Meet the Team
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Alex Willard
CEO
Alexandra’s early professional career involved leveraging her naval architecture credentials for automotive engineering, eventually becoming a technical specialist engineer working at Jaguar.
In 2018 Alexandra joined Tantalum Corporation, initially as VP of Air.Car, and then became CEO of Tantalum and remained there until the company was restructured in May 2020. Alexandra then joined Imagination Technologies as Executive Entrepreneur in Residence, creating a new ‘Edge AI as a Service’ offering, known as Kynisys.ai.

Jason Muller
COO
Jason has an extensive and successful background in UK business having co-founded a group of healthcare recruitment firms in 2006, grown it to 30+staff and over £28m turnover in four years, studied an MBA at Cranfield University in 2011/12 and co-founded Pivigo in 2013.

Neil Forrest
CCO
Neil joined Pivigo in 2018 as Head of Sales and partnerships. He brings 20 years of commercial experience in sales and marketing for tech and data companies. His passion is in helping companies thrive through the successful application of data science and AI and building long-lasting trusted relationships in the process.

Ed Butler
CTO
Ed is the Chief Technology Officer at Pivigo. He has 20 years of experience in DevOps and later MLA Ops. He comes to Pivigo from Appnovation where he was the VP of Dev Ops, a role he also held at the well known design services company Endava. Ed has a perfect mix of cloud computing know-how, production discipline and data science.

Jon Leslie
Vice President of Product & Data Science
Jonathan Leslie obtained his PhD in Biology from the University of London, studying blood vessel formation at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute. After 22 years in biomedical research, he turned to data science and founded a freelance consultancy business. In 2017 he joined Pivigo, where he is now the Vice President of Product and Data Science. He is passionate about promoting open-source software and routinely volunteers as a mentor in the R-programming and data science communities.

John Toland
Finance Director
John is the Finance Director at Pivigo. He has over 20 years experience in SaaS and technology-led companies operating across EMEA and NA. In his previous role at MAM Software Group he played a key role in growing the business organically and via acquisition culminating in a successful trade sale of the company.

Ron Black
Chairman
Ron is the Chairman of Pivigo. He has over 30 years experience in Deeptech and Semi-conductor industries. He was CEO at Imagination Technologies, Rambus, Mobiwire, UPEK and Wavecome. He has recently joined Codasip as their CEO.