Zapoint Our Team
The People Behind Zapoint
Zapoint employs a diverse mix of people, from very clever developers to refreshingly friendly sales advisors. Without their skills and experience we wouldn’t be where we are today.
As you’ll notice, our team spans several continents – hey, it's the internet age and you really don't need to all be in the same office to create amazing results.
Chris Twyman - CEO
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Born in the UK, Chris started his technology career in telecommunications, where he was a financial analyst for Telstra, in Australia. After that he joined Sybase where he defined and managed product development for their telecoms product range. Chris then joined Computer Associates to manage the marketing team for their database products. During this time Chris was on the divestment committee for a business unit that was sold to a Private Equity team in California.
Chris founded Zapoint after seeing an opportunity to improve efficiency in the way everyone manages HR processes. He pulled together a team of Mathematicians, HR and Recruiting executives to build the industries first objective measurement tool for evaluating people. Launched in 2008, Zapoint has attracted both large and small customers in Europe and North and South America.
Chris has a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters degree in International Marketing along with an MBA from the ADL School of Management.
Joe Brooks - COO
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Joe joined Zapoint in November 2007 as the second full time employee in the US. Joe initially working in Product Management, overseeing the development team to launch and develop their consumer and enterprise applications. As COO, he now oversees both the Product and Commercial teams, based in the US and Europe.
Prior to joining Zapoint Joe worked in the real estate industry in London, managing multiple sales teams and focusing on leadership and performance development.
Joe graduated from Hult International Business School in Cambridge, MA with an MBA in August 2007.
Keith Woodward - CMO
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Keith has over 15+ years experience in the high technology and enterprise software industry. He is responsible for leading strategic marketing initiatives that support Zapoint’s growth and continued technology leadership in the talent management space. This includes press and analyst relations, lead generation, brand and product marketing. Prior to Zapoint, Keith held senior marketing executive positions at CA, Quest Software and Intel Corporation. Keith received his MBA in 2005 from Pepperdine University’s Grazadio School of Business.
Alex Deva - Head of Development
Tg. Mures, Romania
Over the past couple of years, I've helped turn Zapoint from a small and simplistic site into a complex and powerful web-based tool. And this is still only the beginning!
Ian Garland - Head of User Experience
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Having worked agency side for the majority of my career, I jumped at the chance to swap sides and help design, and build a growing new brand. My favorite colour is black which makes me a designer, but I do like Star Wars which makes me a coder, so I guess I'm somewhere in-between.
Phil Bowermaster - Chief Futurist and Strategy Guy
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Phil combines more than 20 years of management experience in the telecom and software industries with a passion for understanding and leveraging accelerating change. He is one of the web's leading bloggers about emerging technologies, emerging possibilities, and the future. As Chief Futurist and Strategy Guy, Phil is spreading the word about the tremendous potential of organizational transparency and self-guided career management -- developments that can truly transform business, work, and life. Phil is charged with expanding Zapoint's social graph, which is another way of saying expanding Zapoint itself.
