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Alex Foxfield
Contributor
Knowledges: Climbing, hiking, trail running
Location: Cumbria, UK
(The Gear Loop) - Alex is a freelance adventure writer and content creator with an insatiable passion for the mountains. A Cumbrian born and bred, his native English Lake District has a special place in his heart, though he is at least equally happy in North Wales, the Scottish Highlands or the Alps. Through his hiking, mountaineering, climbing and trail running adventures, Alex aims to inspire others to get outdoors. He is currently training to become a qualified mountain leader, looking to finally finish bagging all the Wainwright fells of the Lake District and is always seeking to scale more Alpine peaks. Find out more at his website.
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Cam Bunton
Contributing editor
Knowledges: Smartwatches, Cameras, Drones
Location: North Wales, UK
Languages: English, Welsh
(The Gear Loop) - Cam has worked in online tech reporting since 2010. His responsibilities at Pocket-lint - where he tests a lot of the latest fitness trackers, earbuds and watches - include producing and hosting quality, personable and informative YouTube videos.
He grew up in North Wales, where he currently lives, using any fitness tracker or earphones as an excuse to get out and run through the beautiful scenery and along the coast line.
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Chris Hall
Editorial Director
Knowledges: Fitness devices, technology, skiing, cycling
Location: London, UK
Languages: English
(The Gear Loop) - With over 20 years of experience in publishing, Chris has spent the last 10 years feeding his habit for adventure as the Editor is sister site Pocket-lint.com where he not only tests the latest tech, but has a spent a lot of time testing the latest fitness trackers and sports devices. A keen cyclist and perpetually injured runner, it's the freedom of the great outdoors that gets Chris out in the saddle on chilly mornings, fuelled by a love of data. If you don't have data, did it ever happen? If Chris could make one change to his life, it would be to spend 6 months of the year chasing the snow.
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Chris Haslam
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Knowledges: Hiking, running, camping and winter sports
(The Gear Loop) - Chris is a specialist consumer journalist with over 10 years experience writing about technology, eco-living and outdoor ventures. He's also a keen cyclist, often found on a bike-packing adventure or wrestling with a new tent. An experienced copywriter and media luvvie, he can go days without natural light but only hours without coffee.
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Hugo Cunha
Head of Development
Location: Porto, Portugal
Languages: Portuguese, English
(The Gear Loop) - Hugo is responsible for bringing The Gear Loop to life. With over 15 years of experience in software development, his career was mainly focused on the web side of things.
He developed 100+ websites within e-commerce, CMS, CRMs, business managment tools, API fetchers, crawlers, webapps, mobile apps, you name it. Plus, he has worked with brands such as Fitbit, TimeOut, Magazine.co.uk, Jellyfish, Bytepitch, National Geographic and Betfair. Managing the overall tech team along with the server health and performance, he keeps everything up and running and above all, safe and updated.
Hugo is also our go-to guy when it comes to innovation and improvments to make our editor's life easier. He is a dog afficiando and addicted to online gaming (aren't all devs? ). Plus, he loves quality time with family and is passionate about the "art of creating software".
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Joanna Ebsworth
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Knowledges: Fitness, health, camping
(The Gear Loop) - A fully qualified Level 3 Personal Trainer, Gym Instructor, and Exercise to Music teacher, Jo is at the cutting edge of industry developments in anything to do with an active outdoor lifestyle. She is also a keen camper and can be found regularly putting kit to the test in camping hotspots all over the UK. Over the years, Jo says she has tried every kind of tent there is going.
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Josh Barnett
Contributor
Knowledges: Cycling, hiking, surfing
(The Gear Loop) - When not trekking around the South West Coast Path (or across the country) with his family, Josh can often be found bobbing around in the North Atlantic pretending to be an average surfer or tinkering with (and racing) classic cars. Josh was also a founder of Flat-Out Magazine with The Gear Loop editor Leon, but they spent more time racing each other around the New Forest on fixed gear bicycles than they did monetising a website, which is probably why it wasn't a runaway success.
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Kieran Alger
Contributor
Knowledges: Running, endurance sports
(The Gear Loop) - Kieran is a freelance writer and editor with a serious running habit. He specialises in the space where health, fitness, sports and technology collide and covers everything from the latest carbon running shoes, to real time blood glucose monitors. He is also willing to put his body on the line when it comes to testing kit, participating in ultra-marathons and other extreme events seemingly for fun.
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Leon Poultney
Editor
Knowledges: Cycling, surfing, fitness and automotive
Location: Bournemouth, UK
Languages: English
(The Gear Loop) - Leon’s journalistic career spans over 16 years, forged in the halcyon days of men’s lifestyle mags, where he worked for the likes of the now defunct Maxim, FHM and ZOO Magazine. After doing everything from being placed in a Latvian prison to camping outside of Cristiano Ronaldo’s changing room in search of an entertaining feature, he decided to focus on the world’s of consumer tech and automotive.
