We’d like to introduce you to our ever growing team of games room specialists and staff here at Home Leisure Direct. So now you can put a face to the voices you hear on the phone and the e-mails you receive from us.
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| Job Title: Sales Manager |
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Job Title: Assistant Sales Manager |
What Roger Does: Roger keeps the sales team happy by ensuring a constant supply of ice lollies, retro sweets and witty jokes. He has an expansive games room product knowledge and is also current holder of the Pineapple Cup.
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What Mike Does: Mike seems to have been born in the wrong era, as his favourite films and music stem from the early 1970s. As a result, he is a true advocate for all things retro and loves advising our customers on the best vintage and retro products. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Defender |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Time Crisis |
Favourite Classic Movie: Escape to Victory
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Favourite Classic Movie: The Godfather |
Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: The Kinks - Milk Cow Blues
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer |
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| Josh |
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Ben |
| Job Title: Head of Commercial Sales |
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Job Title: Commercial Sales Executive |
| What Josh Does: When Josh isn't providing businesses with fun games room products, he can be found unleashing his competitive side by wiping all of the high scores off of the pinball machines in our showrooms. |
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What Ben Does: Our resident snooker expert, while he's not bringing businesses new and exciting games room products, Ben is practicing his skills on our tables. Oh, and did we mention he's a European Champion?! |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Dynamite Dux |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Ridge Racer
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| Favourite Classic Movie: Dumb and Dumber |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Gremlins |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Queen - We Are the Champions |
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| Adam |
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| Job Title: Commercial Sales Manager |
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Job Title: Sales Executive |
| What Adam Does: If there were ever a phrase to sum up Adam, it would definitely be “Go big, or go home”. Adam’s an avid pool player who enjoys playing high stakes money matches, and works with our commercial sales team to bring fun office breakouts and other attractions to businesses up and down the nation. |
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What Sam Does: Sam is another key member to our dedicated sales team, ensuring that every visitor to the showroom gets the greatest products for their spaces. Sam is one of our resident gaming fans, making his arcade skills some of the sharpest at Home Leisure Direct. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Super Mario Kart |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Bomberman |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Rocky |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Scarface |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Bryan Adams - Summer of 69 |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Rebel Rebel - David Bowie |
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Tyrone |
| Job Title: Sales Executive |
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Job Title: Sales Executive |
| What Neil Does: Neil provides our customers with their favourite games room products for their home and is known in the Sales Office for his sense of humour. |
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What Tyrone Does: When Tyrone isn't helping to advise customers on cool games room products for their homes, he can be found battling it out with Roger over the Home Leisure Direct table tennis title during lunch. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Mortal Kombat |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Street Fighter |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Saturday night, Sunday Morning |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Jurassic Park |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: The Cure - Love Cats |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight |
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| Tom |
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Charlotte |
| Job Title: Sales Executive |
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Job Title: Accounts Executive and Graphic Designer |
| What Tom Does: Tom’s expertise in gaming and friendly competition makes him a key player in our sales team, helping our customers choose great games for their homes. Away from the showrooms, you will find Tom at his local golf course, aiming for the elusive 0 handicap. |
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What Charlotte Does: Charlotte is involved in not one but two of our departments! She helps us to keep on top of our finances as well as being skilled at creating stunning imagery and graphics for our products and website. Never shy to get her geek on, she’s always looking forward to her next comic or gaming convention. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Crash Bandicoot - Wrath of Cortex |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Tetris |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Dodgeball |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Star Wars - Return of the Jedi |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Penny Lane - The Beatles |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gay |
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| Job Title: Head of Marketing |
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Job Title: Senior Marketing Executive |
| What Sarah Does: Sarah is the team’s lead marketing wizard, helping the marketing team to conjure and create bold new strategies to bring Home Leisure Direct to more people throughout the country. As the owner of Jago, much of her spare moments are spent making him feel like dog royalty. |
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What Ray Does: Ray acts as a liaison to manage all of our marketing partners and also heads up our social media channels with his quality photography of our products and showrooms. He is currently on the path to recovery following a trying time of being a dedicated chocaholic. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Defender |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Drop Dead Fred |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Saving Private Ryan |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Wonderwall - Oasis |
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| Job Title: Videographer |
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Job Title: Marketing Supervisor
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What Jono Does: Jono is responsible for creating and narrating all of the video content across the website and our YouTube channel. He's also a not-so-secret geek, especially when it comes to roller coasters, pinball and 90s game shows.
