AJ Barlas

AJ Barlas

AJ adds to Venturewebs multi-national family and is the passionate Australian of the team. His fervency for the action sports industry brought him first to Whislter, and then to settle here in Squamish.

Coming out of school (Langara College in Vancouver) with distinctions in design, AJ began his time at VentureWeb as a junior designer/developer and also assisted the big man with online marketing initiatives. Around this time social media was really taking off, something which AJ was intrigued by the inner workings of, and coupled with the online marketing he was performing on a daily basis, he later switched completely to the role of online marketing manager at VentureWeb. AJ still does a little design and his development skills come in handy, but his day to day is now spent handling and analyzing clients online campaigns, and their websites online presence within the SERP's.

When not staring at the pixels of his computer screen, AJ can be found out in the woods riding and racing his mountain bike, shooting video/photo to mix with writings for his mountain bike design blog, Straightshot as well as contributing to Vital MTB as a long term product tester. Spending time maintaing the local trails (good trail karma ;) ), and getting in some quality time with his wife, Elana and dog, Roam are also important elements in his life.