Leadership

Sean is heavily involved with the strategic direction of Content Guru, working at a technical level with the core teams that define high-level product design and commercially on the company’s go-to-market strategy, including the establishment of key partnerships.

Before co-founding Redwood and Content Guru, Sean worked in the engineering team of Rhetorex Inc. (acquired by Lucent), a pioneer in the field of Computer Telephony, both in the UK and in San Jose, California. He was a member of the CBI’s Enterprise Forum and is currently part of its AI Working Group.

In January 2018 Sean was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for the Royal County of Berkshire, and he serves with numerous charitable and voluntary organizations in the area, including as a Trustee of Berkshire Community Foundation (BCF), a charity specializing in the care of vulnerable adults and children. Having represented Berkshire at county level in cross-country running as a teenager, he is now President of Bracknell Athletics Club.

Sean holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Electronics and Computer Science from King’s College, University of London and maintains links with the university through the annually awarded Redwood Technologies Prize for Best Performance in the MSc Telecommunications and Internet Technology programme.

Robert Mansfield is the Chief Technology Officer at Content Guru. As CTO, he oversees the strategic international development of storm and the management of future product releases, with responsibilities ranging from software development to network design and security.

He has a key responsibility for managing and implementing the software development methodologies that underpin Content Guru’s communications architecture, and has been instrumental in introducing Agile development techniques and KanBan organizational processes across the business.

Robert joined the Group in 1996 from Lucent Technologies Computer Telephony Products division (formerly Rhetorex Inc.), where he worked from graduation, having started in technical support and finished as Engineering Manager. He graduated from King’s College London with a BEng (Hons) in Electronics and Computer Science.

Paul Harvey was appointed as Content Guru’s CFO in January 2022 with responsibility for all accounting, treasury, tax, procurement, and financial planning activities at Content Guru. 

Prior to joining Content Guru, Paul spent 15 years at Travelport (a global travel technology company) working in a number of different finance roles including 3 years in Atlanta, USA as head of Travelport’s US finance function and most recently leading the M&A function for Travelport. 

Paul qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1992 and spent over 13 years at Deloitte gaining extensive experience across Audit, M&A and other advisory services. 

Paul brings a wealth of experience in managing and developing finance functions and teams as well as helping sales, technology and executive teams in delivering upon their strategic goals.

Paul graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hons) degree in Physics. In his spare time he enjoys skiing, sailing and spending time with his family.

Andrew Casson is Vice President of Sales for the Americas. In this role, he has responsibility for overseeing the company’s expansion within the Americas. This builds on Andrew’s years of experience advising Content Guru on major contracts within the US market.

After finishing his M.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Andrew started his career at Bell Laboratories, before moving to Avaya for five years. He has spent the past 15 years supporting Federal Government clients in a trusted advisor role. In this position, he has received recognition for support of the Nuclear Security Summit, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial in 2010, several G20 summits, The Annapolis Conference, and countless other special events on behalf of the US Department of State.

In his spare time, Andrew is an avid skier, and enjoys spending time with his family.

Barbara Caspers-Zarini is the Regional Director for Content Guru in the DACH region. In this role, she is responsible for driving the expansion of Content Guru as a CCaaS leader in the German, Austrian, and Swiss markets.

Prior to joining Content Guru, Barbara worked for Avaya Deutschland GmbH. As Managing Director, she was responsible for the entire German enterprise business. Prior to this, Barbara worked for 17 years at BT Global Services, first as a Global Account Director, before holding several sales management roles across global & enterprise customer segments, as well as selected global systems integrators.

Barbara is a keen chef with a global outlook and loves to learn about other cultures through their cuisine. She also enjoys spending time in nature, taking part in sports both in and above water, and is an enthusiastic golfer.

Masanao Negishi is Country Manager for Content Guru KK, working from its Asia-Pac headquarters in Tokyo. He joined in 2024, bringing a wealth of sales and marketing experience in the Japanese and Asian markets.

Masanao has spent his career driving rapid growth for both established and early-stage companies in Japan and Asia-Pac. He has worked for a number of major global businesses including BT Global Services, Ericsson, IBM Japan, and Intel.

Masanao has degrees from Yokohoma City University, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Oxford.

Mush is responsible for Engineering Operations, overseeing the deployment and operational management of storm. He has been with Content Guru since 2008, starting in its Engineering Services team as a Support engineer, then working in Project Management. Since 2017, he has worked in the Operations team, where he was promoted to head the team, managing its operations in the Americas, AsiaPac and Europe.

He is a graduate from University College London (UCL) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering (BEng) and has an MSc in Telecoms from King’s College London. In addition to following Manchester United, he enjoys skiing and fishing.

Matt has worked as part of the Redwood Technologies Group since 1995. In Content Guru, he oversees the Project Management team, responsible for delivering end-to-end cloud solutions through storm. Matt’s primary areas of focus are the company’s highly-successful utilities and healthcare deployments, which have won multiple industry awards for innovation and reliability.

Matt joined Redwood Technologies as a new graduate, having received a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Business Computer Systems at the University of Gloucestershire, and retains a fascination for all things technological. He is particularly excited about how developments in AI and Natural Language Processing will transform our daily lives, and he follows the progress of self-driving cars with interest. Matt has always loved travelling, and remembers his visits to other parts of the world fondly, especially his time in Peru and scuba-diving in Egyptian waters.

Jacob Gaudoin is the Head of Accelerator Projects. He has worked at Redwood Technologies Group since 2006, starting out as an Engineering Services Support Engineer.  He has worked in a number of technical roles: support, operations, data networking, software development, service management and, more recently, leading the Accelerator team in delivering critical projects. He has worked with a variety of customers and partners including AXA, Citrix, Deutsche Telekom, KPN, Microsoft, Rakuten, TCS and Vodafone.

Jacob has a Physics degree from the University of Bath. Outside of work he enjoys rock climbing, skiing and hiking.

Jonty Shipley joined as Content Guru’s Marketing Director in 2020, with responsibility for marketing globally. He oversees all awareness and acquisition activities, including events, digital, PR, partner marketing and analyst relations.

Prior to joining Redwood Technologies, Jonty spent 14 years working in technology companies, most of which in marketing. Most recently this included working at Skyscanner and, previously, 9 years at Amazon. Before his roles in tech, Jonty worked in management consulting and investment banking for Roland Berger and Barclays Capital.

Jonty graduated from Cambridge University with a BA and MEng in Engineering and has an MBA from London Business School. In his spare time he enjoys travel, sports and spending time with his family and dog.

Edward Winfield manages the development of key partner relationships and driving growth into international markets, focussing on building a global partner eco-system. He has worked with the company since 2007 when he worked for Cable and Wireless and then Vodafone Global Enterprise, where he had extensive experience selling storm to a variety of customers. Since joining Content Guru in 2017, he has built and managed a variety of new routes to market. He manages a range of key partners to deliver value within their consult, build and run practices – by driving opportunities globally and helping them with their market strategy and proposition development.

Edward graduated from Teesside University with a BA (Hons) in Public Management, specializing in regulated communications and utility markets. He is an avid car enthusiast and owns a Time Attack race car that he races in sprint events. He is married and enjoys hiking with his wife and rescue dog.