Meet the management team
Richard Padley
Managing Director
Richard Padley is one of Semantico’s founders and has 25 years experience in digital publishing. Before founding Semantico in 1999 Richard worked for Macmillan where he developed the online versions of the Grove Dictionaries of Art and Music. Before this he specialised in building workflow tracking systems for multi volume reference works, SGML content management systems and typesetting. Richard has a degree in computer science from Sussex University and lives in Brighton.
Rob Virkar-Yates
Strategy Director
Rob has more than 19 years’ digital experience; over 10 years experience as a user experience practitioner and 4 years as a strategist & planner. He was one of the UK’s first dedicated Information Architects when working for Organic (UK) in 1998-99. Rob has worked for many global consumer brands across digital, brand and retail in the UK & Europe, India, Russia, China and the US.
John Helmer
Marketing Director
John Helmer heads the marketing team at Semantico. From an advertising agency background, he has helped to create and develop Semantico’s Thought Leadership programme, including notably the highly successful and influential Discovery Blog. He regularly writes on the use of technology in transforming publishing, training, education and communications.
Liam Sheerin
Production Director
Liam is a PRINCE2 practitioner with over ten years of project management experience and brings a wealth of knowledge from the mobile sector. Liam is responsible for resourcing and monitoring the health of all our projects.
Colin Caveney
Sales Director
Colin has 11 years experience in developing and delivering interactive digital media. Colin joined us in 2005 and has worked on many of our large scale systems. Colin will provide an escalation path for project issues and evaluation of high-level risks and project deliverables.