About

Kensei Media specialise in digital design and development and our background is producing award-winning, creative and highly usable technology. Until recently we've been employed by large multi-national companies, working our magic behind-the-scenes. It was at one of those companies in 2005 that Dave and Leo met, and decided to create Kensei.

After 2 years, the Kensei Media Platform was born. Designed to accomodate the needs of a digital agency, it now powers several high-profile event websites. A year later, the Kensei Media Platform version 2 was ready. We believe it's the world's finest media publishing and delivery platform. If you're wondering what the heck a "media publishing and delivery platform" is, you can find out here. To complement the platform we offer a range of consulting, design and development services.

Kensei Media is an ethical and environmentally conscious company. We're proud to host our servers in the UKs first carbon neutral data centers. 80% of our daily commuting mileage is by public transport, bicycle, or walking. We're not hippies, just doing our bit.

Leo Fowler, Co-Founder

Leo Fowler Graduating from Leeds Met University with a Music and Media degree, IT was the last thing on his mind - but after a poverty stricken stint in the music biz an oppotunity arose to work in the City of London. Escaping from this cosy but dark realm took 3 years and Leo made his escape by freelancing, contracting and consulting his way towards freedom. After 6 years plying his trade to the masses it was time to work on something more lasting and having met up with Dave at Live Nation, Kensei was born. Leo specialises in ASP.NET, Web Services, LINQ, C#, MS SQL, AJAX and Javascript development and does not like wearing a suit.

Dave Nicoll, Co-Founder

David Nicoll Dave graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in Computer Science at the start of the "dot com boom". Working as an ASP developer for a successful ISP, he was promoted to the position of development team leader at the grand old age of 24. From there he moved to London, where he worked on high profile and social web applications integrated with global back-end business systems for a number of years. As thrilling as that might sound, the lure of starting a company with Leo to do what we enjoy the most - building exciting web apps - was too great. Dave is proficient in XHTML, CSS, ASP.NET, MVC, Web Services, C#, MS SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX and Photoshop. With all that going on in his head, it's no surprise he often dreams in code and has been known to turn up for work in the morning with a solution to a complex problem discussed the previous day.

Ken-what?!

Kensei is pronounced "ken zay". If you'd like to know what Kensei means, Wikipedia has an article about it here.

Old Broadcasting House

Kensei is a member of the Northern Technology Institute at Old Broadcasting House - the old BBC building opposite Leeds Met University. It's a fantastic environment with several start-ups specialising in SEO, web design and development, video production, marketing and PR, as well as sonic branding.

We regularly participate in OpenCoffee - a relaxed event for anyone vaguely interested in media and/or technology. It's not particularly geeky, so feel free to come along for a chat, a coffee and a cupcake.