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

Peter
Prof. Peter Childs

Chairperson, Co-Founder
Co-Director of the Energy Futures Lab, and founding Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairperson at both Q-Bot and BladeBUG.

Lee Maughan
Lee Maughan

Chief Financial Officer

Commercially focused CFO with over 20 years professional and industry experience. He comes to Q-Bot with 10 years’ experience at Deloitte, as a Director of the Entrepreneurial Business team in Cambridge, leading over 50 multi-disciplinary staff. As well as experience across a wide range of industries and stages of development from pre-revenue venture backed start-ups to private equity funds and national professional practices.

Dr Ilian Iliev, Investor Director
Dr Ilian Iliev

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.

John Burley
John Burley

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

David Lawlor
David Lawlor

Head of Delivery
David has vast amounts of experience in operations, team management, retrofit logistics, data management, materials spraying, and robot operation & maintenance.

Leigh Fairbrother, Head of Commercial
Leigh Fairbrother

Head of Commercial
Leigh has many years of expertise in architecture, energy efficiency, affordable housing, business growth, operational efficiency, and sustainable solutions.

Dayna Kivell
Dayna Kivell

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.

Team Members

Dimitri M
Dimitris Moniatis

Electronics Engineer – Dimitris likes working on bleeding edge tech and pushing hardware beyond its limits. He dislikes using lead-free solder and messy circuit schematics.

Ben Knight
Ben Knight

Operations Manager London – Ben likes interacting with customers and helping to improve their life’s. He dislikes negative people and poor workmanship.

Janhavi Jadhav
Janhavi Jadhav

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. 

Elodie Soler 2022
Elodie Soler

Product Lead – Elodie is good at listening to people and capturing key insights. She loves post-its and dislikes imbalance.