We are delighted to announce Brian Hickey as Managing Director of Just-Eat.ie! Here’s a little about the man himself:

Bio: On completion of a BA Degree in Business and an internship with Procter & Gamble, Brian spent 2 years working with Superquinn in a B2C marketing capacity. In 2001, he joined Danone (formerly Numico) where he worked in a senior sales management position helping the company to achieve their dominant market position. In 2006, he joined Innocent Drinks Ltd. where he spent 4 years heading up the commercial interests for the Irish business. Brian spent some time travelling around the southern hemisphere before joining Just Eat in January 2012 where he heads up the Irish team.

Favourite take away menu: Chicken Madras (Khans Balti House)

Frequency: Twice per month

Joined JE: Jan 2012

Why did I join: To help some great people build a really successful business and have a little fun along the way

First e-commerce transaction: 1998 …a Pearl Jam CD I think

Twitter account: No

LinkedIn profile: http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/brian-hickey/9/2/a84

We wish Brain the very best of luck in his new role as MD.

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Yesterday we launched our special voting website didbillgetitright.ie and boy did you vote in your hundreds!

Noel was the was the favourite to get the boot, leading the polls at 23% followed by Kerryman Maurice at 20%. Conor was third 18%, then Eugene 16% , 13% for Joanne and finally Sandra at just 10%.

So there you have it, it seems that the Irish public disagree with Bill’s decision to fire Sandra Murphy!

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“Feed me! Feed me! Feed me!
Feed me, Seymour
Feed me all night long
That’s right, boy
You can do it
Feed me, Seymour
Feed me all night long
‘Cause if you feed me, Seymour
I can grow up big and strong”
Audrey II sings – Feed me (Go get it) – Little Shop of Horrors

Feed me Seymore

The little shop of horrors is these days a classic musical. Seymour Krelborn is the lamentable no-hoper who makes good with the aid (or despite the aid) of an alien plant bent on world domination. The demand “feed me” though is something that a lot of people will be familiar with, whether it’s from a demanding other half or if you have your own monsters who seem bent on world domination, or at least domestic domination.
If you’re a domestic goddess (or god) and you have a demanding terror or terrors you feel you can’t say no to, you probably find it difficult to get anything done.
Eliminating some of the demands is one way to ease your way back to domestic Nirvana so while Judo, ballet, football and homework can’t be binned, dealing with the “Feed me” demand is something you can unburden yourself from at least now and again.
Obviously eating out all the time with your “Audrey II”s is too expensive for most people, not to mention a logistical and disciplinary nightmare that a Commando Colonel would be proud to pull off, but that doesn’t mean you are chained to the stove. Take out food might be your salvation.  These days the choice for online restaurants is growing enough to cater for almost any tastes and whether your delivery is in Dublin, Galway or Cork you can just pop onto JustEat.ie and sort it all out in one easy move. Might be worth doing before your little horrors start making demands for blood. 

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Daniel Read joins company as Chief Product Officer as expansion continues

Just-Eat, the world’s largest online takeaway ordering service, has hired Daniel Read as its new Chief Product Officer. Daniel will be responsible for product vision and execution across the four continents Just-Eat operates in.

Daniel was previously at Ask.com in California where he was Chief Product Officer, driving product, user experience and innovation. He was the creative leader of a team which pioneered search and mobile products that set industry standards, won multiple webby awards, and became a PC World top innovator alongside the Wii and iPhone.  He was also a member of the founding team of Ask Jeeves UK, and a key executive in the turnaround of the company globally, which was acquired for $2bn by IAC/InteractiveCorp.

Daniel said “It’s an exciting time to join Just-Eat as it expands globally. We will be laser-focused on innovation and growing the business, to give our customers and restaurants a truly world class experience.”

Klaus Nyengaard, CEO of Just-Eat, said “We’re always looking to innovate and grow as a business, and give our partner restaurants a platform they can use to reach more customers. To be able to do that we need to have the best, most creative people in the industry working for Just-Eat, and Daniel fits the bill perfectly. He’s going to be a major asset as we expand our product range and develop our key channels.”

Daniel has also worked at British Airways and Royal Mail, creating both companies’ first web and ecommerce operations, and is the founder of product lab, Freeform, and an advisor to a number of consumer product and technology businesses.  He holds a BA from Leeds Business School and MA in Design from Central St Martin’s, and is also a Chartered Marketer.

About the Just-Eat Group

Just-Eat, launched in Denmark in 2001, is based in London and is now active in 16 countries around the globe. Just-Eat delivers over 100,000 meals a day and has received more than 30m orders since the site launched. There are currently over 20,000 takeaway restaurants signed up to Just-Eat’s site which uses proprietary technology to offer a seamless on-line ordering service. Just-Eat is currently generating over $500m in revenue per year for the restaurant industry and was listed in the TechCrunch Europe Top 100 Index 2010. Just-Eat was also recently ranked number 28 in the Sunday TimesTech Track 100.

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