About Us

Founder and CEO

Managing Director

Shelby is a results-driven leader with a proven track record in driving success for £100 million+ revenue teams. Specialising in operational excellence and strategic planning, Shelby excels in building high-performing teams and fostering trust-based relationships with stakeholders. A dedicated mentor and advocate for diversity, Shelby champions an authentic and inclusive work environment.

Chief Marketing Officer

Nicola is an international marketing director with 15+ years of B2B experience at Meta and Microsoft, specialising in SaaS and the tech industry. Nicola has successfully scaled legacy products, launched new and nascent ones, and implemented pricing and packaging strategies to achieve product-market fit. She has also led the expansion of consumer products into new enterprise markets and managed global marketing initiatives across direct and partner channels in both hardware and software industries.

Business Development Manager

Oliver is a seasoned Cloud Marketplace Sales Leader for EMEA, with over 15 years of experience driving strategic growth and digital transformation initiatives. Oliver has successfully delivered exceptional results in cloud marketplace strategy and enterprise sales.cription goes here

Head of Commercial

James is a Talent and Workforce Planning specialist who brings 15 years’ experience of Resource Management, Organisation Design, Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning to Lumenai. Focussing on Transformation programmes at scale, James delivers Value Creation through workforce optimisation, including Skills, Talent, Assessment, Leadership and People Data predominantly in People and Commercial teams. James is passionate about the value of human capital data, the transformational power of applying science and objective analysis to organisations. He strongly believes there is huge organisational value to be unlocked and realised through better use of human data and indexing of teams.

Chief Technology Leader

Nik is a seasoned strategic advisor with over 20 years of technology leadership in Owner-Managed, Private Equity, and VC-funded businesses. He has successfully guided companies through diligence, transactions, and the full lifecycle of product growth from startup to sale. A true digital native, Nik excels across the CTO, CIO, CDO, and CPO spectrum, blending strategic vision with operational expertise.

Chief Product Officer

Thomas is the Chief Human Resources & Sustainability Officer at Desotec, a Blackstone Portfolio company, where he spearheads global HR and ESG strategies. With a strong background in people analytics and data science from his tenure at Deloitte and Atlas Copco, Thomas excels in integrating human resources with sustainability initiatives. His expertise lies in leveraging data-driven insights to drive impactful HR strategies and sustainable business practices on a global scale.

Customer Success Manager

Kirstie has dedicated her career to helping organisations find and retain top talent, recognising the parallels between job seeking and online dating. With a passion for aligning careers with innate abilities, Kirstie is committed to mapping Human Value through data and leveraging AI to shape a future where meaningful work thrives.

Strategic Commercial Leader

Advisory - Marketing Strategist & Advocate for Neurodiversity

With over 25 years of experience, including a decade as Global Creative Strategy Director at Microsoft, David excels in digital transformation and data-driven marketing strategies. At Lumenai, he leverages his expertise in innovation and AI to drive impactful initiatives. A passionate neurodiversity advocate, David also promotes neurodivergent recruitment through his leadership at Neurodiversity in Business. His commitment to positive change and diverse team leadership shapes the future of work.

Advisory - Strategic Talent & Business Leader 

Jesse is the Managing Partner at Fortuna UK, specialising in sourcing top talent for mid to senior roles in the technology sector. With a background in senior leadership positions, including as Chief Customer Officer at a global software company, Jesse brings a wealth of experience to Lumenai. He plays a crucial role in shaping Lumenai's go-to-market strategy, with a focus on candidate attraction, employee engagement, and workplace excellence.

Advisory - Strategic Human-AI research

Roman is an senior lecturer in BioDynaMo computational biology,  AI, high-performance computing, machine learning and bioinformatics tools at Surrey University and a fellow of the Foresight Institute that is advancing transformative technology towards futures of Existential Hope. His work focuses at the multidisciplinary intersections between the latest computing technologies and science for the creation and visualisation of multi-dimensional agent-based simulations in biological, sociological, ecological and financial formats. 

Advisory - Lumenai LABS R&D

Toby is Talent Intelligence leader at Worldwide Amazon Stores, leading a diverse global team of economists, consultants, business analysts and researchers in talent intelligence. Previously, Global Head of Talent Intelligence and Executive Recruitment Research at Royal Philips, the Dutch health technology group. Toby has been named by Recruiter Magazine as one of the 11 Most Influential In-house Recruiters in 2017 and has consistently ranked every year from 2019 to date. Toby is an international speaker on sourcing, executive research and talent intelligence and the founder of the Talent Intelligence Collective. He is also the author of Talent Intelligence: Use Business and People Data to Drive Organisational Performance and is committed to using data, insight and intelligence gathered through research activities to drive business impact .