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What Jess Does: Jess oversees all of our marketing activity and helps run the website, making sure that our customers find it easy to use. She may look sweet, but she's a dark horse and can be found at heavy metal gigs in the evenings.
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| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Cirqus Voltaire Pinball Machine |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Pac-Man |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Nightmare on Elm Street |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Rats in the Cellar - Aerosmith |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: AC/DC - Thunderstruck |
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| Laura |
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| Job Title: Operations Executive |
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Job Title: Janitorial Executive |
| What Laura Does: Laura helps our operations team keep everything from deliveries to maintenance to customer service in check. Out of the office, Laura’s on point with her sports and fitness knowledge, being both a qualified sports massage therapist as well as a keen football player. |
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What Emily Does: Emily keeps our showrooms spotless and our games room products shiny, while serenading us with a wide repertoire of songs and terrorising the office dogs with the hoover. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: The Simpsons: Hit and Run |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Pac-Man |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Pearl Harbour |
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Favourite Classic Movie: The Sound of Music |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: The Beatles - Hey Jude |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 |
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Kayla |
| Job Title: Operations Supervisor |
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Job Title: Operations Executive |
| What Harriet Does: Harriet oversees everything going to our awesome customers, making sure that every order reaches its new home safely. It’s not uncommon to hear positive pearls of wisdom from the fountain of knowledge (her jar of sticky notes) on her desk. |
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What Kayla Does: Kayla helps our operations team stay on top of monumental task of getting great our products into hands of all of our customers unscathed. Kayla’s sharp with her work, and she’s even sharper with a needle and thread whilst creating patchwork quilts at home. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Crash Bandicoot |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Pac-Man |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Titanic |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Moana |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: John Oates and Darryl Hall - you make my dreams. |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Guns N' Roses - November Rain |
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Joe |
| Job Title: Accounts Supervisor |
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Job Title: Accounts Apprentice |
| What Amy Does: When Amy isn't in work organising our accounts, she is travelling the world and perfecting her dog-cuddling skills at home. |
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What Joe Does: Joe, our youngest employee, has recently joined the Accounts Team to help organise all of our invoices and receipts. In his spare time he enjoys spending time out with his friends on his moped. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Tetris |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Sonic the Hedgehog |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Toy Story |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Happy Gilmore |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: The Jungle Book Original Soundtrack |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane |
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Karl |
| Job Title: Operations Manager |
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Job Title: Logistics Co-Ordinator |
| What Ted Does: Ted juggles a number of jobs from keeping our IT systems in check to ensuring product is delivered safe and sound. He also specialises in making puns and crafting the milkiest tea and coffee in the West. |
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What Karl Does: Karl is Home Leisure Direct's route-finding maestro, managing and planning where all of our delivery vans go every week. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: The Real Ghostbusters |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Tekken |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Ghostbusters |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Jaws |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Prodigy - Breath |
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| Job Title: Warehouse Manager |
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Job Title: Delivery Service Technician |
| What Stu Does: Stu oversees the organisation and co-ordination of products coming to and leaving Home Leisure Direct's bustling Bristol warehouse. An avid cribbage player, he spends many an evening at tournaments skunking the competition. |
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What Phil Does: Phil 'The Thrill' is the father of the delivery team, when isn't driving up and down the country to install and deliver our products to happy customers he is immersed in a new DIY project and updating the team on his progress. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Mario Kart |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Super Mario Bros. |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Predator |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Goodfellas |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody |
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| Job Title: Warehouse Operative |
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Job Title: Commercial Supervisor |
| What Gareth Does: Gareth is one of our able-bodied hands in the warehouse who can be found moving products to and from storage in the warehouse. Whilst Gareth is a fan of Sonic, his tetris skills are also formidable, meaning that his skills stacking of products in the warehouse is unbeaten. |
