Conversations with the Crew: Meet Marcel van Benthem
It’s been a long time coming, but we can finally get excited and share the news that Marcel van Bentham has joined us as Managing Director of 101 Ways Netherlands! Here the seasoned commercial manager and certified Scrum Master talks me through strategy, scaling and errr, saunas? Enjoy. Hi Marcel, welcome to 101 Ways. Tell […]
Conversations with the Crew: Meet Raffael Fernandes
Exactly one month after he hit the ground running, I was lucky to get five minutes with the man of the moment, our new Sales & Marketing Director, Raffael Fernandes. The guy who cut his teeth in the industry on the other side of the world before making his way back to London in the […]
Conversations with the Crew: Meet Sophie Branfield
As we head into the New Year three mince pies at a time, our HQ team – as well as our stomachs – is growing. It’s an exciting time focusing on future goals as well as festive cheer. This month we welcome Sophie Branfield as our new Head of Talent. She has galloped into HQ […]
This Girl Can – 101 Ways Intern Talks Getting Women into STEM
Araminta Bos-Rich is a Bath native, horse lover (she has one that at 26 years, is older than her) and was one of 101 Ways’ summer interns. Although she had to leave to go back to university, we didn’t really want to let her go because she brought us doughnuts, was really helpful to the […]
Conversations with the Crew: Meet Heidi Anderson
Thus far, our three-strong Client Partner Team was made up of people who’s names begin with a ‘J’. While always a fan of alliteration, it was time to mix it up and add the inimitable Heidi Anderson to the mix. A London native, Heidi and her family packed their bags four years ago, made for […]
Interning at 101 Ways: On the Code to Success
It’s summer, it’s hot – you’d be forgiven for wanting to spend every waking hour next to a fan / water fountain / igloo. But one young woman, shunned the sun and braved the Northern Line every day just to join us at HQ for a week and find out what it’s really like to […]
Conversations with the Crew: Meet Joshua Philpott
Turn’s out we’re an office of secretly talented techies – from a rock singer via a hand-skateboarder (it’s a thing) to a diablo juggler. But we didn’t want to stop there so in June we decided to add a former professional footballer to the mix. Apparently Beckham was busy – something about buying some land […]
How to be a Protagonist and Use Your Leadership Skills to Help Others
At our last Women’s Tech Focus event – WTF is…Leadership? we had the first person outside of 101 Ways take part in our WTF Standup initiative. That brave woman was Aj Wilson – QA Engineer, unicorn and all-round champion of women. Oh, and did we mention she can also deliver babies? Her talk focused on […]
Scrum, Data and the Journey to Awesome
I’m on one of our client sites to meet Sonny Lam: Data Explorer, Scrum Master and lounge wear extraordinaire. While I like my interviewees to feel relaxed, I’ll admit this is the first time I’ve ever questioned someone wearing slippers, and Pokémon ones at that. But whatever gets the job done, right? I had promised […]
101 Ways Supports #LeaveYourMark Campaign for International Women's Day
Happy International Women’s Day 2019! We have an incredible crew of female employees and consultants here at 101 Ways – accomplished, successful and all round wonder women. Thanks to the #LeaveYourMark campaign, we want to ‘lift them up for the world to see’. So we rallied the troops and asked them to share what […]