Team
A specialist team ready to deliver the next stage
Data People Connected was founded to tackle one of the biggest barriers to digital change: organisations, cities and critical infrastructure cannot securely connect, trust and act on data held in separate systems.
Our story
From research to product
Buttress went live in January 2022; nodeStream build began in 2024.
For more than a decade, we have developed the foundations for secure data sharing through feasibility studies, applied projects and platform engineering, funded by Innovate UK and by the founders.
That work produced Buttress, our open-source data access layer, and nodeStream, the platform built on it. Together they form a digital spine that connects existing systems without replacing them.
Our platforms are now implementation-ready for trial programmes, and our focus is on delivery, commercial conversion and planned growth.
- Company
- Data People Connected Ltd
- Registered in
- England and Wales
- Company number
- 07025392
- Registered office
- Unit 5, Connect Business Village, 24 Derby Road, Liverpool, L5 9PR
Team
The people building DPC
Meet our team. Our engineers, designers and commercial specialists combine platform development with experience in industry, public services and data standards.
Brian Bishop
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Former President of the Open Connectivity Foundation. Contributes to ITU-T Y.4505, ITU and U4SSC thematic groups 7 and 9, Open & Agile Smart Cities MIMs working groups 3, 6 and 8, the UK Data Sharing Architecture Working Group and ISO/IEC 30118. On the UKRI panel of experts for smart cities and the UN roster of smart city consultants.
LinkedIn profile of Brian Bishop
Christopher Bates-Keegan
Chief Technology Officer
Leads DPC's technical development and helped design Buttress and the digital spine architecture. He brings more than 30 years of software engineering experience.
Fergus Kendall
Chief Innovation Officer
20 years of turning physical products and production processes into data that engineers can measure, cost and use to improve performance.
Nick Paterson-Jones
Head of Communications & Strategy
Marketing and creative director with more than thirty years in media, sport, retail and technology. Works with Brian on commercial strategy and partnerships.
LinkedIn profile of Nick Paterson-Jones
Tom Cahill
Lead Software Engineer
Web and embedded software engineer. Key to the development of the policy engine within Buttress.
Mahmoud Abousereaa
Lead Software Engineer
Background in data and machine learning, with degrees in mechatronics and in information science and computer engineering.
Chris Mason
Lead Designer
Designer and Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire.
Advisers
Consultant advisers
Our advisers bring expertise in cyber security, critical infrastructure, health data and the built environment.
Hugh Boyes
Consultant adviser
Security of engineering systems in the built environment, and of IoT.
Prof. Duncan Botting
Consultant adviser
National critical infrastructure, energy, telecommunications and future cities.
Justin Anderson
Consultant adviser
Jonathan Eyre
Consultant adviser
Alex Lennon
Specialist associate
Embedded systems and the Internet of Things.
Dr Ed Conley
Consultant adviser
Information governance, data informatics and national-scale learning health systems.
Nooshin Akrami
Consultant adviser
Sustainability and climate action in the built environment.
Simon Mabey
Consultant adviser
Miranda Sharp
Consultant adviser
Digital infrastructure and the National Digital Twin Programme.
Peter Curtis
Consultant adviser
Digital design and delivery for complex systems, automation and IoT.
Investing in DPC
We are seeking approximately £5 million to support trial delivery, commercial conversion and the team and delivery capacity needed for planned growth.