Meet our Leadership Team.
The Cognitive Software Group (CSG) has years of commercial and technical experience at senior levels of software industry leaders. Our Researchers have Ph.D.'s in Artificial Intelligence.
Duncan Mount
Executive Chairman.
Mr Mount graduated from Cambridge University with a Master of Arts in Economics and Law before joining the Merchant Banking industry in London. Mr Mount was subsequently offered a role in Funds Management in Hong Kong culminating in heading the investment management company of Li Ka-shing, then Hong Kong's wealthiness individual, for 11 years.
In 1996, Mr Mount moved to Sydney to establish a Sydney office of that company from where he managed the client investments in the majority of Asian stock markets, including Japan which was Asia's largest. In 1999 Mr Mount left that company to become a professional Company Director and to manage various personal investments in real estate and sophisticated financial products.
Don Tonkin
Chief Technology Officer.
Mr Tonkin began his career as a nuclear energy Research Scientist after completing his Masters degree studying Nuclear Physics. After joining IBM in 1975, Mr Tonkin rose to the level of Senior Software Engineer before leaving to establish a number of consulting and software companies and selling them.
During this time he founded the DB2 Users Group in Australia and was appointed to IBM's global elite "IBM Gold Consultant" community. Mr Tonkin has been the key driver of our extensive patent portfolio and leading edge software. Mr Tonkin is a sought after thought leader in software technologies and public speaker.
Dr Dzung Le
Senior Research Scientist.
After completing a Masters degree in Information Systems at Latrobe University in 2006, Dr Le was awarded her PhD in Semantic Computing technologies at Macquarie University in 2013 after many years working in the field of advanced data analytics.
Dr Le joined our team shortly after completing her PhD and has become a world leading expert in Artificial Intelligence technologies. Dr Le is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Macquarie University.
Nick Volmer
VP, Research and Development.
Mr Volmer joined our team as General Manager of Software Development after seven years managing software development teams at Macquarie Bank, including the critical risk management systems.
Mr Volmer is an outstanding people manager and has led the team to build a world leading software platform for generating "intelligent data" for Artificial Intelligence.
Mr Volmer has recently been promoted to the role of managing the people in both our research and software development teams.
Mark Bradley
Founder & SVP of Sales and Marketing.
Mr Bradley founded the Company in 2008 having started his career as an IBM Software Engineer until he was appointed State General Manager for IBM in South Australia.
In 1994 Mr Bradley was appointed National Corporate Sales Manager for Qantas where his newly hired sales team executed the biggest market share shift in Australian corporate history over two years.
In 1996 Mr Bradley joined telecommunications start-up AAPT. Prior to AAPT's IPO Mr Bradley drove sales to record levels with post IPO sales price jumping ten-fold over the following two years. In 1998 Mr Bradley founded his first start-up as a website development company.
In 2008 Mr Bradley founded our company to research next generation artificial intelligence technologies that have now generated eighteen US patents and currently eight US patent applications.
Mr Bradley has spent a significant amount of time in the United States to understand the dynamics of US technology company incubation in Silicon Valley, Boston and New York, as well as the dynamics of the US Intellectual Property market.
