Our Culture
We're creative (standard). We're honest and open. A swear jar would bankrupt us all. We're all equal and we laugh at ourselves...and each other. We're unconventional, productive and we do whatever it takes to get the job done. We like burgers (meat, veggie and vegan). We always make time for each other and our clients. We live and breathe audio. We're all very different and we love that about our team. We like going to the pub...a lot. We praise each other and recognise achievements. We don't quit, we fix. We're kind and caring. We make a difference. We stick together and pick each other up when it's needed. We're people pleasers. We like to dance. We say please and thank you. We're passionate and motivated. We always leave our clients feeling good.
Meet the team
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Paul GollikerCo-Founder & Director
Paul has worked in audio for longer than he cares to remember, but he still loves it and the way it’s evolved to remain an integral part of our day. From Spotify to audiobooks, radio to podcasts audio continues to provide the soundtrack to our life. When he’s not at work Paul likes to be outdoors on his bike.
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Seb JuvilerCo-Founder & Director
To Seb, sound represents a direct line to the core of human emotion. The right sound at the right moment can be more powerful than any visual. Like the sound of his three-year-old son when he can't find the socks he wants in the morning.
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Charlotte HillPA to Directors
Charlotte loves to organise other people’s lives but struggles when it comes to her own! A proud Essex girl, there are two things she does every day without fail, write out her to do lists and top up her fake tan.
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Aishah AmoduAudio Production Manager
Aishah loves making lists. 1. Her favourite film is The Day After Tomorrow. 2. She’s a sugar junkie. 3. She taught herself how to knit. 4. She loves processes. 5.She started at Red Apple Creative as an intern and then came back to us after achieving a first class degree so she's a smart cookie.
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Alistair BoltSound Engineer
He might look unwell but don’t worry, Alistair has just been working on his gorgeous pasty white ‘studio tan’. All part of the job. A youth spent in HMV has left him with a fairly expansive CD collection and he had a minor hit in Brazil with a Daft Punk / Eye of the Tiger mashup.
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Andrew LaneHead of Customer Success
Andrew loves the smell of paintballs in the morning. When he's not concerned about your strategic battlefield position he'll be strategising your project. Either way he’ll definitely be asking who you're captaining this week in fantasy football.
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Barnaby ThorntonAudio Producer
Barnaby is proof that disobeying your parents pays off: he landed his first job in radio after sneaking into a gig underage. He’s since gone on to work in sales planning, creative copywriting, commercial programming and audio production. After many years of being referred to as 'Barney' he now has a lifelong vendetta against anything of the prehistoric, purple and green variety (Jurassic Park, aubergines and Lou Ferrigno are all deeply triggering.) And despite the surname, he wishes it be made clear that he does not own a chocolate confectionary company. Cats, tatts and flash-fiction are all his bag. But not flash-fiction of tattooed cats. Just to be clear.
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Ben BellSound Engineer & Composer
Ben's musical talents are admirable. Not only did his DJing skills kick off the night at a Vengaboys concert, but he also hosted some very successful Reggae Nights at a Carribean restaurant, where he also discovered that after-dinner mints send him into a sneezing fit.
Tissues aside, it's no wonder he's been changing the face of the audio industry as a Sound Engineer for over 15 years and has mastered over 200 UK Number 1 Albums. Impressed? So was Gary Barlow who cheekily gave him not one, but two kisses via email.
Saucy.
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Ella MitchellSenior Customer Success Manager
Ella joined Red Apple with an impressive 10 years in the industry under her belt. In that time she's explored her passion for audio by working across all areas of planning, sales, and creative marketing...and she's nailed down exactly how she likes her tea. Other Apples take note: it must be darker than a California tan. And if you really want to get into Ella's good books, you could give her the gift of her favourite fruit, watermelon...and make sure you don't mention the time she accidentally elbowed Sir Richard Attenborough in the face...
