About Smartlogic

Our management team

• Jeremy Bentley, Chief Executive Officer

  

  Jeremy Bentley is founder and CEO of Smartlogic. An engineer by training he has spent his career in enterprise software, specifically with information management systems ranging from business process workflow, documents and records management, search and now Content Intelligence.

  Bentley founded Smartlogic on the belief that organizations can outperform others if they fully utilize the huge business value contained in content.

  To realize this value, we know you must understand your content, the information and knowledge it contains and how it can be applied in the context of your operations.

  We focus all our energy on creating value from content – something we call ‘Content Intelligence’.

  Semaphore is Smartlogic’s Content Intelligence Platform and it captures the context of your business and then analyzes unstructured content to identify and present its value for any context.

• Matthieu Jonglez, Chief Technical Officer

  

  Matthieu Jonglez is a co-Founder, CTO and board member of Smartlogic. He is a hugely respected architect of complex, large-scale enterprise search and semantic solutions. He has led the development of the Semaphore product and designed and implemented it for the larger, more complex integrations.

  As Smartlogic's CTO he orchestrates the agile development of the Semaphore software combining the product management, scrum management and development disciplines to deliver the stable, scalable functionally rich platform.

  Prior to Smartlogic, Matthieu was founder and CTO of Aqueduct Ltd which was acquired by Smartlogic. Prior to that he held a research position at BT Labs before moving into BT's Syncordia enterprise architecture group.

• Rupert Bentley, Chief Financial Officer

  

  Rupert Bentley is a chartered accountant with 15 years' senior management experience within a number of large and SME businesses including: Thomson Gale (part of the Thomson Reuters Group);  Television Systems Ltd (the largest independent television systems integrator).  Rupert is a co-Founder, CFO and board member of Smartlogic.

• Toby Conrad, SVP Americas

  

  Toby Conrad is co-Founder and SVP responsible for the Americas. Toby has over 15 years’ experience in consultative sales concerning Enterprise Search, Information and Content Management. At Smartlogic, he is responsible for sales strategy execution and market penetration in the Americas.  He has advised organizations such as NASA, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Scotland, BNP Paribas, GSK, and many more on Enterprise and Semantic Systems.

  
  

• Richard Pinder, SVP EMEA

  

  Richard Pinder is co-Founder and SVP responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Richard has 20 years' experience in the knowledge and information management industry and has worked for a range of organizations, including Eastman Kodak, Microbank (now Sungard), and SilverStream Software (since bought by Novell).

  Richard has a deep knowledge of the technologies that surrounds Smartlogic's solution: Content Management Solutions, such as SharePoint and enterprise search engines such as Google and FAST. He also has experience in information and knowledge management consultancy, having run TFPL, a leading UK Information Management consultancy practice.

  Specializing on subjects such as 'findability', and applying taxonomies and ontologies into real life business applications, Richard helps clients build business cases and strategic road-maps to sell the business value inside the organization. Richard is very well placed to help teams at the tipping point of business change.

  Some of his recent client engagements include:

  • Yell.com – Working with the CTO of Yell, an agreement was made to co-develop and co-fund a product called Thes Builder (now Ontology Manager). Some 5 years on the product remains central to both Yell’s and Smartlogic’s business.
  • UK Government sector – Having recognized a key compliance issue in UK Government, included in the eGMS (eGovernment Metadata Standards), Richard worked with over 50 local and central government organizations to help them implement a solution.
  • McClatchy-Tribune Information Services – Working with their executive team Richard has been helping them to fundamentally change their information management strategy.
  • Unison (UK’s largest Trade Union) - Working with the Records Manager to design a project including the design, build and implementation of a new taxonomy into SharePoint.

• Eamon McCusker, VP Operations

  

  Eamon McCusker has 20 years‘ experience in a range of business sectors and specialises in operations management and the delivery of IT-enabled business change programmes and major IT projects.

  Prior to joining Smartlogic, Eamon was an independent Programme Management contractor and business consultant at a major UK Police Service.  For 5 years, Eamon was a business consultant for a UK based consulting firm, where he worked on client projects across banking and the public sector, predominantly focusing on operational improvement and programme management. Eamon’s early career was forged in the United States, in management positions at Hewitt Associates, Arthur Andersen and a start-up IT consulting firm, where he headed up the West Coast professional services practice.