Richard de Nys

Good Grants empowers grantmakers with grant-specific tools to manage applications online, make great funding decisions and power positive results in society. Developed by the team at Creative Force.

Creative Force is a European SaaS company, with an international team of 26 nationalities, speaking 19 languages, living in 50 cities across 28 countries. We’re a fully remote, distributed, work-from-anywhere team, with no headquarters, no expensive office. Creatively innovating how we do business, and the exceptional SaaS products we make— we’ve become known for 5-star service, easy-to-use tools and great design. We've earned loyal clients across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas.

Award Force is award-winning SaaS for leading organisers of awards, grants, scholarships and pitch competitions to manage submission and assessment online. A product conceived and built by Tectonic.

Tectonic was a Sydney-based independent digital technology company with a solid reputation for delivering sophisticated technical solutions. We provided design and development services for the likes of Google, NICTA, Westpac and Dell— and concurrently experimented with developing and boot-strapping our own SaaS products, which lead to exclusive focus on Award Force. In late 2015 Tectonic ceased servicing client projects.

Lead Asia-Pacific creative production for Dell and Alienware's online advertising.

Digital specialist working on projects for clients such as StarHub, Yahoo!7, Kia and UBank (NAB's online bank).

Moon is an integrated brand, design, advertising and interactive agency, owned by Australia's STW Group. For Moon I managed the digital accounts for Westpac Bank, Hutchison 3 Mobile and the RTA. On Westpac I produced the redesign of their public website.

Employed in the Sydney office of Lowe Worldwide, an Interpublic Group agency, I produced digital interactive projects for brands such as Foxtel, Stella Artois, Football Federation of Australia, Genesis Energy, Wonka (Nestlé) and Lynx (Unilever). In the role of Executive Producer I ensured quality projects were delivered on-time and on-budget.

Machinas is a full-service web agency that I founded in Amsterdam, subsequently opening an office in Barcelona. During my tenure, the business experienced 5 years of growth with clients in 9 countries. In 2005, Machinas appeared in the Taschen book “Web Design: Studios” — featuring agencies from around the world dubbed “The web’s hottest design teams”. I sold the business in 2006, at which point it was delivering B2C and B2B websites across industries including fashion, property, engineering and software.

Provided freelance services in web design, development and corporate identity. Clients included Guinness, World Online, Esprit, Schick and Perpetual Fund Management.