Meet Hot Sauce

George Carless

CEO

The Brit

Avid golfer but a 17 handicap

Animal lover with seven cats and seven chickens¹

George is an ideas guy, and has a lot of opinions. (Ask anyone who knows him.)

With a background in technology and marketing, George heads up our strategy and development teams. He has a BSc. in Computer Science from London University.

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Mark Holland

VP, Client Services & Strategy

Friend of Panda

Gym rat who weighs his oatmeal to the exact gram

Adventurer who's traveled to 48 countries and counting

Mark comes from big agencies, so he takes biographies seriously.

Mark Holland, VP Client Services and Strategy, has deep experience delivering insight-driven marketing solutions for a variety of B2B and B2C brands. At Ogilvy & Mather, Mark was the account lead on building and policing global brand guidelines for IHG Rewards Club, the world's largest hotel loyalty program. Mark's work on the IHG and Chase co-branded Visa won a Gold Effie award. Mark has a BSc. in Computer Information Systems from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and an MBA in Marketing from Georgia State University.

Nisit Patel

Senior Web Developer

The Secret Weapon

Loves watching movies - but still hasn't seen all the Star Wars films.

Likes to travel, even if it's only to DrupalCon.

Nisit is driven by work that challenges him to learn new skills and techniques. He holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from Tennessee State University, and strives to stay ahead of the curve by exploring and experimenting with new technology.

Nisit spends his workday engrossed in Javascript/jQuery/Angular/Node.js, HTML, CSS/SASS, PHP, MySQL and Drupal.

When he’s not building websites, Nisit likes to spend time with his family and enjoys watching movies.

Mary-Helen Sebastian

Graphic Designer

The Queen of Karaoke

Dog Lover - She has three and may get more

Likes the idea of traveling - but hasn't left the country... yet

Mary-Helen loves karaoke and is still trying to convince her coworkers to join her. When she isn't singing her heart out, she also enjoys painting, drawing, and imagining what she'll dress up as for Dragon Con. She received a BA in Studio Art and Graphic Design from Georgia State University.

Drew Beveridge

Account Coordinator

Loves Exotic Pets - and has too many fish to keep up with

Atlanta Falcons fan - as painful as that may sometimes be

Drew’s background is in marketing and branding for companies ranging in size from a small college start-up to an international conglomerate. He is a part of our accounts team, and has a BA in Public Relations from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Comm. at the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!).

Sebastian Popp

Front-end Developer

Popp Goes the World

Has been building websites since he was 12.

Loves sailing, especially on the Elbe or Aster

Sebastian lives in Hamburg, Germany, but he's still a key member of the Hot Sauce team. (We all just talk over Slack, anyhow.) He's an expert web developer who's often tasked with wiring up obscure integrations between systems that George decided might be a good idea but that then never really get used. More usefully, he's a crack full-stack coder who works on standalone sites as well as on Drupal and Wordpress-based CMS sites for our clients.

Christine Hallett

HR Manager and Quality Assurance

All-rounder and Office Mom

Obsessed with cheese. Can't get enough cheese. Needs more cheese.

Rides horses. Except when they throw her off and she breaks her arm.

Christine helps keep things together - she manages all things HR, accounting, office management, and more. She's a great proof-reader and is also handy to have around for usability testing, since she's a self-avowed technophobe.

Jordan Patsios

Founding Partner & Creative Consultant

The Creative Jalapeño

Outdoorsman who often hikes for miles on his own

Vintage nut for old airstreams, coke machines, muscle cars ...

Jordan's a "creative"; you can tell by the glasses–when he remembers to wear them.

Jordan has over twenty years' experience in creative design, brand development, and interactive marketing, working for such clients as Southern Company, Publix, SunTrust, Consumers Energy and Georgia-Pacific. Jordan has a BA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University.

Our Story

We are a Digital Agency in Historic Roswell, Georgia

Hot Sauce was founded some time circa 2010 with the merger of a web development agency and a creative shop. We came up with the name "Hot Sauce Studios" after George suggested the pun "Hot Source" and Jordan pointed out that a) the pun doesn't work with American accents, and b) puns are the lowest form of wit, anyway.

We moved to our current Roswell office location over Thanksgiving, 2016, lopping "Studios" off our name in the process.