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.

Clara Donald
Development Manager

Armed with an MBA from Loughborough University and a Masters in Computer Science, Clara heads up our Development Team. With over 15 years’ experience in the software industry, she has worked for notable Cambridge companies such as nCipher and i2.

Clara’s fundamental responsibilities are to keep the Development Team happy and motivated, and to ensure the team continues to deliver great features for our products.

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.

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.

Roger Murby
Test Engineer

Roger is a Test Engineer with ISEB certification and over 15 years’ experience of testing application suites in the finance, telecommunications and data quality sectors. He has experience as a technical lead for major releases, leading teams working on new enhancements and driving quality process initiatives.

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.

Julia Robson
Developer

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 Glover
Developer

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.

Tim Goodwyn
Developer

Our dev team is constantly finding ways to make KeyLines better. As a member of the team, Tim helps develop new features for KeyLines 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.

Jenny Phillips Campbell
Developer

Jenny has almost 20 years’ experience working in both private and public sectors. She gets real satisfaction from getting data into a useful, usable format. In fact, after completing her PhD, she ended up writing her own genealogy application because she wasn’t happy with the way other products structure their data.

Thomas Chan
Technical Author

Before joining our team, Tom was a Lead Engineer at an automotive and aerospace organization. He did everything from designing components to creating technical documentation. As our Technical Author he’s responsible for ensuring our KeyLines documentation is up to scratch. In his spare time he enjoys fencing and skydiving.

Bryan Amesbury
COO

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, Amesbury has embarked on various entrepreneurial ventures, including Zeus Technology, acquired by Riverbed Technology and Velocix, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.

Natalie Parkyn
Facilities Manager

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 Disney
Legal Counsel

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 Cavallin
General 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.

Elisa Casagrande
Legal Assistant

As our Legal Assistant, 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 Meintjes
Talent Manager

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.

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.

Michael Wood
Technical Sales (North America)

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.

Duncan Grant
Sales Engineer

Duncan 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. He looks after KeyLines evaluators in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA regions.

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.

Jamie Smith
Sales Manager

Jamie has worked with some of the world’s biggest software companies, helping them implement cutting-edge technology into their workflows, supporting them through bespoke solutions and consulting based support. With over 10 years’ experience, Jamie has worked the full sales cycle from networking prospecting through initial small sales to large multi-year enterprise solution contracts.

Kaush Kotak
Customer Success Director

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 our customer success team, working with our customers around the world, helping them make the most of KeyLines.

Giuseppe Francavilla
Customer Success 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 helps look after our customers, ensuring their KeyLines projects are a success.

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.

Ron Campo
Customer Success Manager

Ron works closely with our customers to ensure they have a successful implementation of KeyLines. His software background and experience in various support roles enable him to provide our customers with a smooth onboarding process with our technology.

He also acts as an advisor to ensure our customers are leveraging KeyLines effectively.

Harpreet Singh Riat
Solutions Engineer

As a Solutions Engineer, Harpreet’s primary responsibility is providing professional services to customers for developing applications using KeyLines. His background lies in web-based visualization and software systems.

After completing his Masters in Advanced Computer Systems at Bath University, Harpreet worked for one of the largest web based projects for genomic data visualization.

Chris Howell
Finance Director

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.

Rachel Beechinor
Management Accountant

As a member of our finance team, Rachel ensures 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.

Hisako McRobbie
Finance Assistant

As our Finance Assistant, 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

Andrew Disney
Marketing Director

Andrew oversees our marketing activities at Cambridge Intelligence. This includes writing blog posts, managing our social media accounts, working with our technology alliance partners, and a range of other tasks. Before joining us, he was a marketing manager at an information security consultancy.

Sam Mabaso
Marketing Manager

As our Marketing Manager, Sam’s responsible for leading tactical campaigns and day-to-day marketing activities in line with the marketing plan. These include website updates, email marketing, event logistics, webinars, social media and design. Originally born in South Africa, Sam has made Cambridge her home.

Catherine Kearns
Content Manager

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.