About Us
| Click here to read the Proporta story, from when we were just a twinkle in the eyes of Coombes and Monson to now… all grown up. If you're interested in becoming one of the Proporta team, click here |
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| MANAGING DIRECTORS |
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 Mike Coombes Managing Director and Co-Founder |
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About Mike: Mike’s background is in manufacturing and product finishing. Apart from his lovely wife Tink, he has another huge love in his life, his dog Darwin, who we have all grown to love as our own. Born in Essex, he has a natural head for figures and looks after key customer and supplier relationships. You can always count on Mike to boost staff morale and give us a good laugh. | |
 Guy Monson Managing Director and Co-Founder |
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About Guy: Guy worked as a journalist (broadcast and print) before setting up Proporta with Mike in 1996. This background has left him with a good understanding of products and consumers and an enjoyment of writing. Guy's enthusiasm and innovative nature is utterly contagious and he's always on hand for an interesting chat. |
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| OFFICE ADMINISTRATION |
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 Debbie Isepp PA/Office Manager |
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About Debbie: Juggling her PA role to Mike and Guy and keeping the office in check, Debbie is the master at making things run smoothly (and the boys organised). | |
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| SALES TEAM |
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 Simon Chamberlain UK Retail Sales Manager |
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About Simon: Born and bred in Cov, Simon is an avid supporter of Coventry City FC and loves traveling to Spain. When he's jet-setting, he likes to turn his hand to the pool table. In the world of Proporta he's the master of Sales and a keen negotiator. | |
 Chris Herovitsch Head of Sales |
About Chris: Chris heads up the sales team and ensures Proporta products are sold by our sales team across Europe. Originally from Austria, Chris likes to spend as much time as possible in his native mountains (but despite repeated requests he refuses to wear his lederhosen in the office). |
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 Diego Alcacer Account Manager |
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About Diego: Fondly known as the eye candy of the office – Diego manages reseller accounts, and is also a member of a talented band (which you may recognise from the insert cards in our iPod cases).
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Jean-Pierre Euphrasie |
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About Jean-Pierre: Looking after our French, Belgian and Swiss market, JP comes from La Ciotat in the south of France. He loves to cook (and we love to try his French appetisers), enjoys a kick about, and is a dab hand at martial arts (so stay on his right side).
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 Andrea Gomes Santos Account Manager |
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About Andrea: Andrea is based in Spain where she also completed her PhD in International Law. She is a vibrant member of the team. The only downside is that we don't get to see her that often. | |
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David Elder |
About David: David has spent more years than he cares to remember in the IT and Consumer Electronics sector, and has established himself as Proporta's "Industry Veteran". David is a keen singer and has a dubious track record of warbling odd ditties after a couple of pints. |
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 Eva Czinegeova Senior Accounts Executive
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About Eva: Eva (or Elfi as she prefers to be called) moved to the UK from Slovakia in 2004 to improve her language skills and luckily for us she never went back :) By day she looks after a number of our important retail customers, but outside of the office she spends most of her time on the beach playing beach volley ball and competing on a national level. |
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Neil Moore Business Development France
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About Neil: Neil is the most recent addition to our reseller team, based here in Brighton. With his fluency in French he puts us all to shame and he's even English! But, he did live there for 25 years. He has recently come back to this green and wet land because you just cannot get a decent curry or beer over the channel. He's passionate about cuisine and has an "interesting" collection of ties for which, he apparently is well-renowned. |
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MARKETING & CUSTOMER SERVICES TEAM
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| Nick Hill E Commerce/Marketing Manager |
About Nick: Nick heads up the eCommerce team, ensuring a great online experience for all Proporta customers. He's worked for years in London in digital marketing but now he's happy to be back in Brighton working for a successful local firm. Outside of work, in what limited spare time he has due to a young family, he's passionate about playing tennis and football. |
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 Chris Casson Marketing Team Leader |
About Chris: Chris started at Proporta after moving to Brighton from Andover and is a fountain of knowledge about Proporta products. When he's not busy looking after Proporta's English speaking world, Chris supports Graham by taking photos of products for the website (he's a dab hand with the camera is our Chris). His talent also extends to music photography and Chris can often be found snapping away at gigs and festivals for various bands. |
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Hiran Mahagamarachchi |
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About Hiran: Originally from Colombo, Hiran has spend some of his time in the UK office. However he has now moved back to Sri Lanka to help bridge the gap between the offices. An avid fan of cricket (naturally), he enjoys travelling (good job really) and the UK cold weather (we think he's mental). When he's not dreaming of a land filled with snow covered cricket pitches, he's working his magic on our online marketing activity. |
