Meet The Team
Proud to be a family owned and run business.
Nigel Newman
Co-founder & CEO
Nigel is a highly experienced facilitator and a Global Master Practitioner in Dr. Edward de Bono's Thinking Methods. Nigel is a former military fast jet pilot and is a teaching graduate with a background in business management where he became experienced in the use of psychometric assessment in the recruitment and development of effective personnel. He is a regular conference speaker and has presented workshops to a wide variety of audiences. He has delivered major programmes for corporate clients including BT, Allianz, PWC, Bayer and HSBC helping them to hold more effective meetings and release creativity in their teams and organisations.
Paul Newman
Co-founder & CTO
Paul is an HR Management & Business Management graduate with over 25 years experience of working in the Psychometric Testing industry. Paul is responsible for the day–to–day running of the business, but also for overseeing the technology side of the business. Paul has extensive experience in software development, product management, sales and marketing. In addition, Paul also has frontline recruitment & selection experience from sourcing and attracting candidates, assessing, screening, behavioural interviewing, offer management and resource planning as well as developing assessment centres and competency frameworks from scratch.
Janet Newman
CFO
Janet is a teaching graduate with an exemplary and extensive background in the education and public sector. Janet has extensive experience in creativity and innovation includes an EU-funded project to introduce thinking skills in to schools and she is also an experienced conference speaker on the subject. Janet has also been responsible for multi-million pound budgets and acts as Director of Financial Services for Big 5 Assessments. More importantly, Janet is also the glue in the business and her extra–ordinary leadership skills, coaching skills and financial acumen help to keep driving the year–on–year growth of the business and the success of the business.
Rob Dominic
Chartered Occupational Psychologist
Rob is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with over 25 years experience consulting on leadership assessment and psychometric design. He has extensive experience working for a variety of global organisations in many sectors, including financial services, energy, pharmaceuticals, engineering, information technology and professional services. As well as working as a consultant, Rob has also held senior management and leadership roles within a number of FTSE 100 companies. Rob typically works on leadership assessment and the design of psychometric tools. Rob has a BA (Hons) degree in Social Psychology from the University of Sussex, an MSc in Occupational Psychology from University of Nottingham and is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and an accredited executive coach. He is also studying to complete a professional doctorate at the University of Birkbeck (London).
Mauro Caresimo
Lead Software Developer
Mauro studied Computer Studies at Cardiff Metropolitan university and leads the IT Team. Mauro is an all-round, multi skilled (Coldfusion, Python, Django, JavaScript, Vue.js, Java, Lucee, SQL, API's using XML & JSON, D3 and AWS Infrastructure) and adaptable IT professional, who also specialises in complex & core software design & engineering, "Big Data & AI" and system and cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services. Committed, with a keen eye for design, an ability to rapidly learn new techniques and technologies, and the willingness to take on challenging problems and follow them through to a successful conclusion. Mauro's worked with Comtec Europe Ltd (now Insperitec) Sony, Zoopla, The International Baccalaureate, Abcam & Highland Spring. Mauro uses his vast software development experience to develop new features and solutions to the entire product range with ease.
Nikky van Bommel
Director of Marketing
Nikky joined the 'family' 10 years ago. Nikky has worked in the Psychometric testing industry for almost 20 years. Nikky is Bi-Lingual (Dutch and English) and grew up in Belgium and The Netherlands, she moved to Oxford as a child and did the European Baccalaureate at the European School in Culham before studying Marketing and Sociology at Bristol UWE. She has since put her Marketing degree to good use. Nikky has extensive marketing experience and has worked for some of the leading Marketing Agencies in the UK where she gained front line experience of modern social media marketing techniques. Nikky currently heads up the marketing activities, developing customer insights, communication and digital marketing strategies. As a mum of two young sons and a daughter she works part time hours and loves having a warm cuppa tea at the office with the rest of the team.
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