About Glopho

About us at Glopho

Glopho is a photo-sharing service for your news photos where you can share and sell pictures. Unlike other picture sharing sites and apps, we specifically want your photos that capture the news with the express aim of trying to sell your pictures and we absolutely want to share that money with you.

So the pictures you take and share with your mobile phone now could be shared using our iPhone or Android apps, put on to Facebook and Twitter – or any other sharing platform you already use – and if they are used commercially by someone, you will get paid!

Not all picture sharing services are prepared to do that so we think that makes us really quite different.

We’ve even prepared a short video to explain it better than we could describe it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnC2HvgbOHw

www.glopho.blogspot.co.uk.

The History of Glopho

Glopho was conceived as a direct result of many years of experience in the fields of photojournalism and picture editing. Our founder, Simon Walker, worked through years of extraordinary change during which he witnessed and in many respects pioneered the embracing of technology. He was the first Fleet Street photographer to use a digital camera in the field (1.2 megapixels, costing approximately £12k), beaming images via a satellite phone hooked up to an old car battery.

With the technology now available in everyone’s pockets, through compact digital cameras and smartphones, we think that the time has come for consumers to be able to take a more active role in the news being created and reported. And that’s exactly what Glopho hopes to do.

Our Mission

All Glopho wants is to create the space. Users create the content and share it with the world. It's a news site, but it's a users news site. You are the readers, and you are the editors, too. Although sometimes, obviously, we might feel inclined to help.

Who are Glopho?

Glopho was established in 2010 by Simon Walker. As an idea it had been developed over the previous two years and was as a result of his experiences in the media and internet worlds, and after twenty years as a professional photojournalist and picture editor. He has recently been joined by a whole host of others, all experts in their respected fields, and should you feel so inclined to read about us, here is a list of who we are and what we do.

Simon Walker worked for 15 years as an award-winning photojournalist for a variety of internationally renowned newspapers, magazines and photographic agencies. These included The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Express, Stern magazine, Gamma Liaison Photo Agency and most recently as a senior staff photographer on The Times newspaper. During this time he travelled extensively covering global news stories including numerous wars and conflicts. He was in Iraq both in 1991 and again, this time as an ‘embedded reporter’, in 2003 and was in South Africa to witness the end of apartheid during the ‘90s.

Over the years he covered a huge variety of stories from documenting the rise of New Labour through to the annual fashion shows in Paris, Milan and New York. For the last six years he has been News Picture Editor at The Times and responsible for news picture coverage for the newspaper both in print and online. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and Manufacturing. He had a book published by Bloomsbury in 1993 called “Para - Inside the Parachute Regiment”. He is married with two children and lives in west London.Simon is the CEO at Glopho Limited.

James Serjeant has 15 years experience developing and growing digital businesses. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1990, and then worked as a Manager in their Corporate Finance department until 1994 when he moved to an in-house M&A role with the Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (DMGT). Over the next 10 years he was appointed to a number of roles within DMGT, including Finance Director of DMG Broadcasting, a division which included the broadcast news text service Teletext, the news archive British Pathe, and a stake in the independent TV news broadcaster ITN, and the Managing Director of Associated New Media (“ANM”), the publisher of DMGT’s consumer facing websites, including search directory UK Plus, football site Soccernet, and city site This Is London.

James moved to the Telegraph Media Group ("TMG") as Enterprise Director in 2004, a role in which he built up TMG's branded commerical partnerships business both on and offline. Since 2008 James has worked as a consultant to a number of developing businesses, including Mecom, the UK listed European media owner, and the privately held digital solutions provider iAnnounce. He is married with three children and lives in Buckinghamshire. James is the COO and FD at Glopho.

Karl Knoflach joined Glopho in 2011. He left his strategy consulting job at Bain&Company in 1999 to co-found einsurance GmbH, now trading as Check24 AG, and it has become the leading consumer comparison portal in Germany. After selling the business in 2003, he has co-founded, incubated or invested into over 20 companies including Electrobug Technologies Limited, where he was the CTO managing over 150 developers at their HQ in India.

He also co-founded a web development company in Manila and a mobile application development company in Beijing where he remains as a board member in charge of business development and strategy. Karl lives in London, Beijing and Manila, is married, and has recently become a father. Karl is CTO and Head of Strategy at Glopho.

Rory Conwell became Glopho's Non-Executive Chairman in 2013. He is a highly regarded entrepreneur and investor with extensive experience in creating value, growth and change in companies in the media and technology sectors. He was a founder-director of Wilmington Group plc, launched on the LSE in 1995, a leading international provider of professional information and training. Helped build the Company to a turnover of £90 million. In 2002 stepped down as CEO in order to develop other interests. Other interests have included Thomsons Online Benefits, the leading employee benefits consultancy and technology company, of which he was a director and investor until 2013 and Chairman from 2004-11. During this period Thomsons was listed for five consecutive years in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100. A majority stake in the company was sold in January 2013 to ABRY Partners of Boston. He is an Angel investor in a wide range of private companies.

He is also active in the voluntary sector including the Chairmanship of Mayfield Athletic, a local sports club; UK Board membership of the international charity, Right to Play, which seeks to improve the lives of children in disadvantaged areas of the world through sport and play; Trustee of Tender, a charity educating young people about domestic violence through drama; Membership of both Pilotlight and Impetus Trust as unremunerated coach and mentor to client charities including The Fairtrade Foundation; mentor at Tackle Africa; and participation in The Ella Foundation and The Funding Network.

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Jobs With Glopho

Exciting, isn't it? When vacancies become available, we'll post the details here. Until then, please feel free to submit a CV and a suitable letter if you think we need you onboard.

Intern positions are often available. Drop us a persuasive note.