Our people

Meet the founders and directors of Cortical Consulting and Systems

Adrian Wilford – Director

BSc. Mathematical Sciences, RAU 1998
BSc. Honours Computer Science, RAU 1999
MSc. Computer Science (Machine Intelligence / Computational Neuroscience), UP (Current)

Adrian has thirteen years’ experience in professional software development, and he has been building software for businesses operating in the financial markets for eleven years.

Adrian has a special interest in building autonomous (black box) trading systems as well as algorithmic execution trading systems.

Shannon Kriel – Director

B.Sc. Information Technology, RAU 1998
B.Sc. Honours Computer Science, RAU 1999

Shannon has thirteen years’ experience in the IT financial sector with exposure to software development, system integration, infrastructure architecture and solution design.

This experience includes 2 years in operational support within the Foreign Exchange environment where he applied his analytical approach and IT experience towards solving technical problems.



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