Media
Media relations
Press contacts, company facts and brand assets in one place. Our press office answers every request the same working day.
Email the press office
How we work with journalists
We would rather give you a straight answer than a polished one. Ask us about our clients, our numbers or our mistakes, and we will tell you what we can, and say plainly what we cannot.
If you want to speak to a client, we will ask them on your behalf and pass on their answer within two working days. We never speak for a client without their agreement.
Every figure we publish has a source. Ask for it and we will send the method and, for research, the full questionnaire and sample.
Press contacts
Our press office answers every request the same working day. For anything urgent outside office hours, call the global number.
Hannah Lindqvist
Head of Communications
press@kiasa.tech+44 20 3870 4410Marcus Bell
Media Relations, North America
press.americas@kiasa.tech+1 416 555 0148Nicole Ong
Media Relations, Asia Pacific
press.apac@kiasa.tech+65 6812 4470
Company facts
KIASA in brief
- 2012
- Founded in London, to build systems that outlast the project.
- 420
- People, in eight studios across three regions.
- 100%
- Owned by the people who work in it: its partners, and an employee ownership trust.
- 94%
- Of clients say they would recommend KIASA to a peer.
KIASA company records and annual client survey, September 2026.
Fact sheet
What reporters ask us most
What does KIASA do?
KIASA is an independent technology consultancy. We design, build and run digital systems alongside the people who will own them: core platforms, data and AI, cloud foundations, security and the products customers use.
Our work is organized into 14 capabilities and 12 industries. Most engagements are run by small senior teams over 6 to 18 months, with a plan for handing over from the first week.
What we doWho owns KIASA?
KIASA is owned by its people. Partners hold just under half of the shares; the rest are held for employees through an employee ownership trust that anyone can join after a year at KIASA. There are no outside investors.
Owners share the annual profit equally, whatever their level, and vote on new partners at the annual meeting.
Who we areWho leads the firm?
Elena Marsh is Managing Partner, elected by her peers in 2021. Daniel Okafor is Chief Delivery Officer, responsible for how every engagement is staffed, run and handed over. A board of seven meets monthly and publishes its decisions to everyone in the firm.
LeadershipWhere does KIASA work?
From eight studios in three regions: Lisbon, Amsterdam, London and Nairobi in Europe and Africa; Toronto and Austin in North America; Singapore and Melbourne in Asia Pacific. Lisbon and Melbourne are our engineering studios.
LocationsCan I quote your research?
Yes. Please attribute it to KIASA and name the report. We can put you in touch with the authors, and send the underlying data for any chart.
What we thinkHow do I check a fact before publication?
Email the press office with the sentence you want to check. We will confirm or correct it the same working day, and tell you who the source is.
Spokespeople
Who can speak on what
Each of them gives interviews in person, by video or in writing. Ask the press office to arrange it.
Elena Marsh
Managing Partner
The firm's direction, employee ownership, and what mid-size organizations should expect from a technology partner.
Daniel Okafor
Chief Delivery Officer
How engagements are staffed, run and handed over, and large programs run without a freeze.
Kwame Asante
Partner, Managed Services
KIASA Canopy, platform operations for mid-size enterprises, and reporting technology to a board.
Aiko Tanaka
Director of Research
The maintenance dividend, Platform pulse and how technology budgets are spent.
Hiroshi Nakamura
Chief Information Security Officer
Security debt, independent audits and running secure platforms for clients.
Freya Holm
Lead, Green Software
KIASA's footprint and targets, and the carbon cost of software.
Brand assets
Logos, photographs and boilerplate
Ask the press office for any of these. We send them the same day, with short notes on how to use them.
The KIASA mark
The leaf and the wordmark, in light and dark versions, as vector files. Please do not redraw, recolor or crop the leaf.
Request the markLeadership photographs
Recent photographs of our spokespeople, cleared for editorial use, with captions and credits.
Request photographsStudio photography
Our studios and teams at work, photographed with the agreement of everyone shown.
Request photographyBiographies
Short and long biographies of the partnership board and practice leads.
See leadershipBoilerplate
The paragraph that closes every release, in English, German and Japanese, updated each quarter.
Request boilerplateColors and type
The night green, leaf green and dew blue of our visual language, and the two typefaces we set it in.
Request the guide
Newsroom
Recent releases
- AnnouncementKIASA launches Canopy, a managed platform team for mid-size enterprises
- Client newsKIASA and Halden Mutual extend their partnership through 2030
- AnnouncementKIASA completes an independent security audit of its managed services
- ResearchNew research: engineering leaders spend 61% of their budgets keeping systems running
Working on a story?
Tell us your deadline and what you need. We will find the right person and the right numbers, or tell you quickly that we cannot help.