About Howler

We're driven to make high performance, cost-effective products.

We believe that most telecoms products in the market today are expensive, inflexible and inefficient. We're determined to change that. All the products we release (and those in our pipeline) are smarter, more performant and save you a lot of money. We care deeply about the products we build and have a lot of fun making them.

Management Team
mike vieyra
Mike Vieyra, Chief Executive Officer
Prior to joining Howler, Mike held a number of CEO positions at a variety of startup technology companies. Most recently, he was the CEO of Gissing Software, a communications software company for the financial industry that was acquired by Reuters in January 2008. Before this, he was the Chairman and CEO of iView Multimedia, a company that made software to catalogue and manage digital assets such photos and videos. iView was acquired by Microsoft in June 2006.

Mike’s career has been spent helping startup technology companies to define their strategy, raise funding, assemble management teams, become self-sustaining and eventually exit.

Mike graduated from Imperial College, London with a BSc in Electrical Engineering, and began his career as a developer of low-level, real-time software.
 
 
jay fenton
Jay Fenton, Chief Technology Officer
Jay has a deep understanding of technology, with over a decade of experience spanning systems, networking and software development. A keen innovator, Jay is always looking to push the boundaries of the current state of the art, leading him to pursue a successful entrepreneurial career from an early age. He has been responsible for a number of innovative startups, notably co-founding Broadbean Technology in 2001 (now the #1 vacancy distribution engine in Europe).

Jay has consulted for several large corporates including Sony, and has also developed several applications in the mobile space for which he is highly regarded. In his spare time, Jay’s interests include parallel algorithms, Remote Control Microhelicopters, UAVs, and coming up with new solutions to building fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
 
 
darryl ashing
Darryl Ashing, Chief Financial Officer
Darryl Ashing F.C.A., qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the City office of Moores Rowland. He has been a director of Howler Technologies Limited since its formation and is responsible for all financial matters, in particular ensuring everyone is paid each month. Darryl also has a degree in Maths and Computing Science which at least means he knows when to nod when the techies start talking about software.

In the past he has been a director of New Media Factory (one of the first web design agencies), PlanetRecruit (online job board, sold in 2003) and various other high-tech start-ups.
 
 
peter briffett
Peter Briffett, Commercial Director
Peter has a proven track record of successful leadership and achievement in sales & marketing, and a wealth of experience in building and managing profitable technology companies.

Peter's ability to execute business objectives and create wealth for shareholders has led to him managing numerous start-ups and their subsequent acquisitions. As a result of these acquistions, he has also held senior positions at Microsoft, Reuters, 3Com and Hayes. With Microsoft in particular, Peter was responsible for delivering the best quarterly post-acquisition metrics in Microsoft history. Peter has successfully built new direct and indirect channels to market for technology products as diverse as the Palm Pilot, wireless gaming consoles and multimedia software.