Empowering positive social change through technology

Peyman's professional background is in software engineering and then technical leadership in companies with anywhere between a few and a few thousand employees. After completing an MBA and taking on CTO roles in startups, taking care of everything from web, app and IoT projects to the internal IT systems and tools, he is now bringing this experience to the nonprofit sector through consulting and fractional CTO roles at affordable rates, and building a team with a shared vision to put high quality tech solutions within the reach of more organisations who are working to improve society.

Outside of work Peyman has taken an interest in education and education policy, and has been a governor at his children's school and delegate to the local authority Schools Forum where the recruitment and financial pressures facing the sector are all too clear. He has also been a campaigner and campaign organiser, including acting as an election agent, helping set up and run campaign groups, and co-managing a national network of organisers sharing experience and best practice.

Peyman is on the advisory board of the Nesta Civic AI Observatory and on the board of Campaign Lab.

Josie is primarily our Project Manager, although she wears other hats as needed including level 2/3 customer support and testing new features prior to release. Her background is in software, but more recently she's worked in the Education & Healthcare industries before joining Poteris. She has Prince2 certification & is an ICAgile certified Agile Team Facilitator.

Her past projects include:

• Large-scale roll-out of major new software systems, such as a workforce management system for a Healthcare chain (impacting 2500 staff) and a new Management Information System for a large school
• Collaborations with Buildings/Facilities, including the opening of a brand new build Endoscopy site and the full network revamp of a Grade 1 listed site
• Digitisation of a wide range of old-school paper processes, from annual leave requests to hygiene monitoring of high-touchpoint surfaces

Curtis is a software engineer with a background rooted in campaigning, charities and healthcare. Having worked as a freelancer building websites for a few years, in 2019 he founded Loudspeek, a platform for political campaigns to get their supporters in touch with their representatives. He's passionate about ethical and equitable use of technology, and vocal about the importance of doing it right: in 2020 he led a legal challenge against the Ofqual algorithm, forcing a Government U-turn when thousands of students were downgraded by a computer model, for which he was named Young Activist of the Year 2021. He's been a charity trustee, volunteer, and volunteer manager, so knows the challenges the third sector faces inside and out.

Past projects include building web apps that scale to hundreds of thousands of users, developing systems that help Wikipedia editors get feedback on complex issues from communities of peers, and researching innovative models for informed consent in telemedicine.

Simon has supported organisations in the third and private sector since 2011, working on digital from tiny startups to large companies, including WPP and Compare The Market.

His experience spans cross-team vendor selections, systems analysis, user journey mapping, and various backoffice platforms including Wordpress, Salesforce implementation, FormAssembly, Hubspot, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Workspace and Office 365 administration, Bubble.io prototype development and Airtable.