Who We Are 

 

Evolved Intelligence boasts an exceptional 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.

Some Key Team Members:

Paul Gill
CEO

Paul has over 20 years’ experience at director level in software and mobile telecoms start-ups. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Paul’s first telecoms start-up was in the late 1980s with Cognito, a licensed mobile data operator, and then a joint venture partly owned by one of Paul’s clients. Following a strategic decision by the parent company to divest, Paul led a successful management buy-out in 1992. Cognito is still operating in the mobile data sector today.

In 1995 Paul joined Dave Edwards at Aethos Communication Systems, initially as CFO and then, having successfully completed a “B” round funding, as COO. Together with Dave Edwards, Paul led the growth of Aethos and its successful sale to Logica.  Paul remained with Logica for the next 6 years, initially as General Manager of the EMEA region for all of Logica’s product business, and then as Divisional Director of the Radio Planning business, with full operational and P&L responsibility for this global division.  In 2004 Paul was head hunted to join another mobile telecoms start up, Apertio. Again progressing from CFO to COO, Paul was involved in the strategy and growth of the business, leading a major “B” round financing, and ultimately the sale of the business to Nokia Siemens Networks for £110M.

Paul remained with NSN for 2 years, as Head of Global Program Management, until joining Evolved Intelligence in July 2010 as CEO.

Dave Edwards
Systems Director

Dave Edwards has had a long career in the telecom industry working at the highest levels for both operators and suppliers.   His career includes senior management roles with a number of major telecom companies including British Telecom and Motorola.   This included a spell as Director of Engineering and Information Technology at the start-up company Microtel which was to go on to become Orange UK. His role was essentially to oversee the roll out of what was, at the time, the world’s largest mobile network.

 

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.

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.

Mark Greening
Head of Engineering

Mark has over 20 years of experience in building real time and parallel processing systems.   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 and highly 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 Data Points. 

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. 

 
Peter Blackie
Commercial 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.

Robin Burton
Head of Marketing

 

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 PC technology, 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 marketing campaigns including VAR Magazine's "Most Trusted Brand".