Meet the team

Joe has worked on visualization systems for intelligence work for the last thirteen years, doing software development, design, systems architecture and more experimental research projects.

His achievements include a PhD earned as a member of Stephen Hawking’s research group.

Joe sets the overall agenda for the company from both commercial and technical perspectives.

Bryan focuses on the commercial side of the business, the day-to-day running of the organization, and helping the company to grow successfully. He has more than 20 years’ experience as a COO and CFO with high-growth software firms.

Throughout his career, Bryan has embarked on various entrepreneurial ventures, including Zeus Technology, acquired by Riverbed Technology and Velocix, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.

As our head of development, Clara’s main responsibility is to keep our development teams happy and motivated, ensuring we continue to deliver great features for our market-leading products.

She has over 15 years’ experience in the software industry, including time at notable Cambridge companies nCipher and i2. She also has a Masters in Computer Science and an MBA from Loughborough University.

Corey has worked with the largest defense, intelligence, security and anti-fraud organizations in North America. He has a diverse background working on big data initiatives and implementing proven solutions that provide customers with key insights into their data. He is the author of the book Visualizing Graph Data, from Manning Publications.

Corey is based in Boston, MA, and leads the company’s commercial team for the Americas.

Kaush has a background in web-based network visualization: he worked for i2 and was the first product manager for their iXv product line. He has worked with a number of Cambridge startups in their growth phases.

Kaush looks after our commercial teams for Europe, EMEA and the Asia-Pacific regions, helping them make the most of our products.

Chris is a Chartered Accountant with over ten years’ experience in financial management. His career began as a software engineer specializing in database design and development before he joined PwC to obtain accounting qualifications.

Chris joined Cambridge Intelligence from Marshall Aerospace and is the lead for developing and maintaining all financial procedures.

Andrew is our marketing director, heading up the talented marketing team and setting its long-term direction. He joined the company in 2013 and is one of our longest-serving employees. Before joining us, he worked for a cyber security consultancy, an education agency and a French hotel chain.

Phil has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and has worked for a number of Cambridge software companies. His software development experience includes desktop publishing, GIS, Formula 1 motor racing, and data visualization & network analysis.

He spent several years at i2 as part of the Analyst’s Notebook development team, and has particular interests in visualization and usability issues.

Zoë has been building great web applications for more than a decade. Past roles, including a stint at Citrix, have given her a grounding in a wide range of different web technologies.

In particular, Zoë brings an eye for UX and UI perfection, designing new functionality and helping our customers get the most out of our products.

Adrian has spent the last nine years at NetNames developing software to combat cyber fraud and protect brands online.

Working in all areas from managing big data to visual design, Adrian has spent several years working with the very latest web technologies and will ensure that customers get the very best experience.

Julia has developed software for a variety of companies, ranging from start-ups to multinationals. She has a Masters degree in Mathematics from University of Cambridge and enjoys learning about algorithms and using them to write elegant and efficient code.

Ray joined us from IBM, where he’d been researching new technologies. He has many patents relating to data visualization, high-performance scientific computing, computer vision and machine learning. He also takes an active role in the Open Source software community, contributing to several popular projects.

Our dev team is constantly finding ways to make our technology better. As a member of the team, Tim helps develop new features and provides customer support. He has a degree in Maths from the University of Cambridge and has industry experience in trust and company administration software.

After a few years keeping our docs up to scratch as our technical author, Tom switched roles to become a software developer.

He’s especially interested in UX and UI, making sure our customers have the best possible experience. When not writing code, running tests or designing experiments, Tom spends his downtime fencing and rock climbing.

Natalie works closely with everyone in the company. She’s experienced in Health and Safety and HR practices, manages Cambridge Intelligence HQ (our offices) and makes sure we have a fun and friendly working environment.

Before joining Cambridge Intelligence, Natalie worked for an international travel brand, as the administrator for a team of hundreds.

Cheryl is a solicitor with over 20 years’ experience and a wide range of legal expertise. Before joining Cambridge Intelligence, Cheryl was a Director of a medium-sized commercial law firm and was primarily responsible for managing Government contracts.

