Meet Our Team

We’re a tight, self-motivated and collaborative team of individuals that contribute unique skills to every project we work on. Meet some of the people behind the scenes. Each one of us offers a unique perspective and skill to deliver to your business needs.

We truly believe that we do our best work when we work collaboratively. An experienced team of thinkers, innovators and creators:

Ash Shaw

CEO

Ash steers the business forward and beyond. He’s passionate about WordPress, web design and building awesome user experiences. A networker at heart, he’s been attending WordCamp community events since 2008.

Barbara Kerr-Shaw

CFO

Barb fills a number of roles at the company, ranging from financial administration to project and client relationship management. She also looks after the team’s wellbeing and all things HR-related.

Warwick Booth

Lead Developer

Warwick is LightSpeed’s lead developer. Apart from building exceptional websites with his coding skills, he is involved in project planning, mentoring his team mates and reviewing their code.

Chris Vancoillie

Systems Administrator

Chris is LightSpeed’s Systems Engineer, Network Architect and Database Administrator. He looks after the 120+ websites that we host, keeping everything running smoothly on our servers and our clients happy.

Justin Abrahamse

Developer & Web Designer

Justin is LightSpeed’s frontend developer, focusing on web design to code and user functionality. He also assists with backend development, theme updates and is accomplished on Mailchimp, SEO and SEM platforms.

Adam Wale

Branding & Web Designer

Adam is our web designer with over a decade of experience in creating thoughtful and innovative design solutions. He brings LightSpeed’s client brands to life.

Lourens Visser

Support Happiness Engineer

Lourens has been involved in programming, web design, graphic design, and business environment for 2 decades. He manages our developers, handling support requests, and ensuring an agile and efficient workflow in our team.

Zared Rogers

Designer & Page Builder

Zared’s path to web development is influenced by previous experiences in teaching, brewing, and farm management. Here at LightSpeed, he works in the design and building of comprehensive websites.