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Leadership & advisors

Decades of building organisations that decide well.

Our founding partners bring together technology leadership, organisation design, public service transformation and product practice. Our advisors add depth in agile ways of working, leadership, systems design, strategy, AI research and Indian languages.

Founding partners

The people who design the systems are the people you talk to.

Amit Arora
Amit AroraFounder & CEO

Twenty-six years leading technology businesses and the architect of Kybern. Amit has spent his career bringing emerging technology into organisations that cannot afford to get it wrong.

Kashmir Birk
Kashmir BirkFounding Partner & CSO

Global CEO of Bioss, with organisation design work for companies including Pfizer, Starbucks and Barclays. A thought leader in organisation design, governance, talent and executive coaching.

Benjamin P Taylor
Benjamin P TaylorFounding Partner, UK

Founder of RedQuadrant and CEO of the Public Service Transformation Academy. Ben works for better experiences of organisations for people, and better outcomes from public services.

Geordie Keitt
Geordie KeittFounding Partner, Product

Helps people, teams and organisations deliver products that meet real needs, by making their structures of work visible and streamlining them.

Advisory board

Advice from people who have done it at scale.

Scott Ambler
Scott AmblerCo-creator, Disciplined Agile

Helps teams adopt new ways of working and thinking, especially around enterprise data and data quality.

Dr Stephen Clement
Dr Stephen ClementOrganisation design and leadership

More than fifty years in leadership and management across government and corporate roles, including work with US Army leadership and Fortune 500 organisations.

Philip Boxer
Philip BoxerSocio-technical systems design

Works on how organisations, people and technology fit together around the demands they actually face.

Barry Linetsky
Barry LinetskyCorporate strategy

Educated in business, sociology and philosophy, Barry brings an integrative view to corporate, marketing and service strategy.

Dr Shruti Patil
Dr Shruti PatilDirector, Symbiosis AI Institute

Professor and Director of the Symbiosis Artificial Intelligence Institute, Pune. IEEE Senior Member with more than 115 Scopus-indexed papers and AI projects with industry and government partners.

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Dr B. V. Venkatakrishna Sastry
Dr B. V. Venkatakrishna SastryChancellor, Yoga-Samskrutham University

A language technologist who holds a US patent on applying Sanskrit to computing and served on the Vedic Unicode proposal. Brings deep expertise in Indian languages and language technology.

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