The Team
JASON LEE
Founder & CEO
Jason is a visionary leader with a passion for emergent technologies. He has a proven track record of identifying early-stage, high-growth technology markets and executing business as a first-mover. He co-founded one of the first internet companies in the UK, which won a global award delivering to an international blue-chip client base.
His background is in designing embedded microprocessor systems, associated analogue and digital electronic interfaces, and programming the systems at low-level for use in the oil & aerospace industries; many were world-firsts, typically for environments operating well beyond US military specification.
Jason is a regular speaker at events and AI panels including: Buckingham Palace, House of Lords, St James’s Palace, Milken Institute Global Conference, China Britain AI Summit, 4YFN, Unbound, DigitalK, French Tech London and the Lisbon Investment Summit amongst others.
He holds a 1st Class MEng (Hons) in Electronic Systems Engineering from Aston University.
Dr GEORGE CEVORA
Chief Data Scientist
George obtained his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge.
His expertise includes Topological Data Analysis, Bayesian Statistics and Artificial Neural Networks.
George has developed AI systems for a number of different industry sectors using these methodologies to achieve state of the art performance.
He has been the recipient of multiple awards and is a regular speaker at global conferences on the issues of cognitive science and neuro-computational modelling.
JAT SAHI
Investor Director
Jat is currently the Senior Executive at Fujitsu in charge of Retail.
Jat was previously in charge of Strategy and Innovation in the Office of the Global CTO at Fujitsu.
Prior to Fujitsu, he co-founded a venture in Human Capital Management software which was successfully sold to Oracle.
Jat holds a BSc (Hons) from Brunel University.
KATE CEVORA
Senior Data Scientist
Kate is a senior data scientist working across a range of high-impact Artificial Intelligence projects at illumr.
She has a particular interest in diversity and ethics within AI, and has recently implemented cutting-edge AI techniques within Rosa to remove bias from any type of dataset.
As an accomplished AI software developer, Kate is a champion of women at the current frontier of technology and was recently invited to join the panel of female thought leaders at the Murray Edwards College Cambridge International Women’s Day Event.
Kate holds a 1st Class MEng in Electronics & Information Science from the University of Cambridge.
RICCARDO GALLI
Data Scientist
Riccardo’s expertise includes frequentist and Bayesian statistics and modelling.
He has completed a number of projects in socio-demographic, clinical, behavioural, cognitive and brain imaging data pre-processing, analysis and modelling.
He has also worked on a number of industry projects utilising deep learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing and genetic algorithms.
Riccardo holds an MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology.
DIMITRI DIOMAIUTA
Data Scientist
Dimitri’s expertise includes distributed systems, evolutionary computing, software modelling, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning and concurrency/multithreading.
He has worked on a number of industry projects utilising deep learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing and genetic algorithms.
Dimitri holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence.
Dr RANA GHOSH-ROY
Advisory Board Member
Rana is the Director of Artificial Intelligence for Deloitte. He is also the NVIDIA Alliance Leader for Deloitte North and South Europe, and Palantir Alliance Leader for Deloitte UK.
He was previously Director of the Global Data and Analytics and Insights Lab at KPMG. He then joined IBM as a Partner in GBS, leading the Financial Sector in Europe for Cognitive and Analytics.
Rana is pleased to be part of illumr as he firmly believes that illumr is probably the only company that is truly capable of creating an unbiased hypothesis.
Dr DAMIAN SUTCLIFFE
Advisory Board Member
Damian retired from a 20-plus year technology career at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., including the last five years as Chief Information Officer for EMEA. He was also Global Head of Regulatory Architecture & Global Head of Enterprise Data Governance at Goldman Sachs.
Over the course of his career, Damian held a range of senior management roles in London, Tokyo & New York delivering large-scale digital and data transformation initiatives.
He is an external advisor at McKinsey and has recently completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Dr TOM ASHFIELD
Advisory Board Member
Tom is a GP with experience as a pharmacist, hospital doctor and ENT surgical trainee. He has worked in all core acute specialties and has experience spanning from rural GP to specialist tertiary services.
He was previously Senior Medical Advisor for AMS/AMR with Pfizer, and currently maintains a part-time GP service via an online telemedicine platform.
Tom is a Member of the Council at the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC). His current work encompasses policy, media, patient engagement, digital and clinical research.