Leadership Team
Highly experienced, the Telicent leadership team have been at the forefront of digital transformation and analysis innovation within the National Defence and Security sectors in the UK. Together, they have built a team of domain experts, exceptional engineers and world-class data architects.
Dr Ian Bailey
Ian is a renowned data architecture authority and has led several international technical standards including IES. Over his career, he has consulted in the National Security and Defence sector as well as international organisations NASA JPL and NATO. He has a Phd in Data Mapping.
Steve Kochli
As our COO, Steve brings decades of consultancy and advisory work experience in enterprise software integration and information management across a number of crucial UK government projects in the Defence and National Security.
Tom Atherton
Tom heads up the engineering team at Telicent and is highly experienced in leading high-performance teams to deliver quality software products in high-threat / low-trust environments.
Priscilla Maynard
Priscilla joined Telicent after operating at executive level in Media, Music, Creative and Technology start-ups and SMEs specialising in guiding teams through periods of change and achieving fast growth sustainably.
James Williams
As our Head of Defence, James brings over two decades of experience working in Defence and Government organisations including military, diplomatic and consultancy roles.
Andreas Cola
Andreas is an SME in 4D ontologies and an influential contributor to the HMG Data Standard, IES, including leading updates to support uncertainty and modal logic.
Bhavi Patel
Bhavi has a wealth of experience building quality products and delivering digital transformation projects across the public sector, central gov and national security customers.
Advisory Board
The Telicent team benefit from the guidance and expertise of notable individuals in ontology, data science, security and deep tech sectors.
Dame Wendy Hall
Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement) and is an Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton.
Richard Marsh
Richard is an experienced entrepreneur and venture capital investor at Molten Ventures. He is an Engineering graduate of Cambridge University where he also received his PhD. Richard holds an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, where he was a Sainsbury Management Fellow.
Chris Partridge
Chris Partridge is the Chief Ontologist at BORO Solutions. Chris is a world authority on ontology and data quality and responsible for the BORO method which underpins a number of industry standard models.
Lord Parker of Minsmere
Lord Parker is currently the Lord Chamberlain of the Household and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Previously the Director General of MI5, Lord Parker is a Natural Sciences graduate of Churchill College, Cambridge.