Rob Laing
About
Rob Laing is from New York City Metropolitan Area. Rob works in the following industries: "Farming". Rob is currently Secret Weapon - The Exploratory at Google, located in Greater New York City Area. Rob also works as CEO, Founder at Farm.One, a job Rob has held since Jan 2016. In Rob's previous role as a CEO, Founder at Gengo, Rob worked in Tokyo, Japan until Apr 2015. Prior to joining Gengo, Rob was a Creative Director at Moresided and held the position of Creative Director at London, United Kingdom and Tokyo, Japan. Prior to that, Rob was a Design Director at The Brand Union, based in London, United Kingdom from Jul 2005 to May 2006. Rob started working as Design Director & Developer at Freelance in London, United Kingdom in May 2004. From Nov 2004 to Jul 2005, Rob was Senior Designer and Developer at Freelance, based in London, United Kingdom. Prior to that, Rob was a Designer at Dare, based in London, United Kingdom from Mar 2003 to Nov 2004.
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Rob Laing's current jobs
Farm.One is the neighborhood farm in the city. We grow and delivers fresh-harvested greens, herbs and flowers from our vertical farm in Manhattan. We offer a weekly subscription of salad greens to NYC residents, delivered in reusable packaging. Farm.One is growing to offer other local fresh foods, all in the same sustainable packaging.
Rob Laing's past jobs
Acquired by Lionbridge Grew the crowd translation platform from initial idea into an industry-changing business. - Achieved rapid year-on-year growth reaching multiple millions in annual revenue - Built team of 50 amazing, talented people in Tokyo & the Bay Area - Launched the first human translation API, changing the way businesses go global - Reached industry-destroying speed, support and quality performance metrics even in rapid growth - Launched unique Open Data initiative (gengo.com/open-data) making these metrics 100% public - Raised total of $20MM funding from investors in 4 different countries - Built a globally-recognized brand with trust of household-name customers and translators alike - Created valuable partnerships with companies like Google, ChannelAdvisor, Zendesk and JTB - Built a highly-motivated company culture of trust and transparency across languages & timezones
Ran my web design agency producing work for The Guardian (UK), Drambuie (UK), 888.com (UK) and clients in Japan such as Nissan and JVC. Did beautiful work (e.g. The Guardian's Katine and Greenham projects) and learned a lot about making a small team work well.
As Digital Design Director at Enterprise IG I oversaw the creative output of the Digital team in this global branding agency. This involved the challenge of building up a small team into a respected offering, educating the agency about the potential role of Digital and presenting work to a wide variety of clients, often high up in global corporations. The work ranged from installations, to websites, to email, to brand guidelines. Clients included Vodafone, Castrol, Deloitte, Learning Skills Council, Unilever, London Development Authority
Took on web design and development projects both in the UK and internationally, for L'Oreal and London's Burlington Arcade for example.
Worked at a number of agencies including Tribal DDB, Syzygy, Tequila\, Enterprise IG on mainly Actionscript projects such as multiplayer flash games, microsites, online advertising and content managed dynamic sites. Clients include Intel, Canon, HP, VW, the Army, BAA. Also created sites for smaller businesses, like http://www.berkeleyknightproperty.com and http://www.thefrenchhouse.net
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