Leadership
The people responsible for our work
KIASA is run by its partners. Each leads client work as well as part of the firm, and each can be reached directly.
Our leaders still do the work. Every partner below is responsible for at least one client engagement, and every practice lead spends most of the week with a delivery team rather than in meetings about one.
The firm is owned by its people. Partners hold just under half of the shares; the rest are held for employees through a trust that anyone can join after a year at KIASA.
Partners are elected by their peers for five-year terms, and the managing partner is elected the same way. No one outside the firm has a seat at the table.
Executive leadership
Partners
Elena Marsh
Managing Partner
Leads the firm and its largest insurance and public sector clients. Joined as an engineer in 2013, elected managing partner in 2021.
Daniel Okafor
Chief Delivery Officer
Responsible for how every engagement is staffed, run and handed over. Previously led our logistics work, including Osprey Freight.
Tomás Ferreira
Chief Technology Officer
Sets the engineering standards our teams work to. Still reviews architecture on two client programs each quarter.
Priya Raman
Chief Financial Officer
Looks after the firm's finances, its employee ownership trust and how we price our work.
Signe Halvorsen
Chief People Officer
Leads hiring, learning and the way we grow people into senior roles from within.
Kwame Asante
Partner, Managed Services
Runs the standing teams that operate client platforms, including KIASA Canopy.
Saskia de Vries
Partner, Europe and Africa
Leads our studios in Lisbon, Amsterdam, London and Nairobi, and our energy clients.
Rafael Ortega
Partner, North America
Leads our Toronto and Austin studios and our banking and payments work.
Mei Lin Tan
Partner, Asia Pacific
Leads our Singapore and Melbourne studios and our healthcare clients in the region.
Leila Haddad
Partner, Clients and Growth
Looks after our longest client relationships and the way we choose new ones.
Hiroshi Nakamura
Chief Information Security Officer
Responsible for the security of KIASA and of every platform we run on a client's behalf.
Aisha Bello
General Counsel
Leads legal, risk and contracts, and keeps our terms short enough to read.
“We are accountable to two groups: the clients who trust us with systems they depend on, and the people who own this firm. Neither is served by work that only looks good at launch.”
Practice leads
The leads of our practices
Each practice lead is responsible for the quality of the work in their field, across every studio.
Marcus Lindqvist
Lead, Application Modernization
Has moved more claims and policy cores off mainframes than he will admit to at dinner.
Ananya Iyer
Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Data
Builds data platforms people trust, and is honest about where AI is not the answer.
Jonas Weber
Lead, Cloud and Platform Engineering
Designs internal platforms that make the right way the easy way for product teams.
Nadia Petrova
Lead, Cybersecurity
Runs our security testing and the controls behind our independently audited managed services.
Camila Duarte
Lead, Experience Design
Leads research and service design, from clinic front desks to freight depots.
Grace Wanjiru
Lead, Managed Services
Leads the on-call engineers who run client platforms around the clock from three regions.
Freya Holm
Lead, Green Software
Measures the energy and carbon cost of software, and wrote our first sustainability report.
Samuel Adeyemi
Lead, Strategy and Advisory
Helps leadership teams make technology choices that are costed and sequenced before anything is built.
Governance
How the firm is run
A board of seven partners meets monthly and publishes its decisions to everyone in the firm. Two of its seats are held by people elected by staff who are not partners.
Pay bands are published inside the firm, and the gap between the highest and the median salary is capped. Every partner's client work is reviewed by a peer each year, as everyone else's is.
How we workSpeak to a partner
Tell us what you are working on. The partner closest to it will reply within two working days.