Our Leadership

Dev worked at Shell for 9 years as a Project Manager on Flagship Capital Projects, generating a wealth of technical and commercial experience across a variety of strategic projects in the Energy Industry. Author of the UK Government AI Review (2017) alongside Prof. Dame Wendy Hall and Jerome Pesenti. Dev holds an MEng in Aerospace Engineering, and CEng (CharteredEngineer) from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

Tom has been an angel investor in over 30 companies. He was a founding investor in MileIQ (acquired by Microsoft), Divimove (acquired by Fremantle), GoCardless, Cliqz (acquired by Burda), Llustre (acquired by Fab), Massive Health (acquired by Jawbone), Nested, Tray.io, Lendable and MoveGuides. Tom has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has been featured in Wired UK’s Top 100 Digital Power Brokers and the Evening Standard’s list of London’s 1000 Most Influential People. He also serves as an advisor to the British government and MoD.

Sandy has led investments in edge-caching company Velocix (sold to Alcatel-Lucent), predictive analytics company SeeWhy (sold to SAP), machine-learning computer-vision company Omniperception (sold to Digital Barriers), audio effects company Sonaptic (sold to Wolfson), real-time big data analytics company Acunu (sold to Apple) and is currently on the Boards of Lifebit, Stacker and Eola (as well as nPlan). Sandy had a Research Fellowship at Cambridge University, working in Nanotechnology with many of the pioneers in the field. He has a Ph.D. and B.Sc.(first) in Physics from the University of Dundee.

Until recently Michael was a Senior Partner at McKinsey specialising in financial services and energy utilities. He is now a main board director at Aviva plc, the UK's largest insurance company, where he is the designated NED for private asset investments such as infrastructure and for Aviva's digitisation and AI programmes; a Senior Advisor at Lazard specialising in M&A; and on the board of one of the largest S&P 500 REITs which focuses on income producing healthcare and retail properties. Michael was educated at Oxford University and at the Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar and was awarded an MBA degree with High Distinction.

Alan spent 7 years as a technologist in quantitative finance, implementing live trading strategies, quotefeed systems, trading engines, writing tools for research and automating front-office tasks. Alan has extensive experience in algorithm design and software engineering, and holds a BEng in ComputerEngineering, MSc in Computer Science, and is nearing a PhD in deep learning

Yael is a Senior Associate Dean at the University of Virginia, focusing on decision analysis, forecasting and project management. She was named one of “21 Thought-Leader Professors” in data science in 2014.

Yarin is an Associate Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford's Computer Science department, and is head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group. He is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.