Brian is a techie at heart, with overall product responsibility for the embeddable offerings throughout the Knowledge Discovery portfolio, with a passion for understanding the customer perspective.  His career to date has been varied but always in the technical domain, with positions in academic research (networks and operating systems), software development, technical consultancy, and product management, including achieving Distinguished Technologist status at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.  He holds several patents in the field of text analytics, and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.