Mark Hopwood

Current

• Technology & Operations Director at Pod1

Past

• Chief Technology Officer at Snow Valley
• Non-executive Director at Zoomf.com
• Head of Technology at Agency.com

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Industry

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Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Mark Hopwood’s Summary

I have led the technology and project management teams of a range of companies in the digital space. I am the Technology and Operations Director of Pod1, a New Media Age Top 100 agency, specialising in open source technologies including Magento e-commerce and the Symfony php framework, and I also have experience with Microsoft technologies including Commerce Server and the .NET framework.

I started out doing all the traditional IT jobs: development, analysis, design, testing, team leading, project management. I became a business analyst at Thomas Cook and then went into consulting, including 3 years in the IT Management practise at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

I've been involved in technology and business management in the digital space since 2000, working with Agency.com, i-traffic, Agency Republic and Fullsix in a variety of roles, and with great clients like Clarks Shoes, Lakeland Plastics, BA, Orange, BT, Ikea and Procter & Gamble. I was CTO at Deal Group Media plc from 2004 to 2006, where I led the rebuild of their ad-server platform.

I am a Fellow and a Chartered IT Professional of the British Computer Society.

Mark Hopwood’s Specialties:

Managing small and medium size digital businesses
IT strategy and architecture
Custom software development
Partner selection and management
Programme and project management

Additional Information

Mark Hopwood’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Mark Hopwood’s Interests:

Photography. Travel. Reading. Wine.

Mark Hopwood’s Groups:

British Computing Society, Institute of Directors, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising's Digital Media Group (past member), AdMonsters.

•    Friends of the British Computer Society
•    AdMonsters
•    Python Community
•    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employees and alumni
•    E-Commerce Network
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    Django
•    Agency.com Alumni
•    BCS ELITE
•    Retail IT Specialists
•    Global Ecommerce Summit
•    Magento Users Group
•    RetailGreen - green and sustainable ecommerce
•    Mercado Users Group
•    Pod1 London/New York

Mark Hopwood’s Honors:

FBCS, Chartered IT Professional.