Meet our Team
Wout Van Damme CEO
Wout founded Funbox in 2003 shortly after relocating to Australia from The Netherlands, and is CEO of the Funbox Media Group organization. Wout built the company from the ground up , and has lead the organization through the various growth stages. The company has been profitable since its first year of operations and has grown without outside funding. Prior to Funbox Wout has served in various sales and marketing roles at KPN Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in The Netherlands.
Wout holds a bachelor degree in Marketing from the Hogeschool van Utrecht in The Netherlands and a post graduate diploma from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney Australia.
Sanjaya Molligoda President & CRO
Sanjaya joined Funbox in 2005 after a successful career as an independent advertising consultant. Initially Sanjaya joined Funbox as Head of Digital Marketing, but after rapidly growing the company for two years, he was offered a partnership and become an owner in 2007. He is focused on the performance and operations side of the business, with an emphasis on customer acquisitions and ROI.
Sanjaya is a certified Medical Doctor (Doctor of Medicine) with a Masters in IT & Finance from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Richard Buggy CTO
Richard is CTO of Funbox. Before moving into management he spent fifteen years building a multitude of every imaginable website and application. Rich now leads Funbox's development team, building tracking and billing systems for clients.
Rich regularly presents at local user groups and conference and has a Bachelor of Arts (Computing), with a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting from Macquarie Univeristy.
Mark Heller Senior Vice President
Mark's first encounter with the Internet was a message board on Yahoo over 16 years ago, he immediately saw the potential of what the Internet can be and started selling online lead generation campaigns in the Insurance and Mortgage industry. From there he assisted in several start ups and new division launches in which he has become a trusted industry leader with a reputation of putting his client's first and playing a vital role in helping the organizations he has worked for recognize record profitability.
Mark is well versed in display advertising, affiliate marketing, search marketing and has turned around several sales organizations and has grown revenues by as much as 300%.
James Anastasiades Finance Manager
James Anastasiades joined Funbox as Finance Manager in January 2012. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from the University of Adelaide and is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 12 years experience having started his career in a Big 4 accounting firm. Most recently James held roles in investment banks such as JP Morgan and HSBC focusing on high level reporting and strategic initiatives.
James' focus is to help grow Funbox into a worldwide leading performance trading desk.
