Meet the Team

Boyd Mulvey

Chairman

Boyd started his career in investment banking with Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP). While at CSFP Boyd created a software package to assist the bank in analysing data and calculating its Capital at Risk position. He left CSFP to join UBS working in Strategy and M+A. Following a successful career in the city he founded and ran a Cambridge based early stage technology VC for ten years before founding Chorus Intelligence.

Neil Chivers

Chief Executive Officer

Neil started his career in local government managing large teams to deliver vital local services. In 2004, Neil began working in the public sector software industry with a particular focus on growing accounts and start up businesses. Neil has been working specifically in the emergency services software market since 2014 and most recently was a board level executive for Capita Secure Solutions and Services. Neil’s main focus was to build significant opportunity globally for the business both directly and through international partners. Neil joined Chorus as Chief Sales Officer and was responsible for building on the success of the UK operation and expansion into North America. he was promoted to CEO in January 2023.

Richard Helson

Chief Operating Officer

After 10 years in the Met Police and crime scene investigation, Richard decided to spread his wings into managing the Fingerprint Department in the Cayman Islands before coming back to the UK to head up the Fingerprint services of Northamptonshire Police and then the laboratory services of the East Midlands. He is now COO of Chorus, responsible for Chorus' operations on a global basis.

Tom Colthurst

Chief Technology Officer

Tom began his career providing software to a wide variety of clients in many sectors. Prior to joining Chorus, he was working as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs working with teams across the globe to deliver large projects. As CTO Tom is still a hands on developer as well as ensuring the smooth running of the development team.

Scott Orton

Head of UK

Scott Orton began his career as an accredited intelligence analyst, working for Leicestershire Police and then the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) providing analytical assistance for five police forces in the East Midlands region. Having been with Chorus for 6 years, starting as a Customer Relationship Manager, Scott was later promoted to the UK Sales Director and, most recently, the Head of UK where he is responsible for Sales, Customer Success and the Marketing function for the UK. 

Mark Bedding

Customer Success Director

Mark began his career at Essex Police as a Detective, investigating serious and organised crime before moving to the Regional Crime Squad and the National Crime Agency. He also served at the International desk of the Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre, working with Interpol and Europol. He latterly served in West Africa, training officers from the security agencies and national police forces in covert and technical surveillance methodology.

Gemma Furnell

Head of Business Analysis

Gemma has 15 years experience working as an Intelligence Analyst within law enforcement, initially on Westminster Borough in the MPS, before moving to the Major Crime Investigation Team at Surrey Police and latterly as Senior Analyst at the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit where she was responsible for both strategic and operational intelligence analysis. Prior to joining Chorus Intelligence, Gemma was Senior Solutions Consultant for a software start-up, managing the configuration and implementation of IT solutions for law enforcement and government clients.

Phil Green

Support Manager

Phil joined Chorus with IT Support experience for both small and large companies across a variety of industries. The role of Support Manager works very closely with both the Development team and the Customer Relationship Managers to provide assistance in all areas of Chorus product support.

Ashley Boon

QA Test Manager

Starting out 8 years ago as a Junior Analyst within the UK Technology Industry, Ash has gone on to work within a variety of business sectors across the country ranging from insurance to corporate travel whilst testing state of the art bespoke software throughout his career. Having gained a vast amount of knowledge and experience in a short time, he wanted a fresh challenge and to work for a company that made a difference. Ash joined Chorus in December 2017 to become an integral part of the test team as a QA Test Analyst, and has since been promoted to QA Test Manager.

Eisha Cooke

Senior Marketing Manager

Eisha has been working in Marketing and PR for over ten years. She started her career at a leading integrated marketing agency in London before moving back to her hometown of Suffolk to work for Trimble, a global GPS brand. She helped to rebrand the company and ran a series of successful campaigns. Eisha joined Chorus in 2020 to support with marketing initiatives.

Niki Clarke

Group HR Manager

Whilst Niki is not directly customer-facing, her role as Group HR Manager is an essential function to Chorus. Niki supports all employees enabling staff to achieve their optimum success and ensuring all employees are fully engaged, motivated and capable within their roles. Having worked previously in operations and customer service the experience gained has enabled Niki to be an effective people manager.

Nick Lawson

Investor Director

Nick previously worked for Deutsche Bank where he built and ran the world’s most profitable merger arbitrage and special situations platform. In 2015 he joined the $6bn multi-strategy hedge fund Arrowgrass Capital LLP as a Partner and Head of Strategic Capital. In 2019 he set up his own specialist boutique Ocean Wall Ltd. Ocean Wall specialises in niche alternatives and in 2020 was rated ‘Best niche alternative advisory firm’ by HFM, the global hedge fund magazine. Nick is the Founding Chair of the ALMT, a £6m regranting children’s charity with over 140 projects that he set up in 2006. More recently Nick has worked with the Home Office around county lines & knife crime. He has also been a trustee of Afghan Connection and Unlocking Potential as well as an serving as an ambassador for Afrikids.

David Zenoff

Advisor

Of San Francisco and Gryon,Switzerland, Dr. Zenoff has advised CEOs, senior managements, and Boards of Directors of more than 90 companies in many industries in 32 countries, and leaders of numerous non-profit organizations. His counsel tends to focus on organization development and strategy. Dr. Zenoff has served on three US public company Boards, taught at Stanford and Columbia Graduate Schools of Business and IMEDE(now IMD)in Switzerland, and has written or co-authored nine books on management, international finance, and marketing. He holds a BA degree from Stanford and MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard.