Tom Glass Design Director & Founder

Tom Glass has 12 years' experience in commercial website design. Originally working as a graphic designer before transferring his skills to the web, Tom has worked with Shopdirect, Abound, Additions and Innovations, as well as designing for charities. He headed up the online design team at Celltalk PLC, overseeing the creation of additional brands and online properties, and optimising the user interface, driving sales by maximising the conversion rate.

From Celltalk PLC, Tom secured the position of Web Master for Incom Telecommunications. The role required Tom to run their three websites - Incom, Onestopcoms and Topcomms - taking sole responsibility for all marketing, design and site development. He also produced product feeds for various online comparison sites. Tom's creativity and technical expertise lifted all three sites from a place of no web presence to the first page of Google. In addition, Tom succeeded in raising some of the most competitive products on the three sites to position one in Google.

When not working diligently for clients, Tom relaxes through many varied leisure activities. He embraces the outdoors, with a fondness for surfing - born of an upbringing in Somerset.

Producing music is a passion for Tom - his design creativeness is effortlessly transferred to the played note. While he enjoys many different types of music, heavy metal is one of Tom's preferred genres.

Before the conception of theEword, Tom travelled extensively, at grass-roots level, embracing Africa and Australia in their raw, unadulterated form. These experiences have shaped Tom's appreciation of different countries and cultures.

Tom's ambitions for the future include sky diving. Unfortunately - despite his attempts to make this activity a 'team building exercise' - it looks like he's going to be taking the leap alone.