We're delighted to announce two new additions to True Knowledge's management team:
Dr James Pycock has recently joined us as VP of Product. He has taken on the challenge of transforming the company's product capabilities and using our technology to create amazing products that engage and delight our users.
James has been at the leading edge of internet and mobile technologies for twenty years. He spent six years at Xerox Research with responsibility for user driven design and applications. He managed programs across US (Xerox PARC) and European Research Centres and drove the commercialization of fundamental technologies within the Corporation and through spin-outs. He went on to found his own company which delivered mobile platforms to Operators and mobile applications to handset manufacturers. Its technology was used by all 5 Mobile Operators in the UK and many more in Europe and the US. In 2009 he sold that company to Mobispine, a publicly listed mobile platform company based in Scandinavia.
He has a First class degree in Psychology, an MSc in Cognitive Science and a PhD in Social Computing from the University of Manchester. He has four granted patents and has published over 30 papers and book chapters in the area of User Interface Design.
Dr Laura James has joined the business as Head of Knowledge - the team responsible for teaching our platform everything it knows. She is tasked with scaling knowledge acquisition and enabling our system to answer ever greater numbers of questions.
Laura has a strong background in high tech research, development and productisation, with a focus on delivering new technologies to people in the most useful and usable forms. She first worked on industrial control systems, before moving onto a broad range of projects around embedded and wireless systems, at AT&T Labs in both Cambridge and Silicon Valley.
As Vice President of Engineering at AlertMe.com, Laura took a three word back of the envelope idea (“broadband home security”) through to a complex consumer electronics product and service shipping in volume in just two years. Prior to this, she completed a PhD in high speed optical networking at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, in collaboration with Intel Research. Most recently Laura worked on innovative software for higher education, as Chief Operating Officer for the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge.
Laura holds MEng and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. She is a Chartered Engineer, received the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Leadership Award, and was a NESTA Crucible Fellow in 2007.
Welcome to both.
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