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Joss MooreSenior Audiobook Post Production Manager
As an audiobook producer Joss loves to bring a story to life. And he's a got a few tantalising tales of his own. Like the time he was hypnotised on stage by Darren Brown. He sat in a wheelchair with a bag on his head writing names on a chalkboard. We think he's back to normal now.
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Justyna KawalaFinance Manager
Justyna loves to find ways to be more efficient every day and it all starts with getting the figures right. To her, finance is fun and exciting and it won't be long until she's an ACCA qualified accountant. Her childhood dream was to be an astronaut, but the numbers didn't stack up.
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Karen ErringtonFinance Director
If you look after the pennies the pounds will save themselves. When Karen isn't tending to her spreadsheets she's lavishing the same care and attention on her two-year-old Cockapoo, Yogi. But on a Friday, her favourite companion is a perfectly mixed Cosmo.
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Kathleen MoroneyExecutive Creative Director
Whether it’s a new project or her hair, Kathleen sees a blank canvas to be filled with colour. She approaches everything with bravery, which is probably why she walked out of her interview at Red Apple Creative! Fortunately, she stuck around to share her unique creative outlook.
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Marcella D'AstonCustomer Success Executive
Marcella likes to take a good idea and pair it with a bad joke to create a better idea. Spreadsheets aren't just a tool to her, they're a way of life. And if you remember one thing about her, it's that her dog is cuter than your dog.
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Melissa RuzickiAudio Project Manager
Melissa brings a whole lot of confidence to the team: from serving in Desert Storm and moving 20 times in the last 30 years, to performing as Madonna on a cruise ship.
She has a steamy background in when it comes to audio, having listened to hundreds of erotic audiobooks.... For work, of course.
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Michael MullingsHead of Project Management
Michael came into this world feet first (literally), which is why he’s always landed on his feet no matter the project he’s working on. It’s also probably why he loves his cat Eve so much.
He launched his own company gaining experience in everything from curating photo exhibitions to shooting, producing and narrating a documentary in Ghana. It's safe to say Michael’s no stranger to beautiful visual style which he brings to our client campaigns everyday.
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Michael PenderJunior Editor
Michael’s audio skills will take your breath away. And we mean that literally: he works with audio to remove noise and breaths, before mastering every piece of work to perfection, and delivering it to clients in its optimal state. His talent for fixing things doesn’t stop there; he’s also pretty handy when it comes to trucks and buses, thanks to his training as a mechanic in the family business back in Ireland.
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Nicola AlexandrouAudiobook Production Manager
Niki has been in radio since her student days. The only thing that rivals her love of radio, is her passion for film, of which she co-hosts a radio show about. Synergy. She's an expert plate spinner, metaphorically speaking, making sure campaigns run smoothly in every department.
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Pierce TullyJunior Creative
Pierce is amongst the most artistically-minded members of the audio team. He switched from Business to English at university because he thought it would be more ‘arty’; and since then, he’s let artistry of storytelling guide his life; he chose a path in advertising thanks to Mad Men, is obsessed with Shrek, and - according to some - bears a passing resemblance to Sid from Ice Age.
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Robert BakerHead of Engineering
Rob Baker a.k.a DJ Bobbie Rainbow a.k.a the person it took four people to un-wedge from a staircase at university. He's an internationally selling artist, present tense, that's right! Australasia can't get enough of his Christmas library tracks.
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Sam DillonHead of Production
Sam is part of the furniture. He’s spent 10 years watching the team grow into an amazing group. He's also a prolific voiceover artist himself and some have even called him a poor man's James Corden, which he's fine with.
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Zoe DaleSenior Audiobook Production Manager
Zoe has had a life that so exciting that it could easily belong to a character in one of the audiobooks she produces. She began her career with a passion for drama and stories, working as a dresser at the Lincoln Theatre Royal. She then went out into the world to make some stories of her own: working for a jewellery family in Rome, going to Paris to discover her calling as a writer, and then returning to London to discover the power of audio through her work with the RNIB. She has a passion for recording audiobooks that unite, educate and entertain. And watch this space, because her ambition is to write her own book, and produce the audio version.