As the Company’s Legal Counsel, Cheryl helps us to deal with a wide variety of legal matters including negotiating customer contracts.

Paola provides legal advice to the company, oversees the negotiation of software licenses, and works with management to identify and mitigate against risks and ensure compliance. Prior to joining us, Paola worked as in-house legal counsel at Xchanging Plc and was a corporate lawyer for Clifford Chance. She holds a degree in Jurisprudence from the University of Siena in Italy and an LLM degree from University College London.

As our Junior Legal Counsel, Elisa is primarily responsible for working on contracts and renewals. She has a Master’s degree in Law from University of Bologna and is a qualified lawyer of the Italian bar.

Before joining our team, Elisa worked as a lawyer at an Italian law firm and as a corporate paralegal at a retail cosmetics company in New York.

Scott looks after the team processes and projects for our KronoGraph development team, making sure everyone is happy, motivated and able to deliver a market-leading product.

Before he became enamored with software development, Scott was our talent manager. His background includes a Masters in Organizational Psychology and 10 years of HR and recruitment experience.

With extensive commercial experience and a solid technical background, Sam is ideally placed to ensure customer projects are a success. Prior to joining Cambridge Intelligence, Sam worked in the oil and gas technology sector.

Sam is based in our Cambridge, UK, office but travels extensively. He looks after our customers in Northern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Christian works closely with new customers to educate and help them make the most of our products. He’s a strong graph visualization advocate and loves applying our deep capability to various datasets across many domains.

He has a Master’s in Computer Science & Maths from Bristol and previously worked in the UK, US & Canada for BAE Systems.

Armed with twenty years of sales experience in the software and hardware industries, Mike’s responsible for new business accounts, East Coast commercial accounts and all federal accounts.

Prior to joining our team he worked as a Federal Sales Director – responsible for all federal accounts, channel management and federal marketing.

Giuseppe has more than 40 years’ experience working with data visualization and link analysis technologies. His career started with the Guardia di Finanza – the Italian financial police – before managing global partnership networks for i2 (now IBM) and Detica NetReveal (now BAE Systems).

Giuseppe looks after our customers in Southern Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions.

As Head of Product Management, Dan works closely with our customers and developers to make sure we build the best possible data visualization tools.

He has a Master’s in Physics from Oxford University and a wealth of experience with a variety of software products across many different industry verticals.

As a member of our finance team, Rachel ensures our accounts are in order.

She is an ACCA-certified accountant, with a long history of working with technology start-ups in Cambridge.

As our Assistant Accountant, Hisako is mainly responsible for the company’s bookkeeping. From the recording of financial transactions to managing purchases and expenses, Hisako works with Chris and Rachel to ensure the company is in complete control of its finances.

She also holds a qualification from The Association of Accounting Technicians.

After 20 years as a technical writer, Catherine switched roles to become our Content Manager. Catherine’s fundamental responsibility is creating and sharing powerful content in order to drive traffic to the company website and generate high quality leads for the sales team. This includes press releases, blogs and social media posts.

Gizem works closely with our sales and marketing teams to design, implement and run targeted and engaging marketing automation campaigns.

Although her focus is on digital campaigns and automation, she has a range of experience in the marketing field having previously worked in space and defence, hydropower, and higher education sectors.

Born in the flattest part of Canada and now living in the flattest part of the UK, Kevin worked for a property data company in Australia and a sustainability software firm here in Cambridge before joining us.

As our Product Manager, Kevin works closely with our customers and developers to decide on the next big thing for our products.

During his time working in the Off-Grid Renewable Energy Industry, Warren taught himself programming. The challenge and enjoyment spurred him to pursue a change of career towards software development, bringing him to our team as a Software Developer.

Prior to the career switch, Warren specialized in Economics and Sustainable Development.

Joe’s background includes academic research in phytochemistry and enzymology, as well as software development for control of scientific instruments.

During his master’s at UCL, he gained an interest in data visualization using JavaScript and he is excited to be following this thread in our development team.

As our Test Engineer, Jamie has found a productive outlet for his passion for breaking things.

Before joining our development team, Jamie spent 8 years testing software and hardware for energy management and access control.

He works closely with our developers, uncovering potential bugs in our software before they impact our customers.

