Stock Market.
Became Executive Chairman of Monitise the mobile banking and payments company in 2004. Now in a non-operational role as the Non-Executive Chairman, after the business had developed sufficiently and its independence established.
Non-executive director and investor in Profero Ltd a digital advertising agency since 2001. This business is based in the UK but is the largest independent agency in Asia and has just opened in New York.
Chairman and investor in Acclimatise, a small climate mitigation consultancy and leader in its field and is also an investor and advisor to a number of small technology companies.
Steve O’Meara Chief Operating Officer
22 Years within the IT industry. A strong business leader with a reputation for delivery.
Experienced in Director and General Management roles.
Sales, Marketing, Direct Sales And Channel Sales background.
Experience working in Emea and US. Led two start up Businesses at Azlan and Morse with IBM taking them from 0-100m plus.
Used to Dealing at Board Level with Partners and Customers.
Merger and Acquisition experience.
A people person with a strong and loyal network.
John Haskins Business Development Director and Co-Founder of Swanbay
John has a proven track record of turning visions and concepts into real businesses.
Prior to conceiving, financing and successfully building Swanbay, John has 22 years experience in international sales.
Mike Kennett Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Swanbay
25 years experience in the development of products for major blue chip companies.
Head of Multimedia Enablement at Vodafone UK.
Responsible for delivery of value added services for Vodafone live! and Wholesale business units including mobile payments (m-pay bill), location services and mobile video based services.
Director of Product Management at Magex.
Managed multicurrency payment products and DRM products for music and photographic industries.
Development Manager for NatWest Card Services.
Responsible for delivering corporate and purchasing card products as well as the development of a new credit scoring
application for all NatWest consumer card products.
Raytheon and GEC.
Responsible for the development of advanced technology systems.
Mike Street Director of Commercial Operations
Mike has been in the IT & Telecoms sector for 35 years and has spent the last ten years providing solutions
to mobile operators.
Prior to joining Swanbay he was VP Sales, Europe for AirG's Mobile Social Network service and before that, Sales Director for Fast Communications Ltd providing mobile email solutions to Vodafone, O2, BT Wholesale, Project Telecom and SinglePoint amongst others.
Mike has also worked in major account management roles for British Telecom, NCR, Prime, Kavanagh Systems and the Swedish company Mobeon, as well as a two year spell as a management consultant.
Tariq Fuad Managing Director Swanbay Pakistan
Mr. Tariq Fuad has over 14 years of International banking experience, in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
He then headed a fortune 500 company based out of Dusseldorf for 3 years as Chief Executive before moving back to Pakistan. He is now in the Board of Directors of six companies in the region and active CEO of T.F. Group of Companies.
Hasan Rizvi Regional Director Pakistan
Mr. Rizvi, Marketing Manager Marshal Engineering and Electronics Limited is a passionate marketeer..
In addition to a firm base in ATL and BTL in Electronic and Print media, Mr. Rizvi has worked with advertising agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi and Saatchi amongst other advertising agencies.
Anil Malik Regional Director India
A media professional with 17 years of Media Marketing experience in India.
Rich exposure to Indian Media Market in the domains of print media as well as multimedia offerings Represented various Indian regions and media conglomerates in business planning, implementation and handling large marketing teams.
Glenn Dunn Sales Director Swanbay Asia
Glenn has 25 years experience in the International sales Arena. He has successfully built up 2 businesses of his own.
A real people person with extensive merger and acquisition skills. Glenn has recently taken up this operational role having been in an advisory role to Swanbay Asia for the past 12 months.
Vincent Hew Regional Director Malaysia
With a strong IT background, Vincent..
leads an IT based company in Malaysia helping government and private sector to develop and implement VAS based products.