Meet the Team

Our team consists of over 70 research information professionals, grants specialists, and technology experts, bringing decades of experience and domain knowledge.

Andrew Cockbill

Chief Data Officer

Brian Armour

Solution Consultant (Grant Tracker)

Geirmund Knutsen

VP, Client Services

John Fearns

Chief Technical Officer, Co-founder

Jonathan Breeze

Chief Executive Officer

Julie Noelke

Senior Client Success Manager

Kate Byrne

VP Product Management

Manya Buchan

Senior Product Manager

Marko Ivin

Chief Development Officer, Co-founder

Nat Guest

Marketing Director

Nick Anderson

Solutions Consultant

Scott Gordon

Projects Director, Funding Solutions

Stephen Elliott

Client Success Manager, Funding Solutions

It is critical to our state’s economy that we utilise every aspect of our knowledge
and innovation talent across the public and private sectors. We’re incredibly proud
of what we’ve created with OIEx − better connecting the experts and resources at our
state research universities to the industries that can utilise them to push their breakthrough ideas to fruition.
John Carey, Chanceller, Ohio Department of Higher Education

We wanted to create a single, multi-university resource that provides
enhanced visibility into expertise, equipment and research
support services and available IP.
Tim Cain, Ohio Innovation Exchange

This tool connects our scholarly and research expertise with audiences like media,
prospective graduate students, and academic collaborators, while simultaneously
helping faculty keep track of the very important work they do. It is a game-changer for U of T.
Associate Vice-President Research, University of Toronto

The deeply integrated environment we now have will greatly enhance
our ability to manage the range of repository activities and strengthen
our position in preparing for any future research assessment exercises.
Digital Development Manager, University of Sussex

It helps keep us organised and keeps everything in one place.
Peter Fisher, Worldwide Cancer Research

Researcher profiles and end-to-end funded research
project management all now take place in the one interface,
which has huge benefits to our researchers.
Liam Cleere, University College Dublin

The discovery module has provided a delightful and fantastic
searchable public interface to our to our faculty.
Paul Bergen, Tufts University

The rate of deposit has increased by 1000% within 12 months following the switch-on of
the publication prompt in Elements and discussion about the HEFCE Open Access policy.
Queen Mary University of London

Elements impressed us with its simplicity, flexibility and control
for individual faculty members, and great responsiveness with customer service.
Clarke Iakovakis, Oklahoma State University

I think the most important feature Symplectic Elements came with was interoperability
The fact that it had that flow through profiles to the repository was really, really valuable for us.
Research Advisor, La Trobe University