Team
Dr. Ryan Manuel
CEO
Ryan has spent more than 24 years working on where markets, governments and technology converge, mainly in academia, often in China.
Dr. Steve Enright-Ward
CTO
Stephen has 8 years’ experience designing and building machine learning-driven software to help users extract critical insights from masses of unstructured text.
David Lee
Senior ML Research Engineer
Often getting called "crazy" by his friends, David's passion is solving problems with technology both hardware and software
Denise Wong
Head of Product
Denise's passion is for making products that delightful users. She also likes plants, though they do not like her.
Jeremy Thompson
Analyst
Jeremy works on both the research and business side of things. You'll most likely see him with a beer in hand after work.
Michael Belete
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Michael is a full stack engineer who loves to build things. He is known for his driven, highly motivated, and never-give-up attitude.
Nik Takano
Administrative Assistant
Nik is the primary support of the team who takes care of all administrative and payroll functions as well as providing executive support to both Head of Product & CEO.
Simon Cartledge
Editorial Director
Simon Cartledge is the owner of Big Brains, a Hong Kong-based publish and research company, and a former Editor-in-Chief, Asia for the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Daniel Barrins
Director
Daniel is an early investor in Bilby and joined the Board in March 2022. He is Managing Director of Nightingale Partners (Hong Kong), an early stage venture capital firm and previously worked at a global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and in management consulting at PwC. Daniel holds an M.B.A. from Melbourne Business School (University of Melbourne), a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Joining Team Bilby
At Team Bilby, we make cool things. What’s cool? Whatever you can make. We build. Part of that is that we therefore spend a lot of time together. So we like a good laugh and to have fun with the people we work with. We drink too much tea and our favorite part of the day is the staff lunch.
We pick champions. But we dislike making them punch a clock in and out; flexible work hours and lifestyle are a founding principle of Bilby. We trust you to choose the circumstances in which you do good work, and to take charge of the task so that it gets done.
Bilby Values
- High HQ
- Like most places, we want people with high IQs and high EQs.
We add one more thing: hacker quotient; the desire to use whatever tool or method most efficiently and effectively makes something happen. - Lions over cows
- Working hard is good, working with flow is much better. We would rather than you sprint, get done, and rest than that you’re always at work chewing grass. Your job is to know what you need to make that happen, and our mission to make sure we provide it to you.
- Don’t miss serves
- We don’t give away cheap points — being polite, turning up on time, following up, making
things accessible to all and not holding on to them are all not negotiable. Always doing
the easy things right make it easier to do the hard things.
If in doubt, we do the basics really well. We consistently know and solve the fundamental problems, and try and ignore flashy things that won’t matter in a few years. - We don’t do cults.
- We like people telling us ways we can improve. We are a team of people who left academia
and industry to try and solve a generational problem, and to build a strong company for
the long term. We hope you will push us even harder than we push ourselves.
The best penalty takers take the shots. If you make 80% of your shots and the person next to you 70%, you take the penalty, regardless of age, gender, seniority, or first language spoken.