The Appostles approach is unique; we are a team of experts who work together as a collective with a shared focus on creating great mobile experiences. Appostles was created to share and cultivate knowledge and skills, and to bring together the best in new mobile development.
Our team has extensive experience in web and mobile. We all share a passion for mobile and for creating great mobile services so there's no 'Biz Dev Team' at Appostles; we're all experts in mobile development, or design or strategy. A little more about the founding team....
Travis Choma - Senior Mobile Developer
Travis is an experienced mobile developer who cut his teeth on J2ME and Blackberry platforms, but spends most of his time hacking on Android and iPhone these days. Well respected in mobile development, Travis shot to fame recently by winning one of the $100,000 prizes in Google's Android Developer Challenge with a key role on the Cooking Capsules team. Travis also has created successful iPhone apps, the most popular being Moods: a simple app for recording your emotions and sharing them with friends. Moods reached the top 10 in the lifestyle category in the UK and the top 30 in the USA.
When he's not hacking on phones, he loves to travel, he's recently been to Korea, Thailand, India and Turkey, and is hoping to travel to Mali in the coming year. When he's home in Europe he enjoys cycling trips when he has a spare moment, so far cycling through Belgium, France and the UK, and looking forward to cycling in Italy.
Travis is our Mobile Apps and Android expert.
Katie Lips - Mobile Strategist
Katie loves creating mobile concepts and helping businesses to create strategies for delivering meaningful web and mobile experiences.
A strategist, maverick and entrepreneur, Katie is also cofounder at Treasuremytext.com a mobile 2.0 startup which enables people to keep their treasured SMS messages forever. Katie's focus is now on mobile strategy. Having connected web and mobile services for many years, Katie now loves the new iPhone and Android platforms and is always creating new ideas for apps and services. She recently launched The Amazing iPhone project - a report for businesses, and a series of courses helping businesses get up to speed quickly with new mobile strategies. Katie also worked as conceptual designer on Coffee Buzz: described by mashable as "the app @starbucks should have made" Coffee Buzz delivers “the coffee social on your iPhone”!
When she's not talking mobile 2.0 or playing bejewelled she loves art and socialising, and is likely to be found in a gallery at the weekend!
Katie is our mobile strategy expert.
Peter Robinett - Mobile Evangelist
Peter is a relatively newcomer to the mobile scene, coming from the Web 2.0 world and only jumping on board the mobile bandwagon with the arrival of the iPhone! Thanks to this web bias, Peter's particularly attentive to the mobile web and what he lacks in history he has made up in activity. Peter's recently developed a social, location based iPhone app for a major Dutch newspaper and has more exciting developments on the way. The initiator of various developer events in the Netherlands, Peter started Mobile Dev Camp which is currently expanding from Amsterdam to Helsinki, London, and elsewhere across Europe. Peter was also a judge for the Dutch T-Mobile Android App Contest.
A true geek; Peter has personally replaced his cracked iPhone screen and has the five hour long video to prove it! He also has a Masters in EU politics and when not developing mobile apps is more than happy to discuss European monetary policy and EU structural funds.
Peter is our Mobile Web and Events expert.
Paul Stringer - Senior Mobile Product Specialist
Paul is an experienced developer with a deep understanding of user centric design. With a strong technical background in Web Applications (including Apple's WebObjects) he brings a wealth of experience in the world of Java based Enterprise Web Services and Apple Development technologies. Creating interaction between mobile applications and cloud based API services Paul brings a critical understanding of how mobile works with web.
Paul has created Treasuremytext.com, Treasuremytext for Android which was winner in the T-Mobile Amsterdam AndroidDevCamp Challenge - linking web and mobile services. Paul is also the developer of the popular Twitter based coffee app 'Coffee Buzz' - The Coffee Social on your iPhone! When he’s not making mobile apps Paul likes watching football - a keen Liverpool supporter, he’ll be watching the match from an Irish pub in Amsterdam on a Saturday!
Paul is our iPhone and Technical Architecture expert.
Suzie Webb - Art Director
Suzie is a highly experienced Interactive Art and Creative Director, and has been working to make our digital lives more beautiful, human and entertaining since 1999. In the past 10 years she has designed and directed work for Diesel, Channel 4, The BBC, Kellogg's, Coke and has been awarded by Design Week, The FWA, Webbys, LIA, D&AD and BIMA for her efforts.
Expert in designing for brands, applications and entrepreneurial projects, her original idea of recreating the cassette mixtape for the digital age resulted in the launch of MIXA www.makeamixa.com - the first in-house product of interactive agency magneticNorth, where Suzie headed up the concept and design team for many years.
Suzie has pushed the idea of mobile and tangible interactivity in her work and is excited about the possibilities the iPhone platform offers us now. She divides her time between Oslo and the UK and spends her "spare" time inexpertly ski-ing, vintage clothes shopping, playing Wii-Fit and trying to teach a husky some manners.
Suzie is our Mobile Experience expert.

