Team
Henrik Kjellin
Chairman
Henrik is our Investor Director and represents a team of private investors who have been highly successful in related sectors of the IT industry. Henrik started his career as a systems engineer in IBM in the 1970s and after specializing in networking, which in those days was seen as a small niche, migrated through a number of Local Area Network start-ups, ultimately setting up his own company K-NET. In 2000 K-NET and its affiliates were sold for £100m, and he became a consultant investor/director to a number of companies.
David Sinclair
CEO and co-founder
David maintains a strong interest in product development strategy for the company. His research career started with a D.Phil in Computer Vision from Oxford University’s Robotics Group followed by Post-Doctoral research positions in France, Denmark and Austria. On returning to the UK David settled in leafy Cambridge working as a Research Engineer at the Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory. After meeting at the Cambridge University Computer Science labs, David and Chris founded Cambridge Ontology in 2004, to develop the concept of an ontology based model for visual information retrieval. This led to the inception of imense® in 2007.
Christopher Town
CTO and co-founder
Chris oversees product research and development, and also leads the deployment and design of our core ontology based technologies. Along with David, he pioneered the ontology based approach to automated visual information processing, and his PhD work in this area at Cambridge University was honoured in the UK’s distinguished dissertation competition and through a Royal Commission Industrial Fellowship award. Chris holds a Research Fellowship in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, where he conducts cutting-edge research into computer vision, information retrieval, machine learning, and language processing.
Tony Rowland
Director of Sales
Tony is responsible for developing and implementing relevant sales strategies across all customer segments and oversees all aspects of the company’s sales operations. After attending Liverpool John Moore’s Business School and studying Business Decision Analysis, Tony gained 12 years experience in senior sales roles within data communications and high technology start-ups, including Peribit Networks which was successfully sold to Juniper Networks for $337m. Tony focuses on building brand, product positioning and creating markets for new technology products and services.
Stuart Cox
Agency Partnerships manager
Stuart is responsible for the development and management of strategic image agency partnerships. In this position, Stuart is integral to the implementation of the company’s growth strategy and further development of our service capabilities for clients. In addition, Stuart helps to develop strategic alliances with major customers and continues to grow our presence and market opportunity within the stock image industry. After attending the University of Exeter, Stuart held both Business Development and creative roles at several image agencies, including Getty images, Alamy and I Love Images. A professional photographer, Stuart also serves as a Non-Executive Director of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA).
Edward Schofield
Principal Engineer
Ed is responsible for product management of the Annotator keywording platform. In this role Ed leads the collaborative, open and participatory product development process with professional photographers and keyworders. After his MA in Mathematics at Cambridge University on a double scholarship, Ed obtained his PhD in Computer Science at Imperial College London. He then conducted 5 years of industrial R&D at the Telecommunications Research Center in Vienna in several applications of statistical pattern recognition, consulting to companies including Siemens, Philips, Kapsch, and Mobilkom Austria. He joined imense® in 2007.
Ulrich Paquet
Principal Engineer
Ulrich is responsible for product management of the Similar Image Search platform and also our core facial recognition platform. In this role Ulrich the leads design and development for both platforms and collaborates with our key clients to enhance each of the products feature set. After his MSc at the University of Pretoria, South Africa Ulrich traveled to the UK for his PhD in Computer Science at Cambridge University and joined the company in 2008.
