Meet The Team
At gliff.ai we help teams come together to build and deploy world-changing AI, all in one platform. To do this we bring together an amazing team of people from across the UK and beyond.
Originally a spin-out from Durham University in 2018, gliff.ai is still headquartered in the North East of England. We derive our core values from the region that formed us: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics. Core values that we think should also be shared by AI that can be trusted.
gliff.ai’s team brings together commercial experience and technical excellence dedicated to help create ground-breaking tools that enable teams to create world-changing AI.
Bill Shepherd
Chief Executive Officer
A professional Engineer with 30+ years of experience in the research, development and commercialisation of high technology products in the Software and Electronics sectors. Bill has had a significant number of Executive and Non-Executive Director positions in both SMEs and large public sector organisations over the last fifteen years. Bill has an MBA, is a Chartered Engineer, Registered European Engineer and is a FIET and FRSA.
Dr Chas Nelson
Chief Technology Officer
Chas takes responsibility for all data & code and all processes that ensure gliff.ai delivers amazing products. A Chartered Biologist and data scientist, Chas completed his PhD at Durham University before working as a research fellow at the University of Glasgow. Chas’s career has focused on imaging, AI and privacy – all things he brings with him into his role as gliff.ai’s CTO.
Ian Griffiths
Chief Commercial Officer
Ian’s role focuses upon new business development and business strategy. The newest addition to the gliff.ai leadership team, Ian previously co-founded WhoCanFixMyCar.com. His expertise include B2C markets and using data within marketing. Ian has a first class Masters degree in mathematics from Durham University.
Prof. Boguslaw Obara
Non-Executive Director
Boguslaw is a driving force for research, innovation and opportunity. A founder of gliff.ai, Boguslaw also leads one the largest, most diverse, and most dynamic artificial intelligence research groups within Newcastle University. Boguslaw’s expertise span image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, data science and machine learning techniques applied to a wide range of domains, from biology, medicine and engineering to arts & humanities.
Lucille Valentine
Head Of Regulation And Compliance
Rose Bunker
Marketing Manager
Dr Phil Hall
Project Manager
Meekee Kok
Business Development Manager
Jihan Chowdhury
Business Development Executive
Craig Cooper
Lead Software Engineer
Dr Phil Jackson
Software Engineer
Dr Silvia Zeni
Software Engineer
Christian Baidoo
Software Developer
Kim Lida
Apprentice Software Development Technician
Josh Smith
UI / UX Designer
James Thorne
Data Science Intern
Matthew Lowery
Machine Learning Intern
