Management Team - Profiles
Rory McAuley
Head of Paid Search
Rory McAuley brings significant strategical corporate and pay per click experience to Upthebeanstalk.
In his early years, he worked as a strategical busienss analyst for multi-national organisations facilitating and leading high-profile process change management and large ERP implementation projects. His experiences involved a wide array of strategical dynamics at varied levels of organisational exposure.
His proven business strategical know-how is a fundamental element that differentiates us markedly from our South African competitors. With his support, Upthebeanstalk is able to evolve our best-practice search engine marketing activities into proven ROI-focused performances.
Rory plays an integral part in the Upthebeanstalk team both strategically and technically. He has helped to create an organisation that is relaxed, productive and thought-inspiring environment to work within.
Rory founded Upthebeanstalk South Africa in 2009 with the intention of developing an industry-leading search engine marketing agency solely focussed at facilitating South African businesses.
Ryan McAuley
Head of Natural Search
Ryan brings several years of client-side search engine optimisation experience to Upthebeanstalk.
Ryan was introduced to the exciting world of search engine marketing straight out of university. He was and is still enthused by the value SEO & PPC offers any South African business. Ryan quickly established himself within SEO ranks of major UK-based media companies and leading online job boards, all of whom still benefit from the comprehensive SEO strategies he instilled during his time in office. Since then Ryan has also held a position as Head of Search Marketing for a reputable e-commerce orgnisation. The experiences he obtained through his SEO career cover many industries and business types, the value of which he has brought in abundance to our searhc engine marketing agency.
He is regarded as a leading leading mind within the search engine optimisation community and is regularly requested for his qualified thoughts on best-practice SEO strategies.
Ryan believes that innovation is the life-blood of any search engine marketing business today. Incorporating cutting-edge developments not only brings value to our customer base but also builds an internal appreciation that search engine marketing evolves everyday and a singular approach is not sufficient.
Ryan founded Upthebeanstalk South Africa along with Rory McAuley with the intention of raising the SEO & PPC bar within South Africa.




