about evly

About Evly

evly is the evolution of the technology we developed for a successful sister crowdsourcing company. After repeat requests from agencies and brands for our product and expertise we’ve rewritten our proven implementation into an industrial strength platform.

Crowd collaboration and constructive engagement are essential tools in todays increasingly dynamic and connected world, evly is the platform that makes them accessible to everyone.

Our team is a constantly growing group of passionate, dedicated, highly skilled people pushing the boundaries to bring the world the crowdsourcing platform that it deserves.

We work tirelessly, drink a lot of really good coffee, have an ineffable love of memes, and studying advancements in crowdsourcing, social networks, UX and UI.

At the heart of it all lies a strong spirit of learning, teamwork and a deep desire to add value to the world.

Meet the evly team

Eric

Eric Edelstein

Co-Founder, CEO & Product Owner

Eric is a co-founder of the incuBeta group, which launched global search marketing company Clicks2Customers.com, affiliate marketing network TrafficSynergy.com, and website builder Yola.com. Eric’s background is in Finance, with 10 years experience in internet start-up’s. Eric holds a Bachelor of Commerce with majors in Accounting and Finance from Natal University and a Post-Graduate Degree in Electronic Commerce from Unisa.

Sarah

Sarah Godfrey

COO & HR Manager

Sarah was born in the UK and is a qualified attorney. She has a degree in Law & Anthropology from the London School of Economics (LSE), and, after attending law school, she completed articles at a top London law firm, qualifying in 2002. Sarah moved into recruitment after qualification, spending many years recruiting lawyers for large corporates in the UK, Australia and South Africa (where she is now based). Sarah brings to evly excellent people and project management, drafting, negotiation and communication skills. Her strong HR, recruitment and problem solving background are a great asset to the company.

Geoffrey

Geoffrey Ballenden

Development Manager

Geoff has been coding in C# from when Microsoft .net was still in beta. Before that he was writing boring financial applications in Delphi and Java. He lives on the side of a mountain with his wonderful wife and two dogs. When not cutting code for evly you will probably find him in the mountains on his bike.

Greg

Greg Hundermark

Senior Developer

Greg has been around the software development block, primarily developing enterprise applications for financial services companies. He has 15 years of web development experience and has found working at CrowdTech a welcome change in dress code and business focus.

Eran

Eran Eyal

Co-Founder, Director of Business Development & Spokesperson

Eran is a entrepreneur on a number of technology related ventures as well as a tech and motoring journalist. Eran has worked on conceptual design projects with major blue chip technology companies such as Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sendo and Fellowes. He also consults regularly on product development with Jabra and all major mobile manufacturers, was tasked with launching a large corporate Japanese IT hardware manufacturer company (iiyama) into South Africa and recently spoke at TEDx. Eran studied a Bachelor of Arts degree at UNISA and Graphic Design degree from Durban Institute of Technology.

Steve

Steve Cope

CTO

Steve is the newest member of the expanding evly team. He has been involved in the IT business (both as an entrepreneur as well as senior manager) for the last 20 years, with experience having worked with global companies including Microsoft and Dimension Data, both locally and abroad. Although fundamentally a technologist, Steve brings with him awealth of strategic and tactical experience in management, marketing and software development.

Ernst

Ernst Lass

UX/UI Designer & Graphic Designer

Ernst is a graphic designer from Cape Town, South Africa who has been working in the advertising and design industry for the past 4 years. During this time Ernst have mostly focused on design for web and multimedia.