Katerina brings a wide range of expertise and experience to her role of solutions engineer, which she uses to deliver training and consulting services to our customers around the world.

She has Master’s degrees in applied mathematics and advanced computing, and previously worked on web development projects for one of the big 4 professional services firms.

Jim is our Legal Assistant, primarily responsible for working on contracts and renewals. He has a degree in Law from Anglia Ruskin University and has completed his LPC and LLM degrees from BPP University.

Before joining our team, Jim worked as a fee earner at one of Cambridge’s largest law firms. Outside of work, Jim is a talented guitarist and singer.

Matt is a talented software developer with an eye for UX, performance and design.

Since graduating from the University of Oxford with a Masters in Engineering Science, he has worked in a variety of analyst, consulting and technical roles in Cambridge and his native Jersey.

Most recently, he founded his own agency for designing and building web applications. This led him to join our development team where he mostly focuses on new features and projects.

As our renewals manager, Sameer works with all of our customers, making sure they’re happy and getting everything they need from our tools. Before joining us, Sameer looked after renewals for Cambridge software firm, Redgate.

When he’s not in the office or visiting customers, you’ll likely find Sameer out and about embracing his love of food and travel.

Kostis is a talented mathematician with a flair for data-driven design.

After receiving his BSc in Mathematics from the University of Ioannina in Greece, he decided to study Artificial Intelligence.

During his time at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and subsequently as a data visualization consultant, he has built many analysis and exploration tools using open source web technologies.

Besides a computer science degree from Queen Mary, University of London, she’s worked on web development projects in the UK and Australia, and a project to find better ways to manage chronic disease.

Sonali uses her technical skills to help customers realize the benefits of data visualization in their own applications.

Chris is a talented web developer with a particular interest in JavaScript, React and GraphQL.

His background covers the full web stack, with experience in the UK, his native Germany, and Indonesia, including internships at Facebook and Instagram, and most recently a project building an online gaming platform.

With a background in translation and technical writing, Alex is an experienced communicator.

She has a Master’s degree in translation and interpretation from her native Czechia, and has spent recent years localizing marketing content for a Cambridge translation company, and writing technical documents for a digital communications firm.

Outside of work, Alex is a keen badminton player.

As a software development manager, Amy looks after our KeyLines development team, helping to keep everyone on-track, happy and motivated, and ensuring our processes run smoothly.

Her background includes time as a DBA for companies including Worldpay and Play.com, and more recently as a team lead at Ocado Technology.

Zenon uses his nearly 20 years’ experience to put our toolkits through their paces, designing and running automated test strategies that discover bugs and issues before they impact our customers.

Before joining us, Zenon worked at some of Cambridge’s best-known software businesses, testing complex software and commercial systems.

As our sales administrator, Brian works closely with our US and UK sales teams and our customers, ensuring high levels of customer care and a smooth sales process.

He’s a certified Salesforce administrator and Prince2 project manager, with many years’ experience of implementing and improving sales processes and systems.

Georgios found his passion for test technologies and test automation while studying computer science at Utrecht University. He has worked on a variety of projects as a test engineer, ranging from smart cars to ERP solutions.

Jonathan is an experienced Finance Assistant who’s fluent in Italian and currently studying part-time for a business management degree.

Previously he was the go-to person for all things payroll and tax at the oldest English language school in Cambridge. He now works in our busy Finance team handling everything from invoices to expenses, credit control to staff benefits.

If a masters in physics and a PhD in theoretical astrophysics weren’t impressive enough, Martin also spent 5 years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cambridge, using state-of-the-art techniques to simulate black holes and galaxies.

He’s keen to put his coding, analysis and visualization skills to good use on our graduate program.

During 8 years at a sustainability software firm, Joe transitioned from technical implementation architect to (Certified Scrum) Product Owner before joining an analytics database company.

Joe is also a talented choral singer, having performed in concert halls all over the world including London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Vicky brings a wealth of in-house and agency experience to her talent manager role. Over the years, she’s built successful teams for tech companies and banks, in both the UK and Australia.

At Cambridge Intelligence, she’s responsible for finding and hiring the best people around, making sure we continue to grow as a happy and effective team.