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.

>Steve is an experienced business entrepreneur with extensive software sales and marketing background both in the UK and the US.  Steve was the founder and CEO of a successful VC-backed enterprise software company called ClusterSeven.  Before ClusterSeven, Steve held senior executive positions at Sapient, ScreamingMedia, Dragon Systems and Avid Technology. He then played a lead role in Cortexica's early formation, leading the team to a number of 'world firsts' in Mobile Visual Search for retail. He retains a very active role in the Company and is a key part of the team.

Chief Technology Officer
Dr Jeffrey Ng

Jeff is 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.

Martin Wilkinson is Cortexica’s Operations Manager. He coordinates all the day to day operations and support activities of the business. A qualified Project Manager with over 25 years real world experience, Martin has worked for a major UK retailer, management consultancy and a number of start up SME’s.