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What Dan Does: Dan helps our commercial customers get up and running with the cutting edge of games room equipment by installing, maintaining and servicing all of our systems. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Sonic the Hedgehog |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Games: Crash Bandicoot |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Stand By Me |
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Favourite Classic Movie: The Guard |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: UB40 - Red Red Wine |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Bad Company - Bad Company |
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| Job Title: Delivery Service Technician |
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Job Title: Delivery Service Technician |
| What Pete Does: Pete is on hand each day to help deliver products in our vans all over the country. Pete's great demeanour and product handling skills make him a hit with the customers he delivers to daily. |
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What Tyrone Does: Tyrone's a member of our active delivery team, helping to deliver our products to customers each day. Tyrone is the group's strong-man, and is always finding new ways to surprise the team with what he can manage on a job. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Games: Fallout (The Original) |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Games: Colin McRae Rally |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Avengers: Endgame |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Enter The Dragon |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: DJ Hype - Gold Dust |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: 50 Cent - In Da Club |
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| Job Title: Delivery Service Technician |
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Job Title: Delivery Service Technician |
| What Duane Does: Duane is one of the many friendly faces that make up our delivery team, so is always on the road seeing the country and meeting our customers. |
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What Mitch Does: Mitch helps our busy delivery team getting fantastic products into the hands of customers. He's especially known on the delivery team for his eclectic musical choices on the ride home. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Games: Street Fighter |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Games: Gears of War |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Casino |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Die Hard |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Farrel Williams - Happy |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Eminem - Just Lose It |
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| Job Title: Delivery Service Technician |
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Job Title: Warehouse Supervisor |
| What Michael Does: Michael is our in-house Aussie and recently moved to the UK to join Home Leisure Direct. He can be found battling others on our racing games at lunchtime as he used to be a professional racing driver. |
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What Matt Does: Matt ensures quality control and helps pick the best products to go out for delivery to our customers. He loves going to the pub with his mates and is always impressing the rest of the Warehouse Team with his Football Result Predictions. |
| Favourite Classic Game: Spyro the Dragon |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Knockout Kings |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Cars |
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Favourite Classic Movie: Die Hard |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Frank Sinatra - I Get A Kick Out Of You |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Guns 'n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle |
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| Job Title: Managing Director |
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Job Title: IT Support
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| What Andy Does: Co-founder of Home Leisure Direct, Andy makes sure the team's product knowledge is on form through enforcing regular pool tournaments, table tennis matches and retro gaming sessions. |
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What Frank Does: Frank oversees all IT activities from a central hub. He takes time out of his day to serve as the office teddy bear and is rumoured to be a stranded extraterrestrial inside a pooch's body.
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| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Donkey Kong |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Paperboy |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Wall Street |
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Favourite Classic Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestial
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| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin' All Over |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
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Jago |
| Job Title: HR Consultant |
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Job Title: Head of SEO |
| What Charlie Does: Co-founder of HLD, Charlie keeps the team happy in mind and body through clear verbal communication and regular exercise. He doesn't like to see anything go to waste and is therefore a dedicated freegan. |
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What Jago Does: Stoic, refined, tasteful and elegant. None of these words apply to Jago in the slightest as he spends most of his days in the marketing office sprawling in uncomfortable looking ways or sleeping with his bed on top of him. We are assured he is still a very good boy though. |
| Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Duck Hunt |
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Favourite Classic Arcade Game: Parappa the Rapper |
| Favourite Classic Movie: Beethoven |
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Favourite Classic Movie: All Dogs Go To Heaven |
| Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf |
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Favourite Classic Vinyl Track: Cracker Jack - Dolly Parton |
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