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About Diana: Diana has been with us since 2003 and is a much valued member of our Customer Services team. With bags of knowledge about Proporta and our 3,000 products to boot, we doubt there's a customer out there who isn't left satisfied once Diana's given them a helping hand. | ||
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 Marta Gariazzo Marketing/Customer Services Executive (for Italy and France) |
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About Marta: Originally from Italy, Marta handles our Italian and French marketing (multi-lingual – she's well clever) all the way from Paris. She loves meeting new people and never turns down a good pint of beer. | |
 Sarah Stooks Marketing/Customer Services Executive (for France and Spain) |
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About Sarah: Sarah joined Proporta after graduating from the University of Kent with a French and Spanish degree. What she loves more then anything in the world is Disney, dinosaurs, pirates and rock music. She has also been on on the big screen in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
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 Stephanie Schnitzler Marketing/Customer Services Executive (for Germany) |
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About Stephanie: Originally from Stuttgart, Germany Stephanie moved to Brighton in 2009. A keen enthusiast at Volleyball and baking cakes and would rather have a pudding then a starter on meals out and about. She is also very keen on her pet tortoise called Shelly (Stephanie swears she didn't choose the name, but we will let you decide that one)
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About Victoria: Victoria was born in Reading (home of the legendary music festival) and is a bit of a culture junkie. Fond of all things 60s/70s and with an unhealthy obsession for the Rolling Stones she works her magic on Proporta making sure we are seen in the right places from Stuff and the Sunday Times to Grazia and all that is in-between. She also knows a silly amount on the best places to eat and drink in London (not surprising with her being a PR and all). |
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DESIGN TEAM
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 Lynnette Prigmore Head of Product/Writer |
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About Lynnette: Responsible for bringing the latest products into the Proporta collection, Lynnette also doubles up as Brand Guardian, acts as the Proporta spokesperson and helps drive our creative side (or "fluffy side", if you were to ask the Tech Team) forward. With a strong passion for copywriting and getting involved in all aspects of the business, Lynnette can usually be found juggling numerous product launches at once. | |
 Graham Boyd Senior Product Designer |
About Graham: An avid Ipswich Town supporter (ah well), Graham has taken Proporta's product design to the next level. The man behind our current iPod range, he enjoys photography in his spare time and is a perfectionist to the end |
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 Ben Thomson
Product Development Assistant |
About Ben: With his welcoming smile and great sense of humour, Ben is the perfect candidate for supporting Lynnette in bringing our product lines into order and acting as the link between our design and production teams. Outside of the office Ben enjoys the colourful Brighton night life, playing Poker and being a Gooner (boo hiss).
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STOCK SUPPLY TEAM
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 Max Denyer Head of Logistics |
About Max: Max has a very loveable nature, which makes him a popular member of the team. He can remember arrival dates and SKUs off the top of his head (even when we have over 3000 products and 25 employees asking at the same time) and can usually be found singing along to Britney Spears (although he swears his favourite band is Kings of Leon). | ||
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DISPATCH TEAM
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 Gary Robinson Warehouse Supervisor |
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About Gary: Gary is an important member of the Warehouse team and makes sure all our orders are dispatched on time. Cheeky, charming and always sporting a smile, his presence is welcomed by all. | |
 Barry Denyer Warehouse Assistant |
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About Barry: Our other part-time warehouse assistant and in-house handy man is Barry. He helps out with dispatch and often fixes things when they break (damn our doorbell). He's got a lovely, gentle character which must be brought on from all the tea he drinks - he definitely enjoys a nice cuppa. | |
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 Richie Warehouse Assistant |
About Richie: Richie is the youngest member of Proporta warehouse team. He's vibrant, well-liked and an important member of the team. If anyone ever has a problem, Richie is the man to help. |
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TECHNICAL TEAM
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 Sam Rodman IT Development Manager |
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About Sam: Sam’s knowledge of all things technical must have been uploaded from some kind of advanced software built into everyday human hardware. He's sure made of the tough stuff, often having to wake up in the early hours to fix any tricky IT problems we encounter. | |
 Nick White System Administrator |
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About Nick: While he has dabbled widely, Nick has repeatedly found himself drawn into the world of computers. It is probably for the best, he can fix many a thing, and with a smile. | |
| ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT |
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 Jenny Bloomhill Accounts |
About Jenny:Originally from Zimbabwe, Jenny is a mother of four and loves gardening, live music and taking strolls on the beach. Lucky for us, she also has a love of numbers as Proporta's resident Book-Keeper. | ||
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| Proporta was established in 1996 and designs the highest quality and widest range of mobile phone protective cases including iPhone 4 - 4S cases, iPhone 3 - 3GS cases, Samsung Galaxy S2 cases, Blackberry cases, Smartphone cases and covers, iPad - iPad 2 cases, tablet cases, Amazon Kindle covers, MP3 Player Cases, iPod cases as well as providing the award winning Turbocharger 3400 - 5000, phone screen protectors, cables and PDA accessories. |
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