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Tablina was set up by two founders Richard O'Connor and Richard Irwin because they believed they could use their combined experience to give property owners a fantastic resource in marketing holiday homes to holiday makers all over the world. 

Richard O'Connor, CEO

Richard has a proven track record in the internet /e-commerce  sector  as he has been instrumental in setting up  some very  successful e-commerce  companies, (details below) he is applying his unique knowledge and experience to make sure  Tablina  will be the number one holiday home rental  site in the world.  (Links to published articles at bottom of this page) 

Contact Richard O'Connor on: roc@tablina.com

Ambergreen: A founding director of Ambergreen Internet Marketing one of the UK’s leading search engine optimisation  companies (www.ambergreen.co.uk) who  have worked for companies like, HSBC, Boots, Mercedes, Going Places and Carphone Warehouse. 

Lynchpin: Richard is also a major shareholder in an online marketing analysis company called www.lynchpin.com  clients include HSBC, Airtours, Marks and Spencer money. The company tracks and analyses all online marketing campaigns like a banners, emails ,  Adwords and calculates which campaigns generate the most revenue.

Richard also founded www.weentrepreneurs.com this is an international network for 750  high growth entrepreneurs with chapters in USA,  Denmark, Latvia, UK.  This network has  given Richard access to contacts in the Travel industry in all the countries. 
 

Richard Irwin   Oversees all technical development

Richard Irwin was the Chief Executive Officer of All-Hotels® LTD the first global hotel web site, providing real-time reservations to holiday makers.  He conceived, designed and led www.All-Hotels.com to become the world’s leading independent hotel web site with real-time feeds from over 80,000 hotels, attracting $20m sales by 2002.  AllHotels.com is now part of lastminute.com.

Contact Richard Irwin on:  richard.irwin@tablina.com  (Press articles see below) 
 

Harry Hellyer, Head of marketing

Harry has over twenty years experience in sales and marketing:  working with both global blue chips and hi-tech start-ups. Much of his career has been spent helping businesses of all sizes get to grips with formulating and delivering successful B2B and B2C sales, marketing, and e-business strategies. Harry has held numerous directorship positions relating to e-business strategies including setting up and directing BT’s corporate Internet and Business consultancy practice he was also a member of the BT’s core data strategy and e-commerce development teams. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School and is a member of the CIM.  

Lizelle van Rhyn, Head of Customer Services

Lizelle has 10 years of customer service experience and is highly experienced in setting up procedures to support customer services integral to SME and Blue Chip companies.

Contact Lizelle on: Lizelle@tablina.com

Rachael Prescott, Head of Operations

Rachael started working as a management consultant over 4 years ago and has helped clients across multiple industries define their processes and procedures.  She has 8 years of experience in Account Management and is also heading up the Account Management team to ensure our property owners get the best service. 

She has recently discovered Power Kiting as her weekend adrenaline rush!

Contact Rachael on: rp@tablina.com 
 

Development Team

Charlie Wong

Charlie is core to the web site and system development team has extensive knowledge of many programming and development languages.  His attention to detail and customer focus is core to the continual development of the Rent a Villa Direct web site.   
 
 

Press links  

Richard O’Connor 

Ambergreen:

  1. link to article in Financial times: http://search.ft.com/iab?queryText=ambergreen&aje=true&id=050323001037&location=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ft.com%2FftArticle%3FqueryText%3Dambergreen%26aje%3Dtrue%26id%3D050323001037&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ft.com%2Fsearch%3FqueryText%3Dambergreen
  2. Scotsman article: http://business.scotsman.com/ebusiness.cfm?id=998392007
  3. Marketing society: www.marketing-society.org.uk/main.asp?page=enuggets-content-provider&id=39
 

We-entrepreneurs:

  1. collection of press articles:  www.weentrepreneurs.com/fx.weents/scheme/pressroom.aspx
 

Lynchpin:

  1. Scotsman/ lynchpin wins HSBC: http://business.scotsman.com/ebusiness.cfm?id=894292007