Who's Behind The Bouncy Castle Network?

As an experienced inflatable hirer, Eddie built one of the UK’s largest inflatable hire companies over a 15-year period and is the driving force behind the Bouncy Castle Network.

Dealing with our customers on a day to day basis, Eddie provides valuable industry experience to both new and experienced hirers, helping to refine the features in our platform with the feedback from over 2500 hirers around the world.

Thanks to Aftab’s creative skills in design, branding, marketing and having an uncanny ability to plan ahead, Aftab has steadily crafted BCN from its early origins into the industry-leading brand for bouncy castle operators we see today.

With over 22 years in corporate branding, web design, packaging, exhibition design, online and offline marketing for companies like Suzuki, Disney, Zen Internet, Swan Moulinex and American Express, Aftab has been instrumental in giving every customer a brand they can be proud with open access to one of the most experienced graphic designers in the UK.

When it comes to programming, Stefan is unrivalled! As the technical expert behind the BCN system, Stefan brings the Bouncy Castle Network to life by streamlining complex processes to make the busy hirer's life so much easier.

Since its inception, Stefan has helped craft the most powerful system available in the world for bouncy castle hirers and continues to refine the system making it every faster, user friendly and secure so our customers continue to have the edge over their competitors.

As the industry ‘Rockstar’ Stefan makes himself available to our customers via social media, always on hand to answer technical questions and enjoy some quality banter with our clients.

As Eddie’s other half, Fiona’s experience in running bouncy castle hire businesses spans over 20 years. This knowledge has been critical in fine-tuning the BCN system to make it work for everyone.

Always looking for areas of improvement and managing the BCN office, Fiona keeps a close eye the office environment to make sure everyone is happy, and performing to their optimum levels.

Keeping a bunch of web developers in check is no easy task, but it’s a skill that Fiona has mastered to the highest level!

With experience in customer support and web development, and with a deft hand at graphic design, Dion heads the BCN website building team to make sure each site looks and works perfectly.

As technology moves at a rapid pace, Dion ensures each site we create is built to an unmatched standard with eye popping graphics and interactivity, built in the latest technology.

Familiar with every aspect of front end development, Dion continues to develop interactivity that is a core attraction of the BCN websites.

As our customer base grew, it was crucial for us to continue to deliver exceptional customer service and make sure no corners are cut – enter Brian!

Our resident Canadian, Brian is the link between the design teams and development teams. Making sure the designers hard work and refined designs are turned into accurate style sheets, Brian creates the building blocks which connect into the Bouncy Castle Network platform, creating seamless interaction between your website visitors and your booking and diary management interface. It may look and feel like a single system, but take it from us, there’s a lot of technical wizardry going on to make sure everything works perfect.

As our customer base has grown over the years our workload has increased dramatically. To stay ahead of the game we drafted in a very skilled designer with a vast amount experience in UX design, UI, front end web design and branding for multi-national companies all over the world.

Bringing a fresh twist to the BCN design team, Imran creates innovative website designs that are unparalleled in creativity, making sure our clients enjoy the very best creativity and branding for minimal investment, making BCN the number 1 choice for bouncy castle hirers bar none.

As a trained architect and law student, Imran felt that design was his calling and he applies the same level of dedication and study to his chosen vocation delivering astonishing levels of detail in everything he does.

Booking Online Ltd services extend beyond the Bouncy Castle Network brand. We also have a team that specialises in corporate web solutions called Sizzle, which is headed by Ben and his team.

Crafting high-end corporate websites that are feature rich and built to exacting standards are all part and parcel of Ben’s remit. Having built dozens of award winning projects over the last 12 years, there are very few industries where we haven’t created a solution for.

As one of our very first members of staff, Ben has been here since the very beginning and has helped craft our services to the highest standards possible.

Playing a pivotal role in our corporate web solutions division through Sizzle, Simon manages the day to day operations at the office, delivering cutting edge solutions for clients ranging from local mechanics to brand name ecommerce stores.

Having grown up traveling the world Simon is familiar with as many spoken languages as he is programming languages. A big fan of travelling, Simon brings a very well rounded approach to web development and as such is happy both creating and supporting many of our key client accounts.

Managing a client base of over 2500 customers takes a team effort. Kevin is usually the first point of call for most BCN customers, and there are few who are more adept at the complicated parts of the system than him!

Kevin is perhaps one of the industries most talented copywriters, SEO and Adwords experts, and has been key in creating the various guides that form the BCN knowledge base, as well as training and supporting a large cross section of our clients.

As Stefan’s younger sibling, Kevin is a very conscientious individual with a strong desire to improve the world. Both Stefan and Kevin donated a kidney each to help save a life, and that same level of commitment can be found in everything Kevin does.

As a recently qualified designer and retail sales extraordinaire, Haseena has been around BCN since a young age as she is the very talented offspring of our Creative Director Aftab. You may have met her at the various tradeshows BCN attends, now joining the Booking Online team Haseena has already brought a vibrant attitude to the office and is quick to make sure that all the day-to-day processes are followed and QA is top notch.

A natural when it comes to creativity, expect to see a lot more of Haseena’s handiwork on our clients websites in the coming months.

Mike is highly-experienced in customer services. formerly of Ticketmaster, he brings a professional level of customer support to the BCN team. Helping clients learn the ropes and making sure that every question about our system is fully explained, Mike plays a central role in delivering an exceptional customer experience.

Ensuring that our support requests are handled in a professional manner, Mike is also pretty handy when it comes to creating graphics for our clients to add the finishing touches to their websites. With detailed experience in event management and platform systems, his personalised approach has made Mike a very popular member of the support team.

As a value add service, BCN recently launched our Promotional Merchandise department serving over 2500 customers with embroidered and printed clothing, leaflets, business cards, duplicate disclaimer pads, pop-up banners and website graphics.

Each and every Bouncy Castle Network member enjoys full access to the BCN Promo service where they can purchase everyday items to enhance their brand ‘at cost’. That means that you get to purchase promotional items at rock bottom prices and at the very highest quality.

Liam has a huge amount of experience in dealing with a variety clients, making sure their artwork is perfect and they get the best quality clothing at the best prices.

With a background in large scale system rollouts, Sam makes sure that Bouncy Castle Network are always at the forefront of people’s minds when considering a bouncy castle hire website and booking system. Everything from new enquiries to customer upgrades as handled by Sam, ensuring you get the best product or service for your changing requirements.

Exceptionally skilled in sales and marketing both face to face and via social media, Sam has been instrumental in ensuring our literature and marketing is focused and concise, making BCN the most attractive option on the market today.