Meet the team

Joe Parry
Founder & CEO

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.

Corey Lanum
Commercial Director

Corey has worked with the largest defense, intelligence, security and anti-fraud organisations 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.

Sam Duby
Technical Sales (EMEA)

Sam is our Technical Sales person for the EMEA region. With extensive commercial experience and a solid technical background he 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.

Christian Miles
Technical Sales (North America)

Since completing his Masters in Maths & Computer Science at Bristol University, Christian has specialized in network visualization software for global enterprise deployment.

In his roles at BAE Systems and the Wynyard Group, Christian’s focus has been applying graph network analysis in Financial Crime, Cyber and Law Enforcement domains.

Duncan Grant
Sales Engineer (EMEA)

Duncan is our Sales Engineer for the EMEA region. He spent several years working for startup companies before joining Cambridge Intelligence as a core Javascript developer.

His solid technical background and in-depth knowledge of the KeyLines codebase means he can provide customers with the top-notch technical support they need to build outstanding data visualization solutions.

Giuseppe Francavilla
Partner Manager

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 develops and manages our relationships with strategic and technology partners.

Birthe Oelmann
Sales Operations Manager

Birthe is our Sales Operations Manager.

She works with our international team and our customers to ensure sales progress smoothly and with the highest levels of customer care.

Before joining Cambridge Intelligence, Birthe worked for various other Cambridge-based technology companies.

Andrew Disney
Digital Marketing Manager

Andrew joined Cambridge Intelligence with a number of years’ marketing experience, online and offline, from the international education and information security industries.

Andrew has taken on a broad range of marketing duties within the company, but mainly focuses on the company’s online activity.

Kaush Kotak
Project Manager

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 runs operational aspects of Cambridge Intelligence, with a particular focus on project management and ensuring delivery targets get met.

Cheryl Disney
Contracts Manager

Cheryl is a solicitor with over 20 years experience and a wide range of legal expertise. Before joining Cambridge Intelligence, Cheryl was a Director responsible for managing Government Contracts. As the Company’s Contracts Manager, Cheryl helps us to issue, negotiate and maintain customers contracts.

Paola Cavallin
Legal Counsel

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.

Chris Howell
Financial Controller

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.

Scott Meintjes
Talent Acquisition Specialist

With a Masters in Organisational Psychology and 10 years of recruitment and HR experience, Scott looks after Talent Acquisition, as well as the broader functions of Talent and HR.

Previously, working in the Education sector, he expanded the global resourcing function and promoted table-tennis as a lunch time activity.

Natalie Woods
Administrator

In her role as Administrator, Natalie works closely with everyone in the company. She is experienced in Health and Safety and HR practices. She helps with sales and marketing, recruitment and 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!

Rachel Beechinor
Assistant Accountant

Rachel is our Assistant Accountant. Her role is mostly behind the scenes, working with Chris to make sure our accounts are in order.

She is a part-qualified accountant, studying hard towards full ACCA certification, with a long history of working with technology start-ups in Cambridge.

Stephen Hughes
Development Manager

Stephen joined Cambridge Intelligence with more than a decade of experience working for technology companies. His background includes a Master’s Degree from Oxford University, as well as time spent as an analyst, consultant, programmer and project manager.

As our Development Manager, Stephen combines all of his skill and experience to lead our growing team of expert software developers.

Dan Williams
Product Manager

As our product manager, 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.

Phil Rodgers
Developer

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.

Catherine Kearns
Technical Author

As our technical author, Catherine is responsible for ensuring all of our techical documentation is clear, concise and easy to use.

She is a qualified scrum master and has honed her editing skills over nearly 2 decades as a writer for many different technology companies in Cambridge.

Teresa Reynolds
Test Engineer

Teresa has taken on the task of coordinating our KeyLines testing strategy, keeping everything consistent and making sure your graph visualizations work flawlessly!

She joined Cambridge Intelligence following several years working on i2’s data visualization products, leading teams of testers and developing strategies to keep software bug-free.

Zoë Moran
Developer

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

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

Tim Knight
Developer

Tim is a talented JavaScript Engineer. His career began with a degree in Geography, before turning to software development. Before joining Cambridge Intelligence, Tim worked as a Web Developer for one of the UK’s leading CSR and sustainability management companies.

Adrian Meredith
Developer

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.

Joe Clark
Developer

With a background in artificial intelligence, static analysis engines and parser technology, Joe brings a range of skills to the team. He’s been developing in Javascript for over five years, working with small teams on emerging front and back end technologies.

Ashley Baldock
Developer

Ashley has been working with JavaScript for nearly a decade, with commercial experience building web applications using agile process for five years at companies in London and Cambridge. They have degrees in both Philosophy and Computer Science from the University of London, and a passion for modern web standards and the importance of automated testing.

Filipe Tedim
Developer

Filipe’s love of Javascript, and everything related to it, brought him to Cambridge Intelligence after several years working as a web engineer in Belgium and his native Portugal.

He especially enjoys functional programming, and has experience of all components of the web stack

Catherine Bacon
Software Development Intern

After nearly a decade in publishing, Catherine chose to switch careers and become a software developer. She has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge and has self-taught JavaScript and full-stack web developer skills. She is joining us for the summer to try out the developer lifestyle!

Jake Gordon
Developer

Jake has considerable experience with startups and web technologies, co-founding Estate Angels during the dot-com boom days, and later creating and running the UK’s leading school yearbook company, AllYearbooks. Jake’s knowledge ranges from full-stack web development to usability, UX and everything required to run a small company up to acquisition.

François Chalifour
Software Development Intern

Francois has joined us for the summer from ECE School of Engineering in Paris. He began programming at the age of 11, and has completed studies and internships in France, Sweden and Australia. He’ll put his JavaScript skills to good use as part of our Dev team.