Iain has over 25 years experience within the world’s Telecommunications and IT Industries, achieving significant success in growing businesses internationally. Until recently he was the CEO of NeoMedia Inc., a public US based software business that is the world leader in state-of-the art barcode creation, capture, delivery and reading technology for use in the ticketing, couponing, publishing and marketing sectors. Prior to that Iain was CEO of Mobiqa Limited, an Edinburgh based business where he led the company form a start up to the world leaders in mobile ticketing, mobile boarding pass and couponing solutions based on the creation, optimisation, delivery and redemption of barcodes to mobile phones. He was also Chairman of Scolocate Limited a co-location and managed services business specialising in IT architecture, design and planning, project management and implementation services. Prior to that he was Chief Operating Officer of KSCL, Scotland’s largest software house and a leading supplier of customer care and billing applications to the world’s mobile phone operators.

Jeff is the co-inventor behind the Cortexica technology and co-founder of the company. He was a Research Scientist at Imperial College. His research interests and expertise are in machine learning, face detection, pose estimation, object tracking, behaviour recognition, computational biology, the human visual system and adaptive wavelet filters. He has recently been working on real-time vision systems based on Graphics Processing Units. Jeff has a PhD in Computer vision from Queen Mary, University of London. He has more than 35 scientific papers in international journals and conferences and is the inventor on three pending patents.

Anil is the academic co-founder of Cortexica and Reader in Image Analysis at Imperial College. From 2003-2009 he was Deputy Head of the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial, which he had a key role in establishing. His main field of research is in visual pattern recognition. Anil is the instigator of the RCUK/EPSRC Basic Technology Research Project “Reverse Engineering Human Visual Processes” resulting in working prototypes of several novel technologies, more than 25 journal publications, 8 patents. Anil holds a first class degree in Electrical Engineering from UCL, a PhD from Imperial EEE and is a member of IEEE and IET.

Malcolm is an experienced Director with an established track record in growing technology companies in the mobile, Internet, hardware and software areas. He was technical director with Acorn Computers Ltd where he led a team developing ASIC chips, software and operating systems for early desktops and portables. He played a key role in business development and negotiation in the joint venture between Apple, Acorn and VLSI Technology that became known as ARM Ltd. Malcolm was Founding non-executive director of ARM until Spring '97, by which time ARM had over 200 staff and revenues of £16.7m. A little over 10 years later, ARM shipped its 10 billionth processor. Since leaving ARM, Malcolm has held the post of MD of Phone.com, was a Venture Partner with Deutsche Bank Capital Venture Partners, and has held various exec and non-exec positions.

Scott White is an experienced serial entrepreneur, now leading his sixth technology venture as CEO of printed electronics company PragmatIC Printing. Most recently he was CEO of Nano ePrint (also involved in printed electronics) and a board director at telecoms module developer Polariq. Previously he was founder and CEO of Azea Networks, growing its business of optical communications solutions from concept to eight figure sales levels before being acquired. Scott has also been an Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Atlas Venture and a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. He has lived and worked across the globe including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the US and the UK. Although Scott has spent most of his career in commercial roles, he was originally trained as a scientist, majoring in pure and applied mathematics and computer vision.

John Holden spent the first six years of his career as a corporate financier in the City. Following an MBA he spent eight years with venture capital house 3i, latterly as an Investment Director with the UK Technology Group in London. Most recently he was a Director and Joint Head of the UK Ventures team at ANGLE plc with responsibility for setting up and developing early stage technology based companies.