Stints at ShortList Magazine and Sunday Times Driving followed before he embarked on a freelance career that saw bylines for the likes of Wired, Stuff, T3, Vice Media, The Jackal, The Sun on Sunday and many more. He has written for a broad spectrum of outlets, attempted the creation of his own automotive website (it didn’t make him a millionaire) and acted as producer on several cinematic projects for leading automotive clients.
After a long time in London, he can now be found on the south coast, bobbing around in the English Channel, sweatily climbing the Purbecks on a gravel bike, stemming oil leaks on old motorcycles or generally attempting to get his kids and ageing bulldog out of the front door for a long walk.
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Mark Mayne
Contributor
Knowledges: Hiking, climbing, camping, scuba diving and cycling
(The Gear Loop) - Mark has been a journalist for the last 20 years, covering a wide range of tech, daily national news and fitness "innovations" for everyone from tabloids to broadsheets, websites to social - and everything in between. A keen mountain-botherer, he has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, as well as widely in the UK, acquiring a detailed knowledge of being wet and an expert appreciation of wind-chill. He holds Rock Climbing and Scuba Instructor qualifications, and must get round to completing his Mountain Leader assessment at some point soon, although he keeps putting it off.
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Matt Buckley
Contributor
Knowledges: Hiking, water sports, photography
(The Gear Loop) - Matt is a photographer and digital creative, producing high end imagery and words for a variety of outdoor brands, but he's also obsessed with the Highlands of Scotland and spends much of his time romping up peaks with friends, paddling in lochs and getting lost in his Land Rover Defender.
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Michael Sawh
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Knowledges: Running, wearable tech
(The Gear Loop) - An experienced journalist and former editor of wearable tech website Wareable, Michael has been writing about, testing and using fitness and running kit for many years. He's also one of the founding members of The Run Testers, a popular YouTube channel that specialises in running gear and putting it through its paces. He's a keen runner and an encyclopedia of knowledge when it comes to the latest developments in the world of shoes, apparel, smart devices and much more.
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Ricky Harewood
Commercial director
Location: London, UK
Languages: English
(The Gear Loop) - Ricky has worked in media for over eleven years. Everywhere from large media conglomerates, such as FOX, Haymarket and Arqiva, down to small tech start-ups as second man in the office.
His previous client base has included Google, Samsung, Amazon, Sony, Microsoft. Ricky is also studying Data Science and Python programming to become our in-house data wizard. At heart he is a bit of a geek who's just trying to be cool.
Ricky’s specialism is creative and integrated campaigns. So if you want to create some awesome content on The Gear Loop, Pocket-lint or across our influencer network, Ricky is your man!
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Rob Kerr
Affiliate director
Location: London, UK
Languages: English
(The Gear Loop) - Rob is the Affiliate Director across both The Gear Loop and Pocket-lint. This means he is responsible for all things affiliate-related on the site and making sure the right retail links appear around reviews, features, buying guides and more - all ready for you to buy the things you're reading about. He started out as a journalist reviewing products, before entering the affiliate world with uSwitch.
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Stuart Miles
Founder and CEO
Knowledges: Running, diving, hiking
Location: Ascot, UK
Languages: English
(The Gear Loop) - I founded Pocket-lint, The Gear Loop's publishing company, in 2003 with a budget of just £15, and while my main news beat is technology, I've always had a passion for getting outside and going on an adventure.
I've completed the UK's three peaks challenge twice (and more importantly in under 24 hours), walked 100km from London to Brighton in one go, dabbled in triathlons, hold PADI Advance Diver status, and sailed from La Rochelle to Portsmouth as part of the old Global Challenge yacht race.
In my spare time, I like running, drinking wine, and watching movies, not necessarily in that order.
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Tamara Hinson
Contributor
Knowledges: Snowboarding, skiing, adventure travel
(The Gear Loop) - Tamara Hinson is a Surrey-based freelance travel and tech writer and former snowboard instructor who loves travelling to off-the-beaten path places (memorable trips include North Korea and Togo), and is happiest when in the mountains (ideally France's Paradiski area). She loves scuba diving, mountain biking and snowboarding as well as dogs, but can't ever have one because her husband is allergic to them.
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Tom Wheatley
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Knowledges: Running, Hiking, Climbing
(The Gear Loop) - Tom is a fitness and outdoor journalist who is happiest when he's stood at the top of a mountain that nobody else knows about. He has written about running, hiking and training for publications including ShortList, Red Bull, and Vitality, and is the co-founder of the YouTube channel The Run Testers. When he's not making his way across barren wastelands he can normally be found working his way through a James Bond boxset.
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