Meet the team
Find out a little more about our management team.
Mary Clarke - Chief Executive
Mary J Clarke has served as Chief Executive of Cognisco since January 2004. Under her leadership the company has achieved sustained profitability and implemented a new operating model, developed a more customer and market driven culture and expanded the role and reach of Cognisco.
Mary brings a wealth of business experience to Cognisco. She has worked for a number of technology based companies including start-ups and high growth businesses. She has held UK, European and Worldwide roles for small, medium and large businesses. Her knowledge of Sales and Marketing together with experience in software and services organisations forms a basis of experience to guide Cognisco as it grows both nationally and into other geographical markets.
Before joining Cognisco Mrs Clarke spent over twenty years in the IT and Telecommunications industry. She has developed a number of businesses from start-up in the UK and Far-East, served as Vice President for Lucent Technologies, formerly AT&T Network Systems and as Director of Network Services, Digital Equipment Company Limited.
Mary is a mathematics graduate from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.
Andrew Davidson - Head of Assessment Consulting
Andrew joined Cognisco in March 2007 as Production Manager and is responsible for the management of the production of the learning and appraisal content, consultancy and research.
Andrew has developed training and learning materials for the past 10 years for a range of customers and organisations. Before joining Cognisco Andrew was Training Manager at Prolog working with British Airways to develop the customer service and IT training for British Airway frequent flyer contact centre. He has also worked at Getronics in expanding their e-learning portfolio and management workshops in the UK and Ireland. More recently Andrew has worked as Programme Manager for Relate, a national charity delivering relationship and family counselling to the public, where he developed and implemented Relate's graduate, postgraduate and masters level programmes with the University of East London and the University of Hull.
Andrew also holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Hull and a FE teaching qualification.
Robert Bellew - Head of Finance
Robert joined Cognisco in April 2007 as Finance Manager and is responsible for financial and management reporting together with process and system developments.
Robert has over twenty five years experience as a finance director / financial controller with SMEs within the service sector, including a two year contract in Barbados.
Robert firmly believes in the effective communication of financial information amongst all staff to enable the achievement of corporate goals.
Robert qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand and also holds a BA (Hons) in German from Birmingham University.
Matthew Russell - Chief Technology Officer
Matthew joined Cognisco in November 2010 as Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for the delivery of software, including development, architecture, infrastructure and R&D.
Prior to joining Cognisco, Matthew spent over 10 years delivering robust, scalable solutions for a variety of industries. This included managing software development at i2, the leading provider of intelligence and investigation management software, and PayPoint, a leading premier branded retail network. Matthew is dedicated to the pragmatic use of latest technologies and Agile development processes in order to add business value.
Matthew holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Southampton.