Bringing together the Threads
The threads story began with an unmet business need and many years of academic research in the field of automated speech recognition.
Our founder John Yardley started his first business in 1981 and quickly realized the collaboration tools available when it came to sharing email and other types of communication were inefficient.
What began as an intelligent shared address book and then shared email solution quickly evolved to ingest phone calls and allow searchable phone conversations from employees across any type of organization.
Today the Threads technology is utilized by professional service industries such as law firms who reply on accuracy of data and access to information to maintain a successful business.
Our Team
Dr John Yardley
CEO
The Threads project was conceived and is led by JPY founder, John Yardley. John spent his early career as a researcher at the National Physical Laboratory Teddington in the Pattern Recognition group under the leadership of Internet legend, Donald Davies. John holds a degree in computer science and PhD in speech recognition and he is a regular contributor to publications focussing on computer science and business. John is also a popular Quora contributor.
Francesca Yardley
COO and business manager
Qualified as a lawyer with city firm Linklaters, Francesca joined JPY Ltd in 2017 with the objective of launching a commercial version of Threads. This was achieved in February 2018. Francesca brings with her significant experience in corporate finance and vital input to the project management and to ensuring that Threads overriding design should be user friendly. Francesca holds and honours degree in pharmacology and post-graduate law diploma.
Pip Kempson
Customer Services Manager
Pip brings to Threads her passion for ensuring customers, both new and prospective, have seamless experiences and interactions with the company, product and services. Prior to joining Threads, Pip’s career has seen her specialise in customer services and client relationships, heading up customer services teams for a number of prestigious clients.
Thomas Michel
CTO and Threads principal software engineer
After graduating in France, Thomas joined JPY Ltd as a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) associate from Kingston University where he obtained his Masters degree. The KTP project was to investigate the use of speech recognition within the then pilot Threads project. Thomas now works on Threads full time and has been instrumental in developing a scalable version of the software.
David Fox
Systems consultant
As technical director of JPY Ltd, David has for over 20 years, managed the support of many of their largest customers. David now acts as a consultant for Threads and his particular area of expertise is his understanding of Amazon Web Services, the Cloud backbone of Threads. David holds an honours degree in computer science.
Steve Hanselman
Project Manager
Steve has many years’ software development experience ranging from military through commercial, finance and real-time process control/manufacturing. He has been managing the Threads software development team for the last 2 years and brings to it a wealth of systems design, commercialisation and troubleshooting knowledge.