The next step change in productivity

Bijan's role includes overseeing all product groups, field engineering, customer support, strategy, sales, marketing, and business development. His previous appointments include VP of Marketing at Synopsys Design Group and CEO of InCA. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

While researching Atomic and Laser Physics at Oxford, Brett developed the first prototype of the Discovery Platform. As CTO, he leads the vision and development of the platform, productisation of research, and architecting of the company's technological infrastructure.

As COO, Paul is responsible for the business growth of Mach42, as well as driving customer success. His previous roles included VP of Product at Axelera AI, Graphcore and XMOS. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Technology Management.

Gary manages the complete finance structure of the business, from investor funds, to suppliers, partners and cashflow, whilst ensuring all legal and regulatory responsibilities are upheld. He also undertakes HR and ESG duties. Prior to joining Mach42, he had senior finance and operation management roles in a number of companies, both large FTSE listed companies as well as SME's.

Gianluca advises our research and machine learning algorithm development team, focusing on the technological and business applications for the clean energy market. He’s also a senior faculty member in the Department of Physics at Oxford University and runs a research group in fusion energy and laboratory astrophysics.

It was Sam's vision to meet the critical need to support the next generation of computational discovery. His interests span quantum materials, fusion plasmas, and computational physics. He is an Associate Professor of Physics at Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, and a Research Fellow of The Royal Society.

Previous roles include Strategic Group Director at Cadence Design Systems. She is Chair at Quantum Dice and NED at the Aerospace Technology Institute. She advises organizations on increasing female presence in STEM and mentors women on the path to the C-Suite. Janet is also a member of the UK Semiconductor Advisory Panel, a collaboration between government and industry to deliver the National Semiconductor Strategy.

Chris works at Foresight Group and is the Investor Director on the Mach42 board. At Foresight, he is responsible for making investments from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS and VCT funds. Prior to joining Foresight, Chris worked at Centrica as a Venture Principal in Centrica Innovations, the £100m corporate venturing and innovation team of Centrica Plc.

Luke is BGF's Investor Director on the board of Mach42. Luke focuses on early-stage Deep Tech and Climate Tech investments at BGF, having been both an operator and an investor in the space. Prior to this, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group in London, advising clients across the Energy and Life Sciences sectors. He has a PhD in Biophysics from the University of Cambridge.

Antun is advising the company on the Electronic Design Automation area. He is currently Engineering VP at Kepler Computing. He previously worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys. There he was GM of the Design Group and later became the company CTO. He has advised several EDA start-ups and has been a Lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University in Palo Alto. In 2019, Antun received the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal.

Yarin advises the industry on deploying robust machine learning tools safely and responsibly. He is currently an Associate Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford. He is also the Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science at Christ Church, a Turing AI Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, and Director of Research at the UK Government’s AI Safety Institute. He also co-chairs the NASA FDL AI committee. He was previously a Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.