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Executive Team

Ajay Chowdhury
Chief Executive Officer


Before joining EnQii, Ajay co-founded Acacia Capital Partners and IDG Ventures Europe, the European venture capital arm of IDG, the world's leading IT media publisher. Prior to starting IDGVE, Ajay was European President and CEO of NBC Internet - a NASDAQ quoted integrated media company - and was responsible for setting up their European operations.

Prior to joining NBCi he was Chief Executive of LineOne - a joint venture between United News and Media and British Telecom - which he helped grow into one of the UK's largest portals and Internet Service Providers and which was subsequently sold to Tiscali.

He joined United News and Media in 1991 and was founder and Managing Director of United Interactive - its new media division. United Interactive grew to encompass Anglia Multimedia, one of the UK's leading educational publishers; Definition Digital Media, a UK web agency; and AngliaCampus, an online educational service for schools and homes, which were subsequently sold to Granada PLC.

Before joining United, he was a manager at Bain & Company, the international management consultants where he ran projects in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Germany and the UK.

Ajay has an MBA from Wharton and a Bachelor of Commerce from Bombay University. He studied Theatre Directing at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Film Directing at the Metropolitan Film School at Ealing Studios.

Ajay serves on the board of the Arts Council (London) - the national development agency for the arts in London, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery. He is also Artistic Director of the Rented Space Theatre Company and an executive committee member of the British Screen Advisory Council. He has also served on the boards of Lionhead Studios (sold to Microsoft in April 2006), Shazam Entertainment, MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Commission), Index on Censorship and Virtual Internet PLC (sold to Register.com in February 2002).

In 2005, Ajay was selected by the Institute of Asian Professionals to be part of the Asian Power 100 - the 100 most influential and powerful Asians in the UK.


Stuart Armstrong
President - North America


With over 20 years' experience in assisting companies achieve their strategic and communication objectives, Stuart has led in the creation and adoption of sales and marketing best practices.

Stuart's career is marked by an early recognition of the potential of digital media solutions to drive companies'productivity and performance. Prior to joining Digital View Media, Stuart was Vice President at Euro RSCG Meridian, a leading consulting firm to the consumer goods and retailing industries. In addition to his responsibilities with Meridian, Stuart also served as liaison to Euro RSCG Partners, a true integrated marketing communications agency. In this role, Stuart identified opportunities with existing and prospective clients to create media-neutral strategies utilizing a variety of marketing strategies and tactics.

Prior to Meridian, Stuart was VP of Sales for Gelco Information Network, a leading provider of trade management B2B solutions to the consumer goods industry. Previously, he served as President and Founding Partner of Performance Wave, Inc., which developed, sold and serviced the industry's first web-based Category and Promotional Management solution. Performance Wave was acquired by Gelco in April 1999.

His early career is highlighted with positions at Information Resources Inc. as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing and the founding in 1989 of one of the first B2B multimedia agencies in the US, L.A. Image.

Stuart is currently President of the Digital Screenmedia Association


Tom Hawkins
Chief Financial Officer


Tom Hawkins was previously Chief Financial Officer of NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). At NESTA he was responsible for managing their £300m endowment and overseeing a major reorganisation including the creation of a £50m seed and early stage venture fund.

Before joining NESTA, Tom was a divisional Chief Financial Officer with Lagardère for 8 years, joining after the successful sale of a venture-backed business to the French-listed media and technology group.

His experience ranges from start-ups to large multinational groups, with a particular focus on fast-growing global communications businesses, and has included spells in Paris, Hong Kong and London.

Tom is a prize-winning chartered accountant. He has Masters degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge and in Management from London Business School (Sloan Fellow with distinction).


Max Stevens-Guille
Chief Technology Officer


Prior to joining EnQii, Max was a consultant specializing in enterprise software, focusing on SaaS and SOA architectures. He led development teams on customer engagements in Transportation, Retail Finance and IPTV.
He also architected and delivered a SaaS digital asset management tool with applications in streaming media and digital signage.

Max is a sought after research analyst. In 2005, he researched and co-authored a comprehensive survey of the technology landscape for Don Tapscott’s IT&CA syndicate. In addition, he has authored articles on the application of enterprise and wireless technologies for a variety of publications.

Prior to consulting and researching, Max was an SVP at Maptuit Corporation, a company he co-founded in 1999. Maptuit is the leading provider of navigation products to the North American heavy truck market and the largest provider of white-labeled real-time vehicle traffic web services.

Before starting Maptuit, Max consulted on web and wireless applications in retail and finance. He led the launch team for Canada’s largest books and music retailer, Indigo.ca in 1998. Prior to Indigo, he was VP of Product Development for Visible Decisions, a data visualization company acquired by Lucent in 1998.

Max started his career as a research engineer at Alias Research (now Autodesk) working on virtual reality and design evaluation environments. Max also served as the initial designer of Alias’ StudioPaint products.

Max holds a Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science. In his spare time, he enjoys exploring the world by foot, kayak, and motorcycle.