The team

Senior people, no exceptions.

100+ years of combined senior technology experience, across partners who lead the work and a bench of specialists who build it.

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01 Who you work with

One lead. The right specialists behind them.

Artimus is a small, senior team: three partners, an advisor on finance and fintech, and a bench of specialists in architecture, data, DevOps and AI. Together we bring more than 100 years of combined senior technology experience. You get the people your problem needs, and you only pay for what you need, when you need it.

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One lead

A senior lead who knows your business, sits in the room when it matters and is accountable for the outcome.
02
The right specialists

Architecture, cloud, security, data, AI or delivery. Bench specialists plug in when the work needs them and step back when it does not.
03
One contract

However the mix changes from month to month, you deal with one team and one point of accountability.

02 Partners

The partners who lead the work.

Founder-led since 2017. Between them, the partners have founded start-ups, sold a company, run cloud migrations for multinationals and taken AI into production.

Toby White

Founder and Managing Partner

Toby founded Artimus in Cardiff in June 2017 and specialises in designing and delivering AI-driven strategy. He holds a BSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of England, co-founded AI Wales in 2018 and wrote a peer-reviewed chapter on neural networks (IntechOpen, 2019).

In 2019 he founded MarketMate, an AI marketing start-up, which he built and exited. He has been CTO and head of AI for start-ups in medtech and insurance, and works in fractional CTO roles today. He is a Centre for GenAIOps ambassador, and organiser and sponsor of AI Summit Gibraltar.

AI strategy
fractional CTO
Gibraltar

Toby on LinkedIn

Byron Jones

Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Byron is a veteran solutions architect who designs and builds highly secure, cloud-agnostic infrastructure. Over decades in the industry he has been lead architect on cloud migrations for multinationals including the London Stock Exchange Group, Bayer Pharmaceutical and Virgin Money, turning physical estates into highly redundant, automated multi-cloud platforms.

He has also been founder and CTO of several start-ups. That mix of large, complex organisations and early-stage pace lets him modernise a growing business’s infrastructure so it is secure, scalable and sensibly costed.

Architecture
secure cloud infrastructure

Tom Cooksey

Partner, Commercial Lead

Tom has worked in software for more than 20 years. He started as a software engineer in the early days of Web 2.0 and went on to work at brands including Sky, EA Games, the National Lottery and Trader Media.

He then built his own consultancy, working with clients such as LafargeHolcim, Etihad Airways and Nationwide Building Society, before founding IR35.io, an automated IR35 determination platform he sold in 2020. Today he works as a CTO and advisor on technology strategy, as AI reshapes how businesses build software.

Commercial leadership
scaling software businesses

03 Advisor

Finance and fintech, from the inside.

Technology decisions are also financial decisions. Our advisor brings senior banking and finance experience to the table when the work needs it.

Paul Henning

Advisor, Finance and Fintech

Paul brings more than 20 years in private and investment banking. He spent nine years in roles across several jurisdictions at Credit Suisse and eight years as CFO of SG Kleinwort Hambros in Gibraltar, then set up and ran a private family office for two years, growing it to eight staff.

A KPMG-qualified chartered accountant, he covers financial and group control, regulatory and financial reporting, fund and trust accounting, and corporate finance work including de-mergers and disposals. He advises on business engineering, process improvement and automation, and on new business and IT projects.

Banking
finance
fintech

04 The bench

Specialists who plug in when you need them.

Our bench are senior associates with real delivery experience. They join your work when it needs their expertise and step back when it does not, so you only pay for what you need, when you need it.

Emanuel Schleussinger

Consultant, Architecture and Data

Emanuel is a seasoned CTO and technologist with more than 25 years in technology. He started in e-commerce at Amazon R&D, working on its personalised email systems.

He has since held senior technology roles in e-commerce and gaming, including CTO of Chronext, an Artimus client. He combines a deep background in technology management with a real passion for innovation and quality, which he brings to digital transformation and platforms built to scale.

eCommerce platforms
architecture
data

Alexander Dolphin

Consultant, Full Stack and Architecture

Alexander is a technical lead who specialises in web applications and SaaS platforms, and is known for solutions that are well engineered and built around the user. He started in front-end development and has spent more than five years architecting and engineering projects of every size and scope.

That gives him a strong grasp of UX and UI quality alongside robust, scalable web architecture. He leads and mentors development teams, and his skills extend to data architecture, analytics, mobile apps and process automation.

Full-stack engineering
web platforms

Dave Heward

Consultant, DevOps and Infrastructure

Dave is a staff-level DevOps and platform engineer with more than 18 years in software, the past 13 of them building backend systems, infrastructure and platforms. He has designed, built and run production systems for EE, BT, BGC Partners, Kaplan, Pearson and Unmind, across telecoms, finance, education and health tech.

Automation obsessed, he has solved problems across the full stack. Now deep in AI, he helps teams adopt AI-augmented engineering workflows in a practical, hype-free way. Based in the UK, he brings the pragmatism of someone who has shipped and supported real systems at scale.

Platforms
DevOps
AI-augmented engineering

Nathan Hughes

Consultant, Data and AI

Nathan is a data engineer who has built solutions for a wide range of public and private sector clients, on many different platforms. He specialised in text analytics early in his career, which leaves him well placed to put large language models to work across a variety of use cases.

He has extensive experience in data visualisation and systems thinking, and his work for the G7 and the UK government has been recognised with awards from groups including DataIQ and The OR Society.

Data engineering
machine learning