Our Background

Our team brings decades of experience delivering software, data and AI for organisations across the UK and internationally.

Our backgrounds are in building enterprise software and delivering cloud, data and AI projects. We bring the lessons from that work to mid-market businesses, combining an enterprise approach to security, reliability and integration with delivery that fits a smaller organisation.

We use AI to help develop, deploy and run our solutions, so we can test ideas quickly and spend more time on the work that matters to your business. Rapid innovation means getting useful software into people’s hands, learning from how they use it and improving it, with the engineering and ongoing support needed for production use.

In previous roles, our team members have delivered enterprise technology for organisations across the public and private sectors, including the NHS, finance and banking, commodities trading, retail, manufacturing and telecommunications. That experience shapes how we approach the work today, with attention to how software fits into an organisation and what it takes to keep it running. We bring those lessons to mid-market businesses, with room to test ideas and adapt as we learn.

Founders

Dr David Wilkinson

Founder

David has over 12 years' experience delivering AI and data solutions across startups, SMEs, and enterprises in the UK and USA. Combining technical and strategic leadership with a PhD in astrophysics, he founded Ingenaium to bring rigorous, practical AI to the UK mid-market.

Tim Hancock

Founder

With over three decades building everything from start-ups to scale-ups to large-scale technology teams, Tim co-founded Ingenaium.ai with a simple belief: AI should work for UK businesses. His mission is to help ambitious owners and decision-makers harness AI with confidence - and without the hype.

Mike Fordham

Founder

Mike brings 25+ years of experience across infrastructure, cloud, and platform. He has a proven track record of delivering award-winning technology platforms, with that experience now embodied in the Ingenaium platform, enabling UK organisations to harness the power of AI to fuel their growth.

Daniel Amini

Founder

With over three decades of experience in software engineering, architecture, and technology leadership, Dan has delivered scalable and robust solutions to large enterprise clients across multiple sectors. He now applies his expertise to the UK midmarket, transforming complex technology into practical, secure, and scalable solutions that create genuine AI value for businesses.

Non-executive directors

Paul Calver, MBA, BSc(Hons), FdSc, FRAeS.

Non-Executive Director

Paul is a successful serial entrepreneur having established and grown private and VC backed startups in the AI, fuel cell and international manufacturing sectors. A qualified engineer and businessman with board experience in large public companies, the public sector and small agile companies, Paul's focus is on razor sharp strategic impact and investment readiness.

Rasmus Koefoed-Jespersen

Non-Executive Director

Ras is the founder of Squid, a boutique consultancy helping ambitious leaders get real value from AI, combining proven innovation methods with modern technology to deliver impact fast. Previously at BJSS, he worked with the co-founders of Ingenaium. With over 25 years of experience from in-house, consulting, and everything in between, he has been building teams, running business units, delivering 10x growth, and helping organisations like Sony, NHS, NatWest, ITV and Sky tackle complex problems across strategy, product, services, and new ventures.

Will Wood

Non-Executive Director

Will Wood founded award-winning PR agency Multitude Media, one of the UK's most successful agencies, which operates across the entertainment industry. Multitude's clients include Netflix, Live Nation, HBO, BAFTA, Sky, Amazon Prime Video, AEG, WME, CAA and Apple TV and it works with some of the most recognised brands and talent in the sector, from globally successful TV shows to Academy Award-winning creatives. Will is also an investor in several companies across different sectors and a trustee for the charity Open Door.

Mike Buck

Non-Executive Director

Mike brings decades of leadership experience across UK technology and IT services, spanning infrastructure, applications development, and large-scale digital delivery. He has led organisations through periods of significant scale and transformation, most recently as CEO of a private equity-backed technology consultancy, driving AI-led delivery transformation and go-to-market change, and previously as MD of one of the UK's best-known technology consultancies. Mike holds an MBA from Henley Management College and brings hands-on experience of what it takes for mid-market businesses to turn AI ambition into operational reality.