CLOUD R&D - Key Persons

Dimitris Vassiliadis

Job Titles:
  • Marketing and Business Development
Dimitris is a sales, product/business development and marketing expert; specialising in multinational projects. He has extensive experience in banking and financial services. Dimitris has brought several innovative products successfully to market and achieved global best-in-class product recognition by Gartner in 2016. He has raised over £250million in EU R&D funding throughout his career.

Eneko Igartua

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager
  • Engineering and Innovation Specialist
Eneko is an engineering and innovation specialist. He has expertise in securing public innovation funding, having raised over £10million in grant funding from national and European sources, as well as £10million from successful R&D tax credit claims for UK companies. Eneko has advised dozens of companies on their innovation strategy and funding applications for grant and R&D tax incentives. He is the lead product designer behind the Cloud R&D platform.

Kostas Sklias

Job Titles:
  • Platform Architect of Cloud R & D
  • Technical Lead
Kostas is the platform architect of Cloud R&D. He has several years' experience as a full-stack web developer with a track record of creating, deploying, scaling and optimising numerous Ruby on Rails applications. He has contributed to and managed teams to break down complex projects into realistic goals and achieve them. Kostas has a deep experience in optimising performance of old apps and transforming projects from ideas to reality. He now serves as the Technical Lead of our platform.

Sarah Malter - Managing Director, VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales
  • Managing Director
Sarah has a passion and drive for launching new ventures, from the initial idea to successful fruition. She has a proven track record, having owned and managed several successful businesses and in 2011 she sold her language tuition business for an 11-fold return on investment. Sarah has worked in the field of R&D tax credit claims since 2013, primarily in business development roles for innovation consultancies. In her last post, Sarah planned and executed a sales plan for a large R&D service provider that increased turnover 375% in 1 year.