Sven is a serial entrepreneur and business development professional with 30 years experience in international business.

Louis is a consultant with expertise on how to optimise the use of Syfter within a private equity firm. Before joining Filament in 2022, he spent 7 years working in private equity at the UK mid-market firm Livingbridge. There he led the Origination team, with a personal focus on the use of data and AI to help source investments. He has also been a director of a digital agency in Amsterdam and was the Business Intelligence Lead at the RSPB.

Javier is a business architect specialised in Data & AI. He led the Cognitive Value Team for IBM Watson in Europe and has delivered large transformational AI projects for clients in MEA with Natural Language Processing at its core the last 10 years. He brings end to end implementation experience for AI projects from ideation and design thinking to production. Javier collaborates with a social media-based health research team where he has introduced the use of NLP to analyse health topics in social media. He runs Filament Spain and supports project delivery with an emphasis on value realisation.

As Product Manager for Syfter, Phil is responsible for working with the Filament leadership team to agree the Product Strategy and Objectives for Syfter before coordinating Product Discovery and Delivery efforts, ensuring we’re solving the right problems and delivering continuous value to Syfter users. Before joining Filament Phil acquired a degree in Business Information Systems and has since spent over 10 years in the Financial Service sector, working in an array of Project, Programme and Technology roles, both as an individual contributor and as a line manager.

Tobin Sydneysmith is a technologist at heart. He brings to Filament a background in Applied Economics and a post-grad in Digital Strategy, and a depth of experience working with various tech ML-focused start-ups across Europe and North America over the past 7years.
With a concentrated focus on Product and Growth, Tobin has a proven track record of helping companies communicate their value and optimizing their products to improve user satisfaction and retention. Before joining Filament Ai, Tobin was the Director of Analytics at Heartbeat AI, a Canadian machine learning start-up focused on leveraging Natural Language Processing to map emotions in unstructured text data.

Manuel is a technical project manager with 10 years of experience in delivering enterprise-scale technology projects. He previously led a team of product owners for a digital agency and founded an AI startup.

María Clara is a KTP Associate with the University of Essex, working on SaaS business models research and as Product Designer for EBM. She holds a MA degree in Education and Technology (UCL), a Journalism BA (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), and a Diploma certificate in Digital Communication (University of Chile). Her academic research has focused on HCI, digital technologies design and usability. She worked for six years as Information Architect and Project Manager at the Digital Media Department of the University of Chile.

Daniel leads the DevOps function in Filament and provides strong expertise in systems support, hosting and data security. He also has practical skills in hardware prototyping, having designed and built a range of prototypes that leverage IoT and 3D printing. Daniel graduated with a Computer Science Degree from Aberystwyth University and has and over 5 years experience in infrastructure management, support and systems development.

Dan has over 10 years of experience in software engineering, working in the Financial Services and Fintech sectors, holding positions such as Full Stack Developer and Development Team Lead. Dan has a wealth of experience in managing teams of software engineers in cross-functional and matrix-management structures. Dan has a first-class honours degree (BSc) in Computer Science.

Alex is a backend engineer, designing and implementing the architecture of Filament Dash. This includes work in complex data ingestion and processing to support the training of bespoke AI solutions. He graduated with a Masters in Electronic and Computer Engineering, after which he worked for IBM on the development and service of IBM Integration Bus, a workflow-based server runtime application.

Matt finished his Masters in Speech and Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh in 2021, where he explored document classification, machine translation, and information extraction. He’s worked on sentiment analysis, web development, and literature analysis and brings to the team a great interest in natural language processing, as well as far too many books and swords. In his spare time, he enjoys fencing, sewing, and woodworking.

Safa is an early career ML Engineer who recently graduated from Queen Marys University of London with first class honours in BSC Mathematics and Computer Science. During her studies, she completed out a number of successful internships and placements including a year at Filament where she worked on high profile NLP projects in finance and ESG. Her final year degree dissertation was based on the ASV Spoof challenge around exploring detecting spoofing in automatic speaker verification. Safa is a highly driven individual who is passionate about problem solving, building high quality software and her own continued personal development in the machine learning and software engineering spaces. In her spare time Safa enjoys painting and playing netball.

Max joined us straight out of University where he graduated with a First Class (Hons) degree in Computer Science. Previously he spent a year working at IBM as part of their CICS Liberty testing team, ensuring code quality across a range of products. At Filament Max builds and tests our AI solutions.

Usman has a first-class degree in Software Engineering from the University of Bedfordshire. Previously, he worked as a Full Stack Developer in the Telecoms and Fire alarm industry building products which included fire alarm monitoring dashboards, IT services management portals and mobile applications. He also has an MSc with a thesis focused on reducing false alarms using machine learning. He works with technologies such as React, Node.js, Python and Java.

Victor used to be a Senior Community Manager in Brazil, working with Marketing and Social Media full time. He decided to be more involved in the digital world and became a front end engineer to build solutions and interfaces using web technologies. At Filament AI, he is using his old and new skills to maintain and develop Filament’s product interfaces.

Joel has a first-class degree from Aberystwyth University with a BSc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He is currently a Back End Engineer working his way up to a full-stack developer role. Previously he worked in Bank of America as a Software Developer in foreign exchange. Whilst at university he was chairman of the Photography Society and worked part-time as a photographer in a nightclub and with the Student Union.

Jack is a DevOps engineer at Filament. Jack joined Filament straight after University, graduating with a First Class (Hons) degree in Computer Science from Aberystwyth University. He joins the DevOps team to implement hardware and software improvements, along with supporting the development teams by ensuring that they have the infrastructure they need.

With help of his Masters in Physics and his attention to detail, Michael has spent the last 3 years becoming a QA generalist. He has worked tirelessly to become a trusted authority on end to end automation and performance testing. Based on his exposure to a number of projects at Filament, he has been instrumental in ensuring enterprise-grade quality within our EBM and Syfter products.

Sophie has a background in Project Management having spent two years managing software delivery projects in insurance but made the move to QA to nurture her passion for working more directly with technology. Now, as a QA Engineer at Filament, she is developing her knowledge of testing processes and looking to further advance in programming in order to support automation testing effort.

Reena has more than 10 years of experience in software quality. With excellent attention to detail and a passion to deliver quality products, she loves working in quality assurance and takes great pride in delivering high quality software to our customers. Reena’s experience working in domains like Anti-virus, identity checks and communications solutions, have helped her to learn to quickly adapt and incorporate domain knowledge to quality assure highly technical products.