Our People

Leadership

Matt Banham, MSci. CTO & Founder

Over 25-years experience developing software, hardware solutions within photonics, telecoms, aviation, air traffic management and UK Government. Managed projects circa £100M. Have been on boards of 5-startups. Won Gold Engineering Award from National Air Traffic Service for leadership of iFACTS

Team

Jonty Needham, MMath.
Head of Architecture

20-years experience in safety-critical software development, algorithms, mobile applications, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Subject Matter Expert on collision detection and flight path monitoring algorithms.

Harry Knight, MPhys (1st class Hons).
Software Engineer

Harry Knight graduated in Physics from Warwick University, and has started at TEKTowr researching Hyperledger for aviation message exchange.

David Good, MEng (Hons).
Technical Lead Engineer

A qualified mechanical engineer, David has a passion for automation solutions, DevOps. An experienced software verification lead with 3-years commercial experience within Air Traffic Management solutions.

Advisors

Mike Pickering, BD Director Consulting & Digital, Sopra Steria,

Experienced head of sales with over 30-years in government, aerospace and defence.

Andy France, OBE

Seasoned entrepreneur; was Deputy Director, Cyber Defence for UK Government. Co-founder & CEO of Darktrace (>$1Bn)

Simon Brown, Enterprise Architect, Airline Operations at EasyJet

Highly-experienced technologist who is recognised throughout the aviation industry for his impact and contribution. Founded the Fly2Plan Future Flight consortium. Also the former CEO of TEKTowr.