Team

Viafo is led by a team of mobile industry veterans, with a long and sucessful history in mobile startups and technology providers.  We've sold and built solutions for the biggest names in the industry, and are now putting that experience into use to create the next generation of compelling mobile solutions.

David O'Neill - CEO

David has over a decade's experience working in mobile solutions and a successful background in mobile technology start ups.  Having been one of the early members of the anywhereyougo.com mobile internet lab in London, David led the sale of the business to Argogroup.  After that he moved into large account strategic business sales for the world's largest mobile software consulting group, Teleca.

At Teleca David built up a string of new businesses, opening new key accounts like Microsoft, Google and Qualcomm, and turning green field ideas into multi-million dollar business streams.

Nick Denny - CTO

Nick has worked his entire career in mobile and embedded systems engineering.  

As a specialist in embedded systems engineering Nick has worked on a wide range of mobile devices from OEMs including Panasonic, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Motorola and reference hardware from Texas Instruments. 

Nick was heavily involved in the development and integration of the first generation of mobile browsers and has worked on all mobile technologies from basic WAP enabled feature phones to the most recent generations of smartphones.

John Cooper - VP EMEA

Prior to assisting with the setup of Viafo EMEA, John was the Managing Director of Teleca UK , responsible for an annual turnover of $16 million, and a staff of 150 people.  John was responsible for the growth of Teleca’s business into significant new markets including Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android and Adobe Flash.

Prior to his UK role John was the Director of the Smartphones business for Teleca Globally and over 4 years built Teleca’s business as part of the Symbian Ecosystem to a $32 million per annum revenue business.

John is also principal at Pyxis Ventures Ltd, a mobile consulting business.

Advisory Team

Fred Chieux

Fred is an experienced entrepreneur with comprehensive Product Marketing, Business Development, Legal and Negotiating experience with regard to Online Media, Internet Video, Consumer Insight and Wireless technologies.

Co-Founder and CEO of User Level Media whose patent-pending software solution enables the collection of unbiased granular audience insight, ad testing and effectiveness measurement (engagement, recall & persuasion, etc) from any video centric website.  Fred has a track record in a range of start ups.

He is currently a partner at Duel Purpose, a boutique marketing, interactive and identity consultancy that seamlessly integrates strategy and execution, maximizing clients marketing ROI, strengthening their brand and improving their bottom line.

Lee Wright

Lee has a track record of building value in the mobile sector, with a strong pedigree with startups and major players such as Nokia.  He has pioneered the introduction and adoption of new technologies, including database-driven sites (1994), web usability (1997), wireless applications (2000), mobile developer communities (2001), identity services infrastructure (2004), and history 2.0 (2008).

Acted as advisor to the management teams of pre-launch and early stage start-ups and worked with new and established companies to rationalize marketing activities and align them with business objectives.