About

Sean spent twenty years working in outsourced government procurement before founding the fastest growing tech and management training business in the UK, Corndel, in September 2016. He grew the business to 300 employees serving over 100 blue chip corporate customers. Sean sold Corndel in 2021 for a reported £45m stepping down as Chief Executive a year later to take up new entrepreneurial pursuits. Sean has a degree in Philosophy (specialising in mathematical logic, linguistic philosophy and philosophy of mind) from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Andrew Cowie is a Research Engineer at DeepMind. Andrew is a world expert in machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks and their applications. Andrew was a critical player in the team that developed AlphaFold – successfully deploying artificial intelligence to determine a protein’s 3D shape from its amino-acid sequence – solving what had been one of the most important and difficult problems in modern biology.

Callum has a first-class degree in web development and has worked for the past 8 years as a Developer across a range of complex projects. Callum is an expert in design, user experience, natural language processing and application interfaces.

Raj has a proven track record of helping tech businesses scale and achieve operational excellence. She is a strategic operations leader with extensive experience overseeing Operations, Business Intelligence, Legal and HR teams. She has led operations and growth strategy at start-ups within a variety of different industries including finance, insurance and education. Raj is also a qualified corporate & commercial lawyer having worked at one of London's top City law firms.

Richard is a serial tech entrepreneur. He founded and ran PSL, a firm of occupational (I/O) psychologists that developed sophisticated assessment solutions. This involved psychometric expertise and advanced technology. In November 2006 PSL was acquired by Kenexa. In 2009 Richard founded MWS Technology Ltd - a highly innovative and successful Software as a Service (SaaS) platform used by vocational training and employment services providers to deliver their programmes. In 2016 Richard co-founded Corndel with Sean. Richard is an active investor in several other businesses and enjoys being an active shareholder and advisor.

Tricia has been leading bids into both the Private and Public Sector for over 25 years. She has worked for some of the largest Health, Construction and IT Managed Services companies including running bidding at Capita, Serco and Maximus. Tricia brings unparalleled top-level networks in the corporate Sales and Business Development communities.

Tom is the Head of Strategic Transformation at Monitor Deloitte. He brings deep sector experience in the public and corporate sectors. Prior to joining Deloitte Tom was the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister's National Security Adviser. He started his career as a Fast Streamer in the Ministry of Defence.

Ankush is Managing Director at Sumaria Group, a family owned investment holding company operating primarily in Eastern Africa, and is Chairman of Doughworks Limited, the KFC and Pizza Hut franchisee in Tanzania. He is an active angel and venture capital investor in consumer, tech and web 3.0 startups (generally pre-seed to Series A) and additionally holds several board and advisory roles in tech startups in the UK and Africa. Ankush has worked in East Africa and the UK with many partners - including private equity, DFIs, banks and multinationals as well as local partners - to create value in sectors such as manufacturing, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, real estate, quick service restaurants and tech/telecoms– by starting, investing in, acquiring, growing, financing and selling businesses. Prior to Sumaria, Ankush was based in London and worked as a hedge fund manager investing long/short across the capital structure in risk arbitrage, event driven and value based strategies in Europe and South Africa. He started his career in M&A / investment banking with Credit Suisse First Boston in London. Ankush holds a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and is additionally an alumnus of the London School of Economics (MSc) and Harvard Business School (OPM). Outside of work, Ankush enjoys practicing and teaching yoga and is an active VC investor. He is a member of YPO and a past chairman of the Young President’s Organisation Tanzania Chapter.