Different specialisms. One team.

We build an interdisciplinary team for each client project, drawing on expertise from across Oxford and bringing in additional researchers and specialists as the work requires.

Researchers bring methods for examining evidence and testing assumptions. Operators bring experience of decisions, constraints and implementation. They work alongside your team throughout an engagement, in the same conversations and on the same problems.

Our backgrounds span statistics, computer science, history, governance and biology, alongside experience in financial services, technology and organisational change.

MEET THE PEOPLE ↓

Our core team.

Portrait of Antony Turner

OPERATIONS & TRANSFORMATION

Antony Turner

Antony has spent 30 years working with major financial institutions, including Morgan Grenfell, UBS, Barclays Wealth, Credit Suisse, ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, HSBC and Bank of America. He has worked independently since 2006 and co-founded an AI start-up focused on market design.

His work spans mergers and acquisitions integration, IT infrastructure and security, organisational transformation, insourcing, and building and deploying platforms. He has also held senior roles in risk management and digital banking.

Portrait of James Walker

SENIOR ADVISOR & AI GOVERNANCE

James Walker

James has 35 years of experience, from writing software to running global networks at Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.

He is the former Chief Administrative Officer of DXC Technology and the founder of Scorpion Labs.

Portrait of Kieran Ayres

STATISTICS

Kieran Ayres

Kieran is completing a DPhil in Statistics at Oxford, developing Bayesian inference methods for epidemiology and computational biology. He holds an MSc in Health Data Analytics and Machine Learning from Imperial and previously worked as a Data Science Analyst at Accenture on database design and business analytics.

His expertise is in statistical modelling, machine learning and applied analysis of noisy, complex and high-dimensional data.

Portrait of Sophie Fischer

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Sophie Fischer

Sophie is completing a DPhil in Computer Science at Oxford, where she also completed her master’s degree. She has presented at CVPR and ICCV and has collaborated with the Oxford Law Faculty on AI in trade mark law.

She co-founded the carbon capture start-up Cequestre, which won StEP Ignite.

Portrait of Orla Hogan

HISTORY & INSTITUTIONS

Orla Hogan

Orla is completing a DPhil in History at Oxford, following a BA and MPhil in History at Cambridge. She has worked in strategic communications and crisis management in financial services.

As a researcher at CCLA Investment Management, she examined FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies’ compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Review of Books.

Portrait of Emilie Ouwerx

TECHNOLOGY & GOVERNANCE

Emilie Ouwerx

Emilie holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute, where she studied AI regulation, algorithmic bias, digital sovereignty and the political economy of digital markets. She also holds a BASc in Arts and Sciences from UCL.

She supported the launch of ThreeFold’s decentralised cloud infrastructure in Tanzania and worked on sustainable risk pool design at Allianz Reinsurance.

A reef grows
through relationships.

koralli (κοράλλι) is Greek for coral — a living structure built by different organisms working together, which adapts and grows

We work the same way. Distinct specialisms work closely with our clients to build something that keeps adapting and growing.

SEE HOW WE WORK ↗