Our team

Will began his career in the British Army, serving as an infantry officer, before joining a specialist unit and later working in the Ministry of Defence. After leaving the military, he spent time with tech companies Palantir and Helsing. He holds a Master’s in Military and Security Studies from King’s College London.

Anna began her career as a teacher, then helped build a non-profit organisation focused on teacher leadership. During seven years at Palantir, she helped build the UK Defence business and served as its Chief of Staff. She has a BA in Arabic from Harvard University and a Master’s in Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School.

Rob leads Arondite's engineering organisation. After studying engineering at Cambridge, he started his career at BAE Systems, where he went on to be a Lead Engineer. Before founding Arondite, he was Head of the Product Group at Garrison Technology, which he joined in 2014 as its first employee.

Edward is responsible for legal and compliance matters at Arondite and also serves as Commercial Director. He has 10 years of prior legal practice with a focus on private investments, venture capital, technology and tech procurement, as well as previous experience as a founder himself. He holds degrees from York and Cambridge.

Tobia joined Arondite after completing his doctoral studies in Engineering at Cambridge. His research focussed on acoustics, imaging, and data processing. His undergraduate work at ETH Zürich focussed on carbon composite manufacturing, followed by a Master’s in Engineering Design at KTH Stockholm, where he also worked as a research assistant.

Theo completed his PhD at Oxford in 3D computer vision & visual AI in 2023, with a focus on 3D understanding and network efficiency. Before this, he did his Master’s degree in Engineering Science also from Oxford, with a thesis focused on improving classical SLAM systems with deep learning.

Sam works part-time at Arondite while completing his DPhil at Oxford. His research focusses on multi-modal fusion for both conventional and neuromorphic sensors in resource-constrained systems. Prior to this, he gained a Master’s in Engineering from Durham University, where he specialised in electronics.

Seb graduated from Imperial College with a First in Computer Engineering. At Palantir, he led the data engineering team for the national reporting and distribution of COVID vaccines. After Palantir, he joined Entrepreneur First to build UAV data-processing tooling for natural disaster response.

Kyle received a First Class MSci (Hons) degree in Physics from the University of Bristol, with a thesis focusing on real-time machine learning algorithms deployed on edge hardware. He worked in the Scientific Computing Department at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, building cloud-based services to manage and analyse research data.