DocuChain’s team has built a transformative Digital Cognate platform
The DocuChain team has the range of skills, the grit and persistence, and the life experience that helped us to develop and deliver our PaaS all in under 24 months.
Our team has exceptional technology credentials in machine learning, encryption, system architecture and delivering service excellence using channels and a full service, end-to-end delivery ecosystem.
Our team has the optimal balance of scientific, technology, selling, marketing and operational skills for a high growth start-up delivering B2B enterprise services.
Most of us have been through multiple start-ups – some successful, others not – and acquiring a lot of experience and skills over the years, but most importantly, we always recognise and admit what we don’t know. The further we go along this journey, the more we realise how much there is to learn. But therein is the magic of any successful start-up: it’s a journey of growth and self-exploration, and the team gets tested every day.
Philip Leone – CEO, Co-founder, Executive Director
Philip, a Canadian, has lived internationally for the last forty years. He started his technology career with Bell Canada and Nortel Networks including country management in four countries. He is the co-founder of several successful start-ups in three countries. Philip understands the vital role of SMEs in innovation and re-balancing the deployment of capital into local enterprises. Philip solves real-world problems by translating technology into viable business offerings; develops partnerships that drive scale; relentlessly pursues contracts; and creates agile teams that create value for customers, investors, and themselves. His team at DocuChain have driven the evolution of the Digital Cognate platform and its growing ecosystem of technology and delivery partners. Philip often takes the contrarian view.
“I thrive as part of an agile team that creates and builds a new enterprise from the ground up. After 40 years, it still gives me a real kick! Local enterprises create and use economic, social and sustainability metrics - that generate lasting value. The globalization sermon no longer resonates as truthful or logical. Results are skewed to serve a narrow band of interests. Local disenfranchisement occurs with ever more centralised and opaque control of our own value and identity”.
Lesley Leone, Co-founder, Compliance, Executive Director
Started her technology career with Nortel Networks focusing on product marketing, channel support, channel training and human resource development, while completing a Business degree. Self-employed since 1994 and is a co-founder with Philip of several SMEs.
Prof. David Lowe - Chief Technology Officer, Executive Director
After a spell as a UK defence scientist, David joined Computer Science at Aston University, to establish the internationally-renowned Neural Computing Research Group where he subsequently jointly also set up the Mathematics Group. He is co-inventor of the Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network, the Shadow Targets optimisation algorithm, the Neuroscale architecture and the cascading RBF network. After a career in academia he recently left to pursue his curiosity to develop a new approach for fast resilient consensus algorithms and a novel type of machine learning. He is an inventor on a patent for predicting the state of health of seriously ill children in high dependency hospital wards using machine learning. David invents and translates technology into viable business offerings and has led the architecting of our product releases and oversees all development scrums.
Dr. Chris Satchwell - Chief Science Officer
Internationally-recognized scientist, author, entrepreneur and mathematician. He holds aeronautics engineering and ship-science degrees and worked in the financial markets for many years. Chris was chief scientist for Recognia Inc, which pioneered pattern recognition in financial data and whose systems are used by Fidelity, TD Waterhouse and Bloomberg. He was co-founder of Technical Forecasts Limited along with Prof. David Lowe. Chris was the author of Pattern Recognition and Trading Decisions, Publisher: McGraw-Hill. Chris has a passion for detail; searching for problems; solving them with elegant technology solutions. Chris works closely with David on product development and oversight.
Tim Palmer - Chief Operations Officer
Tim is a graduate in Computer Science and Maths, starting his career with Oracle he gained over twenty years experience in management roles in Investment Banking and Asset Management institutions. He brings a wealth of commercial IT experience working in startup, scale-up, and blue chip businesses. In 2016 he founded Blue Hat Associates, a network of industry experts that advise scale-up businesses on Digital Transformation, Nearshoring and Cloud Adoption. His experience spans technology and operational change and his role in DocuChain is to work with the CTO on the implementation and ongoing management of the DocuChain solution for our clients.
Ajaz Sulaman - Chief Digital Officer
30 years’ experience in application development, last 25 years in the financial sector including, JP Morgan, UBS Wealth Management, UBS Investment bank, Credit Suisse Investment bank, HSBC Investment Bank, BP Oil. Prime responsibilities to lead RAD development teams, develop RAD applications, document business requirements. Migrated on-premise systems to AWS cloud platforms, implemented global strategic solutions, third party interfacing, application integration, STP processes, OTC Clearing, back office operations, RAD solutions. Full project lifecycle experience including agile development, prototyping, user acceptance testing, user training and implementation. Highly motivated and technically minded individual with a proven ability for problem solving and design.
Sanjay Shah - Chief Commercial Officer, MA (Oxon) , FIA CERA
After completing a degree in Mathematics with First Class Honours and an awarded Scholarship at Oxford University in 2007, Sanjay began his career working in the life insurance industry in London. In 2010, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK and in addition he holds the qualification of Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary. Both qualifications certify his experience and knowledge of the Insurance industry, and the subject of Enterprise Risk Management. Sanjay has acquired over 10 years of senior management experience while working for a number of global insurers including Legal and General, Metlife, Swiss Re and Prudential. Sanjay is passionate about logic, process and mitigating risk.
Hampton Dowling - Director Americas
Former Commander in the US Navy and aide to a US Vice President, with subsequent experience at program and corporate management levels in defense companies. Led Fortune 250 $100M+ commercial programs and 25+ projects worldwide, and advised companies and governments on technology convergence, and smart infrastructure engineering. Editorial Director for TransPorts Magazine and serves as Chairman, Committee on International Trade, for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Problem solver and solution deliverer with an enviable track record in the Americas and EMEA.
Dr. David Landsman, OBE - Non-executive Director, British
David has held senior positions in the government and corporate worlds and now advises organisations at the interface between strategy and international public affairs. He was for over five years Executive Director of Tata Limited, the European subsidiary of the Tata Group holding company. Previously he served in a several senior British diplomatic roles including as Ambassador to Greece and Albania. He is now Chairman of Cerebra Global Strategy and of the British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce, a Visiting Fellow of Judge Business School University of Cambridge and also holds a number of other advisory positions in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. He is a Chartered Director.
Richard Despard, FCA - Non-executive Director British
A project focused Chartered Accountant (FCA) with broad commercial and international experience. He has had hands-on management experience with a multinational music group. Co-founded companies in corporate services and media and has been an investor in technology companies. He has raised money from private investors, institutional investors and from a full public listing in London. Richard has multi-disciplinary skills and experience that bring new technologies and services to market.
Our team recognised that both legacy and cloud infrastructures were designed with too much noise and too many features to deliver the laser focus for performance-based outcomes. Best practice, internal governance, regulatory compliance are narrow bands of processes, people and data that must be on “railway tracks”. There was also a requirement of a single source of truth for audit, benchmarking for improvement, and dispute resolution.
We quickly began to coalesce a number of options around this business problem. We realised that we needed partnerships that delivered trust in the marketplace and that provided the breadth and depth for delivery excellence. Our product has evolved and changed direction, because we listened to others who understood better than we did where there was real pain and how it could be removed. Our team made an early decision to develop delivery partnerships with companies who added value to our proposition and technology platform – providing agility, speed to market and utilising the expertise of other proven market participants. Partnerships accelerate market entry.
We understand the economic use of capital to create shareholder value and have a realistic perspective on the size & scope of the market opportunity. We are here to prove our worth, to share our ideas, to create wealth for our team, investors, and most importantly our partners and their customers.