Ajit is a programmer at Kinship networking.

Ajit has a mechanical engineering and computer science background. He started his career in the automotive design industry before making the switch to IT and Kinship.

Charles Wells is managing director of Kinship Networking, a division of Wells Media which he founded in 2005.

Charles spent four years working on marketing strategy at Ogilvy, where he headed up the UK GlaxoSmithKline and Nestle teams. He then helped set up Mather Communications, Ogilvy’s sister agency, where he worked as new business director.

Charles’ interests in social networking are rooted in his biological sciences studies at Balliol, Oxford where he was intrigued by the links between neurology and social behaviour. He founded Wells Media in 2005 to provide services to firms seeking to tap into the power of social networking. Most recently he helped create and refine the concept of the wimsicl© platform, which forms the core of Kinship Networking.

Marc is Chief Technology Officer of Kinship Networking and a main board member of Wells Media.

After graduating from Cambridge in mathematics, Marc Parnell began his career as chief programmer of digital data acquisition company Datapaq before moving on to work in international strategy practice, Monitor Company. He then started his own company developing agile, intelligent information systems for major international companies before merging with Zone to deliver web-based media applications for companies such as Freemantle, Hallmark and Unilever. Marc was the architect of the wimsicl © platform and led the development team.

Matt is Client Services Director at Kinship Networking.

After graduating with a degree in Management Science, Matt occupied various marketing roles for companies such as Microsoft and Reuters. He then joined Ogilvy where he worked above and below-the-line on BT, Cancer Research UK and First Great Western. Most recently he joined Stephens Francis Whitson, a specialist direct marketing agency, where he worked on a number of accounts including O2, More Th>n and Rocco Forte.

Matt has worked on a number of new business ideas within the social networking arena, including the development of a site aimed at helping people stay in touch with their various groups of friends, at the start of 2001.

Mike has been working with Kinship as Head of Design since its inception in 2007.

With over seven years’ design experience, both online and in print media, Mike runs Fridge Creative’s design team in the development of Kinship´s wide variety of projects.

Richard has ten years’ experience developing database driven websites and intranets for companies such as Channel 4, Johnson and Johnson and Microsoft.

He recently designed and developed a highly specialised search application for the pharmaceutical industry, which is now in use at several global top ten pharmaceutical companies.

For the past 18 months Richard has been working with Kinship to build the Bandman and Petstreet sites, and to further develop the wimsicl© platform.