Great work requires great people

We think ours are some of the best. We’re a growing team full of creative, friendly, resourceful individuals. Meet the people who are making the magic happen at VenueScanner.
Meet the team

Meet the team

Rebecca Kelly

Founder & CEO
Favourite venue:
Lumiere London - Love the team there and the creativity and diversity of the spaces.
Best event/Venue experience:
Black Coffee NYE at Savaya in Bali 2023!

Lizzie Paterson

Chief Commercial Officer
Favourite venue:
I've been to some AMAZING events at the HAC. Full on fairground rides in the summer and amazing late night dancing in the winter. Such a special venue. If I'm picking where you find me most often these days it's in The Leather Bottle in Earlsfield.
Best event/Venue experience:
I love weddings! Picking my own seems like cheating! I went to an amazing wedding in Croatia. We took over a tiny island for a week and the actual wedding was in an old fort on the cliffs overlooking the sea - it was truly magical.

James Shrager

Chief Financial Officer
Favourite venue:
AWT's The Greyhound
Best event/Venue experience:
The Killers live in Nottingham

Simon Hopkins

Partnerships Director
Favourite venue:
Shangri La at the Shard, every room with a view!
Best event/Venue experience:
It would have to be when they closed down Disney World, Orlando to host a party for their best suppliers. The park capacity is 85,000 people but we shared it with just 500 - no queuing for any rides and a fully stocked free bar on every corner!

Charlie Belcher

Operations Lead
Favourite venue:
Rusty Bike - fantastic pub!
Best event/Venue experience:
Starting a national squash competition for universities! We had professional players, and tonnes of spectators!

Danny Portanier

New Venues Manager
Favourite venue:
Earth Hackney
Best event/Venue experience:
King Krule at Manchester 02

Esme Baines

Corporate Account Manager
Favourite venue:
National Gallery
Best event/Venue experience:
Birthday Party at Flight Club with bottomless pizza and Prosecco!

Finn Brooks

New Venues Manager
Favourite venue:
Gibneys
Best event/Venue experience:
Doing olympic bobsleigh in Riga.

Harry Selway

Growth Lead
Favourite venue:
Alexandra Palace is great for a gig and night out!
Best event/Venue experience:
Glastonbury 2019, so good that I returned to the muddy field in 2022.

Isla Coe

Venue Operations
Favourite venue:
Don't have a favourite, but anywhere with good food!
Best event/Venue experience:
The opening of Barrio Covent Garden - they had delicious food and good music!

Jacob Clarke

New Venues Manager
Favourite venue:
My Local, The Virgin Queen
Best event/Venue experience:
Millennium Stadium for the Rugby World Cup – Unmatched Atmosphere!

Jenny Davies

Account Manager
Favourite venue:
Wagtail Rooftop Bar and restaurant. I visited during my first week in VenueScanner and being completely new to London, the panoramic views of the greatest London landmarks was a perfect welcome to the city. This, coupled with the very friendly faces at the venue and delicious canapés was such a treat.
Best event/Venue experience:
The Adventure Bars team really went above and beyond giving us a full tour of their venues; Nikki's, Tonight Josephine, The Escapologist and Bar Elba. Disclosing each venue's fun features such as secret rooms and personalised scents made the experience so immersive - even with tasty cocktails always in hand, each space was still so memorable.

Jess Robin

Senior Corporate Account Manager
Favourite venue:
Scotch of St James
Best event/Venue experience:
We were invited to a Showcase night at Swingers in the West End - They made this a great event as they had a huge variety of DELICIOUS food and cocktails circulating whilst making sure everyone had their round of golf included!

Joel Duffin

Corporate Account Manager
Favourite venue:
Tower Bridge
Best event/Venue experience:
Organising events at the Royal Palaces.

Kate Whiteley

Corporate Accounts Lead
Favourite venue:
So many to choose from but Osea Island has to be my favourite. Whether you're a small team or a whole company taking over the island. It is sure to create a memorable event.
Best event/Venue experience:
I worked on a team building event in the Big Brother House in a previous role. As a big fan of the show it was so exciting to get a behind the scenes look of the camera runs / production area as well as actually being allowed to go in the house and sit in the famous diary room chair.

Kam McDowell

Account Manager
Favourite venue:
Chesham Arms Pub in Hackney, such a great local boozer
Best event/Venue experience:
Meadows in the Mountains festival- Sofia, Bulgaria. Watching the sun rise in the mountains while listening to some amazing DJ's was definitely an experience like no other!

Luis Enrique Parra Valles

Senior Engineer
Favourite venue:
MNAC Barcelona
Best event/Venue experience:
My best experience so far would be the Christmas Party at MNAC Barcelona with HP. The MNAC is a museum / palace with a big event room where company parties can be hosted.

Marie Lewis 

International Corporate Account Manager
Favourite venue:
Mama Shelter, Lisbon
Best event/Venue experience:
Planning an event and being a part of DIY SOS Big Build! I have been very lucky to travel on the job but one of the events which have stuck with me is planning a conference and skiing trip in Davos, Switzerland!

Megan Gammage

Corporate Account Manager
Favourite venue:
Roxy Ballroom - all of them! Endless fun to be had!
Best event/Venue experience:
I went to a wedding in the wine country of Sonoma, California! Absolutely beautiful!

Olly Jackson

Venues Manager
Favourite venue:
Printworks
Best event/Venue experience:
Going to see my favourite duo 'Frankie Stew & Harvie Gunn' at Kentish Town Forum!

Taylor Fuller 

Venue Marketing Manager
Favourite venue:
The Commercial Tavern in Shoreditch/Spitafields
Best event/Venue experience:
I was invited to an event at the Langham Hotel with the Quebec Tourism board when I was travel blogging. We had a cooking class with celebrity chef Chuck Hughes and he taught us how to make lobster poutine. It was so cool to be able to cook with a chef in the Langham Hotel's cookery school, Sauce. It was such an intimate setting and I'm not sure many things could top that!

Tilly Smallwood

Head of Customer Experience
Favourite venue:
The Little Orange Door
Best event/Venue experience:
A family wedding where Gareth Gates was the singer, and they had strictly come dancing dancers performing too!

Marc Pacheco

Lead Architect
Favourite venue:
Coliseu dos Recreios
Best event/Venue experience:
It was a brilliant evening concert of the African Jazz Pioneers—just stunning

Branislav Osif

Software Engineer
Favourite venue:
Capela Incomum, Porto
Best event/Venue experience:
The concert of a small indie rock band in a tiny Krakow club was truly unforgettable. It was a magical and wonderful experience, definitely the best event I’ve ever attended.