Management team, board of directors and advisors

Management team

Dr Davin Yap, CEO

Ph.D Engineering, M.A.Sc.

Davin co-founded Transversal with Dr David MacKay, and has subsequently led the business through its early development stages. He is responsible for technology and future product development.

Davin Yap

Paul Ryland, VP Engineering

M.A. Maths, CASM

Paul was the original lead developer of Transversal’s sophisticated Memory Engine™ technology. Paul heads the programming and development team.

Paul Ryland

Heather Richards, VP Professional Services

MPhil European Literature, B.A. Philosophy, B.A. English

Heather has 11 years industry experience in technical support, training and management roles. She leads Transversal's business consulting and product integration teams.

Heather Richards

Board of Directors

Richard Little, Chairman

Richard was founder and chief executive of Braid, a middleware vendor, from 1982 to 1999,when it was sold to Mercator. He remained a board director until 2001. Currently, he sits on the board of three other B2B technology and service suppliers in the finance sector.

richard@hawkley.com

Dr Davin Yap, Director

Paul Ryland, Director

Heather Richards, Director

Peter White, Non-Executive Director

Peter White is the founder and Chairman of YTKO, an international marketing agency. He works closely with many investors, and regularly reports on market and venture opportunities for companies in the UK and US.

peter.white@ytko.com

Advisors

Prof David MacKay, Co-Founder

Ph.D., M.A.

David is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. His interests include construction and implementation of hierarchical Bayesian models that discover patterns in data, development of probabilistic methods for neural networks, and the design and decoding of error correcting codes.

mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk

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