Our people

Mark Patron, CEO

Mark has been involved with RedEye for the past 5 years. He helped the company grow by introducing e-rm and optimum.web to the company, before being appointed CEO in 2006. Mark is non-exec Chairman of Twenty PLC which he helped float on AIM in 2006. Previously Mark was MD of Claritas, now part of Acxiom, which he built over 14 years into the UK’s leading lifestyle data business, with 350 staff and over £30m revenues. Mark was Chairman of Abacus Europe, the data division of DoubleClick and was voted one of the UK’s 15 most influential direct marketers by readers of Precision Marketing magazine.

Matthew Kelleher, Commercial Director

Matthew Kelleher joined RedEye in 2006 as Commercial Director with the dual responsibilities of group wide business development as well as RedEye’s Email Marketing.  A Masters graduate in Economics from the LSE, Matthew worked for Acxiom for 16 years, starting at NDL, Claritas and most latterly Acxiom. He undertook a variety of divisional director roles, most notably launching Claritas Interactive in 1999 and overseeing its European development. A founder member of the DMA Email Council, Matthew is responsible at RedEye for the service and delivery of email solutions for all clients as well as for the growth of the business.

Garry Lee, Director of Analytics

Garry Lee has worked in online analytics for over 10 years. He began client side using the original WebTrends products and has spent the past 9 years with RedEye focusing on online behavioural services and segmentation. During this time Garry produced the first UK results from analytic driven behavioural email, led industry setting analysis tracking technologies and launched a leading media attribution system – Media Mix.
Garry currently heads up the analytics department responsible for behaviourally targeted systems for leading industry names like William Hill, Monarch and Legal and General as well as providing bespoke consultancy services for companies including HSBC, Expedia and The Government. Garry is a professional member of the Web Analytics Association.

John Dumas, Director of Usability & Accessibility

John has over fourteen years experience in usability and web development working in both the UK and the USA on projects for the public and private sector. John’s experience includes time spent as a university lecturer for human-computer interaction, internet applications and digital multimedia. John has been with RedEye’s Usability and Accessibility division (optimum.web) since the company’s inception in 2000.