The Immerse Team
People you might meet at Immerse
Tom Symonds
CEO and Co-founder
Justin Parry
COO and Co-founder
Lucas San Pedro
Chief Technology Officer
Lee Kelly
Chief Financial Officer
John Fecci
Director of Partner Accounts
Phil Trease
Head of Customer Success
Marina Pujol
Head of Marketing
Carl Posadas
VP Enterprise Accounts
Gabriella Fuer
Executive Producer
Alex Fletcher
Experience Design Lead
Jesus Manzanares
Head of Platform Engineering
Shane Harper
Head of XR Engineering
Plus a stellar team of product people, developers, artists, UX, QAs and more – all working to make our technology truly world-leading
Tom Symonds
CEO
Tom has gained a reputation for innovation and the creation of disruptive business models following 8 years at GE Capital and 12 years at leading internet businesses. He led Sky through the dotcom fall out, establishing it as one of the major internet players in the UK.
Tom has since worked with start-up businesses within the field of e-Learning, using his extensive expertise to leverage technology in order to address key business needs.
Justin Parry
COO
Justin is Chief Operating Officer and leads the Product strategy for Immerse. As a founder, he designed and led product development of the Immerse platform from scratch. He now oversees the delivery of all technology and VR content across the organisation.
Lee Kelly
CFO
She has managed and built finance teams as well as implementing internal systems to deliver finance and accounting support.
Lucas San Pedro
CTO
Lucas joined Immerse in February 2015, designing and developing the core set of technologies that power the Immerse Platform.
Our Main Board
Trevor Fenwick
Charles McIntyre
Mark Irwin
Trevor Fenwick
He is Executive Chairman and co-founder of Euromonitor International, the leading provider of online international market data and analytics. The company won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2014 for International Trade and the Private Business of the Year 2013 Award (PwC/HSBC).
He is a Board member of the PPA, and past Chair of the UK and European Data Publishers Associations. He has been actively involved with the UK and European government in advising on issues surrounding intellectual property. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, holds postgraduate qualifications in international marketing and is an Honorary Fellow at Ravensbourne University.
Charles McIntyre
Charles experience has been in building businesses in a number of industry sectors including financial services, media, media tech and most recently edtech. He co-founded IBIS Capital in 2003 in order to create a flexible, boutique investment bank that could both invest in and advise companies and their shareholders. 12 years on and IBIS Capital has evolved into a leading specialist asset manager and investment banking operation with over 60 successfully completed transactions.
Charles also sits on the boards of a range of entrepreneurial companies in the media and education sectors. In 2013, Charles started focusing on the e-Learning and edtech markets and was responsible for a number of key industry initiatives including co-founding EdTech Europe, an annual summit for strategic players and investors interested in the online education market.
Mark Irwin
Mark Irwin is a UK qualified chartered accountant who joined Trafigura as a financial controller in 1994. In 2004 he was appointed as a director to provide support for Trafigura’s corporate and IT infrastructure. Mark holds a degree in Computer Science and Accounting from the University of Manchester.