COMBINED INTELLIGENCE - Key Persons
Djamila is an experienced business leader and an entrepreneur with a broad range of experiences across climate change risk, energy, business resilience, shipping & trading, supply chain, commercial deals, business strategy and machine learning and AI.
Djamila has a strong business acumen with over 20-year experience in the oil and gas sector, delivering long term strategic initiatives and complex commercial projects across businesses. She has developed frameworks and novel AI techniques in the area of investment decisions, dealing with uncertainty and project evaluation.
Paul has experience as a Founder, Board Director, Managing Director, CEO and Commercial Director in FTSE 250 and AIM-listed PLCs, SMEs, Joint Ventures and Not-For-Profit organisations. He has a consistent track record in a number of technology and consulting businesses of improving results and delivering rapid and sustainable growth. He has an MBA (Distinction) from Durham University and is a Chartered Engineer.
Whilst studying for his PhD at Warwick University his research looked at the application of artificial intelligence, data analytics and pattern recognition systems to solve real-world problems. Prior to moving into industry he has authored over 50 papers and conference presentations.
His programme management and technical expertise covers the delivery and deployment of complex systems and technology into ‘live' operational and safety critical environments, comprising the interaction of people, processes, technology and culture. He has experience in the technology, transport, public and not-for-profit sectors.
Steve has extensive leadership experience at board and director level, from startups through to large scale international organisations. Steve has a PhD in the application of Artificial Intelligence to medical image diagnosis and is driven by on ongoing interest in intelligent technologies.
Ian has significant leadership experience from board advisor to founder, CEO to executive director, from start-ups and scale-ups to major global organisations. Ian has worked across 3 continents and has a Degree in Artificial Intelligence. His journey through the AI industry has taken him from military AI R&D to building AI product companies to defining enterprise AI strategy for financial services companies, most recently as a Director, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at banking giant HSBC.
Ian is a thought leader on the integration of AI transformation with Data, Analytics and Digital transformation and how they build on, and multiply the benefits of each other. He focuses on the ROI of new technology capabilities and how the right training and advice can lead clients from high level economic strategy to foundation building to use cases and benefit delivery.
Ian has deep knowledge and experience of building AI Centres of Excellence, delivering large scale, production grade, enterprise AI solutions and making AI transformation clear and understandable to all levels of business. He is a speaker at global events and video content author on enterprise AI transformation.
Martin is an AI engagement strategist. He has many decades of consulting on customer related topics as part of his ability to understand opportunities to use AI technologies in customer facing teams. He is expert at blending strategy and operational execution to deliver both short and medium term ROI. He is also an international keynote speaker and conference chair helping to shape the agenda on how AI is transforming CX, marketing, sales and service.
Phil has over 21 years' experience delivering software automation across numerous industry sectors. He started his career as a Modern Apprentice at global business process outsourcers, EDS. After Hewlett-Packard acquired EDS, Phil focused on process orchestration and cloud automation. Since then, he has worked for a number of prominent organisations and companies (IBM, BT, Cap Gemini, Fujitsu, NHS, MOD, DWP, HMRC and FCO) to deliver enterprise scale automation projects.
He frequently works with organisations to formulate strategies to enable and deliver intelligent automation solutions, often incorporating various AI technologies such as Natural Language Processing, OCR and Machine Learning
Tim is a commercially minded business professional with experience across a number of markets and sectors, working initially for 15 years in a variety of management roles within international blue-chip corporate environments, during which time he was also awarded his MBA. He subsequently started and exited businesses in both management consulting and retail, enhancing his enterprise scale business background with both scale-up and start-up experience.
Tim is inspired by the transformational possibilities presented by Intelligent Automation, he promotes the adoption of enterprise grade AI and RPA solutions to medium sized organisations. Driving productivity and insights by surfacing the predictive capabilities hidden in data.