Chairman / co-founder, Jimmy Maymann
+44 (0)791 214 6368 /
Jimmy Maymann has 15 years of managerial experience within advertising, marketing and new media, now as executive chairman for goviral, specialists in branded content distribution, which he co-founded in 2005. His career stated with the establishment of the Internet consulting business Neo Ideo in 1995, where he served as the CEO until it was sold to Leo Burnett in 2001. He continued as strategic director in Leo Burnett. In 2004 he moved to Arc Worldwide, as a Global Discipline Head overseeing global accounts and developing new competences in emerging media. Jimmy has a Master in International Marketing and an Executive MBA from London Business School and he is a “regular” speaker at the Cannes Lions – presenting at the conference in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

CEO, René Rechtman
+44 (0)774 870 2499 /
René Rechtman has worked in media, communications, management and Internet in EMEA for more than 13 years. Before joining goviral René spend 8 1/2 years helping building TradeDoubler into a leading European provider of online marketing solutions (affiliate network, ad network, campaigns and technology). René’s latest role was as Vice President, where he was responsible for the groups advertiser and publisher sales. Previously, he has been responsible for global client relationships, internationalisation and MD for TradeDoublers Danish operations. René has a background in Political Science from Copenhagen University and worked on a Business PhD at Kingston Business School on the subject of business strategy and stakeholding.

Global Client Service Director & Co-founder, Claus Moseholm
+44 7912 948 966 /
Claus Moseholm has 12 years of experience with media, advertising and communication business. He holds a Master in Economics and has worked in the PR and advertising industry in EMEA since 1997. He has been involved in several start ups including the award winning creative agency Home Sweet Home which he participated establishing and directing until he co-founded goviral.

Managing Director - Nordics, Jacob Lachmann
+45 29 68 08 48 /
Jacob Lachmann has been pioneering online ad sales and digital marketing since 1996. He was part of the start up of OMDs digital department in Copenhagen followed by 7 years with German listed company ad pepper, where he played a central role in the companys development first as Managing Director in Denmark and from 2003 as Executive director covering the Nordic countries, global head of Lead gen products and member of the M/A team in ad pepper. During his time with ad pepper he was a part of numerous M/As and held board positions in ad pepper France, ad pepper Holland, ad peppers tech department Pentamind and Globase International. In 2008 Lachmann brought northern Europe’s largest conference on digital opportunities SIME to Denmark.

Managing Director - UK, Luke Aviet
+44 (0)779 905 1585 /
Luke Aviet has over 8 years experience within the online media and technology sectors. Before joining goviral, Luke was Managing Director and Co-founder of Merging Media Ltd. In 2002 Luke joined TradeDoubler and led the UK's sales team, significantly contributing to the company's rise to market leader. Luke left TradeDoubler as International Sales Director where he managed advertiser sales across the group's 18 markets. Earlier in his career Luke worked in a number of account management roles within the IT services sector. Luke holds a BA in Economics and History from the University of Leicester.

Managing Director - Germany, Alexander Gösswein
+49 177 445 5220 /
Alexander Gösswein has worked in marketing and media for more than 13 years. He started his career in Product management at L´Oréal Paris, before moving to classical Media sales at SevenOne Media (Pro7Sat1 Media AG) and Marquard Media. He then spent the next six years in leading roles in Online Media: helping to build up the Yahoo! Search Business (formerly Overture) in Germany, and became responsible for the Commercial Development team at Yahoo! and headed up the AdSales team at Microsoft Advertising prior to joining goviral Germany. Alex studied business administration in Passau and Toulouse and did an Executive MBA in Media at the School of Management and Innovation (Steinbeis Management School) in Berlin, New York and Milan.

CFO, James Colquhoun
+44 (0)778 554 5901 /
James Colquhoun has held a number of senior finance positions in high growth international businesses, most recently as Group Finance Director at Mobile Streams plc, the AIM listed mobile content specialist. At Mobile Streams, in addition to his finance responsibilities, James was also responsible for the legal, HR, investor relations and the European commercial team. Prior to joining Mobile Streams he was European Financial Controller at Cinram International Inc, the largest producer of pre-recorded multi-media and related logistic services. James qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Dixon Wilson and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Business and Finance from Oxford Brookes University.

VP Publishing, Thomas Sevège
+44 (0)750 172 9668 /
Thomas Sevège has been working in the digital marketing space for more than 7 years. He joined TradeDoubler in 2001 as Publisher Director in France and got rapidly promoted as Managing Director of the local subsidiary in Paris. During this period Thomas led his organization to a market leader position within Affiliate Marketing business, in an highly competitive environment. After 3 years, Thomas joined TradeDoubler’s Management Group, as Regional Director in charge of operations in Southern Europe, Benelux and Emerging Markets. Thomas has a background in sales and marketing. He holds a Masters Degree in Digital Marketing and e-Commerce from Pôle Universitaire Leonard Devinci – Paris La Defense - where he is now teaching Digital Response Marketing, being also member of the pedagogical board.

CTO, Daniel Franklin
+44 (0)750 172 9664 /
Daniel Franklin is a technologist and an innovator, with 10 years experience in early stage businesses within web and digital media. Prior to joining goviral, Daniel was co-founder and CTO of RawFlow, which brought to market the world’s leading P2P solution for live video streaming. Before starting RawFlow in 2002, Daniel has worked for Touch Clarity, who develop web analytics and behavioural targeting solutions, and for e-business consultancies in the UK and Australia. He has a strong background in software development, team leadership and project management. Daniel holds a Computer Science degree from Edith Cowan University.