Simon Perlaki – CEO

Simon is one of the founders of Giant Digital, and his role covers all the major aspects of the business and strategy as well as handling the finances.

Before Giant, Simon was team leader for a web development company, producing websites and web-based solutions for a wide variety of SMEs and blue-chip clients. He also had many design orientated jobs for magazines and printing companies.

Andy Day - COO

As COO, Andy is responsible for developing and maintaining our portfolio of websites, monitoring content as well as putting together our marketing strategy.

One of Giant Digital's co-owners, Andy has been with the company since it was just the music website Gigwise.com, where he started out as Editor.

Before Giant and settling down into the world of online media, Andy worked for MTV, Trinity Mirror and in the music industry.

Don Amaechi - Sales Director

Appointed as Giant Digital’s Sales Director, Don joined the team in September 2011 after previously working at Adnetik as Account Director.

Beginning his career at Computerweekly.com and later moving to Dennis Interactive, he has sold online services to advertising agencies and companies from Apple to Xerox.

With a strong ability to develop and build business relationships as well as possessing a wealth of experience and client base, Don is ensuring he is a healthy and exciting addition to the Giant Digital team.

He's also a keen fitness fanatic, spending his spare time swimming and running. He DJs, playing music of various styles at a number of London's top nightspots and recently produced his third dance EP.

Steve McQueen – PR & Marketing Manager

Beginning work as a writer back in late 2002, Steve contributed some of Gigwise's earliest features with his controversial guerilla-style memoirs of life on the road with some of the world's biggest bands.

A seasoned musician himself, Steve toured the UK supporting Gary Numan in 2009, prior to that scoring a record deal with Hip-Hop label TVT Records in 2005.

His talents for dealing with press and ingenuis creative marketing strategies, has put him on a new path in charge of Giant Digital's PR & Marketing department, carving him an essential role within the company.

Holly Frith - Editor, Gigwise

Holly began her career in primary school near Manchester as one of the most prolific crayoners in her class before attending UCLAN to study journalism.

She has experienced one of Giant Digital's fastest rises through the company, starting as an intern in late 2010 she soon became Deputy Editor before taking the top spot of Editor in late 2011

While writing for the student newspaper, Holly interviewed a young Lady Gaga before she was famous and has contributed to MOJO, The Fly and Q.

She unfortunately killed her pet rat Cantona by accident and cites Alison Mosshart as her style inspiration.

Claire Rutter – Editor, Entertainmentwise

Claire joined the Giant Digital crew in early 2010 to relaunch TaleTela to the masses. She has since moved over to Entertainmentwise and as Editor she is responsible for the overall content on the website, including the latest gossip news, red-carpet photo galleries and fashion round-ups.

She also manages Entertainmentwise's freelance contributors, who supply the hottest news from film premieres and review some of the year's must-see movies.

Holding a masters in journalism hasn't stopped Claire from quoting Kanye's FULL CAPS RANTS.

Alicia Adejobi – Editor, TaleTela

Alica has written for several publications and websites including Musicrooms.net, Red magazine, Pride Magazine as well as interviewing the likes Jason Derulo, Katy B, Raphael, Beverly Knight and Tim Westwood.

Prior to this, Alicia attended Bournemouth University where she studied Multimedia Journalism. Now relocated in London, she has made a somewhat spectacular jump from an intern, to Editor of Taletela.

She promises big things for the site and as a true music lover she describes the perks of the job as "being able to listen to music all day."

David Renshaw – Editor, PopDash

Editor of PopDash, David has been part of Giant Digital since he was 18 - working as an assistant on Gigwise in Liverpool before following the team to London and helping create PopDash in March 2010.

As editor his roles include breaking the day's biggest pop music news, interviewing big name acts and ensuring that PopDash is a fun, exciting and informative read at all times. In the first year of PopDash the site has featured interviews with Robyn, Tinie Tempah and The Wanted as well as covering all the big news events in the world of pop.

Prior to becoming editor of PopDash, David was a freelance journalist published by Dazed & Confused and The Guardian amongst many others.

Deepika Rajani – Editor, TellyGossip

Deepika started as an intern for Entertainmentwise at Giant Digital in 2009 and worked her way up from head of cakes and biscuits to staff writer across all of the pop culture properties.

Since then she's used her experience to launch TellyGossip, a site that focuses on the best soaps, reality TV and US shows.

When asked for a few words about herself she replied with “im (sic) sure you can make some nice stuff up...”

In 2008 Deepika was the first person to win University Challenge single-handedly and is the youngest person to have gone into space on the Space Shuttle.

Deepika was trained by the BBC on their Step Up project which gives promising graduates a head start in the journalism business.