Who we are

Emma Mulqueeny

Emma is director and co-founder of Rewired State. She is one of Britain’s leading digital communication strategists and developers. She has spent much of the last decade successfully crafting transformational digitial initiatives, at senior levels, across the British Government and in the States; now focusing on building Rewired State and Young Rewired State.

Reinforcing this work is her track record as a serial entrepreneur described by Britain’s first Digital Minister, Tom Watson MP, as “simply extraordinary” and Wired UK cast her as one of the top ten most influential people in open data, given the grand title of Transparency Activist.

Adam McGreggor

Adam is Rewired State’s geek wrangler. He is principally a technologist, who’s been fiddling with networks, and more recently internet backends, for about 15 years. During this time, he’s collaborated in producing possibly the first group-effort consultation response with Stand, later helping to keep FaxYourMP alive, keeping involved in mySociety; co-founding No2ID, and the Open Rights Group. Adam keeps trying to remember mod_perl is not how websites are written these days ;o).

In recent years Adam’s also been involved in the Internet and Parliament / Nominet Best Practice / Internet Governance Forum, amongst other things.

An infrequent blogger, Adam’s worked in quite a few places, both public and private sectors, not always in tech roles. Adam escapes from it all by causing trouble, going to gigs, drinking gin and beer, and doing “hippy stuff” in Nevada and Zaragosa

John Bevan

John is Rewired State’s sensible one. He is an organiser specialising in producing hackdays. John previously worked at the BBC to deliver events for BBC Backstage.

The projects he worked on, Hackday London, Over The Air and Mashed08 did much to establish the hackday format in the UK. His Exec Producer at the time, Matthew Cashmore, stated that “[John’s] experience in creating an environment that allows creative developers to deliver amazing work, and then provide a stage for them to demonstrate that work is second to none”.

John has also, amongst other things, managed an I.T. Academy, trained to teach R.E., worked in media monitoring, written E.S.L. textbooks and built fences/cut down trees for the National Trust. A one-wheel drive enthusiast. Currently riding one of these and one of these. Would love one of these.