Today Tim Hawkins joins favorit Ltd as Chief Technical Officer, Tim was previously at Yahoo as their International Solution Architect and we are very proud to have brought him on board.
Tim has this to say about his decision to jump from a large corporate entity like Yahoo to a small fast start-up characterised by fav.or.it.
“One of the major drawbacks of working in the rarified atmosphere presented by large organisations such as Yahoo, is the inevitable loss of contact with the day to day buzz of real world business. Large corporations are difficult places to innovate in, due to the inherent inertia which makes agility and responsiveness to changing conditions difficult to achieve. I am looking forward to working in a more fluid environment, whilst bringing some of the lessons I have learnt in designing for growth to bear in a great product such as fav.or.it, fav.or.it has potential to become very disruptive in a very short time, and I am excited to be once again involved in something I can fully get behind, feel passionate about, and make a difference”.
Nick Halstead CEO & Founder of fav.or.it had this to say,
“Tim is an amazing find for us. He has a mass of experience that will help us push forward with our technology platform and engage more closely with the development community. I have no doubt that he will make a massive impact on our future growth.”
More about Tim,
Tim Hawkins was one of the early pioneers of the commercial internet in the UK, when in 1993, Tim was given free reign to produce one of the earliest examples of a web base consumer classified search system, which was later launched in 1994 as Loot.com, the popular classifieds destination site. The site won several awards for best of class migration of an off-line product to the new online medium. After the sale of Loot.com to the Scoot group for £190M in 1999, Tim moved on to building business finders and content aggregation and syndication systems.
After a spell as a systems architect at the DMGT group (Daily Mail), Tim joined Yahoo Europe as Head of Search Engineering, managing the integration of the recently acquired Overture search marketing product, and the migration from Google search technology to the in- house Yahoo Search Technology formed from another recent acquisition Inktomi. Tim was responsible of integration of these two new technologies into all of Yahoo’s European Search Products.
Tim then moved on to build out the engineering team that launched the European region versions of the Yahoo Local Search system, before moving on to manage the engineering for many of Yahoo Europe’s destination products, including Home-page, MyYahoo, Mail, Messenger, taking over running virtually all non-media based properties in Europe.
Finally Tim became Yahoo’s first International Solutions Architect, helping international teams to come to terms with a rapidly changing landscape of systems and technology being produced in Yahoos main development centres.