People

Management Team

Dr Sithamparanathan Sabesan OBE

Founder & President

Peter Oram

CEO

Nigel Smith

Director of Customer Experience

Andrew Woolston

Operations Manager

Adrian Watson

CFO

Board of Directors

Moray Wright, Chairman

Moray co-founded Parkwalk, a leading early-stage technology EIS fund manager with c.£200m of assets under management in 2009.

Professor Ian White, Non-Executive Director and Co-Founder

Ian White is currently Vice Chancellor at the University of Bath, van Eck Professor of Engineering, and Head of the Photonic Research Group, comprising CMMPE, CPS and Photonics and Sensors, in the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge.

He currently chairs the channel model sub-task force of the IEEE 10 GbE LRM standard.

Ian’s research activity in optoelectronics and optical communications includes managing a team of 45 people publishing on average 60 papers a year. In terms of research output, the group is one of the largest in the field of optoelectronic systems in the UK.

The Institution of Electrical Engineers awarded Ian the Blumlein-Browne-Willans Prize and the Ambrose Fleming Premium Award.He is a Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society and Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Letters.

Michael Mahan, Non-Executive Director

Mike Mahan is a Managing Director at Stanley Ventures, the CVC arm of Stanley Black & Decker, and has been with the team since its founding in 2016. He manages investments for Stanley’s Tools business unit that includes Power Tools, Hand Tools and Storage solutions. Prior to Stanley, Mike spent 10 years in the startup world consulting for large enterprises.

Barbara Albizuri Richter, Non-Executive Director

Barbara is a business leader with 20 years of experience in delivering investment deals with high impact on corporate transformation and digitalization. Currently Director of Prosegur Tech Ventures, the VC arm for leading security global company, Prosegur.Previously, Head of Investments at Telefonica Ventures, as well as various roles at international investment banks (Citigroup, Merrill Lynch-BoA, UBS, RBS). Specialised in several industries: innovation, cutting-edge technology, cybersecurity, security, telecoms, infrastructure and utilities. Managed the worldwide relationship with global investment funds in key ecosystems (Silicon Valley, Israel, EU and Latam). Deep expertise in all investment banking areas: M&A, Debt, Equities, Transactional Banking.

Barbara holds a double degree bachelor in Business Administration and Law at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid) as well as a Master’s Degree Digital Business Executive Program by ISDI (Madrid)  

Dr Sithamparanathan Sabesan Founder & President

See above

Advisory Board

David Gill, Advisor

David Gill is Managing Director of St John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge. He previously set up and ran the Innovation & Technology Unit at HSBC Bank in London (1997-2004), then served as an executive director of a venture fund focused on early-stage, technology investments (2005-08).

Ian Sugarbroad, Advisor

Ian is an experienced serial entrepreneur as well as having been a Global Telecom Senior Executive earlier in his 40-year career.

Professor Richard Penty, Co-Founder

Professor Richard Penty graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Engineering and Electrical Sciences in 1986 and a PhD for research into nonlinear optical fibre devices in 1990.

Hugh Baker Smith, Advisor

Hugh Baker Smith is a Non-Executive Director and Board Advisor specialising in licensing intellectual property and selling innovative technologies into China, Japan, Korea, and North America.

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