Meet our Beautiful Team!


Paul Barton
VizSweet Developer
Paul is a full-stack developer who specialises in PHP and JavaScript. His skills range from developing bells-and-whistles interactive data visualisations to defining APIs, delving into databases and hitting AWS with a hammer. Outside work he can often be found playing baseball, Rocket League, or running away from spiders.

Fabio Bergamaschi
Designer, Developer
Based in Italy. Trained designer, self-taught coder. When not working for IIB, can be found teaching at a design school, consulting for a company or putting together a personal dataviz…or maybe at the espresso machine. Favorite weapons: creative thinking, illustrator & D3.

Tom Evans
VizSweet Technical Director
Tom is an all-round creative technologist with over a decade of experience in digital, doing everything from coding to pitch-writing, concept development and UX. He loves building nice things with just that little extra bit of polish to make people smile.

Ruth Jobey
PA to David
Ruth has worked for over 20 years in the creative industries, developing a wide range of skills and experience as a PA, project manager and administrator. In 2012 Ruth was delighted to be asked to join the IIB team as David's PA, a beautiful role she has loved ever since.

Omid Kashan
Creative Developer, Designer
Living in Manchester, Omid has been part of the IIB team since entering the first edition of the Information is Beautiful Awards in 2012. He's into good design, great UX and his interests include space travel, the universe and train times, with a sideline in making stupid internet games.

Dr Stephanie Starling
Researcher
Stephanie has collected & curated data for IIB since 2015. She has recently completed an AHRC-funded PhD in Women’s Studies, with a focus on social justice & feminist research methodologies. Stephanie is an ardent animal lover, & occasionally moonlights in pet & equine photography.
Kathryn Ruch
Art Director, Researcher
Kathryn has worked at IIB since 2011, art-directing the book Knowledge is Beautiful and advising and researching on multiple projects since. Her background in is psychology, philosophy, social affairs and activism.