Meet the team

Marijke is a leading specialist in the field of Contemporary Ceramics with nearly 20 years working in the auction and fine art industry.

As the founding Director of iRostrum Online Auctions Marijke has been developing and using the iRostrum online auction platform for her own business since 2011. Marijke established Maak Contemporary Ceramics in 2009, which has become an internationally respected and market leading art consultancy and auction house focused on handling the very best in contemporary ceramic art. The success of Maak is a result of combining an in depth specialist knowledge of contemporary ceramic art, with unique experience of the associated auction market and a dedication to providing excellence in client experience. It is the only auction house in the UK holding regular exclusive auctions of contemporary ceramics.

Prior to establishing Maak, Marijke was Head of the Contemporary Ceramics Department at Bonham’s, which had maintained a longstanding reputation as world leaders in the field, organising regular sales of the very best in International Contemporary Ceramics in London and New York.

In addition Marijke has been a Consultant Lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, contributing to the MA in Contemporary Design and providing insights into Online Auctions to the MA in Art Business as well as a number of other post-graduate courses. 

Marijke Varrall-Jones

Greg is a digital business leader with extensive experience in engineering innovative digital solutions through leading world-class multi-disciplined teams to develop and implement multiple IT strategies within complex global organisations and business start-ups. 

A specialist in Bespoke Software Development, Greg is committed to building great products which customers love, whilst delivering end-user focused cutting edge mobile first solutions to disrupt traditional markets.

Greg's well-honed analytical, presentation and technical skills are allied with his ability to maintain productive relationships with both technical and non-technical people.

Greg recently was responsible for the design, build and delivery of Aptumo, a next generation Multi-Utility Enterprise Billing Product built on Salesforce.

Greg has been responsible for financial business systems turning over up to £1 billion annually and understands the importance of building robust, scalable, secure and available platforms which you can trust.

Greg Horne

Igor is a full stack Lead Software Developer who has been working on the iRostrum system since 2013. As a full stack senior developer Igor brings 14+ years of diverse software engineering experience, system architecture design, and infrastructure operations. With a focus in functional programming, type-level programming, and formal verification, Igor’s skills are creating clean and maintainable software code with a focus on code reliability, cloud-native architecture and patterns. His use of Domain Driven Design allows him to solve business challenges and complex processes.

Igor also boasts a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Igor Gorokhov

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