Meet the Team
Our consultants bring deep expertise in semantic technology, knowledge engineering, and enterprise AI — from ontology design and graph architecture to governance and delivery.
Staff retention rate —
something we are immensely proud of.
Management
Dan Collier
Founding Partner
Founding Partner responsible for client and partner relationships, business strategy, sales, and solutioning. Over 20 years in the Data/AI and services space.
John Placek
Founding Partner
Founding Partner with a background across semantic technologies, banking, and pharma. Nearly 20 years of senior business experience at Semantic Partners.
Sales & Operations
Mark Wood
Global Sales & Business Development
Global Sales and Business Development lead with a background in Semantics — having led sales across Graph Databases, Causal AI, and Marcomms vendors.
A Selection of Our Team
Andrew Large
Principal Knowledge Graph Engineer
Principal Knowledge Graph Engineer with 20 years in financial services and deep semantic web expertise. Focused on enterprise knowledge graph delivery.
Armondas Budrikas
Senior Semantic Engineer
MSc-educated Senior Semantic Engineer with 10 years of experience focused on the pharmaceutical domain, with deep knowledge of manufacturing processes.
Aymeric Picou
Senior Semantic Engineer
One of Semantic Partners' earliest hires, Aymeric has worked across multiple enterprise customers with over a decade of semantic engineering experience.
Daniel Calleja
Frontend Engineer
Frontend expert with over 5 years working in the Semantic domain, across both vendors and enterprise project assignments for Semantic Partners.
Fabrizio Orlandi
Principal Knowledge Engineer & Ontologist
PhD in Computer Engineering with 15 years of semantic domain experience. Principal Knowledge Engineer and Ontologist across several enterprise domains.
Hakim Tafer
Principal Consultant
PhD in Physics and Bioinformatics with extensive Semantic engineering experience as a Principal Consultant. Highly skilled in the Pharma Ontology domain.
James Lawrence
Senior Semantic Engineer
PhD-educated biochemical engineer turned developer, working in the pharmaceutical domain as a data scientist and senior semantic engineer.
Jeremy Debattista
Principal Knowledge Graph Engineer
PhD-educated Principal Knowledge Graph Engineer with 15 years of software development and 10+ years of industry experience at Semantic Partners.
Juliane Piñeiro Winkler
Senior Knowledge Engineer
Senior Knowledge Engineer with 10 years of experience, including 8 as a specialist. Excels at solving complex problems across multiple enterprise accounts.
Marina Riga
Senior Knowledge Engineer & Ontologist
PhD in Computer Science with 10+ years working as a Senior Knowledge Engineer and Ontologist across several large enterprise customers for Semantic Partners.
Matteo Benocci
Ontologist
PhD-educated Ontologist with 10+ years of experience working across Government and Private Sector domains.
Matteo Casu
Principal Consultant
PhD in Computer Engineering with 15 years of semantic experience spanning data modelling and RAG/LLM development. Works across large enterprise customers.
Otello Roscioni
Ontologist
PhD computational chemist turned Ontologist with four years of experience in knowledge engineering. Contributor to the EMMO ontology.
Sebastian Faubel
Principal Consultant
Principal Consultant with 25 years of software engineering experience, the last 15 on the Semantic Web, leading enterprise Knowledge Graph builds.
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