Personalised medicine: Personalised mental health services

Kumar Jacob is the founder-director of Mindwave, a health tech company that designs and develops digital products and services that have a positive impact on people. Mindwave works with NHS organisations, charities and universities to develop web and mobile applications in health care and research. The company specialises in personal health records and digital front doors for NHS and charitable organisations. Having started six years ago, Mindwave now has around seventy staff based in the UK and its development base in southern India, Pondicherry.

Having started his career in finance, Kumar forged a career in computer games. He also sat on various charity boards - Christian Aid, Age Exchange and was a member of the court of the University of Greenwich. He was a non-executive director at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and chaired the Maudsley Charity.

Kumar was awarded an MBE for his charitable services. 

Dr Michelle Tempest worked as a hospital doctor, psychiatrist and cognitive analytical therapist for over a decade. Now she is a partner in a healthcare strategy consultancy company, Candesic. She is author of the book Big Brain Revolution: Artificial Intelligence – Spy or Saviour. She invests in AI early-stage companies and is on the board of VR company Cognitant.

Stuart runs two of the most innovative AI companies in the world. One company is a leading e-commerce builder, using AI to create psychology driven e-commerce for world-class organisations, while the other is pioneering a new class of AI, “Behavioural AI”.

Stuart believes that it is inevitable that we will see the combination of AI and the Modern Web. Stuart has been a pioneer in the AI meets e-commerce field for the past ten years. 

Having studied Managerial Sciences in university, specifically the aspects of Managerial Accounting relating to Behavioural Economics, and Organisational Behaviour. Stuart went on to start an early Management Information Services company which, in the late 1980s, ran a private network for mail and file transfer between Toronto, New York and Mexico City. Selling that company, Stuart founded one of North America’s early, and Canada’s first, Digital Agencies – before the Internet was a household thing! That company was sold in 1999 to WPP and Stuart transitioned into Finance, creating an innovative sub-prime lender, which built a substantial automotive loan portfolio which he sold shortly before the financial crisis of 2007. Stuart’s business maintained other lines of lending and he was named the Canadian Lease and Finance Association Member of the Year 2010. As the business evolved, Stuart once again got interested in technology, and specifically the early stages of AI.

Today you will find him working with some of the worlds’ largest companies, designing and implementing AI solutions designed to change the way they understand their Big Data.