Disrupting Healthcare and Education from one magical platform.

Teja develops, constructs, tests, and maintains our nudg data architecture, as well as building many of our critical data pipelines. Teja has around nine years of experience in the IT industry and has worked on various enterprise technologies like Oracle, Hadoop framework & other Cloud based services like AWS. Teja is passionate about trekking & Indian classical music & dance. She has earned a certificate of completing 14100 feet trekking at majestic foothills of the Himalayas.

Katherine is a 2D animator and illustrator from West Yorkshire with an appetite for story-telling and penne pasta. She obtained a degree in Animation from the University of Edinburgh in 2019 and worked as a freelance designer before moving to Manchester to pursue a career in motion graphic design and content creation. Katherine jumped at the opportunity to work at LovedBy on the Nudg platform and is thrilled to be part of something that will make life just that little bit easier for adolescents with chronic illnesses. Her work is richly illustrative, visually compelling, and influenced by nature.

Thom is a Motion & Content Designer with over 7 years of experience. During this time he’s worked with some notable clients, including; Samsung, Manchester United & Uber.

He loves to bring content to life through colour, character and smooth transitions.With an insatiable passion about the impact great design can make, he’s really excited about using his skills to help Nudg encourage habits and change lives.

When he’s not immersed in keyframes, you’ll find him spending time with his Wife & Son. In his irregular spare time he likes to run, listen to podcasts and keep up with the news from the red half of Liverpool. He’s also recently taken up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Victoria spends most of her days talking to parents, children and young adults about their personal challenges living with a Chronic Illness. Her ability of empathetic listening to humans brings a deep lived insight into our ongoing product and content creation and testing.

When she isn’t working tirelessly on understanding our future LovedBy humans, her focus is on her own four children (little humans), who keep her feeling and looking youthful. She is a keen photographer and baker and lives by her mantra; to ‘always be present, mindful, and kind’.

Hood initially completed his specialist training and diabetes fellowship in Ireland. His subsequent PhD at the University of Cambridge with Professor Roman Hovorka was on the clinical application of automated insulin delivery systems (artificial pancreas). His research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the BMJ and Lancet. He has been invited to present at international diabetes conferences and lecture at various diabetes technology workshops.

He is currently a consultant diabetologist and senior lecturer at Manchester University Hospital Foundation Trust, one of the largest insulin pump and Type 1 Diabetes technology clinics in the UK.

Roman Hovorka is Professor of Metabolic Technology Research at the Institute of Metabolic Science and Department of Paediatrics at University of Cambridge. He made seminal contributions to diabetes technology including the “Artificial Pancreas”, a device that delivers insulin in glucose responsive fashion. He is Chief Investigator on several trials evaluating the Artificial Pancreas in populations such as young children and newly diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes. His wider interests include mathematical modelling of glucose control and turnover.

Paul Lindley is an award-winning British entrepreneur, social campaigner and best-selling author.

In 2006 Paul founded Ella’s Kitchen. Built on a core social mission, it has become the UK’s largest baby food brand, with over £100M in sales across 40 countries. Paul stepped back from Ella’s Kitchen in 2018. In 2017 his book ‘Little Wins: The Huge Power of Thinking Like a Toddler’ was published.

In 2018, Paul was appointed Chair of the newly established London Child Obesity Taskforce by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

In 2019 Paul founded just IMAGINE if… an annual innovation competition supporting entrepreneurial ideas designed to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Paul is Chair of Robert F Kennedy Human Rights UK and of social enterprise Toast Ale, and is a Trustee of Sesame Workshop, the creators of Sesame Street.

David spent 12 years as an Aircraft Engineering Officer in the Royal Navy before joining Citibank as an IT project manager, later becoming a derivatives trader. In 1998 he co-founded sparesFinder and then led the company from its roots as an dot.com start up through being one of the earliest enterprise level SaaS vendors to becoming a global leader in spare parts Master Data Management (MDM) software and services. Following sparesFinder’s acquisition by Sphera in 2018, he spent 18 months driving the combined Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) business. He is now an active investor in several early stage companies.

Former FTSE100 corporate affairs and communications director, Rob Salmon is founder and managing director of Brandwalk., a strategic brand and communications consultancy.

His experience includes managing global brand and communications programs for major corporations including Shell, Severn Trent, Cadent Gas and Mastercard.

After a History degree at Sheffield University in 1985, Mike has been a Private Banker at Coutts and is a Managing Director in the Key Clients Group managing a small portfolio of influential and wealthy clients. He also focuses on business development with 35 years of accumulated connections and enjoys advising the Bank on developing its Client Experience.

Mike is co-writing a book about the only Nazi successfully prosecuted in the UK in 1999. He is also a Trustee of Common Earth, a recently founded charity looking to scale high impact and successful environmentally regenerative projects around the Commonwealth.