Management Team
Lord Dear Kt QPM DL - Chairman
Lord Dear
Lord Dear was Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary from 1990-97, responsible for the north-western forces and with national responsibilities including the police/Criminal Justice interface, drugs, crime prevention and criminal intelligence. He was awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery in 1979, the Queen’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1981 and was knighted in 1997. He has an honours degree in law from, and is a Fellow of, University College, London. Since 2006, he has been an active cross-bench member of the House of Lords and is a member of the Select Sub-Committee on Home Affairs. He is also Chairman of three other companies.
Stewart Hefferman - Chief Executive Officer
Stewart Hefferman
Stewart has day to day responsibility for OmniPerception with his primary goal of driving aggressive growth through increased direct sales activity and the development of strategic partnerships with complementary businesses. Prior to joining the team, Stewart was Chief Operating Officer at biometric and document security specialist TSSI Systems Ltd, and brings over 10 years experience in the biometrics market to OmniPerception. His previous experiences include the successful delivery of large governmental contracts and the creation of new revenue streams through strategic relationships and joint ventures in various countries. Stewart's academic qualifications include an MBA from Cranfield University and a Ph.D. from Glasgow University.
Charles Galambos PhD - Technical Director & Founder
Dr Charles Galambos
Dr Galambos is an acknowledged expert in the design and development of pattern recognition and image processing technology, including face recognition. He has overall technical responsibility for OmniPerception’s product range and technology portfolio, with special responsibility for software architecture. He was personally responsible for the creation of OmniPerception’s Magellan™ product. Dr Galambos has a B.Eng (first class) in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Surrey. From 1991-92 his work with Siemens, Germany lead to the award of the prestigious Plessey prize. He was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Surrey in 2000, for original work in High Level Vision.
Kieron Messer PhD - Research Director & Founder
Dr Kieron Messer
Dr Messer is an acknowledged expert in the application of pattern recognition and image processing technology including personal identity authentication, image/video database retrieval and automatic target recognition. He was personally responsible for the original development and productisation of OmniPerception's Affinity™ Face Recognition suite of solutions. Dr Messer has a BSc(Hons) in Physics from Royal Holloway University of London and an MSc in Machine Intelligence from the University of Surrey. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Surrey for original work on Automatic Image Database Retrieval (1999). He is the author of more than 40 scientific papers in his chosen field.
Gill Slater BEng (Hons) A.U.S. – Chief Operations Officer
Gill Slater
A graduate of the University of Surrey (B.Eng. Hons. 1994), Gill has 14 years experience in software development, technical and operational management and major project delivery. While at Compuserve/AOL from 1995 – 99 she fulfilled a series of management roles, including responsibility, as Head of Systems Development, for the integration of the combined online services of the two companies post-merger. In management roles at AOL, DELL Computers and at Conchango PLC, Gill established a reputation for the effective delivery of major government and private sector opportunities, working closely with large system integrators and other partners.
Tracey Cooper DipM ACIM - VP Sales
Tracey Cooper
Tracey is one the UK’s most experienced commercial practitioners in the field of facial biometrics, with a successful track record spanning over 9 years in the industry. She has been responsible for spearheading OmniPerception’s biometric business development channels since May 2008. Her previous roles in the industry include Sales and Marketing Director of Aurora Computer Services (01-06). Tracey’s outstanding record of business development success includes payment & document automation as well as facial biometrics. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.