Peter and myself will be spending this whole weekend at Hack Manchester, actively live-blogging and chronicling all the uber-geeky shenanigans. To get informed when we’re kicking off the live blog, follow us on Twitter, or keep an eye on our Facebook page on Saturday morning.

Ahead of that though, we’d like to introduce some of the mentors that will be helping the teams out this weekend.
SendGrind Mentors
Martyn Davies
A creative developer based in London currently working as Developer Evangelist Team Lead at SendGrid. You’ll find him presenting, demoing, hacking and chatting at hack days, conferences and meetups around the world on a regular basis. Martyn’s background is in hackathon organisation (Music Hack Day worldwide, Sports Tech Hackday), product management (BBC, Universal Music) and building awesome things with amazing tech.
Robin Johnson
A Polyglot Programmer and Developer Evangelist at SendGrid, currently working amongst the world-wide developer community to ease the adoption of Email API technology. Having spoken at some of the world’s leading technical conferences, Robin is building his way to being a player in the UK tech scene. Mentoring on topics such as Distributed Systems, Golang, NoSQL Databases and Open Source values; Robin is as much hacker as he is hustler.
Anna Bofill Bert
Anna recently joined the SendGrid team and is helping startups grow and become successful, by managing the SendGrid Accelerate program in EMEA. Before joining the SendGrid family, Anna was responsible of the startup program at SoftLayer, an IBM Company. She helped and mentored the startups participating in the program and also built relationships with the top tier accelerators/incubators in Europe. Before SoftLayer, Anna was leading the Spanish and international market operations for a Dutch Internet company.
AutoTrader Mentors
Dave Buckthorpe
I can help with anything to do with User Experience, Design, html, css. Basically making things useable and making the ui look awesome.
Andy Riley
Come and chat to me if you want to know anything about GitHub, code, rugby anything really
Andy Foster
Happy to help with whatever, dev background but now more about ideas and how to make stuff work. Will mostly bring enthusiasm for your ideas or just chat about rugby league and bands
The Mentors will be arrive and be able to help the teams from 11AM on Saturday. We’ll be there from like 5AM. Yes, we hackathons! More on that this weekend!





