Stephen Parkinson

Co-Founder

Windsor, England, United Kingdom28 yrs experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Secured £260K grant for AI surgical platform.
  • Led technology sales for deep learning AI startup.
  • Extensive experience in cloud computing and AI technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with extensive experience in cloud computing and technology sales.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-up VenturesStart-up LeadershipHybrid CloudSales ManagementCloud ComputingAi

Other Skills

Account ManagementInternational SalesPresalesStart-upsCloud StorageSalesBig DataIntegrationDirect SalesSalesforce.comStrategic PartnershipsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Cloud Computing IaaSVideo ConferencingWeb Video

About

Commercially astute technology professional with extensive experience in product-led organisations bringing new and complex technologies to market.

Experience

28 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Always further

Co-Founder

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Start-up VenturesStart-up Leadership

Alluxio, inc.

Advisor

Jun 2022Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Windsor · Remote

  • GTM Advisor in Europe for Alluxio’s virtualised distributed file system and caching product for the Enterprise.
Hybrid CloudAccount ManagementSales ManagementInternational SalesPresalesStart-ups+9

Annolens

CTO/Founder

Jun 2020May 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Secured a £260K UK Innovation Smart Grant for an AI-powered surgical collaboration platform. Directed ML research and architected cloud based platform performing deep learning organ recognition and annotation over video.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Cloud StorageCloud Computing IaaSHybrid CloudVideo ConferencingWeb Video+4

Peltarion

Field CTO & UK General Manager

Sep 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · London and Stockholm

  • Joined to drive technology sales for a deep learning AI SaaS startup, later expanding into leadership roles across product, engineering, and customer engagement.
Cloud Computing IaaSCloud ApplicationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingDeep LearningAI

Couchbase

Director, Sales Engineering & Services (EMEA & APJ)

Jan 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Led and grew a rapidly expanding European and APJ sales engineering team for the Couchbase NoSQL Enterprise product.

Ip.access

Head of Presence Operations

Mar 2016Oct 2016 · 7 mos · Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Hired to define and document presence service architecture for a multi-million dollar telco deal while guiding backend modernization for scalability. Led cloud migration strategy, vendor selection, and business process transformation to support growth and funding efforts.

Amdocs

Global Technical Director, Big Data & Strategic Innovations

Oct 2014Feb 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chiswick, London

  • Led technical GTM strategy for Big Data Analytics unit in Israel, restructuring team technical sales and product teams, resolving process issues, and hiring key leaders.

Guavus inc

Exec Director, Technology (EMEA & APAC)

May 2012Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Windsor, United Kingdom

  • As an executive team member at Guavus, led technical sales and delivery outside North America, driving international expansion with key telecom customers.

Mformation technologies inc

3 roles

Exec Director Technology, Corporate Strategy & BizDev

Jan 2009Apr 2012 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Led technical engagement with strategic partners, influencing R&D, product direction, and market expansion through PoCs and M&A activities. Built strong industry relationships with major OEMs and partners like Intel, IBM, and Cisco.

Principal Architect, Global Solutions Team

Apr 2006Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • As Principal Architect, established a Global Solutions Team to manage pre-sales to delivery transitions, owning technical relationships with Tier 1 customers across Europe and AsiaPac

Technical Director

Sep 2003Mar 2006 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Steered the technical direction for the company’s first major carrier wins, including Vodafone UK, Vodafone Group, and NTT DoCoMo and deputized for the CTO in region.

Neuvoice ltd

Founder/Product & Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002 · 4 yrs

  • Secured £1.6m seed funding from Barings for novel neural network (early AI!) based technology for robust analysis and recognition of sound and voice patterns for mobile terminal OEMs, automotive and industrial engineering.

Banque paribas capital markets

Systems Specialist, Global Deployment Group

Jan 1995Jan 1998 · 3 yrs

  • Rolled out new trading platform to demanding trading floor environments with prolonged overseas travel in major trading capitals: New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Taiwan, Madrid & Moscow.

Education

University of Bath

BSc (Hons) — Mathematics & Computing

Jan 1988Jan 1992

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