Our People
Dave Haines
With strong technical, management, commercial and legal skills, David is an expert in creating high-tech commercial products and services.
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He was responsible for all new product development and IT infrastructure at Landmark Information Group Ltd during its period of maximum growth, including the highly regarded Promap® digital mapping web service which won the National Business Awards Best Use of Technology category in 2002. He was also a member of the team that wrote the original CD-based version of Promap, and before that he led small teams producing innovative software development tools such as Expert Systems Prolog-2 for Unix workstations and PCs, and Petspeed the first optimizing BASIC compiler for microcomputers.
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After leading Landmark's new product R&D efforts for a number of years he has returned to software design, exploiting the power of new generation tablets to create exciting new products for commercial clients. Software and data products have always been his main professional interest.
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On the way he has run international marketing operations, has provided advice both to the EU and to the UK government, and in 2010 gained a first class degree in Law. Creative and outgoing, he likes to make sure that all the bolts are tightened up before his projects go out the door!
Donna Lyndsay
Donna Lyndsay is an expert in the creation of business and consumer information products. She has unrivalled contacts developed over 25 years in the Geographic Information Industry, and long standing relationships with information providers such as ABI, Ordnance Survey, the Land Registry, the Environment Agency, the GeoInformation Group, Bluesky, Landmark Information Group and many other key industry players.
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Her strengths in market research, analysis, and understanding future trends enable her to create the best deals with government and private data suppliers. As Landmark Information Group’s Data Strategist and futurologist she has been leading B2B concept development for over a decade, developing products for new markets in the Environment, Energy and Adaptation sectors. She has the knack of finding exploitable value in data overlooked by others.
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She was also founding director of EarthSense, a leader in accurate air quality monitoring, modelling to help decision makers understand the health and environmental impact of poor air quality across the planet.
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Donna was a finalist in the InnovateUK Women In Innovation awards for her work and was chosen to represent UK leading female innovators in the Innovate UK and Getty Exhibition.
Alex Wild
Alex has a degree in Cognitive Science from Leeds University, where he led projects in evolved neural networks and machine vision, and trained in modern statistical methods of machine learning and textual analysis.
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Camera shy Alex has joined Lyndsay-Haines Ltd as an Associate to work on some exciting new projects in Data Mining and Machine Learning.
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He has had a lifelong interest in Artificial Intellligence, and has recently been working on a radical new implementation of recursive meta-learning - which means a system which learns about its own behaviour and then modifies itself accordingly. The system has potential applications in data mining, and in predicting market behaviour. He recently demonstrated his work to the world leading Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenzia Artificiale (IDSIA) where it was very well received by leading researchers in the field.
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Alex brings a whole new range of skills to Lyndsay Haines Ltd, and a highly energetic and innovative approach to his work