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Putting AI to work for the world

A decade of focus on impact

AI WITH A HUMAN HISTORY

We set Faculty up in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time.

Our sole purpose is to make it useful to the world. We do that by helping our clients access the most cutting edge AI, and use it to improve the performance of their business.

That’s all we’ve ever done. No chasing hype cycles. Just AI. We take it very seriously.

We've done a lot of it over the years. We've worked with hundreds of organisations, from right across the economy and right across the globe.

We’re very proud of this track record. We feel very privileged to have supported some of the most important organisations in the world, to grapple with the big challenges of our age.

We care deeply about the impact of our work. That’s what motivates us above all.

Dr Marc Warner
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Marc founded Faculty to help organisations make better decisions using human-led AI. For over 10 years he has worked with government agencies and leading brands to implement impactful AI solutions. Before Faculty, Marc was a Marie Curie Fellow in Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing. His work has been published in prominent academic journals and he is regularly featured as an expert in top-tier media.

Dr Angie Ma
Co-Founder

Angie started our Fellowship programme, which helps academics retrain to careers in commercial data science. The program is now one of the most prestigious in Europe with over 425 alumni. She previously served as Faculty’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief People Officer. Angie gives lectures to graduate students at Imperial College and UCL, and mentors and advises a range of tech startups and charities. She holds a PhD in Physics and Applied Optics from UCL.

Andrew Brookes
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Andrew leads Faculty’s technical teams and developed the backbone of Faculty’s AI operating system, Frontier. His accomplishments span building the NHS Covid Early Warning System and mission critical projects for the UK Ministry of Defence. Before Faculty, Andrew led an engineering team at investment management firm BlackRock. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Warwick.

John Gibson
Chief Commercial Officer

John leads the commercial strategy at Faculty, where under his tenure, company revenue has grown by more than 20x. Prior to joining, he spent over a decade in government, most recently in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. John is a member of the Innovate UK Council, supporting the growth of the UK tech sector. John has held roles as Director of Government Innovation at Nesta and Director at Fingleton Associates, where he designed the Open API Standard for Banking.

Vicki Marchington
Chief People Officer

Vicki is a passionate people leader who has extensive experience helping high growth companies scale while maintaining a collaborative culture and high performing teams. Prior to Faculty, she was VP of People and Culture at data integration and transformation platform Matillion, and held HR Director roles across EMEA and emerging markets for Estee Lauder Companies and Starbucks.

Dr Patrick Imbach
Chief Financial Officer

Patrick is in charge of finance, legal, business intelligence, and information security at Faculty and was previously the CFO of a B2B SaaS business. Prior to that, he headed KPMG UK’s team focused on supporting fast growth technology businesses and was a member of KPMG’s TMT leadership team in the UK. He started his career in audit at KPMG in Germany. Patrick earned a doctorate in Business Administration from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, specialising in Risk Management.

Rohan Silva
Managing Director - Australia & New Zealand

Rohan is MD for Australia & NZ. He was previously Senior Policy Adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron and Economic Adviser to Chancellor George Osborne. In this role, Rohan developed key policies to boost technology - such as Entrepreneur Visas, incentives for angel investment and the British Government's world leading Open Data agenda. After leaving No10, Rohan was a Research Affiliate at MIT and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Index Ventures, before founding a social impact company supporting innovation in global cities. Rohan is a WEF Young Global Leader, a board member of the UWA Defence and Security Institute and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics.

Hugh Neylan
Director - Australia & New Zealand

Over a distinguished 25-year career in digital transformation, organisational strategy, and large-scale deployment, Hugh has advised leaders and executed solutions across more than 15 countries. Holding an MBA, his background includes 12 years within KPMG’s global consulting practice, where he spearheaded major cross-border transformation portfolios. At Faculty, Hugh has directed some of the firm's most high-profile deployments, including pioneering healthcare AI initiatives with Cera Care and the NHS in England and Wales. After 18 years based in London, Hugh has returned to Australia, where he originally launched his career with Mater Health Services.

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