Our Team
Along with 50 robots, Q-Bot employs 50 humans at a headquarters in London and offices in Newcastle and Newport. The highly-experienced multidisciplinary engineering and research team has a unique blend of robotics, digital and building experience.
Q-Bot was founded in 2012 by Tom Lipinski and Professor Peter Childs, whose entrepreneurial track record includes the commercialisation of innovative technologies as well as previous successful exits.
If you would like to develop new cutting-edge technology and help bring the next big innovation to market, then find out more about our current vacancies here.
Board Members
Chief Science Officer,
Co-Founder
An experienced entrepreneur and an architect with more than 20 sustainability and innovation awards, including the 2011 Autodesk Inventor of the Year and 2021 CIBSE “most significant contribution to the art & science of building services engineering”. Tom’s class leading expertise includes retrofitting, building physics, academic research and securing government funding.
Chief Executive Officer
John become CEO at Q-Bot in late 2022, and he has extensive experience from executive finance and business roles in the insurance and technology sectors. His leadership has spurred significant revenue growth, operational improvements, and new partnerships for Q-Bot's 'robot as a service' offering. As a pivotal figure in securing funding, John now drives the company's commercial expansion
Investor Director
CEO of NetScientific PLC, Ilian has a broad experience in supporting high growth technology companies and working with corporate, family office and institutional investors. Investment Director since 2015, he has led several investment rounds into Q-Bot.
Chief Technology Officer
John has operated across the sustainability & renewables technology sector within scale-ups and more established businesses. Recent experience has been with CMR Surgical, a British medical device company producing a robot-assisted surgery system and Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications company, offering global mobile services. John has led teams large and small and across different countries. He has delivered technology led, scale and sustainable service businesses though innovation via transformation projects.
Senior Management Team
Head of Robotics
Dayna has electronics and computer systems engineering, mechatronics, and robotics expertise as well as significant experience in robotics development, production, and fleet operation.
Head of Commercial
Leigh has many years of expertise in architecture, energy efficiency, affordable housing, business growth, operational efficiency, and sustainable solutions.
Head of Delivery
David has vast amounts of experience in operations, team management, retrofit logistics, data management, materials spraying, and robot operation & maintenance.
Team Members
Operations Manager London – Ben likes interacting with customers and helping to improve their life’s. He dislikes negative people and poor workmanship.
Customer Success Executive – Jan believes processes are for a reason! Loves cooking and if it wasn’t for sales, she would be somewhere in SoHo running a restaurant named “MAKHAN MAAR KE”. She is a total believer of Live and Let Live.
Software Developer – Jad likes to solve problems and work with easy on the eye designs, as they say "a user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good."
Head of Software Architecture –Damo likes helping people solve technical problems and delivering software. He dislikes pointless paperwork and commuting.