Who we are - the team at Evolved Intelligence
Evolved Intelligence boasts an unusual combination of telecoms industry experience within different disciplines. We have assembled a world-class team. It is a team that is more than just the sum of its parts. It is a group of like-minded people that, between them, have an outstanding range of talents and are achieving great things.Key members of our team are described below.
Dave Edwards - CEO & Managing Director
Dave Edwards has had a long career in the telecom industry working at the highest levels for both operators and suppliers.He began his career with ten years working for the organisation that was to become British Telecom. Here he performed a variety of technical and management roles, an experience which gave him a broad knowledge base covering traffic engineering, switching and radio.
Aware of the potential of mobile communications, Dave then joined Motorola. There, over a period of eight years, he helped to build the nascent infrastructure organisation in the UK into one of the largest and most profitable organisations in the company. This period saw the rollout of Motorola's mobile analogue technology and the development of the GSM standard.
When the new PCN licences were awarded in the UK, Dave joined the new start up company, Microtel. This was later to become Orange UK with headquarters in Bristol. His initial role was as Head of Handset, SIM and OMC Engineering. He also had responsibility for system integration of the total network. His role was essentially to oversee the roll out of what was, at the time, the world's largest mobile network.
Dave then became Director of Engineering and Information Technology where he led a team of several hundred engineers, IT analysts and software developers. During this time, he ensured that Orange's engineering and IT systems were fully specified, procured and resourced during the period prior to network launch.
His time at Orange had led to Dave identifying some gaps in the product and engineering tools used by operators to improve efficiency and revenue. This led to him forming Aethos Communications Systems in order to provide consultancy services and products to improve radio network planning and to provide improved Intelligent Network services.
Aethos became one of the main proponents in the introduction of prepaid mobile services to the industry. They offered a high capacity, high availability system which went on to support many operators around the world and many millions of end users.
Aethos was acquired by Logica in 1998. Since that time Dave has provided high level consultancy services to a number of operators, network investors and infrastructure suppliers.
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Nick Jones - Chief Technology Officer
Nick has over 18 years' experience in a variety of software engineering roles. Prior to joining Evolved Intelligence Nick was Vice President of architecture and new product development at LogicaCMG in their telecoms division, specialising in Intelligent Networks and mobile prepay systems. He has also worked on Artificial Intelligence research at Philips Research Laboratories, retail banking for Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong and as an Advanced Systems Engineer he devised safety-critical medical diagnostic systems for EDS.At LogicaCMG Nick was responsible for setting up agile, collaborative R&D projects with major operators and defining the new product strategy of mobile payments. He is credited with the invention of Intelligent Charging and its development in collaboration with Vodafone.
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Mark Greening - Engineering Director
Mark has over 20 years of experience in building real time and parallel processing systems. He has held a number of key positions in the telecom industry including that of Architect for LogicaCMG's Mobile Payments division. At LogicaCMG Mark was responsible for the architectural evolution of the main prepay voice product. He was also the lead architect for Intelligent Charging, LogicaCMG's new flagship product.His main area of expertise is in the design of robust, scalable, performant telecoms product architecture that interacts with multiple external systems within a mobile network, and in the leadership of teams to implement that architecture. Mark is highly experienced in Java, C++, UNIX, JAIN, CORBA and a number of telecoms protocols. He has also led collaborative R&D projects with Vodafone in the area of advanced prepay systems; working with data services as part of Vodafone's Intelligent Packet Core programme. He was also the lead architect from the payments division on a major project with Vodafone in the area of Service Delivery Platforms.
Prior to LogicaCMG Mark worked on the design and implementation of a pioneering real time 3D visualisation system for the motor and aerospace industries, at a company called Division. He started his career at INMOS working on the development of the multi threaded Transputer processor.
Mark has 6 years' experience within the telecoms industry working on agile development and iterative development methodologies. He is highly experienced in all types of intelligent network service design and in the JAIN SLEE platform.
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Peter Blackie - Sales Director
With a background in software development Peter has more than fifteen years' of global sales experience in telecom and other high technology markets working for companies such as Fraser Williams, IPL, ADC Metrica and Sensustech.Peter has specialised in the collaborative development of innovative projects and has worked with a range of companies including O2, Orange and the Royal Mail. In doing so Peter has also focused on the business benefits of each project. He strongly believes that any project must deliver tangible business benefits if it is to be worth doing.
He has specialised in the development of new, high growth companies. His time at ADC Metrica and Actix saw the companies grow from small, entrepreneurial organisations to market dominating players with multi-million pound turnovers. Peter has worked in partner management, account management, business development and troubleshooting roles.
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Robin Burton - Marketing Director
Robin has over 25 years' experience in high-tech marketing around the world. Robin has held a number of strategic roles including Managing Director for Cristie Data Products in Germany and France, VP of Global Marketing for UshaComm Corporation in the USA and Head of Marketing for Cerillion in the UK. Prior to joining Evolved Intelligence Robin was Head of Marketing for industry start up, Sensustech.Robin has a history of successful new product innovation launches including parallel port connect tape drives, local server disaster recovery solutions, rules-based call record mediation and network quality monitoring systems. He has worked on projects as diverse as usage based road user charging and the introduction of telephone billing for the Yemen PTT. Robin has won a number of awards for his employers including VAR Magazine's "Most Trusted Brand".
He has also worked as a lecturer at the Bristol Business School on the International Business Studies course. He is well known today as a speaker at international conferences and as a writer on the marketing dynamics of the telecommunications industry.
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