Awards & Recognition
★Speechmatics won Queen's Award (2019)
★SME National Business Awards - High Growth Business of the Year (2018)
★FT 1000: Europe's Fastest Growing Companies (2019-2022, 4 consecutive years)
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and CTO of Speechmatics (founded 2006)
→Pioneer of recurrent neural networks in speech recognition
→Ranked in DARPA's top 10 speech recognition systems (1994) as only neural network system among hidden Markov models
→Published over 100 widely-cited research papers in automatic speech recognition
→Previous founder: SoftSound Ltd (acquired by Autonomy)
→PhD in Computer Speech and Language Processing from Cambridge (1989)
→Speechmatics raised $62M Series B (mentioned in TechCrunch)
→Active on LinkedIn with 500+ connections and regular thought leadership posts
→Serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits and ventures