Pictured: Dr Olinga Ta'eed
Pictured: Simon Cohen
Pictured: Paul Rogerson
The Directors
Dr Olinga Ta'eed - Chief Executive
Olinga founded the business in 1996 (incorporated in 1998). He has extensive senior management experience in telecommunications and IT companies. Olinga was CEO of Molynx Ltd, which grew under his leadership, becoming one of Europe’s leading CCTV manufacturers. Following this, he was CEO at HyperCAST, a company providing a 24 hour teletext service with information on sports, news and business contributed by in-house journalists to CNN International and Cartoon Network, both subsidiaries of Turner Broadcast. HyperCAST also broadcast live forex rates for Reuters internationally.
He subsequently took the position of CEO at Zyris Plc, a substantial international Internet server software start-up company. Olinga is currently non-executive Chairman of T@lecom Ltd. Olinga has a PhD from Leeds University and has published around 70 papers.
Simon Cohen - Business Development Director
Simon is an experienced business developer and project manager who was part of the team at Toyota's Japanese headquarters which coordinated the company's UK manufacturing project in the early 1990s. On his return to London in 1994, Simon joined the UK subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. Ltd where he managed two joint ventures between Mitsui and UK based businesses. He joined Pedagog in 1999 when he was appointed Head of Business Development. Simon is responsible for commercial support to licensees and content management.
Paul Rogerson - Chief Operating Officer
Paul has had a distinguished career in telecoms. Previously VP of Marketing, Planning and Communications at Marconi Communications he has also been the Marketing Director at Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe, and Business Manager at Fulcrum. He started his career at the BT Research labs researching radio systems, undersea optical fibre systems and AVL systems.
