Meet the Team

Mark Wood

Global Sales & Business Development

Responsible for Global Sales and Business Development. Extensive background in Semantics having led sales at several industry-leading vendors across Graph Databases, Causal AI, and Marcomms.

Michael Jakobsen

Global Operations & Delivery

Responsible for Global Operations and Delivery. A diverse background most recently in software engineering and AI, with strong capability as a senior project and product manager.

Ted Rees

Advisor

Advisor to Semantic Partners. Currently Chair of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, with 40 years of business experience including a successful exit in the Services space.

Andrew Large

Principal Knowledge Graph Engineer

Originally trained as a microbiologist, Andrew has spent 20 years predominantly in financial services, with the last almost 10 as a Principal Knowledge Graph Engineer — most recently focused on a key enterprise customer for Semantic Partners.

Armondas Budrikas

Senior Semantic Engineer

MSc-educated Senior Semantic Engineer with 10 years of experience focused on the pharmaceutical domain, with extensive knowledge of manufacturing and industrial processes.

One of Semantic Partners' earliest hires, Aymeric has been with the firm since the beginning — working across multiple enterprise customers with over a decade of semantic engineering experience.

Frontend expert with over 5 years working in the Semantic domain, across both vendors and enterprise project assignments for Semantic Partners.

PhD in Computer Engineering with 15 years of experience in the Semantic domain. Has worked as a Principal Knowledge Engineer and Ontologist across several enterprise domains.

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 predominantly in the pharmaceutical domain as a data scientist and, more recently, as a 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. Has worked across several large enterprise accounts for Semantic Partners over nearly 3 years.

Juliane Piñeiro Winkler

Senior Knowledge Engineer

Senior Knowledge Engineer with 10 years of experience, the last 8 as a knowledge engineering specialist. Excels at solving complex problems and has worked across several enterprise accounts for Semantic Partners.

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.

PhD in Computer Engineering with 15 years of extensive semantic experience spanning data modelling and RAG/LLM development. Works across several large enterprise customers for Semantic Partners.

PhD computational chemist turned Ontologist with four years of experience in knowledge engineering. Contributor to the EMMO ontology.

Sebastian Faubel

Principal Consultant

Over 25 years of software engineering experience, the last 15 focusing on the Semantic Web. Operating as a Principal Consultant for Semantic Partners, leading a key project building an Enterprise Knowledge Graph into production.

Simon Shapiro

Senior Knowledge Engineer

Seasoned semantic technology veteran with extensive experience across ontologies, knowledge engineering, and semantic technical delivery. Has worked for several large financial services providers and has been with Semantic Partners for many years.